Giood article and I agree that language is stripped of its power by overblown rhetoric. If someone is outraged about everything then outrage must be their normal state.
However, to change direction slightly I'll cover your Gallagher and raise you a Jerry Sadowitz. I'm sure you'll Google him but the easily outraged should not. Politically correct thinking has a many thing to answer for, robbing Jerry Sadowitz of his TV cereer is just one:
from The Wee Review
While Jerry Sadowitz's reputation greatly precedes him, with even bar staff at the Tivoli Theatre anxiously acknowledging the potential of an onstage verbal atrocity occurring, it does nothing to cushion the performance and render it any less brutal, horrifying, and of course - funny.
