You get that? No shame, no giggles on his behalf. He just plows right along, as if nothing happened. Say what you will about his personality/politics, but that’s the kind of news man that we need. The unflappable kind that isn’t afraid to tell it like it is, even if it involves using naughty words that will make baby angels cry in heaven.

You know that’s the kind of thing that Tom Brokaw has been itching to slip into one of his newscasts for decades.