I make no effort to hide the fact that I loath Chris Matthews of MSNBC’s Hardball.  The man is a political hack who pretends to be tough.  He has been so far in the tank for Obama it is pathetic.  And his open hostility and utter lack of objectivity of Bush is frankly the embodiment of BDS.

But not only that, like many other pundits, he is just plain rude.  He will invite a guest on, and then hammer them with accusations and bullying tactics, while refusing to allow them to answer his loaded question.

So when he has on Ari Fleischer who is defending the positives of the Bush ;legacy, it was sure to be an ugly show.  Matthews is at his worst behavior, rude, accusing, misrepresenting, flat out lying and utterly nauseating.

And in the the face of his bloviating, Ari was calm, cool, collected and utterly in control.  It was a truly amazing performance as Fleischer parried every attack and accusation, chided his host for his rudeness to the chuckles of the crew (around 8 minutes into it) and never really lost his composure, even as he loses patience about 4 minutes in.

And it worked.  Matthews, prepared for a blistering argument, was stalled in the face of calm rational answers.

Something to think about.   Liberals want the argument, and the they want anger.  They know that logic will defeat their emotionalism.

Why did I say this is comedy gold?  Because seeing Chris thwarted like this was hilarious.

Enjoy.

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