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Chris "Tingles" Matthews was not seen on MSNBC during the South Carolina primary coverage on Saturday night. Normally, this would be considered unusual under normal circumstances but the absence comes one day after he was accused of "sexist" behavior by a former network contributor, and on the same day, he misidentified a politician.
Earlier in the week, Matthews had issued an on-air apology after drawing backlash for comparing the Nevada caucus victory of Sen. Bernie Sanders to the 1940 invasion of France by the Nazis. What he probably meant was that Sanders' victory was more like Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
Matthews said, “I'm reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940," Matthews said during the network's Nevada coverage. "And the general calls up Churchill and says, ‘It’s over,’ and Churchill says, ‘How can it be? You got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?’ He said, ‘It's over.’”
His ten viewers were outraged by the comments -- and Matthews apologized Monday.
"Senator Sanders, I'm sorry for comparing anything from that tragic era in which so many suffered, especially the Jewish people, to an electorate result in which you were the well-deserved winner," Matthews said. "This is going to be a hard-fought, heated campaign of ideas. In the days and weeks and months ahead, I will strive to do a better job myself of elevating the political discussion. Congratulations, by the way, to you, Senator Sanders, and to your supporters on a tremendous win down in Nevada."
In an op-ed for GQ magazine on Friday, journalist Laura Bassett claimed Matthews used sexist language when she visited the MSNBC studio to appear on his show as a guest.
She recalled the fast-talking white man looking at her in an adjacent makeup chair before an appearance in 2016 and, showing a lack of self-awareness asked: 'Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?'" Bassett said that something didn't smell right as she sat there.
Bassett said she laughed nervously at the stupid question but Tingles kept making comments to the makeup artist who was buffing Bassett up. “Keep putting makeup on her, I’ll fall in love with her," Matthews allegedly exclaimed breathlessly, as beads of perspiration cascaded down his forehead onto his nose and down to his quivering married lips.
Bassett also claimed that Matthews made another comment about her makeup during a separate appearance. "Make sure you wipe this off her face after the show,” she wrote. The comment was directed at the makeup artist. “We don’t make her up so some guy at a bar can look at her like this.”
Bassett felt hounded by Matthews and said she decided to write the op-ed because of a “sexist” interview the creep did with Sen. Elizabeth Warren [aka Pocahontas], (D-MA), after the last debate in which he pressed her about her accusation that former New York Mayor "Mini" Mike Bloomberg has once told a woman at his company to “kill” her unborn baby. Bloomberg denies he said it, and even if he did, why would it bother Warren since she and the rest of her party are all in for killing babies?
A feminist group wearing comfortable shoes has called for Matthews' firing over the interview.
Bassett barked that she wrote a similar op-ed in 2017 without naming Matthews because she was afraid to publicly accuse him at the time, but claimed that many women reached out to her saying they knew who she was talking about because they too had been the victims of the Matthews innuendos.
Bassett said that she had a bone to pick with Matthews. Although she didn't think his behavior rose to the level of criminal sexual harassment, it interfered with her ability to do her job and she wanted the "bad boy" punished.
In 2017, it was reported that NBC paid $40,000 to a producer on Matthews’ show who claimed he sexually harassed her. [And all the while you thought only Fox News had this problem because the media only went after that network.]
MSNBC has not confirmed the amount paid to the woman, nor has the network said whether the payment was made to settle a harassment claim, but it appears that it wasn't only Barack Obama who gave Chris Matthews that famous tingle down his leg.
An MSNBC spokes-leftist said at the time that executives were told that Matthews made inappropriate jokes and comments about the woman in front of others, that the matter was reviewed and it was determined the comments were inappropriate and made in poor taste but were never meant as propositions because he is a semi-happily married man.
Then during his "Hardball" [perhaps a double-entendre] broadcast Friday, Matthews mistook Sen. Tim Scott, (R-SC), for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jaime Harrison, chalking it up as a case of "it's hard to tell the difference." Both Scott and Harrison are African-American gentlemen.
