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Gays Bashing. Pat Buchanan’s long record of taking on homosexual activists has apparently made him the target of a telephone-based gay jihad. In the April 3 issue of the gay magazine Outweek, editor-at-large Michelangelo Signorile—apoplectic over Buchanan’s New York Post piece blasting gays for disrupting the St. Patrick’s Day parade [see “Sodom and Begorrah,” NR, April 29]—printed the columnist’s home number and urged “queers” to “zap buchanan!” by calling to “leave him a sweet message.” Several evidently did.

Mr. Signorile does not mince words about Mr. Buchanan: “It’s hard to refrain from taking this man by the throat and squeezing as hard as you can while you look into his ugly, disgusting face and watch the eyeballs burst and pop out of their sockets. Or maybe you feel like stepping on his face and squishing his demented brain until the rot oozes out of it and onto the pavement. I have no problem with imagining violence against this wacko . . .” Enough. Cato suggests that Mr. Buchanan should report it as a hate crime and hit Outweek with a harassment suit.

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Gays Bashing. Pat Buchanan’s long record of taking on homosexual activists has apparently made him the target of a telephone-based gay jihad. In the April 3 issue of the gay magazine Outweek, editor-at-large Michelangelo Signorile—apoplectic over Buchanan’s New York Post piece blasting gays for disrupting the St. Patrick’s Day parade [see “Sodom and Begorrah,” NR, April 29]—printed the columnist’s home number and urged “queers” to “zap buchanan!” by calling to “leave him a sweet message.” Several evidently did.

Mr. Signorile does not mince words about Mr. Buchanan: “It’s hard to refrain from taking this man by the throat and squeezing as hard as you can while you look into his ugly, disgusting face and watch the eyeballs burst and pop out of their sockets. Or maybe you feel like stepping on his face and squishing his demented brain until the rot oozes out of it and onto the pavement. I have no problem with imagining violence against this wacko . . .” Enough. Cato suggests that Mr. Buchanan should report it as a hate crime and hit Outweek with a harassment suit.