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Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines

By JAMES PARKER

November 28, 2007 5:59:26 PM

Lines upon learning that former White House press secretary Scott McClellan will be publishing a memoir in 2008

O apparition of bullshit congealed, o sweating vessel of lies,
One thing alone redeemed your long disgrace:
So constipated with disinformation, you offered to wondering eyes
The truth of untruth — Falsehood’s suffering face.

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