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Chris Matthews

The "James Joyce Stream of Consciousness" Pundit-- A guy who talks too spontaneously to engage in intellectual contrivances  (But too fast to be understood by anyone else).

Name Game-- Why Hardball is the wrong name for his program-- click here.
Chris-Matthews Style Questioning-- click here.
Limericks & Rhymes about Chris Matthews-- click here.
Palindromes about Chris Matthews-- click here.

Why Hardball is the wrong name for his program:

• Hardball applies to baseball, a sport punctuated by long, almost boring periods of complex strategizing followed by brief moments of execution requiring lightning-fast execution, but Chris Matthews conducts his program at pace so fast that it's almost impossible for a guest (or him, for that matter) to engage in intellectual contrivance (although many of his guests are quite successful in simply regurgitating whatever may have been fed to them earlier in the day as the "spin of the day").  To his credit, however, he usually identifies such responses as the bunk they usually are.  Watching Hardball is more like watching a video-tape of an ice-hockey game being played at fast-forward, so he should have named his program "Intellectual Hockey."
• The modern connotation of Hardball is intellectual incivility metaphorically invoking the intellectual equivalent of pitching at a batter's head, trying to spike the second-baseman, etc., yet Matthews spends much of his programs bemoaning the gradual disappearance of the civility in politics he believes he witnessed first-hand as an assistant to Tip O'Neal when O'Neal and Reagan (and Matthews and his counterparts) were "disagreeing without being disagreeable."  Despite his choice of Hardball as the name of his program, one would have to concede that he strives mightily to maintain civility towards his intellectual adversaries.  This analysis suggests he should have selected "Fencing" as the name of his program.

Chris-Matthews Style Question for Chris from Editor at Polisat:

• Now, let me ask you this.  It seems to me, that despite being a son of Republicans who became a Democrat in the '60's because you thought the Republicans weren't making commitments to end legal discrimination; that your feeling that they were failing to embrace civil rights caused you to embrace a much broader Democratic agenda than merely what you perceived as a commitment to civil rights; that you're still ambivalent about whatever you now perceive was your position on Viet Nam at that time; that you felt idealistically motivated in becoming a member of the Capitol Police; that you're proud of the intensely-disciplinarian type of education you received in Catholic schools; that you think being actively involved in, and keeping informed about, politics is an essential component of good citizenship; that you think impugning other people's political motives rather than attacking flaws in their political views is not consonant with good citizenship; that you're a patrician at heart; that you have strong pro-family views that often conflict with your pro-liberty views; that you not only understand the importance of fatherhood but also understand that motherhood is a more important career than a business career; that you have no tolerance for Clinton's dishonorable character but grudgingly admire his incredible ability to manipulate opinions in his favor;  am I right?
  

Palindromes about Chris Matthews (What's a palindrome? Go to our .Palindrome Page.)

• Boob on tube?  Tall insider?  Can rag us to last?  Ah, CHRIS, aka "SIR H. Chatsalot," sugar nacre, red is nil.  Late, but no boob! © 1999

Rhymes about Chris Matthews..  (For limericks and rhymes about Chris Matthews, click here.)