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i want to bring in lz granderson and also will cain. as i said, it is an interesting story. lz, do you see any hypocrisy here? >> just a little bit. you know, i'm pretty used to this now, right, when it comes to the gop and this issue in terms of sexual orientation and sexuality. it always seems as if the person who's working for an anti-gay politician or is an anti-gay poll significanitician for some seems to have these gay ties. i don't want to get into whether jose's story is correct or not, but i find it interesting he resigned from mitt romney's campaign but he's still running for congress. i'm trying to figure out why would you resign from mitt's campaign but still have your own? either you are qualified to continue on as a co-chair for mitt romney or you're not. >> hold on, hold on. why isn't the jose part important to you? because he could be making this up. we don't know. if we're going to take, you know, jose at his word, we have to take mr. babeu at his word as well. why isn't it important to you that jose -- jose's side of the story? >> it's not important to me b

i talked about it with lz granderson and cnn contributor will cain. will, rick santorum said he wasn't questioning the president's christianity, so why did he use the word theology? he's been around for awhile. he knows what he's doing. >> it's inappropriate. i don't know why he used it, don, but i do think it's an inappropriate use of verbiage. whether or not it's intended or not, it is going to have those implications for a broad rank of people out there. did he know that? i just can't get inside his mind. i can't be that strategic about it. i don't know but the bottom line is people will hear someone invoking religion in a way that is a non christi-christian reli context to say -- to suggest president obama isn't a christian. that's the bottom line. it will imply that president obama is not a christian. >> i think that's the way most people are reading it. lz, do you think it was strategic? will says he's not sure if it was. >> well, i tipdz to think that it was strategic. it was just another code word he's using to remind people he's not like us.

i bring in elzie granderson and cnn contributeor will cain.don't have the normal two hours, so keep it to love pats no, time for a full-on fight. romney picked up a key endorsement on cnbc. january brewer. roll the tape. >> he has got pro-business background and has that political history that i think that he would serve america the best of all the candidates, and so it was a difficult decision, but i think mitt is by far the person who can go in and when. >> l.z., is this another high profile endorsement that will do nothing for romney? does this endorsement mean anything? >> i think it means a little bit in terms of being able to get perhaps the attention of the tea party to consider him a little bit before she endorsed him. had she endorsed santorum that would have been bad for mitt to get the tea party's vote. >> i want to move to rick santorum and play something he said on the stump yesterday on a speech to conservative activists. >> president obama once said he wants everybody in america to go to college. what a snob. there are good, dec

lz granderson, cnn contributor. he is in grand rapids, michigan., also our contributor, in new york this morning. will, let's start with you. romney has got a bit of a problem here. >> i don't think so, kyra. you know, i heard you in the tease a minute ago say that will cain and lz granderson are going to go at it. i don't think so. if we are, the only point i think we disagree with is whether or not this story has any bigger meaning or context. and i don't think it does. i think what you have here is largely a lover's spat between a sheriff and his ex-lover, meaning we shouldn't trust, by the way, what either side is saying right now. but we have a sheriff who's come out as gay. big deal. i don't see the bigger story and i don't see how it impacts mitt romney's campaign. >> lz, what do you think? is it damaging? you have the gay issue, the immigration issue, the fact that babeu allegedly threatened to deport his ex-boyfriend if he outed him. >> i think that, you know, will is being a little bit optimistic in this conversation because he didn't com

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so that means she will live forever. >> lz granderson says when he hears houston sing "learning to lovephetic, it's sad. lz, why was it so hard for her to live by those words? >> you know, i really don't know. i don't think any of us can really understand what it's like to have the sort of pressure and expectations that she had at a very, very young age. i don't know if you saw anderson cooper's interview with adele on "60 minutes" last night prior to the grammys. but, you know, adele did a very good job of talking about the sort of pressure that she felt, and wondering if she can hit the notes and if her voice would be there for her. and it was very similar to what we saw in 2002 with diane sawyer and whitney houston talking about those expectations and how that could lead you astray. and so, yeah, learning to love yourself in the midst of all of that can be difficult. and i don't know if any of us can fully understand that. >> you know, you write that there was always room for whitney over the years. what did you mean by that? >> well, you know, there was a period there in the mid to

granderson, cnn.com contributor and senior writer at espn.morning to you. >> good morning to you, how are you? >> i'm doing well. okay, so we just finished watching lin and what he said afterwards. and he thanked god and called it a miracle. and i was reading somewhere online that he says after he retires from the nba, he would like to be a pastor. let's talk about his religion. >> you know, it's a great source of inspiration for him. obviously when you're having a difficult time, he didn't get any scholarship offers out of high school, he wasn't drafted out of harvard. any time you're having that sort of difficulty catching on to your dream you lean to whatever you can. for him it's his faith and i think it's a great thing. >> a lot of people are comparing him to tebow. >> you know, definitely in terms of the sort of way that he talks about his faith and he talks about his relationship with god. on an athletic side, though, they're not similar at all. tebow, florida, one of the greatest football players of all-time, drafted in the first roun