Chris Mathews Blows his Lid at Keith Olbermann, Live
August 27th, 2008 Posted in PoliticsUpdate: Video
I’ve been putting very little up on this blog, because I’ve been waiting for something just this trivial: Chris Matthews had a very intemperate on-air moment with Keith Olbermann.
Here’s what happened, as far as I could tell. Matthews was going on and on about women feeling passed over because of Clinton’s loss. He was getting awfully sentimental. Then the producer apparently tried to get him to wrap it up, because he said “I’ll wrap it in a second, this is important,” or something like that. So he goes on again and finally wraps it up; Olbermann starts the segue with some reference to the long-windedness of “pundits like us” (or something to that effect) — which sounded like typical Keith self-deprecation, but I think Matthews took it as directed at him. Matthews frankly looks a little drunk — with his hair out of place, his sentimentality; but apparently he’s been sober x years and doesn’t touch the stuff.
Anyway, I was delighted to do a Google blog search to find that someone else had noticed this and immediately written about it:
http://www.politicalbyline.com/2008/08/26/chris-matthews-just-jumped-on-keith-olbermann-on-the-air/
And then:
9:15
Just got back from walking the dog. Amy has paused a segment on MSNBC where Chris Matthews gets snippy with co-host Keith Olbermann. This is classic. Apparently Olbermann was making fun of a long-winded diatribe by Matthews, and Chris just got testy with him right on the air.
The ongoing friction is obvious and oft-reported:
My new found purpose of the evening is to track reaction as it happens:
