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.’”
Think maybe they could learn a few spitball techniques from ol'Zell! Heck, all the Dimwits know how to throw is pie... maybe a real squishy spitball in the eye will ruin their aim.
Really? did you say the samething about Jim Jeffords?
Zell said the democrat party left him. He is right>
I was once a democrat, that was when democrats were conservative like JFK, he was the first one I was eligible to vote. I even voted for Carter, (hangs head ) the one good thing about Carter, he was personally responsible for democrats to change their party to republicans.
LGS, i'm afraid your slip is showing. Might want to cover that first post of yours. :o)
I started reading the book today, and it is so good.
Zell would beat that dreaded Hillary! Zell for Prez in '08
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