Joe.My.God smelled trouble from the beginning, and it's looking like he was right. A gay Republican, who is a star of an upcoming Logo TV show, claimed that liberal gay activists threw a brick through his window in response to his having lunch with Ann Coulter. Now all of a sudden, he's deleted any reference to this claim. The new Huffington Post gay-oriented vertical sadly published this story, but to their credit they did publish an update informing people that the story now looks to be a fake. Unfortunately, their update is at the bottom of the story so everyone reading the story in the future will still think it's true unless they make their way all the way to the end.
I'm more concerned about Logo. It's not terribly clear how Logo avoids the appearance of treating hate crimes as a joke if they go ahead with this show. It's a rather serious situation making a false allegation of a crime. But it's especially serious when we're talking about hate crimes. The anti-gay bigots would like nothing better than to undermine the validity of real hate crimes by pointing to Logo's pretend hate crime.
And it gets worse. Joe Jervis also reports that an executive producer at Logo helped promote the possibly-now-faked hate crime charge, and even congratulated the guy who made the charge. So Logo owns this 100%.
Logo, however, is refusing to respond to Joe's questions about what the heck is going on over there.
Not smart.
If this guy lied, and Logo goes ahead with making him a star, then we may have our first boycott of a gay TV network by gays themselves. You don't freaking joke about hate crimes against gay people, and you don't reward people who do.
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