Last week, Washington Post reporters Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza filmed a “Mouthpiece Theater” video in which Milbank called Hillary Clinton a “mad bitch” and Cillizza called Rep. Chip Pickering's wife a “bitter woman from hell” (Her crime? She says her husband cheated on her. So, clearly, she is from hell.)

The Post pulled the video after hours of outrage, and Cillizza Tweeted about the controversy: “Folks, know a lot of you were upset about Mouthpiece,. We've apologized and the video has been pulled. Thanks for the feedback.”

In fact, they hadn't apologized. A Post spokesperson said the video was “satire” that “went too far.” But that isn't an apology -- not to Hillary Clinton, not to Chip Pickering's wife, and not to Washington Post readers. It's a “OK, we give, please stop hitting us.”

And it hides behind the absurd notion that Milbank and Cillizza were simply engaging in satire that went a bit too far. Oh yeah? What were they satirizing when they called Clinton a “bitch” and Pickering a “bitter woman from hell”? That wasn't satire, that was simply two smug men calling women bitches and bitter women.

Yesterday, the Post's Howard Kurtz wrote in an online discussion “Chris apologized on his Twitter feed.” No. Cillizza did not apologize in his Twitter feed. Saying “We've apologized” is not apologizing.

And today, Cillizza and Milbank made clear that they are not at all sorry. They posted a new “Mouthpiece Theater” in which they suggest they were “censored,” pretend that Milbank's comment about Clinton was the only problem -- ignoring Cillizza's cruel attack on Chip Pickering's wife -- and generally treat the whole thing as a big joke.

Except, as usual, there's nothing funny about “Mouthpiece Theater.”

This, by the way, is satire:

(Hat-tip to Americablog for the video, by Andy Cobb.)

UPDATE: CJR's Megan Garber on the new “Mouthpiece Theater”:

[T]here's really very little to say about the video, because, as usual, there's really very little substance within it. Except that it's remarkable how, like one of those movie aliens that feeds off the life force of humans, the series's inflated sense of its own jocularity seems only to have expanded since Friday's debacle. As if “Mouthpiece Theater” feasts on widespread indignation itself.