Update: Newsweek Article Suggest Gay Actors Can't play Straight Actors

I've thought about Ramin Setoodeh's controversial Newsweek pieceon gay actors in straight roles, and while he says it was mean to provoke a discussion, the main discussion it provokes for me is how does someone this untalented and unprepared get published in Newsweek? 
He's now claimingthat he only ever intended to ask if we would accept someone like George Clooney as a hetero leading man if he came out of the closet right now. Thatis a valid question. That is not all he wrote. The shit he wrote about Jonathan Groff alone was indefensible—he's perfectly convincing as a straight BMOC on Glee.
Also, he's bitching and moaning because:

"I became the subject of a lot of vicious attacks. I received e-mails that said I will be fired, anonymous phone calls on my cell phone and a creepy letter at my home. Several blogs posted my picture, along with a link to my Twitter feed. People commented about my haircut, and that was only the beginning. I was compared to Ann Coulter and called an Uncle Tom. Someone described me as a 'self-hating Arab' that should be writing about terrorism (I'm an American, born in Texas, of Iranian descent)."

 Listen, don't try to hide behind one isolated racist attack against you to obscure the fact that what you wrote was anti-gay (which is possible for gay people to do!) and intellectually weak. And I'm sorry, but if you don't want attention, don't have a Twitter (or a Friendster...see drunken shot)—why shouldn'tblogs (or newspapers) publish the face and link to the Twitter feed of a person at the center of a news story? Vicious e-mails and a "creepy" letter (as long as it's not a death threat) are going to happen when you have a very strong, very public, opinion. Calm down, it's not like Islam vs. South Park, we just disagree with you 'n' stuff.
Sense of entitlement, check.
Finally, also hilarious, Setoodeh—like so many writers for crumbling institutions like Newsweek—sneers are blogs: 

"I realize this is a complicated subject matter, but the Internet sometimes has a way of oversimplifying things."

Funny, I think his piece in Newsweekoversimplified things to the point of causing all this contempt in the first place. Some blogs are simple, some are not, just like magazines and newspapers. And their writers.
I don't think this gay guy is a homophobe, but he's suuuch a lightweight. And for some gays, that's worse!
P.S. But his hair is fine as it is and he's cute.