Did anyone happen to catch Zell Miller on Hardball after the amazing speech he gave? Chris Matthews was in his typical style firing the tough questions at him and Miller stepped right up to the plate and fired back. My favorite exchange was:
MATTHEWS: OK. Do you believe now—do you believe, Senator, truthfully, that John Kerry wants to defend the country with spitballs? Do you believe that?
MILLER: That was a metaphor, wasn‘t it? Do you know what a metaphor is?
MATTHEWS: Well, what do you mean by a metaphor?
MILLER: Wait a minute. He certainly does not want to defend the country with the B-1 bomber or the B-2 bomber or the Harrier jet or the Apache helicopter or all those other things that I mentioned. And there were even more of them in here.
You‘ve got to quit taking these Democratic talking points and using what they are saying to you.
MATTHEWS: No, I am using your talking points and asking you if you really believe them.
MILLER: Well, use John Kerry‘s talking points from the—from what he has had to say on the floor of the Senate, where he talked about them being occupiers, where he put out this whenever he was running for the U.S. Senate about what he wanted to cancel. Cancel to me means to do away with.
MATTHEWS: Well, what did you mean by the following.
MILLER: I think we ought to cancel this interview.
You can read the transcript of the interview here. (It begins about a third of the way down)
Posted by ravomess at September 2, 2004 10:49 AMZen Miller is my new hero.
Posted by: OSP at September 2, 2004 03:06 PMZell Miller is clearly insane and anyone who supports him obviously has a few screws loose. seriously, think about your hero. you are supporting someone who brings out the WORST in people. crazy fearful angry world we live in.
Posted by: Meredith at September 3, 2004 09:48 AMI do not know that I would say he is insane - radical? yes but not insane.
Posted by: ravomess at September 3, 2004 09:54 AMIf it would have been a speech given at the DNC convention about Bush it would have been hailed by Bush haters as a speech given by someone who's finally not afraid to tell the truth about him.
You can't win with these things.
Posted by: dabrettman at September 3, 2004 10:21 AMA hero! Gimme a break! Stupidity and ignorance in baiting a reporter makes you a hero today! Soon we will all be heroes if we go ballistic in front of a camera.
Posted by: John Brady at September 21, 2004 04:41 PM