CNN Commentator: Chelsea Manning Will Get 'Good Practice' Being Female in Prison

[William769]

Commenters cracked jokes and made misogynistic comments about Chelsea Manning during a recent edition of CNN Newsroom.

During Saturday’s edition of CNN Newsroom, commentators demeaned Chelsea Manning while discussing the possibility of her receiving treatment for gender dysphoria while in prison, reports Media Matters.

Civil rights attorney Avery Friedman and criminal defense attorney Richard Herman spoke with CNN host Fredricka Whitfield about the unique nature of Manning’s case, as she would be serving her sentence for leaking classified documents in an all-male military prison, although she’s revealed she is transgender.

They all continued to incorrectly refer to Manning as “he,” but it was Herman, a regular CNN legal commentator, who made particularly deplorable comments about Manning, suggesting she would get “good practice” being a female in prison and calling the idea of Manning receiving adequate medical care while serving her sentence “beyond insanity.”

Friedman also cracked jokes at Manning’s expense, saying, “You know, when he puts that wig and lipstick on, the guy’s a dead ringer for Tonya Harding.”

http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2013/08/27/cnn-commentator-chelsea-manning-will-get-good-practice-being-female

That asswipe needs to be barred from television!

[Behind the Aegis]

1. A civil rights attorney?

Someone needs to be disbarred.

[mysuzuki2]

2. classy

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. While BushCo get's a mulligan Manning gets 35 years as well as gradeschool ridicule.

[Scuba]

4. Not clever, not funny, not acceptable, not even for a Republican let alone a civil rights atty.

[nomorenomore08]

14. It was the defense attorney who made the "practice" crack. Doesn't really make it any better though.

[Shivering Jemmy]

5. Most people are jerks

It's nearly hopeless

[madrchsod]

6. for some odd reason i`m glad and sad at the same time

i`m old enough to remember when, even in the 50`s, the news told the truth. it`s sad to think of the generations that will never know that news is not entertainment or personal opinion.

[Enthusiast]

7. What an asshole!

[Zorra]

8. Must totally suck to be that ignorant and evil. Like hell on earth. nt

[Hydra]

9. Same thing in my office the day Manning made the request

There are days that I'm embarrassed to be a human.

[MNBrewer]

10. Because females get raped, and prisoners get raped... it's funny, see?

Har-har-har.

[Orrex]

11. If I said that at my job, I would rightly be fired

So why does this fuckhead still have a job?

[theHandpuppet]

12. Disgusting

Disgusting, unprofessional, bigoted and puerile.

[Initech]

13. What an asshole!!!