Sometimes silence speaks louder than words. On today's Morning Joe, after a clip rolled of a listless President Obama speaking about the Paris attacks, Joe Scarborough asked Mika Brzezinski what amounted to a rhetorical question: "does he look like he is engaged and understands the level of threat?"
When after a few seconds Mika failed to reply, Scarborough tried rephrasing the question, but still elicited no response. Her silence was so telling, and excruciating, that Mike Barnicle--ever the good sycophant--broke in to slavishly assert "I think he looks fully engage."