"For anybody in the Labour Party to make these crass comments defies belief and at no point have I ever said that children's services are OK.
I'm going to get them all in front of the committee together because I can't think of any other way of successfully finding out who was responsible for making those crass decisions".
It seems pathetic to take the most powerful of all artist-moralists, an artist who needs no apology or explanation and for whom the deadening phrase "old master" seems utterly inappropriate, and make these sterile simulacra, these crass copies.
Though he spoke warmly about the benefits of eliminating the double taxation of dividends, a centrepiece of the plan, Mr Greenspan made the crass error of suggesting that tax cuts needed to be paid for and that budget deficits matter.
Taylor, who has backed the right of Evans to return to football after the striker was released on licence after serving half of a five-year sentence, was attempting to make a point about miscarriages of justice when he made the crass comparison.
As a performer she shares certain qualities associated with her subject: an ability to make the crassest vulgarities sound like crystalline repartee, an earthy glamour and a preening, kittenish imperiousness that's somehow warmly endearing.
Even a tender exchange about his mentally unwell mother ends with McCann making a crass gag about a motor car.
But any message the film tries to deliver is drowned out by Penn, and his talented cast, making unbelievably crass decisions at every conceivable turn.
It's there in the respectful way in which Bruce Jenner's gender transition has been reported by the tabloid press, and in the instances where people such as Jamie Foxx are slapped down, gently, for responding to Jenner's news by making a crass and dated joke about "his and hers".
Besides making crass sex jokes, she said, Dr. Zarkin commented that she was "beautiful" and his "favorite patient".
