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James Taranto is the Best of the Web. I don't know what I'd do without him. Anyway he has a very funny section to conclude his piece yesterday.

As if the books by Scott McClellan and Matt Latimer weren't betrayal enough, now look what Ari Fleischer, President Bush's first press secretary, has gone and done. In a New York Times op-ed Fleischer, a fan of the New York Yankees, blames his team's championship drought between 2001 and 2008 not on the party actually to blame, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, not even on global warming, but on--you guessed it:

For eight long years, President Bush put a curse on my New York Yankees. . . .
I was standing in the Oval Office when the president secretly put his curse on my team. The 2000 champions paid a celebratory visit to the White House in May 2001. President Bush gathered the players in the Oval Office and was telling them what role models they were when George Steinbrenner, the team owner, suddenly tried to talk over him.
"George," Mr. Bush interjected, "not even the Boss gets to interrupt the president." . . .
But then terrible things started to happen. . . . And for eight straight years--all of which perfectly coincided with his time in office--the Yankees didn't win.
Flesicher's conclusion:

If you're a Democrat who wants the Yankees to lose--like the Boston Red Sox president, Larry Lucchino--you need to start voting Republican. And if you're a Yankee fan like me, well, I just can't bear to say it. . . .
The closing ellipsis is his. Let this be a reminder to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.

And btw, I know I have been really busy and not posting very much.