Definitely a clinic. When you outland your opponent in 11 of 12 rounds and do significant damage to his face in the process, I call that a clinic.
I can't tell if people are joking or not. Donaire got schooled. I was rooting for donaire but he did get schooled. However, I don't think he was making excuses. He's been on record long before this fight saying that he doesn't like to study fighters before a fight. He prefers to figure them out in the fight. Don't think he made that up, just think that **** was working before against lesser fighters, and he got comfortable.