DOPOTO PLAGIARIZED BY SCOTT McCLELLAN

The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious (DOPOTO) has contacted our law firm, Dewey, Cheatham and Howe, to explore a plagiarism suit against former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan for stealing our format and publishing it in book form this week. Mr. McClellan, having very belatedly grown a conscience, decided to tell the nation what it already knew with his book of memoirs of his time as the Official Court Fabulist for Bush The Younger and his not-so-merry men. It is called "The Liars We Elected and Who I Lied For Again and Again and Again," or something like that.

In his book McClellen tells us all what we already know like it was some sort of revelation. Everybody and his cousin knows that Bush The Younger is Fredo Corleone, Shotgun Dick Cheney is the evil mastermind James Bond villain, Karl Rove is the poor man's Machiavelli and all of their associates both in and out of office are treasury-looting goons in the service of the nation's wealthy ruling elite. And we all know that the war on Iraq was illegal, immoral, ill-prepared and poorly executed, a horrible waste of our dedicated young soldiers and upwards of a million Iraqi civilians. Both sets of people were mere pawns to this administration, and as everyone with even a small familiarity with the game of chess knows, pawns are expendable.

Is McClellan telling us these things because he thinks we don't know them or is it an attempt to purge his own conscience and wash the blood off his hands? More likely, it's the cynical move of a man who sees the handwriting on the wall and can read a calendar. His is only the first book of many to come to cash in on the disgrace of the Bush The Younger Administration, and the timing is especially good for book sales, an election year. Why wait until Bush is out of office and be only one of dozens of similar books on the market?

Mr. McClellan proves himself to be a true Bush man with his cynical and predatory "confessions," too little too late to do anything about the vast array of crimes committed by the Bush the Younger Administration. He's been out of office for several years now, presumably busy writing his book instead of going to Congress, the FBI or the media with what he knew to try to stop these thugs before they inflicted more damage on America and the world. Think of the impact this information could have had three years ago.

And you just know the book is quite accurate judging by how the Administration doth protest too much. The ink is barely dry on the first printing and the attack dogs are unleashed with their usual ferocity, going all "disgruntled employee" and "he was out of the loop" on McClellan, and even questioning his sanity. That act is old and even more transparent than it used to be, especially now that common knowledge is corroborated by an Administration insider. Which is where his plagiarism of DOPOTO comes in. It is our job to point out the obvious to those who can't see the forest for the trees. And he'll be the one to get rich for doing so. Mission accomplished!

So buy his book if you must, but remember, it is just another one of Bush The Younger's thugs cashing in on an administration that attacked our own Bill of Rights as well as an innocent nation, let a great American city drown, tortured prisoners, exposed our own spy, let Osama bin Laden escape and oversaw a massive transfer of wealth from the working classes to the super wealthy to the point where less than 1% of Americans now control more than 90% of America's wealth. And that's only a small fraction of the crimes committed by McClellan's former masters.

He's telling us nothing that we do not already know and hoping to come up smelling like a rose instead of the pile of dung that he is. He did not resign in protest during his time as an accessory to high crimes, nor did he speak up in a timely fashion. Just one more heinous thug begging for mercy from the judgment of history. At least the original Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, stayed on message right to his miserable end in the bunker with his Fuhrer. McClellan wants his service as The Official Liar to the American People to be rewarded by millions of your dollars in book royalties. Count out The Department Of Pointing Out The Obvious from his triumphant book tour.