http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/clinton_as_a_dead_parrot Comments for "Clinton as a parrot, openUSA " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/clinton_as_a_dead_parrot <p>Dana Milbank tears Hillary Clinton apart in his "Washington Sketch". Amidst a revealing description of Clinton's itinerary (including her <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302862.html">photo-op waving to non-existent audiences</a>) in West Virginia yesterday, Milbank interweaves the dialogue of Monty Python's famous "dead parrot" sketch (video below). The Clinton campaign may insist that victory in West Virginia is a sign of life yet, but the American press know a dead parrot when they see one.</p> <p>Zombie-like, the Clinton campaign lurches on to Kentucky, invoking the ghosts of race and class in the Faulknerian gloom. Never accuse us of stretching the <a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/clinton_vs_history">undead analogy</a> too far.</p> &nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/clinton_as_a_dead_parrot" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/clinton_as_a_dead_parrot">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/clinton_as_a_dead_parrot#comment class election Obama openUSA openUSA race USA USA Wed, 14 May 2008 16:32:47 +0100 openUSA 44605 at http://www.opendemocracy.net