Posted on 04/26/2005 1:07:52 PM PDT by Cableguy
Former Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) had a beef with “Hardball” host Chris Matthews before he ever appeared on the show immediately after his fiery speech at the Republican National Convention last year.
The famously disloyal Democrat reveals in his new book, A Deficit of Decency, that before telling Matthews he wished he could challenge him to a duel, he had long “detested” Matthews’s “know-it-all attitude and his bullying way of interviewing.” And earlier that evening, Matthews’s fellow MSNBC pundit Ron Reagan called Miller “kind of weird,” while Matthews himself had referred to Miller as an “old-time seggy,” meaning segregationist — a characterization Miller vehemently disputes.
Miller’s book grew out of a now-noteworthy speech he delivered in the Senate in February 2004 castigating American culture and politics, and ultimately leading to his keynoting the GOP convention. He remembers being asked to meet then-RNC head Marc Racicot and then-Bush-Cheney campaign chief Ken Mehlman to discuss whether he should give the speech, but, “because this Democrat had never been to the RNC headquarters before, I ended up going in the wrong building.”
If that speech was successful, it was a failure in one regard: Miller says he attempts to be “conversational” in television speeches, as if he’s talking to his granddaughter. “But I’ve never been able to do it,” he writes. “So Marine recruit Miller marched out onto that stage, stood at attention, and delivered for the drill instructor in my head who bellows, ‘Speak up, private, I can’t hear you.’”
LOL. Good catch!
Yeah. It's always great to see the RATS get their panties in a wad whenever he speaks the truth. Don't you agree?
Zell Miller for US Ambassador to th UN
Always loved Hammertime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Famously HEROIC democrat
"Do you really believe that John Kerry wants to defend this country with nothing but spitballs?"
"It's a metaphor, Chris. You ~do~ know what a metaphor is, don't you?"
Heh, I still get a chuckle out of that exchange.
The difference between Miller and those RINOs is that Miller stands for something, those weasels do it for the press.
Oh, thanks for the laugh. Can you just see President Bush nominating Zell Miller for UN ambassador.
Since 2005-04-26
Welcome aboard newbie. You must be a Zell hating DEM
Apparently the newbie ran away.
Since 2005-04-26
Yep. Smelled a bit trollish.
That was what Dean said about Jeffords ("maverick") - and the word "disloyal Republican" was not a part of the conversation.
So what else is new .. but coming from The Hill - I didn't expect the word "disloyal" to be used against Miller.
>>He needs to start a bootcamp for the wussie RINOS<<
What a great idea!
>>The hospital screwed up twice. Somewhere there are two wonderful kids who do not know that their father was President.<<
Amen. Neither Ron nor Patti deserved to be the children of that wonderful man.
zell for pres '08.
GAWD, I love this man...The Spitball King!! :)
...almost forgot about the spitballs...LOL!!
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