Did Philly.Com Just Intimate That The Phanatic Is A Child Molester?

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Short answer: No. (But it’d been easy to think they had without clicking the link on a Tweet.)

Longer answer: Somebody left the “word choice is an important part of news dissemination” manual over at 400 N. Broad St. To wit:

When Lawyerin’ Joe Amendola allowed Jerry Sandusky to talk to Bob Costas way back in a more innocent time, he copped to engaging in some “horseplay” with kids at Penn State.

When Philly.com whittled a story about “an Abington woman [who] claims the Phillie Phanatic turned into the Incredible Hulk at the Jersey Shore when he tossed her in a hotel pool” down to 140 characters today, they went with “Phillies Phanatic sued over alleged hotel pool horseplay.”

Easy to see why they’d have forgotten about Mister Jerry. I mean, he’s only leading their home page right now.

Bra-fucking-vo, Philly.com.

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