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Thanks for your reply. :-)

I don't know whether the NYDN would issue a retraction for an untrue gossip blurb written 6 months ago, unless they were really badgered into it. My guess is that they would feel that a) it was 6 months ago and the news cycle has moved on, and b) it was a *gossip* column. There often seems to be an implied understanding between tabloid reporters and their readers that gossip is somewhat unreliable and generally not taken seriously. An article of substance rarely begins with the phrase "OMG!!!". Having lived in NYC for a number of years and having read it everyday by virtue of its omnipresence, I don't take anything written in the Daily News as gospel.
As for the badgering into a retraction, I don't think much protest against this old story would come from its subject, who is accustomed to being called a transvestite NAZI dominatrix prostitute and a racistsexisthomophobichatemongeringwarlovingbigot motivated entirely by her enjoyment of forcing "brown" babies off the face of the earth. Coulter has probably heard it all, so I don't know how much this would upset her, especially given her tendency to quote Whittaker Chambers' "innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks; guilt does."