# Ever want to toss off an email to Chris Matthews... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 19, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-want-to-toss-off-an-email-to-chris-matthews/369348 "2006-08-19T15:18:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-want-to-toss-off-an-email-to-chris-matthews/369348/1 "2006-08-19T15:18:45Z")
…and didn’t know the address? Here: [hardball@msnbc.com](mailto:hardball@msnbc.com) ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-want-to-toss-off-an-email-to-chris-matthews/369348/2 "2006-08-19T15:35:43Z")
Many times, but all I do is yell at him to SHUT UP. He hardly ever allows the interviewee to complete their answer. The purpose of asking a question is to get an answer, not to talk over the last part of the answer so that the listener doesn’t know what the askee said. But, if Mathews doesn’t know that already, or knows it and ignores it there’s little point in a message to him. He’s incorrigible. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-want-to-toss-off-an-email-to-chris-matthews/369348/3 "2006-08-19T15:40:52Z")
[QUOTE=David Simmons] Many times, but all I do is yell at him to SHUT UP. He hardly ever allows the interviewee to complete their answer. The purpose of asking a question is to get an answer, not to talk over the last part of the answer so that the listener doesn’t know what the askee said. But, if Mathews doesn’t know that already, or knows it and ignores it there’s little point in a message to him. He’s incorrigible. [/QUOTE] Agreed. The best way to cope with Mr. Matthews is by way of the “comments” button on the remote. Besides, he probably has “tasters” reading his emails and never gets to see the really constructive criticisms like maybe he should get into the fine art of auctioneering. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-want-to-toss-off-an-email-to-chris-matthews/369348/4 "2006-08-19T15:41:22Z")
[QUOTE=David Simmons] Many times, but all I do is yell at him to SHUT UP. He hardly ever allows the interviewee to complete their answer. The purpose of asking a question is to get an answer, not to talk over the last part of the answer so that the listener doesn’t know what the askee said. But, if Mathews doesn’t know that already, or knows it and ignores it there’s little point in a message to him. He’s incorrigible. [/QUOTE] Nevertheless, get on his ass. What I see him doing often, is cutting off a response that is particularly damaging to the GOP. And if you think he’s not a Republican, please watch him for awhile. Shouldn’t take long. I’ll never forget the ass sucking interview he had with Tom DeLay shortly after the latter announced his retirement from Congress. Matthews had a first class sleeze as a guest and he treated him like a true statesman. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-want-to-toss-off-an-email-to-chris-matthews/369348/5 "2006-08-19T15:43:42Z")
Please don’t use the phrase “toss off” in a sentence together with “Chris Matthews,” unless the sentence is simply “Toss off, Chris Matthews!” Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-want-to-toss-off-an-email-to-chris-matthews/369348/6 "2006-08-19T15:53:15Z")
LOL, **Larry Mudd**! Anyway, what I wanted to tell you all is if you send an email to that address, you might be contacted (by email) to join a panel to discuss news. If you are contacted, you’ll have to complete a survey and then you might be selected. I was and I answered honestly - especially that I watch CNN much more than MSNBC, and never FOX News. In the email, which they didn’t read, I’m sure, I called attention to his GOP bias and the Tom Delay interview, mincing no words. Give it a whirl. Email a comment, any comment. Bitch about his lack of manners, if you like. His spittle. 😃😃😃