E Gads! Two Simultaneous 'Gadflys' in NYT Headline News Service

[Doug Harris]

One of those good old words you don't hear that often (though google
does show something just short of a gazillion hits for the word) is
'gadfly'. But as coincidence will (and does) have it, it appears 2x
today in the e-mail distributed headlines from the NYT -- once in a
main hed (Amid Ruined New Orleans Neighborhoods, a Gadfly Buzzes) and
once in the descriptive graf following a hed (A conservative gadfly who
attacked John Kerry's war record has released a book painting Barack Obama
as a stealth radical liberal.).
How weird is that?
dh

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