Would TNR tolerate write this about a racist joke?

[dsc]

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w060814&s=reeve081506

And then there are the insults. Chris Matthews asked: "How do you know that Bill Clinton's gay?" Coulter, who had earlier said the former president had exhibited some "latent homosexuality," gestured casually from behind her sunglasses. "Ah, no, he may not be gay. But Al Gore? Total fag." OK, that one really is indefensible. Because gratuitous gay jokes have, um, no precedent in pop culture whatsoever. I admit it, I snickered. What can I say--her timing was great. (And yes, later, she conceded, "That's what we call in the writing business a joke.").

TNR had a gay editor for pete sake. Not even the National Review would dare issue a defense of someone who used the n word the way Coulter used fag. Yet here is one of the premier liberal magazines defending Coulter and finding the joke funny. Did Ms. Reeve call Andrew Sullivan fag behind his back? Did she find anti gay jokes at his expense funny?

TNR should know better. Heck a kindergardner should know better. One honestly has to wonder what other timing this writer would find amusing?

[papau]

1. Anyone even comment on the kill the Jew cartoon fest in Iran - perhaps

both the left and the right agree on what's funny?

[KoKo]

2. Because TNR/Beltway Pundits think that you and I don't know what the

hell is going on. They think we are stupid and don't know the connections to lobbyists the nepotism with reporters married to reporters and reporters married to lobbyists and reports bedded with corporatists and reporters who are the sons, daughters, neices and nephes to Major DC Think Tanks...and other reporters. Let's not forget Poltical Consultants married to Bush Bots and other reporters and lobbyists and corporatists and GE/AOL/TIME WARNER/MURDOCH and the rest.

IT's ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY there in DC inside the Beltline and stretching into the VA Hills and Maryland. One BIG HAPPY FAMILY! They RULE!