As Pure As the Driven Snow

Missed this in my earlier wrap-up. According to the Draper book, Torie Clarke turned down the McClellan job, so Josh Bolten offered it to Tony Snow, despite how he “mangled several run-throughs — failing to recite the White House talking points on Iraq.” You’d think that might improve them; I would say that reciting WH talking points on Iraq is what counts as “mangling.”