Okay to use gay slurs on CNN?

Not that I would expect any better from CNN correspondent Glenn Beck, but saying “faggot” is just a “naughty name” that is just not cool. And then CNN’s subsequent support of his right to say it, also not cool. And of course the initial use of it by Isaiah Washington, annoyingly not cool.
From AmericaBlog

So CNN is now defending its host, Glenn Beck, and his use of the word “faggot” on the air, AND his suggestion that the word isn’t very derogatory. Way to step in it even further, CNN. Faggot is the n-word to gays, and you think it’s appropriate? Does CNN permit the n-word on the air? And would they permit their hosts to suggest that it’s simply a “naughty name”? CNN has a host who is a loose cannon and who has already slurred Muslims, gays, and more. (Though, interestingly, I doubt CNN would let a host slur blacks or Jews, so apparently free speech has its limits even at CNN.) But rather than apologize, CNN defends their host who thinks the word “faggot” is appropriate for CNN, and who thinks the word “faggot” is simply a “naughty name.”

You can see it on video here.
Luckily, GLAAD is all over it. Interestingly, Washington is being sent to rehab. Now if this is possible can someone also send Mel “sugar tits” Gibson and Michael “embarrassingly racist” Richards as well.