Honor is due from Chimpy’s message guy, Mark McKinnon (who by the way declined to work for McCheese once it became clear that Barack Obama would be the Democratic nominee).

"Well, I can’t spin on this one, Nora – it was, it was terrific. I mean it was one of the best, most professionally produced pieces of political work, media work that I’ve ever seen."

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"It had the effect of communicating to voters what an Obama Presidency would look like. I mean, it was, it looked like he was acting as President."

OK.