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Adieu, Scott McClellan

Goodbye to a Bush official who has been remarkably consistent.

Calvin Trillin

April 27, 2006

Good luck to you McClellan, Scott, Though charming and adroit you’re not. Though you’d assured us all one week That Scooter Libby’d sprung no leak, You then said info can’t be flowing On leakage cases still ongoing. You stuck to that through thick and thin– Though thick is what you’ve usually been. From press rooms, Air Force One and choppers, You’ve, straight-faced, passed along some whoppers. You’re rare: a man who never tires Of representing mostly liars.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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