Rachel Maddow spent about twenty minutes last night gushing about the career of Prince, with an almost exclusive - and enthusiastic - emphasis on his sexual outlawry and that of others who annoyed Tipper Gore, back in the day.
OK, we get why this might seem really cool to Rachel.
Not so clear why Chris Hayes seemed equally enamored during his hour.
Chris Matthews, not so much.
Matthews, by the way, while good at badgering people into actually answering his questions when he wants to smoke them out, is absolutely horrible as an interviewer of the willing, almost never allowing anybody to complete a sentence.
He may be a mind reader but I am not, and I never have the least idea what his interviewees would have said had he let them.
Rachel Maddow is at the opposite end of the continuum, always politely allowing her guests to speak their minds.
A few weeks back she actually praised Chris as the best interviewer in the business, explaining that he always steps on the replies of his interviewees because he knows what they are going to say and wants to get to the meat.
Of course that was nonsense, and I figured at the time she was just sucking up.
Or maybe it was supposed to be a subtle critique.
She once called him to his face a right-wing tool, and laughed at his stammered objections.
But that was before she was given her own show.
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