I saw this last night after the convention speech of Cheney and Zell was right on top of Chris. Serves Chris right for being sooo obnoxious to his guests. Everytime he asks someone a question he jumps in before they can even open their mouth to answer him. And then he jumps to the next question before they can even answer the first. He tries to make them look stupid. He's rude and never lets anyone get a word in edgewise unless he is totally enamoured by them.
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!
I can't stand to watch Chris because of his rudeness. All I end up doing is yelling at the TV for Chris to shut up for 10 seconds so the guest can answer his stupid question.