Clinton as a parrot

Dana Milbank tears Hillary Clinton apart in his "Washington Sketch". Amidst a revealing description of Clinton's itinerary (including her photo-op waving to non-existent audiences) 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.

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 undead analogy too far.