[srmorton]

I have never seen Paul Gigot be rude. He is usually very polite and gracious. I really miss him on the political wrap-up on the "NewsHour with Jim Leher" on PBS on Friday nights. That is the only 10 minutes of the show that I ever watch and Mark Shields is getting so insufferable that I can hardly stand to watch it at all any more. Paul was even polite to him while at the same time challenging him much more often than David Brooks.

[VOA]

"I have never seen Paul Gigot be rude. He is usually very polite and gracious."

I second that.
His "rudely interrupted" means he just hated to point out the gloomy possible alternative.
As in "Speaker Pelosi".

[OldFriend]

I was quoting Gigot's own words.