“Let me just say it again,” Scarborough said. A bad-boy smile lit his face. “NOT… JUST… AT… FOX NEWS.” Mike Barnicle started laughing out loud, and Scarborough’s grin grew. “Let’s… let’s… go to Mike Barnicle right now.”

I went to my computer and punched in the date of the massacre—January 8—and the date of Keith Olbermann’s departure from MSNBC—January 21. Scarborough certainly appeared to be saying that another, unnamed, news network decided to use Tucson as a rationale for cleaning up its act. He appeared also to be saying he had inside information about it that he could only chortle about, unable to spell it out. Of course, MSNBC and Olbermann signed a non-aggression pact, and Scarborough appeared to be on the brink of breaking it.