Syndicate won't be dropping Coulter's column...

The blog The Horse's Mouth reports that Universal Press Syndicate, the outfit that syndicates Ann Coulter's column, is not buckling under tremendous pressure to drop Coulter's column in the wake of her "faggot" comment. The gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, for instance, launched a letter-writing campaign late yesterday demanding that UPS nix her column.

UPS editor and President Lee Salem has a letter that he sends to people who write in about Coulter. It reads: "Thank you for taking the time to write. The contracts with the many writers and cartoonists we represent call for specific products and we have no legal interest in what they may do or say outside of that relationship. In the case of Ann Coulter (and others across the political spectrum whom readers have urged us to drop), she is not an employee and we have no legal power to "fire" her, though, of course, any of her subscribing newspapers can drop her column at any time. Whether the words she chose in referring to John Edwards were misplaced humor or outright bigotry, we would not have distributed them in her column."

Well, I guess that's that. For now. Stay tuned!