[Behar:] I`m back with my panel. Lady Gaga spoke out against "don`t ask, don`t tell" at a rally in Maine yesterday saying the real problem in the military is homophobic soldiers. Take a look.
[Lady Gaga, Singer:] I would like to propose a new law. A law that sends home the soldier that has the problem. Our new law is called "if you don`t like it, go home".
[Behar:] I`ll tell you, I find it offensive that she would say that about soldiers. I mean, you`re attacking people who are defending you. Whether you agree with the war, whether you don`t, these guys are out there. I think it`s obnoxious. What do you think?
[Blankenship:] I feel like, is the solution to a law that`s built in hate even to playfully suggest more intolerance from the other side?
[Behar:] That`s a good point. That`s a very good point. I mean, she suggested that she you know, I mean, it`s amazing in a way, but today the senate killed a bill that included a provision for "don`t ask, don`t tell". Do you think that she had anything to do with it? Did she influence them with his crazy talk?
[Blankenship:] I can`t imagine that Lady Gaga is the kind of person
[Behar:] She`s a big star.
[Blankenship:] The thing I think that she maybe did. Every time she`s appeared about this issue, she`s had herself surrounded with soldiers who were discharged under the law. Maybe there`s an impact to be had if she`s got real human beings are affected by the law. I can`t imagine that she, herself, could have that much of an impact. But maybe seeing real people who were affected by it would.
[Craig:] The thing I think that`s good about Lady Gaga speaking out about it, she has a lot of young fans that they don`t pay attention to politics yet and stuff like that, that may now learn what this is and maybe go educate themselves on it and make their own decisions on it. I don`t think it`s a bad thing that she`s speaking out because she has so many fans.
[Behar:] I know. But to take a shot at the soldiers who are there already, it`s a crazy position, I think. Do you disagree with me?
[Balan:] Like you said about one or the other, the whole thing about being gay in the military from the beginning, you know, it all started with men didn`t want to share a locker room with gay men, afraid of harassment. That`s how it all began. I`m thinking, I`m a woman, you know, we`ve been harassed forever.
[Behar:] That`s true.
[Balan:] You know what I mean? That`s what they were worried about.
[Behar:] They were worried.
[Balan:] They also
[Behar:] Other countries don`t worry about it. Israel has
[Balan:] Israel have gay kids. They don`t anybody could fight.
[Behar:] Later in the fight she had this to say. Watch.
[Lady Gaga:] Equality is the prime rib of America, but because I`m gay I don`t get to enjoy the greatest cut of meat my country has to offer.
[Behar:] What is she speaking of? What is her obsession with meat? First she wears a meat dress.
[Craig:] In the meat dress she was like on Ellen or something talking about how the meat dress she wore it for the gays. Everything`s for the gays. I like her. I think she`s very talented but I don`t really understand.
[Balan:] How can you make a policy change if it`s someone who wears beef?
[Behar:] What do you think of her in this case Mark?
[Blankenship:] You mean in relationship to the meat metaphor? I just feel like I feel like that this is a case of someone who`s got great intentions and great ideas but who maybe is trying a little too hard to make poetry out of something.
[Behar:] I know. She needs to take a rest. Thanks, everybody, very much. Be sure to catch Carly in the upcoming movie, "Full Pass" with moi. All the details from Bristol Palin`s "Dancing with the Stars" debut up next.