IT TOOK until 3.25pm on his second day in the witness box, but
Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt finally lost his cool yesterday.
As Herman Borenstein, SC, asked Bolt why he had appended the term ''gay'' to his description of Aboriginal lawyer/academic Mark McMillan in a 2009 blog post, Bolt, who had remained implacably calm through almost eight hours of cross-examination, exploded.
''For you to first smear me with the Holocaust and now try to portray me as a gay bigot is an unforgivable travesty,'' he fumed.
Bolt denied any suggestion he was homophobic, saying the godfather of his children is gay.
''I don't share your assumption that being gay is an insult,'' he told Mr Borenstein, who had in fact offered no view on homosexuality.
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