Lady Gaga vs. "Don`t Ask, Don`t Tell
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.</s>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".</s>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?</s>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?</s>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?</s>BLANKENSHIP: I can`t imagine that Lady Gaga is the kind of person --</s>BEHAR: She`s a big star.</s>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.</s>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.</s>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?</s>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.</s>BEHAR: That`s true.</s>BALAN: You know what I mean? That`s what they were worried about.</s>BEHAR: They were worried.</s>BALAN: They also</s>BEHAR: Other countries don`t worry about it. Israel has --</s>BALAN: Israel have gay kids. They don`t -- anybody could fight.</s>BEHAR: Later in the fight she had this to say. Watch.</s>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.</s>BEHAR: What is she speaking of? What is her obsession with meat? First she wears a meat dress.</s>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.</s>BALAN: How can you make a policy change if it`s someone who wears beef?</s>BEHAR: What do you think of her in this case Mark?</s>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.</s>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.