[Mockery]

No shit, Zell is INSANE.

Democratic Sen. Zell Miller was tough on his own party's presidential nominee, but things got even hotter when he all but challenged an interviewer to a duel.

Fresh off a speech to the Republican convention that blistered Sen. John Kerry, the Georgia senator engaged in a raucous television interview with Chris Matthews. The host of MSNBC-TV's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" is known for an aggressive, rapid-fire interviewing style, and the two men interrupted each other several times as Matthews pressed Miller on barbs he had just launched at Kerry.

"I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel," the 72-year-old Miller angrily told Matthews, 58.

Miller was at the Madison Square Garden convention site and Matthews was at an MSNBC set several blocks away, so there was no chance of a physical confrontation. But at one point, the senator told Matthews, "I wish I was over there, where I could get a little closer up into your face."