Playboy Interview: Chris Matthews

July, 2001

a candid conversation with the smart-mouth hardballer about how washington really works, whether tv creates news and just what goes on inside bush's brainForget Bill O'Reilly, Geraldo Rivera and Larry King—Chris Matthews' Hardball is, as one paper wrote, a "no-holds-barred cable talk show that has become must-see TV for American political junkies." Hardball has the energy of the McLaughlin Group in its prime, the intelligence of Tim Russert on Meet the Press and little of the self-cong...

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