Butt Boy vs Faggot

I wonder if any astute observers can notice any difference in the MSM treatment of Coulter vs Franken?

clipped from www.startribune.com How does the media punish a U.S. Senate candidate for calling a U.S. Senator a “butt boy”? Consider in particular Franken’s statement in this interview last October with the New Statesman (very near the end) that Sen Norm Coleman is… “one of the [Bush] administration’s leading butt boys.” For a Feb. 15 story about Franken’s announcement of his candidacy, the Star Tribune inquired about the authenticity of this quote, which was trotted out by the state GOP. The Franken campaign did not dispute the quote.