For the next hour a glib, sweater-vested host named Leo Laporte fields questions from callers, e-mailers and video mail.

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Ian Fleming may own the copyrights to the original James Bond novels, but not the idea of a dashing international spy fighting super-villains with gadgets and glib remarks.

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He seems very relaxed - as someone says, more like a canny village priest than a glib politician.

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Kerry remained confident and glib, belying the notion Republicans have pushed for months that he is a spineless flip-flopper.

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The argument goes that politics, at least in this country, depends less on individual - glib or lofty, depending on your taste - Western-style television performances and more on structures, local branches and a collective spirit.

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