Zell Miller illuminates his feud with Chris Matthews

[kskiska]

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.’”

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/UndertheDome/042605.html

[CO Liberal]

1. Zell Miller: Useless Asshole

What a waste of oxygen.

[Demit]

2. There's a book destined for the remaindered table.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

7. coming soon to a bargain bin near you!

but seriously, when are some of our big guns going to write some books? i was at borders today and the political section was all zell, sabage, and levin.

franken, hightower, garofalo, moore, and ivins need to get to work!

[Bluzmann57]

3. Is Miller even relevant anymore?

For that matter, was he ever relevant to begin with? Ol' Zell will be in hell right next to his boys bush and cheyney and they can all burn together.

[Skinner]

4. Zell Miller is a complete ass.

He deserved all the notoriety he got from that insane speech at the RNC. To hell with that guy. His challenging Chris Matthews to a duel just showed how loopy he was. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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[LittleClarkie]

14. And his face go so completely red

he looks like he's about to stroke out when he does that. Yeah, good stuff.

[Richard Steele]

5. So, he admits he has voices in his head? Finally!

That "drill instructor in his head" explains A LOT!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

6. “know-it-all attitude and his bullying way of interviewing.”

this coming from sean hannity's buddy.

matthews sucks, but next to hannity, he's miss fucking manners

[Pam-Moby]

8. Hey Zell go suck an egg!... n/t

[dzika]

9. Saturday Night Live skit

March 19, 2005

Video - SNL skit with Chris Matthews and Zell Miller

Video in Real Media format (5 minute)

[MisterP]

10. I LOVE Jon Stewart's impersonation of him

and does Bat-Outta-Zell look like Ratzinger or what?

[qanda]

11. Go Away Zell

Your 15 minutes are over. Bush used you for his purposes and you are no longer useful.

[Gold Metal Flake]

12. I thought he was dead.

Hmm. Well, I'll just have to keep saying so until it catches on.

[ComerPerro]

13. If he talked to his granddaughter the way he spoke at the RNC,

she would have been in tears.