On a political news show on a cable news network that the average voter doesn't watch?

Yesterday, many believed that the power outages caused by storms in Wayne County, MI were the result of the Russians attacking the power grid.

Other than a handful of posts here?

And whether or not people watched the interview, what you're saying is that voters decided: "I really hate Donald Trump, and what Republicans are doing to the economy, but what O'Connor said about House Leadership is unforgiveable".

If so, it was a commentary on people believing ridiculous things.

He interviewed the Big Con almost monthly for many years...and helped get him normalized...

He is unbearable to watch ...

Ari... then read.... then Chris Hayes, Rachel and Lawrence.....

Daytime is also pretty bad except for Steph and Ali....

Todd is the worst kind of stealth puke ...

Mathews is just unwatchable. Ruhle and Velshi kick ass, and I started DVRing Nicole Wallace's show for pure unadulterated trump/GOP hate ...

she laughs nonstop...when our world is burning.....a sense of humor is grand, like Rachel...but NW laughs nonstop...I got a sister like that...it is a nervous tic....and it is real hard spending alot to time with her !!!

I know, she is a bit boorish.

To me, she has a bit of charm to her to smooth that out a bit.

But, if you like Trump/GOP haterade, doesn't get much better than her and Schmidt.

I take notes when he speaks, like Malcolm and Rob Reiner...each word is a gem..

He has a romantic notion of government that I share.

But that said it's at best a questionable claim. Gerrymandering and a huge amount of last minute cash are the actual causes.

Interjecting facts and reason into this discussion?

Do you know how few people actually watch his show? The chances that enough uncommitted voters in OH 12 saw that interview and that doing so caused them to vote against the D are infinitesimal.

Plus, do you think someone watching Matthews would vote for the GOPer over that? Or are you saying, somone saw it after 6:00 Central and said, by golly I'm not going to the polls and vote for O'Connor, just let the GOPers have it.

Maybe I'm missing something, so please let me know what.

but we still could have done better. This is a gerrymandered district that has only elected one Democrat in 40 years. Turn out will be better in the mid-terms. The GOP has made Pelosi a villian to their voters so distancing himself from her in a red district may be strategic on his part.

He’s an opportunistic shithead.

"Me Too" related scandal!

That is an almost impossible district for a democrat to win, gerrymandering gone wild. That this was so close is not a good sign for republicans.

Chris is however still on double secret probation with me because of his sickening fawning over Dubya after his fake helicopter landing on a Carrier.

W just looked so manly in those jeans

He's not that important.

and once in a while he is spot on. I usually can't bear to watch him.

In a December 2003 interview of then-Governor Howard Dean, who was raising amazing amounts of money and looked like the Democratic front-runner with lots of positive press, he started in on questions about Dean's take on media consolidation. He kept hammering until Dean said he thought media consolidation was wrong and he wanted to break up the giant media conglomerates.

I watched that interview and thought it would mobilize corporate media against Dean, which turned out to be the case. Dean got almost no favorable coverage in the MSM after that point.

Matthews is clearly a corporate shill, and far from harmless.

I only turn him on now and then to see if he's going to be a bigger asshole then the last time I watched him.

Chris Matthews lost me a few years ago when he constantly questioned everything President Obama did just so he could curry some favor from the right. I no longer watch his show and frankly, I'm surprised MSNBC hasn't already replaced him.

occasionally right wing crazies have let their hair down and said shit that seemed to be beyond the pale. Unfortunately what we learned instead was that nothing is beyond the pale.

I will say that if I had to choose between tweety and blitzer or Larry King, I'd cut for Tweety, which isn't saying anything for Mathews. But how the fuck did any of these people get on the air? It really shows a lack of interest by the producers of these shows of doing real hard-hitting journalism. And somebody has to explain to me how what they were really chasing was ratings. These people don't say ratings to me, or certainly not in the demographic that advertisers tend to care about.