[Hoot Gibson]

WOW!!! I didn't know Chris Matthews had it in him. Almost makes you feel sorry for Conway. Almost.

This may be hard for people to believe but when Hardball first began running on MSNBC, I used to watch Matthews almost every night. At one time, I thought he tried to be fair with his guests but at some point that changed and he lost me as a viewer. One of the funniest things that I remember was a show where Zell Miller became very angry at something that he thought Chris had said. Miller told him that he wished that duels were still legal.

Matthews took a hard turn left, along with nearly everybody else on MSNBC and left most of his original audience behind - but every now and then he turns in a solid performance like this one with Conway.