Why does Tweety always step on David Corn?

[senseandsensibility]

He constantly cuts him off just as he is getting to his point. If I were David Corn, I would not be able to maintain my composure. It's just flat out rude, and makes for awkward viewing.

Tweety has done this to David for years. I think he feels threatened or intimidated. He seems to be afraid to let David complete a sentence because the audience will instantly be able to tell that he is better informed, more intelligent, and more likable than he is.

Turned the show off after that, and remembered why I stopped watching.

[monmouth3]

1. Tweety has truly become a gasbag with age. I love David Corn, sorry I missed him..n/t

[senseandsensibility]

5. Love David too, but you didn't miss much.

He barely got a few words out, and was never allowed to make his point.

[Enrique]

2. i've noticed this for years

Tweety does this with women and with David Corn, invites them on his show but doesn't seem to want to hear them talk. My question is the same for David Corn as it is for women, why do they keep going on his show?

[senseandsensibility]

8. You make a good point about David Corn and women.

He is absolutely unwatchable with them. I think that Corn is an MSNBC analyst or contributor of some kind and probably doesn't have a choice.

[Fla Dem]

25. There was a Democratic spokesperson heused to do that to as well.

I always thought it was because he was trying to be balanced and overcompensates on the liberal view to prove to people he can be objective.

[DURHAM D]

3. I noticed that a long time ago and is the

number one reason I don't watch Tweety. David always knows more than Tweety on any subject and Tweety shuts him down to the point where I don't understand why he even lets David on the show. I guess someone higher up is making him do it.

[tularetom]

4. Because he's a rude, insecure, and pompous asshole

But David Corn shouldn't feel too bad about it. He more or less interrupts everybody.

At least he used to. I quit watching him five years ago.

[senseandsensibility]

7. Yes, but he is worse with Corn than

with anyone else IMHO.

[spanone]

6. it's not only corn, that's his style, question and talk over

[senseandsensibility]

22. I'm only too familiar with his style

However, the more liberal his guest, the more he cuts them off.

[LLD]

9. He started his show with Hillary every night for the last six nights.

I don't know what to think of that.

[senseandsensibility]

10. Yes, just running the republican talking points into the ground

with a smile on his face. Not very interesting. He never has an original thought.

[LLD]

12. Yeah, you get a feeling that all he is wanting to do is to relay the Republican talking points

[Submariner]

28. Here is one Matthews original thought...a bad one, but original

(MSNBC's Chris Matthews, 5/1/03)

"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits."

Tweety just blows around with the political winds.

[octoberlib]

11. Tweety steps on everybody he interviews.

He doesn't let them TALK. It's very annoying.

[obxhead]

13. Tweety has always done this with 90% of his guests.

He asks a great question and instead of letting them answer he'll ask it again and again and again in different forms burning up all of their time so we don't get any kind of serious answer.

Tweety sucks and I wish he would lose his show completely and be replaced with a competent pundit.

[krawhitham]

14. Tweety steps on everybody, it is nothing personal against Corn

[BumRushDaShow]

15. The only person he couldn't out-talk was Joy Reid

to the point where she would leave him completely speechless, which garnered his "admiration". Appearance after appearance, he would be left sitting there dumbfounded at her streams of brilliance - all done without the spittle that he would spew trying to make some point while running his mouth at 80 miles/minute.

[senseandsensibility]

16. Was it just because she wouldn't stop talking when he tried to shut her down?

I can't imagine him letting her talk because she's brilliant. Tweety doesn't appreciate brilliance in my opinion.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Joy is very assertive

and knows what she's talking about, and her whole demeanor can bore through his bullshit, leaving him babbling praises for her commentary.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

23. She was masterful at not allowing him to cut her off, she just plowed right on through. nt

[Politicalboi]

17. He does it to Eugene Robinson too

He lets the right gas bag go on and on and on.

[Frustratedlady]

19. Have you ever watched the shows where his wife is guest?

He does the same thing to her. Actually, they try to overtalk each other. It is maddening.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Although the last time she was on - just a couple days ago

he was sitting their sheepishly, like a little boy, and had to catch himself multiple times, to keep from running his mouth all over her. I was thinking that she was kicking his leg under the table.

[Frustratedlady]

24. Oh, I missed that.

Maybe she checks the blogs and sees where that bothers people.

[bvar22]

20. Tweety does this with EVERYBODY.

I had to stop watching him years ago because of this very RUDE habit of his.

[Iggo]

26. Tweety steps on everyone.

It's his thing.

[FSogol]

27. +1. Exactly. He's a giant gas bag blowing in the winds of populism who only occasionally remembers

his working-class Democratic roots.