Obama: Gay

The Taliban soldiers who were holding American soldier Bowe Bergdahl captive wanted to know if Barack Obama was gay, he said.

Sgt Bergdahl, 29, fled his Afghanistan base in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years.
 
Now facing a court martial for desertion and misbehaviour, he has spoken to filmmaker Mark Boal, who produced The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and the interviews are being broadcast as part of the podcast Serial.

In the latest instalment he tells of how he twice tried to escape, and how the Taliban guards were curious about America.

“They ask you, is Obama gay and sleeps with men?” he said... 

The Telegraph. 

PS Bowe Bergdahl is as mad as a lorry.

Thought For The Day: Bowe Bergdahl

"The future is too good to waste on lies. And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be american. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting...

"The system is wrong. I am ashamed to be an american. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools...

"I am sorry for everything here. These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid, that they have no idea how to live." 

"We don't even care when we hear each other talk about running their children down in the dirt streets with our armored trucks... We make fun of them in front of their faces, and laugh at them for not understanding we are insulting them.

"I am sorry for everything. The horror that is america is disgusting."

From Bowe Bergdahl's last email to his parents before he apparently walked off his base in Afghanistan in June 2009.

Update: When Fox News declared war on a military family Media Matters.