Laugh it up, Hill.

Here we see Hillary Clinton being endorsed by North Carolina Governor Mike Easley. In lending Mrs. Clinton his support, Governor Easley uses a usually disparaging term for a weak or effeminate man, boy, or male homosexual.

And Mrs. Clinton laughs.

I'm reminded, as I so often am, of a line from a "West Wing" episode, in this case On The Day Before. It was spoken by a Republican congressman to Sam and Toby.

Take a look around at all the democrats running from you right now. Do you even know who your friends are anymore?

ETA: And here's Andrew Sullivan comparing her to Karl Rove-

Clinton. Never miss an opportunity to exploit homophobia. Remember DOMA? Remember doubling the discharges from the military? Remember inaction on AIDS? Remember the Clintons' using anti-gay marriage ads in the South in 1996? And yet the gays keep coming back for more. I don't understand why. I really don't.

-which is kind of spooky considering all the ethical pretzels into which Sullivan used to have to twist, to assure himself the Bush administration really and truly did think he was a person. You see (for any of you who don't know), Sullivan is a homosexual who supported that administration for years.

I don't understand why. I really don't.