Jonathan Singer: The Genesis of the Feud

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Monday, April 25, 2005

The Genesis of the Feud

We now know a little bit more about Zell Miller's famous challenge to Chris Matthews in September thanks to Albert Eisele and Jeff Dufour of The Hill. They write,

Former Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) had a beef with “Hardball” host Chris Matthews before he ever appeared on the show immediately after his fiery speech at the Republican National Convention last year.

The famously disloyal Democrat reveals in his new book, A Deficit of Decency, that before telling Matthews he wished he could challenge him to a duel, he had long “detested” Matthews’s “know-it-all attitude and his bullying way of interviewing.” And earlier that evening, Matthews’s fellow MSNBC pundit Ron Reagan called Miller “kind of weird,” while Matthews himself had referred to Miller as an “old-time seggy,” meaning segregationist — a characterization Miller vehemently disputes.

How surprising! Zell Miller had a preexisting beef with Chris Matthews when he went on his show and challenged him to a duel. Who'd have ever expected that.