This Interview DID NOT Make Chris Matthews Leg Tingle

Priceless.   He goes from giddy this sullen faster than a Ferrari gets to 60 mph:

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[Winston]

That IS a revealing clip, thanks for posting it.

Skinny, I think there’s probably universal recognition that Chris Matthews is a fellow with some serious issues.

My question would be, What’s wrong with our media discourse that someone like him is paid so handsomely to wave those issues around in public? I ask somewhat flippantly but there's also an aspect that's dead serious. Our media is diseased.

[SDiA]

I just view Chris Matthews as a total douchebag. I feel the same way often about Hannity as well. I don't know how people can really stand to watch either hour of those programs. I could stand Hannity when it was a back and forth between him and Colmes, but since the latter left the show, it's lost touch from unique.

Did you listen to Limbaugh today? Chances are you'll know what's on Hannity tonight.

I usually only catch the shows when the re-runs air and I'm messing around on the website or various other internet wanderings. I have a t.v. next to my computer that's on 24 hrs a day, and I flip it back and forth between Fox and MSNBC. What amazes me about both is that opinion hours and their daily re-runs take up half the programming schedule.

My personal favoirte show is Red Eye... but i have to DVR it and try watching it the next day. I do the same with Beck and Schultz, but it's impossible for me to keep up with it all... you'd have to be a total t.v. junkie to know what's going on at all times... or own 10 televisions.

And that is the style of media that IS INDEED dominating our media, basically because it's popular and bring in the viewers, which brings in the advertisers, which brings in the money, which brings etc, etc, etc... It appears that even the re-runs of their opinion shows are more popular than actual news, because that has become the industry standard. Maybe it'll change, maybe it won't... it takes somebody willing to take the risk to find out. I'd like to see Fox add a new channel and put all their current opinion shows on it, keep Fox News as a 24 hr news outlet like CNN Headline News. I'd bet they could pull it off no problem.

I wish more stations were capable of seperating their News and Opinion shows into different stations. If opinion BECOMES news, that's one thing... but how often does that happen. There's a good reason the specific host or channel one is watching is the outlet talking about things at times. The problem I see is that they so dominate the news channels these days, it's hard not to confuse the two at times.