I saw this yesterday live and it was like watching a car hurtle off a cliff: Hardball’s Chris Matthews — who conducts some of his on the air interviews like “old school’ reporters do, not allowing the subject to state inaccuracies — obliterates Rick Lazio, who’s running for Governor in New York. Watch it for yourself. My reaction? Matthews nails down the distortions Lazio has made, Lazio then tries to ignore it and remain on message. Watch it and make your own decision:
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.