Harrison was appearing on "Hardball" to discuss his campaign to unseat Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), but when Matthews ran a clip of Scott standing beside Graham at the evening's Trump rally in North Charleston, he assumed it was Harrison.
"Jaime, I see you standing next to the guy you're going to beat right there, maybe," he said. "Maybe? Maybe, maybe? Lindsey Graham?"
Matthews finally realized his error and apologized to Harrison.
"What am I saying? Big mistake. Mistaken identity, sir. Sorry," Matthews said.
Harrison rolled his eyes and looked shocked, but he kept a politician's fake smile on his face.
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She recalled the fast-talking white man looking at her in an adjacent makeup chair before an appearance in 2016 and, showing a lack of self-awareness asked: 'Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?'" Bassett said that something didn't smell right as she sat there.
Bassett said she laughed nervously at the stupid question but Tingles kept making comments to the makeup artist who was buffing Bassett up. “Keep putting makeup on her, I’ll fall in love with her," Matthews allegedly exclaimed breathlessly, as beads of perspiration cascaded down his forehead onto his nose and down to his quivering married lips.
Bassett also claimed that Matthews made another comment about her makeup during a separate appearance. "Make sure you wipe this off her face after the show,” she wrote. The comment was directed at the makeup artist. “We don’t make her up so some guy at a bar can look at her like this.”
Bassett felt hounded by Matthews and said she decided to write the op-ed because of a “sexist” interview the creep did with Sen. Elizabeth Warren [aka Pocahontas], (D-MA), after the last debate in which he pressed her about her accusation that former New York Mayor "Mini" Mike Bloomberg has once told a woman at his company to “kill” her unborn baby. Bloomberg denies he said it, and even if he did, why would it bother Warren since she and the rest of her party are all in for killing babies?
A feminist group wearing comfortable shoes has called for Matthews' firing over the interview.
Bassett barked that she wrote a similar op-ed in 2017 without naming Matthews because she was afraid to publicly accuse him at the time, but claimed that many women reached out to her saying they knew who she was talking about because they too had been the victims of the Matthews innuendos.
Bassett said that she had a bone to pick with Matthews. Although she didn't think his behavior rose to the level of criminal sexual harassment, it interfered with her ability to do her job and she wanted the "bad boy" punished.
In 2017, it was reported that NBC paid $40,000 to a producer on Matthews’ show who claimed he sexually harassed her. [And all the while you thought only Fox News had this problem because the media only went after that network.]
MSNBC has not confirmed the amount paid to the woman, nor has the network said whether the payment was made to settle a harassment claim, but it appears that it wasn't only Barack Obama who gave Chris Matthews that famous tingle down his leg.
An MSNBC spokes-leftist said at the time that executives were told that Matthews made inappropriate jokes and comments about the woman in front of others, that the matter was reviewed and it was determined the comments were inappropriate and made in poor taste but were never meant as propositions because he is a semi-happily married man.
Then during his "Hardball" [perhaps a double-entendre] broadcast Friday, Matthews mistook Sen. Tim Scott, (R-SC), for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jaime Harrison, chalking it up as a case of "it's hard to tell the difference." Both Scott and Harrison are African-American gentlemen.
Harrison was appearing on "Hardball" to discuss his campaign to unseat Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), but when Matthews ran a clip of Scott standing beside Graham at the evening's Trump rally in North Charleston, he assumed it was Harrison.
"Jaime, I see you standing next to the guy you're going to beat right there, maybe," he said. "Maybe? Maybe, maybe? Lindsey Graham?"
Matthews finally realized his error and apologized to Harrison.
"What am I saying? Big mistake. Mistaken identity, sir. Sorry," Matthews said.
Harrison rolled his eyes and looked shocked, but he kept a politician's fake smile on his face.
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