CNN Apologizes for Non ‘Morning TV Language’ Before Quoting Tea Party Blogger on Balls

Inside Politics’ John King quoted Red State blogger Erick Erickson this morning about House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) “political stunt” to sue President Barack Obama over his executive orders rather than begin impeachment proceedings, as the GOP base wants. Erickson, not known for his delicacy, basically accused Boehner of not having the balls to go full-impeachment.

King apologized beforehand for the phrasing. “It’s not exactly morning television language,” he said, “but here we go.”

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Reckon not. Light fare on the internet, though, where “testicular fortitude” doesn’t even merit an NSFW.

Watch the clip below, via CNN:

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