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Dear Mr. Matthews,
you just "got through" with Ari Fleischer, and I think you did an admirable job of catching him in his hyperbole, his exaggerations, his overblown windbaggery, his quick thinking lies and exaggerations, and ultimately the coverups for his own previous grievous mistakes.
In order for me to continue to pay attention to this kind of discourse, there must be a new rule set about interruptions.
Do you have any idea how it feels to me as a listener when a person as I described Mr. Fleischer to be gets to drone on over you while you valiantly try to speak as well? Yet he is incessantly interrupting/grandstanding/attempting to steal the floor so you are not heard.
And how it feels when after just having done this very lording over YOUR show repeatedly and annoyingly he admonishes YOU for interrupting him, and then you fall quiet and simply hand the podium to his overblown exaggerations and fallacies?
What would be wrong with saying, at a time like this:
"I am sorry Mr. Guest, if you do not respect my right to speak without drowning me out in order make me be unheard and irrelevant, then this interview is over now. We have at least equal rights here, and you don't call me on interrupting you with fervor and a straight face, when that is just about all you have done since you got here. Please exit, and there will never be another invitation from me in my studios."
New Rules: whose show is it.
Please be in charge, Chris Matthews.
I want you to take it in hand, because that is respectful ultimately and finally, to me - your consumer and listener.
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