He's getting as bad as James Carville on CNN's Crossfire program.
Chris Matthews 
Zell Miller and most of the American people
Posted on 09/02/2004 6:08:42 AM PDT by kattracks
Democratic Sen. Zell Miller, whose speech slamming John Kerry as soft on defense electrified the GOP convention Wednesday night, gave MSNBC's Chris Matthews a much needed on-air upbraiding minutes later for constantly interrupting him during an interview.Miller gave no ground as Matthews deployed his patented rat-a-tat rhetorical style, and even warned the pro-Kerry host that he wouldn't let him get away with the same kind of treatment he gave Michelle Malkin last week, when Matthews tossed her off the show for defending the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth. Some highlights:
MILLER: If you are going to ask me a question, step back and let me answer. (LAUGHTER)
MATTHEWS: Senator, please.
MILLER: You know, I wish we...
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
MILLER: I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.
(LAUGHTER)
MILLER: Now, that would be pretty good. Don‘t ask me—don‘t pull that...
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: Can you can come over? I need you, Senator. Please come over.
MILLER: Wait a minute. Don‘t pull that kind of stuff on me, like you did that young lady when you had her there, browbeating her to death. I am not her. I am not her. . . . . . .
MATTHEWS: Do you believe they want to defend the country?
MILLER: Look, I applaud what John Kerry did as far as volunteering to go to Vietnam. I applaud what he did when he volunteered for combat. I admire that, and I respect that. And I acknowledge that. I have said that many, many times.
MATTHEWS: Right.
(CROSSTALK)
MILLER: But I think his record is atrocious.
MATTHEWS: Well, let me ask you, when Democrats come out, as they often do, liberal Democrats, and attack conservatives, and say they want to starve little kids, they want to get rid of education, they want to kill the old people...
MILLER: I am not saying that. Wait a minute.
MATTHEWS: That kind of rhetoric is not educational, is it?
MILLER: Wait a minute.
Now, this is your program. And I am a guest on your program.
MATTHEWS: Yes, sir.
MILLER: And so I want to try to be as nice as I possibly can to you. I wish I was over there, where I could get a little closer up into your face.
(LAUGHTER)
MILLER: But I don‘t have to stand here and listen to that kind of stuff. I didn‘t say anything about not feeding poor kids. What are you doing? . . . . .
MATTHEWS: OK. Do you believe now—do you believe, Senator, truthfully, that John Kerry wants to defend the country with spitballs? Do you believe that?
MILLER: That was a metaphor, wasn‘t it? Do you know what a metaphor is?
MATTHEWS: Well, what do you mean by a metaphor?
MILLER: Wait a minute. He certainly does not want to defend the country with the B-1 bomber or the B-2 bomber or the Harrier jet or the Apache helicopter or all those other things that I mentioned. And there were even more of them in here.
You‘ve got to quit taking these Democratic talking points and using what they are saying to you.
MATTHEWS: No, I am using your talking points and asking you if you really believe them.
MILLER: Well, use John Kerry‘s talking points from the—from what he has had to say on the floor of the Senate, where he talked about them being occupiers, where he put out this whenever he was running for the U.S. Senate about what he wanted to cancel. Cancel to me means to do away with.
MATTHEWS: Well, what did you mean by the following.
MILLER: I think we ought to cancel this interview. [END OF EXCERPTS]
I am short, with short arms and legs, so I typically would retreat a step or two in a fairly high stance, then crouch and explode forward and upward. I usually got in under the blade. (Occasionally I got nailed though.)
The bias liberal is becoming unhinged like a stuck door the home of Jackie Chan.
You gotta love Zell!
Semper Fi
EXACTLY! So that's why I just wrote MSNBC and let them know I'm permanently tuning out their channel!
and here:
http://www.dailyrecycler.com/blog/
also his convention speech...
THE BIAS LIBERAL MEDIA IS BECOMING UNHINGED LIKE A STUCK DOOR AT THE HOME OF JACKIE CHAN.
sorry for the repost--- I left out a word (media) the first time.
Yes it is!
The Left underestimates our fury. The only difference between our anger and theirs is that we aren't consumed by it, and ours is justified. I love watching them reel back in shock to discover we aren't as timid as they believe.
I would've paid to have seen that!
the great part was Spitter's reaction ... after a few blasts from Zell, he started to articulate each and every word of his questions and actually waited for an answer ... an historic night on Spitball with Chris Mathews!
Yeah... I couldn't last night so I got up to watch some televison and while skipping through the cable news networks I caught the replay of this interview. It was hillarious. Miller REALLY slammed Matthews. Was a GREAT piece of television that everyone should have recorded to watch now and then!!
I tried searching that video.msn.com for video of the Hardball fiasco the other day with protesters but can't find it. Know of any link to video of the protesters trying to attack Matthews?
The only thing that would make the duel better would be if Zell said," My name is Diego Montoya, you killed my father, now, prepare to die."
CafePress.com sells to both sides. The stickers are funny, but God knows were the money ends up. They are, at best, double agents with a purely commercial goal. Not that there is anything wrong with commerce.
Chris Matthews is an arrogant liberal snob. He claims to be Catholic but he is such a progressive, immoral, hedonist he makes me ill and is a disgrace to the Christian faith. Zel Miller said, and rightly so, that he placed his family before his party. Does Chris Matthews place his eternal soul before his pathetic liberal agenda? I think not. May God have mercy on him and his ilk.
Deacon Francis
He's getting as bad as James Carville on CNN's Crossfire program.
Chris Matthews Zell Miller and most of the American people
Matthews career is in a tailspin, just as Kerry's campaign is.
I love that little emoticon!
LOL
Oh my gosh! The second one is PERFECT! I see "War is not the answer" bumper stickers all over town every day.
LOL, Chris was really taken aback that someone actually had the audactiy to challenge him.
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