Onion or has Brooks entered the dimentia zone?
I saw the show and thought it was like Clinton's bought-and-paid-for "Three Noes" performance in China that time.
I decided that Brooksie has gotten crossways with someone nasty and vindictive like Valerie Jarrett, and this was his "makeup" crawling and handkissing, to get out of trouble.
I thought his performance false and, frankly, captive and coerced, as if he were an "air pirate" being paraded by the North Vietnamese, after being tortured. That's what he sounded like.