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Cling-Gate: Hard For Polman To Gauge...

Dick Polman, the celebrated Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, offers a plague on both their houses analysis of cling-gate on his blog.

He scores some points against Obama ... and Clinton ... and McCain, but there?s a lesson here other judgmental reporters should heed: if you?re going to cleverly zing Hillary (or anyone) by humorously (but also snidely) noting that

I half expect to see her marching in the Lehigh Valley, clad in a bowling shirt, with a .12-gauge in one hand and the New Testament in the other, with John Mellencamp?s ?Small Town? blasting on a loudspeaker[,]

you at least ought to do enough homework to realize that it?s ?12 gauge,? not ?.12 gauge.? (If you want to know why gauge is not like caliber, as in .45 or .38, look here.)

Full post as published by Discriminations on April 14, 2008 (boomark / email).