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# Clinton as a parrot
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/clinton-as-a-parrot/
- Published: 2008-05-14T15:05:47.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:40:27.000Z
- Author: openUSA Openusa
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:41

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](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/13/AR2008051302862.html?ref=opendemocracy.net)) 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](http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/clinton%5Fvs%5Fhistory) too far.