If I never see Chris Matthews moderate another a town hall it'll be too soon.

[mobeau69]

He needs to STFU.

[brooklynite]

2. And yet you watch enough to know how bad he is...

[dem4decades]

6. Why did MSNBC hire a Fox News liar?

[Celerity]

7. Fox News?

It was a Hardball Townhall on MSNBC

[mtnsnake]

10. It was MSNBC, not Fox

[Honeycombe8]

14. You know he's a registered Democrat and works at MSNBC, right? He worked for Jimmy Carter.

He worked for Jimmy Carter as his presidential speech writer. He was Chief of Staff to Tip O'Neill.

He has definite Democratic Party cred. And he's a terrific townhall host. He asked some great questions when the audience didn't, like would Pete have ousted Franken. A great question, and Pete gave a great answer.

He gave Mayor Pete golden opportunities to shine. Matthews knows what he's doing.

[sharedvalues]

17. Sorry

I cruised through the title of post quickly and confused it with Chris Wallace (and the Gillibrand town hall).
Mea culpa.

What I said, apply it to Wallace

[Honeycombe8]

20. +1.

(If I had a dollar for every time I made a mistake....if only!)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. Excellent! He deserves the praise. We have got to

Stop trashing our own.

[Honeycombe8]

21. +1. nt

[mtnsnake]

4. I thought Matthews was fine. He pushed Pete a little hard on some of the questions

which Pete handled just fine. Overall, I thought Matthews treated Pete with lot of respect.

[Celerity]

8. +1

[mobeau69]

9. The constant interruptions are rude and annoying.

He reminds me of the way rump would be if he knew anything about government and history or anything at all: Loud, rude and striving above all else to be the center of attention. I like Pete but Matthews ruined it for me.

[jcgoldie]

11. Constant interruptions is Tweety's thing

Everyone knows it by now. He can be annoying but he's consistent and whoever chose him for that role already knew what they were getting.

[Honeycombe8]

15. He didn't constantly interrupt Pete in the townhall. He asked some pointed questions...

when they were on certain issues, when the audience didn't ask those. They were great questions, and gave Pete an opportunity to show his stuff. That's the job of the townhall host.

Matthews clearly likes Pete.

[ecstatic]

5. lol. I think the producers checked him within the first 10 minutes.

I tweeted that he needed to STFU and let Pete speak and then... he seemed to do just that. LOL!

[donkeypoofed]

12. Much Agreed! He is a rude guy.

He's not warm and wonderful either. I dont watch his show anymore either.

[Honeycombe8]

13. He did a great job! I hope he has others. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. +1.

[Paladin]

22. Matthews has always been rude.

The difference now is his increasing inability to run the show properly. He needs to retire and go count all his money; MSNBC needs to give that time slot to somebody with better hands-on talent---which means somebody besides Chuck Todd.