Report: NBC paid off woman who said Chris Matthews harassed her

According to The Daily Caller, NBC paid out thousands of dollars to an assistant producer on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews," which apparently gives new meaning to the title of the show. This came nearly twenty years after she brought a sexual harassment complaint against "Tingles."

Citing two sources, The Daily Caller reported that the network paid the woman $40,000 to settle her 1999 claim against former President Obama's biggest fanboy. And an NBC spokesperson told the online media outlet the network paid a smaller, unspecified amount to her as part of a severance package [to keep her mouth shut].

The woman complained to NBC executives that Matthews had made inappropriate comments to her and made inappropriate jokes about her to others. That is due, in part, to Matthews, now 71, being an idiot.

Matthews was given a formal wrist-slapping at the time of the complaint but the network decided the complaints were "inappropriate and juvenile" but were not intended as propositions, [but if she was won over by them, Matthews would have likely followed up on them as many men use juvenile statements as ways of checking the temperature of the water, so to speak].

Matthews has hosted "Hardball" on MSNBC since 1997 and the syndicated "Chris Matthews Show" between 2002 and 2013. He has allegedly written eight books all by himself.


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