Sunday Show Round Up: Obama’s Foreign Policy Is Causing Pundits to Talk Like Henry James Characters

Replacing the standard faux-outrage sadly endemic to televised punditry, this Sunday morning’s ranks instead brought out the faux-politesse. David Brooks regretted to put something “crudely,” while Senator Bob Corker regretted to put something “crassly”—and on Easter Sunday, no less! These good gentlemen were one dropped monocle away from calling something fairly vulgar and joining Basil Ransom in the parlor.

What was so distasteful that it caused these normally composed men to hold their noses and head below 59th Street? Barack Obummer’s foreign policy, natch. Corker thought Bashar al Assad was “wise” to use chemical weapons, as it caused Obama to focus on his red line rather than send in 70 million troops and stop the entire civil war, which we were absolutely just about to do; meanwhile, Brooks noted the perception—in which he didn’t share, surely—that Obama has a “manhood problem in the Middle East.” Not to be crude:

By the by, can anybody show us how it’s done when you’re not trying to bashful like it’s Boston 1899? Take it away, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a man with no time to be polite:

That’s more like it.

Over in Praiseland, see if you can spot the difference between these two statements, both from Ralph Reed, both about the science on same-sex adoption:

It took Cokie Roberts one well-aimed arrow to send the Reedster into that full retreat. She proceeded to roundly wallop a panel of puritanical white dudes on marriage, adoption, and more, and didn’t need any phony apologies of decorum to do so. This will serve your weekly reminder of why said white dudes and the TV shows they frequent hate diversity: it only takes a sprinkle to ruin their whole Sunday morning.

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