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To: kumar who wrote (13390)	10/22/2003 10:31:51 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793622

I find a little bit of Chris goes a long way. _____________________________________________ Chris Matthews: Cable’s Brilliant Bulldog New York Observer When it comes to government employees who move to a job in front of the TV camera, none caused more of a stir than George Stephanopoulos. The handsome, telegenic Clinton campaign guru turned White House insider seemed tailor-made to dominate the Sunday-morning news shows when ABC moved him into the seat occupied by David Brinkley. But life has a funny way of surprising you: Instead of the charming, dark-browed Mr. Stephanopoulos, it’s the carnivorous, pomp-free Chris Matthews who has successfully transformed a career in the public sector into that of a respected television host, much as NBC’s Tim Russert did before him. From being parodied on Saturday Night Live for his loud, staccato delivery, Mr. Matthews is now being taken seriously as a reliable journalist. The September viewership of his weekday 7 p.m. show on MSNBC, Hardball, jumped 35 percent over last year. In New York, his Sunday-morning NBC program, The Chris Matthews Show, has beaten CBS’s Face the Nation and ABC’s This Week with Mr. Stephanopoulos. His book, American, is a New York Times best-seller. Mr. Matthews didn’t come to broadcast journalism cold: He was the Washington bureau chief for The San Francisco Examiner for 13 years, worked as a speech writer for President Jimmy Carter, and for six years was a senior aide to House Speaker Tip O’Neill. Since he knows the Beltway language, Mr. Matthews has no deference for the established political and media classes; he brings airy ideologues down to earth and suffers no fools. Viewers are given the passion of politics and provided with real information. As the country heads into the dizzying Presidential election season, it’s good news that Chris Matthews is on the air. observer.com