(That they are often the same people who pretend outrage at the loss of a single embryo only makes the craziness still crazier).
Triney Sandoval's simpering Sempronius is particularly tasty as he dodges the outstretched hand by pretending outrage at the thought that Timon had not sought his aid before anyone else's.
Romney's inauthenticity is so transparent it gave his primary opponents Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich a chance to lambaste him without having to pretend outrage.
But perhaps we might consider not letting Republicans shape the media's coverage with their next pretend outrage about, oh I don't know, whether Elizabeth Warren's great-great-grandfather was a Cherokee, so we can focus on things that actually matter.
Farage: It was no stand-up routine - there was much earnest talk about the evils of the EU - but this being Farage there was still plenty of self-mocking humour and eye-rolling pretend outrage at his outlaw status at the Tory conference.
But even pretend-outrage can get out of control.
It would be nice to work the citizenry into a lather over the truth, for a change, rather than over pretend outrages fomented by corporatist charlatans.
But daydreams won't stop the killing — no matter how many denials, how much shock or outrage or pretended surprise at each new victim, no matter how many hours I walk.
Instead of being outraged, Bernice pretended to be Denise for an entire hour.
"Watching the same people not outraged when Cruz was called a fake Christian now pretend to be outraged by a mailer is, well, horse puckey," Deace wrote on Twitter.
It was play-acting, pretend, feigned outrage, nothing more than a channel through which Trump voters' misogynistic rage at Clinton could be expressed.
