News I can’t use — the New York Times reports on John McCain’s “gay sweater”:

When Senator John McCain’s campaign went into a midflight stall last week, it was not only the candidate’s hard-line stance on Iraq or problems with his party’s conservative wing that enthralled the thumb-tapping hordes of the blogosphere. It was leaks from inside the campaign alleging that Mr. McCain thought his handlers were dressing him up as a metrosexual.

Political blogs like the Stump and the Swamp, and gossipier ones like Radar, had a field day with Mr. McCain’s so-called “gay sweater,” a V-neck worn over a T-shirt. Fashion insiders, for their part, shrugged off the look as more appropriate to the buffet line at an assisted living center than the pages of Out.

As my friend Ben Fritz says, “Did somebody tell the NYT editors that the articles about Obama playing basketball and the Clintons’ marriage were too heavy and substantive?”

Indeed, the article raises a serious question — what is the most insipid article on the 2008 campaign thus far? Here are my nominees (please suggest other contenders in comments):

–The NYT on McCain’s “gay sweater”
–The Post on Hillary Clinton’s cleavage
–The Post investigation of John Edwards’s haircuts
–The NYT on how Obama plays basketball

What do you think?