Chris Matthews has difficulty addressing more than one thing at a time and his attention can only stretch to those individual issues he hopes will rate headlines? Just another example of a talking head trying to justify his existence...

Jim Webb does not have that problem. The ability to focus on myriad issues seems to be one of his stong suits, IMHO.

got so aggravated I couldn't type...

Chris looked like an ass, but it was pretty clear why; if you watched the rest of the show, esp when he had a friendly chat with 2 women, he appeared drunk.  So, I have to say, I really do think that was part of the reason for his intense suckage the other night.

instead of facing the music?

Oh thats right, we have to wait for something more serious than just memory lapses, truth distortions and halucinations to justify the effective incarceration for a couple of weeks at "Club-Med-ical"

Chris Matthews is a severe diabetic and was recently hospitalized for a diabetic crisis.  When a person's blood sugar level is out of normal levels you can get disorientation and mental confusion.  I think it more likely that he might have been  affected by a physical problem, not alcohol, if in fact it was not just sloppy journalism.  That's a problem we see all too often from the current crop of "talking heads".  Witness Wolf Blitzer's recent blaming of Rep. Ellison for the hoo-haw about his use of the Quran in his private ceremonial swearing in photo-op. Refresher course of Journalism 101, anyone? 

Thanks, that sounds more likely.  He seemed really out of it; Thadd and I looked at each other in shock more than once, and the 2 women looked very uncomfortable.

And let me say I did not see what you all think you saw. The name of the show is HARDBALL and that is what it looked like Chris was doing. Sure he threw some outlandish questions at Jim and Jim just smiled. Never did Jim get upset nor did Chris. As far as I was concerned it was a good hard ball that showed Jim Webb's talent. At the end of the interview I heard the thanks you's.

Personally I think you all are really touchy when it comes to Jim Webb. Sort of sounds like a bunch of Republicans after Bush is given a rough time.

Jim Webb is a gifted and talented individual and can take care of himself. If he thinks Chris was not fair you will hear it from him. I believe Jim speaks well for himself with out others bashing Chris.

Now the Bashing of Wolf I believe is correct. He is an arragant jerk who makes his own news instead of reporting the news. I have emailed him often and now I think I am blocked by CNN. Everything I send them comes back and CNN news responds that I am not authorized to send them email? Guess I speak my mind an others don't like it?

and then misrepresenting what a person did or said. 

I am at a disadvantage since I have Dial up service and cannot watch the show again, But if my memory serves me "Chris made quotes and Jim corrected them, then Chris acknowledged he may have missed quoted. Then he asked Jim or Jim just corrected what the statements were during the compaign. I thought Chris's expression was that he made a mistake, athough he did not admit it.
But lets really face it "Chris's whole ideal was to make news and to get some Democrat to comment about funding and direction." I cannot fault Chris, but I can complaint Chris for his trying. But more so I complement Jim for not falling into a trap.

the transcript is there where Matthews says Webb was avoiding Iraq and didn't talk about other issues during the campaign. The video just amplifies it.

I went to this web site http://www.media-mat... which is suppose to be Media Matters home page. Went to news room and there is nothing listed for Jim Webb. Maybe you can post that link.

When you did not reply I figured I missed something. I found the "MediaMatters for America" text and vidio. I assumed that was a vidio link only.
After reading the text, I know I was correct in my assumptions. Chris was beautiful. The entire show was a scenerio out of the play book the "Games People Play". Chris was brillant.
The brillant part was when it came to the 2 women. he took their talking points right out of the "Game" immediately, when he refurred back to Jim's answers. It was a brillantly played "Game". I do not know if it was cooked up ahead of the show, because Jim played the "Game" very well, but I loved reading it.
Once in awhile I will see the "Game" played on the house floor.
A congressman will rise to speak against the opposition. They will say all the right words to impress their constituients, but leave the floor open for the opposition with lead in answers. Each has impressed their constituents and the debating goes on.
Since non of the replys suggest any one knew of the this "Game", I would suggest others to take a week or so of training. It may even help some of you in talking with your wives. I have found women are excellant at playing the "GAME" of "Games People Play". So after I had the course at work, I would really piss my wife off when I pointed out she was playing the game. I soon learned to keep my mouth shut and let her play but would stay out of the game.

But, I get really really annoyed when he will ask a series of questions and then interupt the person repeatedly instead of letting them answer even one.  The typical reply from one of Chris's questions is something like this:

"Well, as I sai....Yes, but....Well....uh huh, thats wha....No, I didn...Thank you for having me."

I sent a strongly worded protest of Mr. Matthews's misrepresentations to him at Hardball, and suggested that he share the Media Matters compilation with his three journalistic guests since none of them questioned his representation of the supposedly two-faced Democratic position.  His statements were quite outrageous and amounted to saying that the Democratic candidates, Jim Webb being his prime example, ran against the war but have somehow been coopted in their first week by intoxicating power and access to free plane rides and now they want to talk about something other than the war.  Really, really outrageous.

We need to let Hardball know and, more importantly, the bosses at Matthews' little network... we progressives must constantly and instantly knock the fake journalists' soft little teeth down their (treacherous) whiney throats so they never get away with this kind of faux news. Maybe they will learn a lesson.

Considering that Matthews had two pretty flattering pieces about Jim Webb just a couple days ago. 

One spot was titled "Mr. Webb Goes to Washington" by former Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnacle.  The other was an interview with Webb over Iraq.

Maybe he got some pressure from higher ups to do a critical piece.

this latest stuff has a weird disjointedness about it, like he set out to make a point and seized on Webb because that was the first name that came to mind.  It's almost like he forgot the previous interviews with Webb and was just focused on his thesis.  And then of course he gets reinforcement from his colleagues instead of someone saying "hey, wait a minute, that doesn't ring true."