A story in The New York Times characterized Sarah Palin’s speech Thursday as “electrifying.” That kind of candor from the NYT surprised blogger Patterico, so he posted on the unusual event:

I gotta get a new hearing aid. Could you just say that one more time? I heard “the potential power of Ms. Palin’s something something speech . . .” What was that word again?

Did the New York Times just call Sarah Palin’s speech “electrifying”?

And did I just read that Obama is going to fight all of this energy and electricity by . . . hiding behind some womens’ skirts?

His hopes that the NYT had changed its ways were dashed a bit later, though, when the word “electrifying” was stricken from the story and the headline was changed from “Obama to Dispatch Female Surrogates” to “Obama Camp Turns to Clinton to Counter Palin.”

Patterico also asks a very good question: “Why is it ‘Mrs. Clinton’ but ‘Ms. Palin’?”