The Billiken's Bluff

And also reveals that he doesn't know how to properly use of the word - GLIB.

Scarborough is quoted in a NY Times article about Stephen Colbert's upcoming Comedy Central cable news mockery "The Colbert Report".



The Colbert Report, which will air immediately after Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, is a parody of cable pundits such as Bill O'Reilly, Dan Abrams, Aaron Brown, and Joe Scarborough.



Colbert comments on Scarborough:

"Scarborough's got 'the real deal,' meaning 'here's how it really is,' " Mr. Colbert said. "It's always, 'It's just common sense, folks.' "

As an example, the real Mr. Colbert imagined how the fake one might dismiss Darwin's theory of evolution. "Intelligent design," he said. "It looks like somebody designed the world. At this point, I'm just looking for the signature in the corner."

Fine. Nothing ground-breaking. But when Scarborough was asked to respond and weigh in on The Colbert Report, he said the following:

In an interview, Mr. Scarborough said he thought Mr. Colbert had actually pegged him pretty accurately.

"It's hard to read Jefferson's 'Notes on Democracy' in the format we're given," said Mr. Scarborough, a former four-term Republican congressman from Florida. "You do your best to strip it down, in much the same way Reagan would strip down the great economic questions of the day into a glib little anecdote."

Scarborough's comments mean one of four things:

1. Scarborough doesn't know the meaning or GLIB. Or more importantly he doesn't know the connotation, the common usage and implication of the word or some synonyms for glib which include... insincere, nonchalant, superficial, deceitful.

2. Staunch-conservative Scarborough does know the meaning of GLIB, and has taken issue with Ronald Reagan's economic policies during the 1980s, and is taking a shot at our 40th President.

3. Scarborough is a linguistic master and is using a more-nuanced definition of GLIB - marked by ease and informality .

4. I don't really know the meaning of GLIB.