Mr Ramadan is equally indignant in self-defence.
Les Hinton, the executive chairman of News International at the time, was indignant in his reply.
Hollywood was indignant, in its way, at The Journal's undertaking, questioning the poll's methodology and the newspaper's intent.
In fact, although the lineup was quite explicitly political, there was nothing especially indignant in anyone's tone.
"They are more indignant in asking, 'Why didn't they just ask permission?' We would have given them the pumpkins," Gard said.
A generation is nostalgic for an era that belongs to its parents, indignant in the knowledge of freedoms lost in these creatively "risk-averse" times.
There is no doubt that the content and tone of the comments about Romney's family crossed a line — one guest sang a line from a "Sesame Street" song asking, "Which of these things just doesn't belong?" A precisely detonated outrage followed, swift and indignant, in tweets and blog posts gleefully declaring Harris-Perry, or liberals more broadly, the "real" racists.
When you are indignant in the moment, you're telling yourself, It's not OK to be treated this way.
After playing a clip of Romney on the campaign trail telling supporters how it took courage for Republicans to create and vote for the Ryan Plan, Sharpton appeared indignant in his response.
Waxing indignant in a recent Op-Ed epistle entitled the "New Red, White and Blue" Thomas Friedman castigates President Bush and Dick Cheney as energy "wimps" for not focusing the nation on greater energy efficiency and conservation.
