How revealing—KOKO, helpless to defend Obama’s oratorical dog’s mess—sneers at Roger’s quote, one of the finest bits of rhetorical criticism ever penned. Roger, like most well-educated men, knows Mencken’s writings well. KOKO, not being of that class, can only assume that he must have found the quote in Bartlett’s.

Ambrose Bierce’s “an army of words escorting a corporal of thought” also requires citation.