Chris Matthews found out the hard way just how tolerant the left is in this #metoo era. Matthews was accused of borderline sexual harassment by a GQ Journalist. She claimed that his pick up lines were offensive and she found that she was not alone in feeling towards the Dem pundit. MSNBC acted on this allegation and it looks like he was pushed to fire.
“MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews’ abrupt resignation on Monday night is the latest sexual-misconduct related debacle for the once-proud NBC News as the company continues to make headlines for refusing to enlist an independent investigation into its culture.
A source familiar with the situation told Fox News that the 74-year-old Matthews’ human relations file is chockfull of complaints. NBC management couldn’t ignore it anymore, fearing that more women would come forward on the heels of journalist Laura Bassett’s GQ column that was published on Friday.
“He’s been a dog to women for years,” the source said. “It was only going to get worse.”
Bassett listed a series of comments allegedly made by the longtime “Hardball” host that didn’t “rise to the level of illegal sexual harassment” but “undermined” her ability to properly do her job. She wrote that she decided to spill the beans after watching Matthews conduct a cringe-worthy interview with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., about why she believed a woman who accused former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg of pressuring her to have an abortion.
Matthews met with MSNBC management following Bassett’s claims, which came after a brutal few days for the liberal host that included a series of on-air gaffes and embarrassing moments. He came under fire for comparing Sen. Bernie Sanders’ victory in the Nevada caucuses to the Nazi conquest of France in 1940, for which he apologized and mistook South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Jaime Harrison for a different African-American politician, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.
But in addition to the on-air rhetoric making frequent headlines, it was Matthews’ treatment of women that ultimately “accelerated” his retirement plans during a meeting with executives.
He was subsequently benched for the network’s coverage of the South Carolina primary on Saturday and then announced his sudden and immediate retirement on Monday. He was initially planning to exit the network sometime after Election Day, according to a person familiar with the situation.”
Matthews apologized during his retirement announcement.
“I’m retiring,” Matthews said. “This is the last ‘Hardball’ on MSNBC.”
“The younger generations out there are ready to take the reins,” Matthews said. “Compliments on a woman’s appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were OK, were never OK. Not then and certainly not today, and, for making such comments in the past, I’m sorry.”
Another Lib bites the dust. Matthews’s comments, from what has been released so far, were not raunchy, they were more on the unwanted side and unprofessional. It looks like liberal men are going to have to learn how to send smoke signals and get written permission to even approach liberal ladies if this movement progresses any further.
dan
Bout time the dems started holding their own accountable. Now how about Bill Clinton.
Guess he had too many thrills
BOO HOO the Tingle man is fired ! one lousy liberal skank, the whole network
I haven’t heard of anyone who is going to miss him.