Which is why you sort of have to applaud the seemingly levelheaded responses by JCPenney, which never equaled the drama of Cooper's outrage culture hysteria.
And with his wife lending what is by all accounts her levelheaded approach to Mr. Weiner's hard-charging ways, he may have a valuable campaign consultant.
"We are living in an unacceptable atmosphere, and hope that the events in Syria don't occur in Lebanon and more levelheaded minds prevail, " Interior Minister Marwan Charbel told reporters at the scene.
The pages of Haaretz routinely report incidents of rabbinical or settler racism, and even many levelheaded conservatives acknowledge that in the past decade a kind of casual anti-Arab rhetoric has infected political life.