I have never in my scant 46 years seen the Old Media so partisan.....actively campaigning for Kerry in essence.
Chrissy is just one of many and he bullies folks routinely. This time he got his hand bit. I think he like it though...good for his lousy ratings. I've seen Pat Caddell (oddly another Georgia Dem..lol) put Chrissy in his place too but not nearly as angry as Zell was. Zell's exchange with Matthews was somewhere between W the Elder's spat with Rather or Clinton and Britt Hume and the extreme of Agnew or Muskie on Loeb .
I'm sure there have been harsher exchanges (?)
Matthews has had it coming for a long time.
As to the MSM,they turned this nation against the Nam war and they think that they can repeat it this year;but,they can't pull off now,against the anti-Afghanistan/Iraq battles.
I'm a bit older than you are,so I remember how hard they tried to beat President Nixon,from the time he was the V.P.!
Don't worry...they are dinosaurs and won't win.Mr.nopardons is positive that the president will beat Kerry by 58%. :-)