Elana Schor at TPMDC produced a post yesterday titled “Wall Street Traders Send Frustrated, Typo-Riddled Letter to Congress“.

She takes the Security Traders Association of New York (STANY) to task for the thorough unprofessionalism evident in their multiple typos:

The letter contains at least 10 grammatical errors, according to my informal count — including the spelling of President Obama’s name as “Barak”. Perhaps The Hill can write a follow-up with tips on how to draft a letter to the Capitol.

Let’s go ahead and forgive Elena Schor the petty crime of referring to a typo as a grammatical error (although it’s precisely in such a piece that it’s most essential to mind one’s Ps and Qs).

She says that the letter “contains at least 10 grammatical errors”, and I’ll just take her word for it. It’s a long letter, you see. A rather long letter.

In the three paragraphs she reproduced (more for their content, presumably, than for the number of typos), I count only two typos in the first paragraph, and none in the other two (unless she’s counting omitted punctuation in the last paragraph as a typo and/or grammatical error).

What is hilarious, of course, is that someone who writes for TPM would have the stones to castigate anyone for the gross perpetration of typos. Presumably she reads the work of her boss, Josh Marshall, from time to time? And presumably she leaves her typo radar on when she reads his work? Because, as I’ve pointed out before, he’s the undisputed Olympic and world champion when it comes to the gross perpetration of typos. Whoever wrote the STANY letter that Schor is attacking is probably not even worthy to do the “I am not worthy” bow before Marshall.

He’s the guy who perpetrates so many typos on a daily basis that I bring it up only when he turns in a truly exceptional performance.

Like the time I was moved to acclaim him TPM’s Typo King for having a typo in each of 4 consecutive posts.

Or the equally notable occasion when he had four typos in two consecutive paragraphs of the same post.

(These performances occurred within three weeks of each other, incidentally, so it’s not like I trolled through years of his writing to find such examples. And just for the record, I don’t count omitted punctuation, because that tends to take Josh Marshall into double digits since most days he doesn’t seem to be on talking terms with the comma.)

So I can only applaud Elana Schor’s bravery and courage. I know that if I were gainfully employed at TPM, I would not have the stones to write posts castigating people for perpetrating typos. Especially with the journalism job market in the state it’s in.