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 think Judy or Wolfe told him that he looked angry. He laughed out loud and said something like "of course an anchorman would say that"-- they just didn't know what to say to that! It was hilarious!
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.
I think he is disgusted by the whole politics world nowadays, and just wants to retire to beautiful Young Harris, GA and teach some college classes.
Even Bill O'Reilly as much as he is obnoxious lets people get their point across. Chris Matthews thinks he's on a gameshow - If the contestants don't answer the question fast enough or the way he wants he gives them the buzzer (which in this case is his big mouth).
"We mad as Hell and we're not going to take it any more!"I know that is a cliche statement, but this country is near that point. Zell Miller's talk confirms that condition. The nation is tired of being told that 9-11 wasn't that big of a deal, terrorism is some thing we are going to have to tolerate and were going to have to fight a sensitive fight.We have to forget the partisanship, the pettiness and the agendas. Lets put America first. The world will thank us for it.
ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME SOMEONE TAKES MATHEWS TO THE MAT. NOTE TO REPUBLICANS LETS GET TOUGH AMERICA, AND EVEN OTHER LIBERALS, DO NOT RESPECT YOU IF YOU LET THE LIBS WALK ALL OVER YOU. WAY TO GO ZEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Open a can-o-whoop-a$$ and follow it up with a nice cup of STFU! Go Zell!
join Michelle Malkin and about 25 million other America's right now.
We might have to get these guys on pay per view.
CafePress is just the printer. I designed those stickers and make very little off of them. I want to be able to help in states where Bush's victory is not so certain as it is here in Georgia.
I loved this part:
MILLER: Get out of my face! If you're going to ask me a question, step back and let me answer. I wish we lived in the day when you could challenge a person to a duel .Now that would be pretty good. But don't pull that kind of stuff on me like you did that young lady (Michelle Malkin) when you had her there browbeating her to death.
MATTHEWS: (in cross talk) Let me tell you, she was suggesting that John Kerry purposely shot himself to win a medal, and I was trying to correct the record.
MILLER: I'm not her. You get in my face, and I'm going to get back in your face. And the only reason you're doing it is because you're standing way over there in Herald square.
“Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. The charge is preposterous and we ought boldly to say so. The laws of God, and of nature, have no dateline. The principles on which the Conservative political position is based have been established by a process that has nothing to do with the social, economic and political landscape that changes from decade to decade and from century to century. These principles are derived from the nature of man, and from the truths that God has revealed about His creation. Circumstances do change. So do the problems that are shaped by circumstances. But the principles that govern the solution of the problems do not. To suggest that the Conservative philosophy is out of date is akin to saying that the Golden Rule, or the Ten Commandments or Aristotle's Politics are out of date. The Conservative approach is nothing more or less than an attempt to apply the wisdom and experience and the revealed truths of the past to the problems of today.” – Barry Goldwater, The Conscience Of A Conservative, 1960.
Can we organizing an Arm Zell Miller Fund? He could use a set, and being that he's a old Marine, he should get the "Chesty Puller" set. Matching sawed off (keep it the legal 18.25") 12 gauge set.
"I had no idea they made cans of whoop ass that big."
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They do, and in Industrial Strength too.
Wow. See Senator Miller open a can of whoop-ass on Chrissy, and be with Michelle Malkin et al as well?
Where do I sign? ;o)
Way to go Zell, don't take any sh** from Attack Dog Chris Matthews.
he he he... just to be with Michelle Malkin .. is enough for me...
A smart atractive woman that is more to the right then I am..
I got to get a whip chris matthews web site going just so I can have her as the first guest writer to it... and then get Zell on there too.
you can sign up as soon as I get it going ;)
I'm waiting! Ping me!
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