He acts fairly liberal now and claims, strongly, that he always opposed Bush and the Iraq war, but I have vivid memories of him being all rah rah about both Shrub and the invasion. He's a slippery eel and goes wherever the stream takes him.

I watched him during the Iraq war days, when he was saying how brave Bush looked, and I watched him when the war went sour trashing Bush. To me, his mouth motors on in an empty suit.

on the deck of that carrier saying the war was over. Tip O'Neill turned over in his grave and I haven't trusted him a lick since. He wants to be invited to all the important people's cocktail parties he will do or say anything for an invite. He jumps back and forth so much he's gotta be using a pogo stick.

He even wrote a book, I never bought, about how we should act more like, and admire politicians. He appeared of John Stewart, selling the book, and John destroyed him by explaining that politicians are the last group of of people we should admire.

Hey, who am I to say. The most boring vanilla guy in America, Chuck Todd got "Meet the Press", and now he has weekday show too. NBC has their's.

CNN had their's for longer...Wolf, 2005, September, Katrina...something like...these people are so poor and so black. He is a fucking dope like Ted Knight, like Chuck Todd. Tweety has more smarts, but the shitbags chosen for us lately leaves the tv off for me.

I never watch them.
I'll switch to Fox News for a few minutes to get an occasional laugh but it's usually around mid-day.

I've come to especially dislike Bill Hemmer (in the a.m.), who was just recently a news reader, but now pretends he knows what's what and has opinions on what's going on. His opinions irritate me

I browse around the remote a bit.
You're correct, most of Fox is intolerable.

I blocked the channel for it, as well as all the other right wing "news" channels I get against my will - One America News, NewsMax, The Blaze - so I don't accidentally land on any of them. And so no visitor can find them. No electrons will be used to put those channels on my TVs!

MTP Daily (Meet the Press Daily) was back on.

And often don't go back so I have missed much of their programming recently. I thought With Due respect was on after MTP and before Chris Matthews?

Apparently there have been rumors since May that Bloomberg might cancel the show: http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/michael-bloomberg-expects-halperin-heilemann-exit/293012 I wonder if the axe finally fell?

I may have tuned in at the wrong time.

But sometimes if the channel makes changes the on screen guide is not updated immediately so that could be wrong.

I thought I had watched it at 4 P.M.
(There I go, thinking again)

Unless I am working on my needlepoint the TV is mostly background noise. While stitching I binge watch programs on my DVR and lose track of time.

As they used to say, check your local listings!

Every once in a while he has a good moment or two going after a right wing idiot. But usually he just talks a mile a minute over his guests. I get it that he loves politics...I am a political junkie too. But he acts like he is on speed.
But back to your original question: "Does Chris Matthews ever shut up?" No, he doesn't.

Next question?

His guests don't have to wear spit shields any longer. Back in the day was horrible having to watch him and his quests try to not get wet.

asks callers a question and waits for a few words, just enough to figure out what they are going to say, interrupts and blabs on and on soo soo annoying.

An impressive newcomer to the journalistic scene.
He appears to report objectively, without partisan bias.

he gets so excited he interrupts himself.

Even though he does routinely talk over his guests
Ron Reagan really went after some Trump flak last night.
That's why I watch

Love Ron Reagan.

Only when he burps, which he does often. He used to have great guests, pre Andy Lack's right wing turn. He had Ann Coulter on 4x in 2 months earlier in the year. She spouted hate and he did NOT interrupt her.

on your remote. I gave up on his programs years ago.

the guests what they think of his answer.

I can't remember who said that about Matthews. It may have been Jim Lehrer.

Can't hear you over his talking LOL!

His political leanings seems to surf whatever wave is rising at the time. The last time he was on The Daily Show, Stewart absolutely eviscerated him. It was glorious.

Did she win her primary this Spring?

I WORKED FOR TIP O'NEILL

GET A BEER WITH YOUR AMURRICAN OPPONENT

HA

He does it for 2 reasons; first, it is correct (he was Jimmy Carter's speechwriter, after all and an aide to Tip O'Neill, he understands that getting it right matters) and second, it annoys the fuck out of rightwingers who don't understand that this IS the correct way that the "Chee-knee" family pronounce their own name. How do I know? Because I heard it from "Chee-Knee's" own thin lips.

We've had this conversation here at DU before, back in the bad old BushCo days:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1451065

And he's a spitter too.

Olbermann asked him to eat a donut when he was going a bit off during one election coverage....

If you ever stop arguing with and interrupting people you're talking to, you'll fall over dead.

He took it to heart.

Now, give me a hard one.

in a segment about his death and the clip was mostly of Matthews appearing on the "McLaughlin Group" a few decades ago.

depictions.
He loves his caricature on Saturday Night Live.

He reminds me of Phil Donahue, who would ask a question and then after three words from the guest, complete the answer, indicate his empathy with and understanding of the answer (not) given. Then he would launch a paragraph directed at the camera.

My mother used to say Phil was in love with the sound of his own voice. My father would have said he is a legend in his own mind. If they were still around I'm sure they would say the same about Chris Matthews.

Chris irritates me with the chatter so I don't watch him often.

and started texting (or whatever) when he starts to talk over him/her. If he notices and says something the person could respond along the lines (which a bright smile) - I am just waiting for you to stop talking so that I can answer your question.

Heck if is a panel of 3, the panel could start playing words with friends amongst each other while he is being motor mouth.

I don't know if he ever shuts up, but I know how to shut him up.

Change the channel. If you don't want to hear Matthews talk, don't turn his show on. Talking over people? Not giving guests time to offer a complete response? That's business as usual for talk and "news" shows.

"Well, you won't be around long. You've made an enemy (Matthews)."
Then Matthews added: "Just kidding"

And he is always "concerned" about democrats.

He thinks he's playing "hardball" by asking pointlessly long questions and then immediately interrupting his guest to either answer his own question or to ask a totally different question.

Instead, all he's doing is annoying his audience, who is wondering why even invite all these interesting people on the show if they can't get a word in edgewise, as Tweety yammers on.

You know who has been succeeding in playing true "hardball" with the guests? Joy Reid! She fact-checks them in real time, she steers them back on course when they ignore her question to answer the one they wanted to get, and yet she knows when to shut up and let the guest talk at length.

Rachel Maddow calls Tweety "The Great Interrupter," meaning it as a compliment, but one not deserved. He would be better used as a guest instead of a host. Then he can go on Joy's show, and she can be the one to interrupt him when he needs it!

The time he got the maggot to admit that women need punishment for abortions, I said I would never yell at him again, but that didn't last long. 2 yuuuuge mouths.
I don't know how he even gets anyone to come on. Even if it's Michelle Bachman I want to hear what
what idiocy she has to say.