So Mark Halperin went on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning and said the President was acting like a [coarse euphemism for male genitalia] and an uproar has ensued. I don’t applaud Halperin’s decision to express himself so vulgarly and he shouldn’t have described the president this way.

However, the faux-liberal outrage over the lack of civility here is just ludicrous. And the harumphing about bias here is even worse. Here’s the Washington Monthly’s Steve Benen:

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