New to you, Andrew, new to you

On-again, off-again blogger Andrew Sullivan, trying to sound in the know about his outing to a strange American institution known as a "baseball game," gushes thusly:

Vile but irresistible hot dogs; a new foodstuff known as dippin' dots; occasional flashes of excitement interrupted by really hot guys with guts spitting into the grass; and, the piece de resistance, Karl Rove down front, chatting on his cell-phone.

Well, new in the sense that dippin' dots (those yummy little ice cream pellets) were invented in 1988 and are now available, like, everywhere...

Notice, too, that he doesn't group Karl Rove with the "really hot guys with guts." Can we assume that was some sort of typo?