Chris Matthews Resigns From MSNBC

Here's Chris Matthews announcing his retirement during the intro to @hardball. It was a pretty low-key announcement considering what happened next (he didn't even finish out the show, and apparently didn't give anyone time to prepare to fill the rest of the hour). pic.twitter.com/AskSjAaMMF

— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) March 3, 2020

For talking about how much he’s loved his job, his tone seems very angry.

Is it just me?

At the end he addresses the compliments he would give women and stated:

“Compliments on a woman’s appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay, were never okay. Not then, and certainly not today, and for making such comments in the past, I’m sorry.”

He ended by stating he will continue to write and talk about politics, wishing the best for those at MSNBC and the audience.

As published on Chicks on the Right earlier today, his resignation follows the aforementioned allegations of sexism:

The allegations come from Laura Bassett, a journalist for GQ, who submitted an article claiming that Matthews spoke to her in a sexist fashion:

In 2016, right before I had to go on his show and talk about sexual-assault allegations against Donald Trump, Matthews looked over at me in the makeup chair next to him and said, “Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?”

When I laughed nervously and said nothing, he followed up to the makeup artist. “Keep putting makeup on her, I’ll fall in love with her.”

Another time, he stood between me and the mirror and complimented the red dress I was wearing for the segment. “You going out tonight?” he asked.

I said I didn’t know, and he said—again to the makeup artist—“Make sure you wipe this off her face after the show. We don’t make her up so some guy at a bar can look at her like this.”

Bassett claimed that, while she knew it wasn’t sexual harassment, or, in her words, “doesn’t rise to the level of illegal sexual harassment,” she believed that it ‘undermined her ability to do her job well.’

I wouldn’t invite Matthews to the family barbecue, but the poor guy can’t even compliment a woman without her internalizing it negatively.

Obviously try to maintain professionalism, but he honestly just sounds like my grandfather passing out compliments and, because he isn’t someone that women would typically want to be intimate with, it’s reduced to sexism. Have we really become that hyper-sensitive?

Bassett continued with:

Matthews attacked Warren’s clarity on whether she believes another woman’s corroborated testimony [Regarding the Bloomberg allegations]. He seems constitutionally incapable of probing these hyper-relevant topics with anything approaching intellectual curiosity or open-mindedness. In that way, he’s also unfit for his job.

So, now he can’t question testimonies? I don’t care for Bloomberg and there is a lot of support that he is a pig, but the case with Kavanaugh is perfect evidence as to why weshould question testimonies.