There is nobody who is an idiot – well there are plenty of idiots but there is nobody who deserves to be denounced, cast out and told they are not really Scottish on the basis of their view.
And, repeatedly, Mr Forbes denounced worn-out names from Republican campaigns past, as well as the scions of political families.
The attorney general, reveling in his new popularity, denounced such out-of-step defenders of constitutional rights as helping terrorists.
It is customary for us pedants to denounce "losing out" as an American waste of space.
The few lone wolves in today's media that have denounced Jason Collins' coming out have almost been vilified for their homophobic responses, which is a massive shift from the early 1980's when almost all of the media coverage around LGBT professional athletes was centered around scandal, salaciousness, and secrets.
But he apparently possessed a special license to publish such images, because he spent much of his talk denouncing lazy out-of-town journalists who use Detroit's ruins as a convenient recession-year symbol for the end of the American dream.
Although the stoats and squirrels in question had died of natural causes, the charity Advocates for Animals denounced "perverse" and "out-of-date shock tactics" that "exploited and degraded animals".
They have underfunded and undermined defined benefit retirement plans, shifted all risk and responsibility to workers in deferred compensation plans, and flat-out denounced their own participation in their employees' future economic security.
And Alan Gordon, who represents City Opera's chorus and other personnel, denounced the management as "out-and-out stupid".
Political parties have denounced the roundup, carried out in recent days, as a ploy to clamp down on political activity as Bangladesh prepares for national elections in December.
