Of Beanpoles, Chuckybutts, and Onlinebeerbellygirls: The WSJ Issues a Correction

With just over 90 days until the election it’s getting close to silly time — one imagines last week’s McCain/Paris Hilton/Britney Spears debacle may have been the season’s unofficial starting gun. Along those same lines, you may have read the WSJ story, also from last week, that basically said there were people who wouldn’t vote for Barack Obama because he was too skinny (inevitably at least one person found racial undertones in the piece). The article quoted a “Clinton supporter” from a “Yahoo politics message board” who said “I won’t vote for any beanpole guy.”