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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere is why Both Siderism Matthews is gone. Good riddance.
https://www.gq.com/story/chris-matthews-experiencesnip:
This tendency to objectify women in his orbit has bled into his treatment of female politicians and candidates. He has repeatedly lusted over women in politics on air, including remarking in 2011 that theres something electric and very attractive about the way former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin walks and moves, and noting in 2017 that acting attorney general Sally Yates is attractive, obviously. But he has reserved a particular contempt for the woman who made it closest to ascending the heights of American political power, Hillary Clinton, calling her witchy, anti-male, and She-Devil. The Cut obtained footage of him joking in early 2016, just before a live interview with then candidate Clinton, wheres that Bill Cosby pill, referring to the date-rape drug.
tishaLA
(14,794 posts)He was just incredulous that she would believe the woman who accused El Bloombito of saying "kill it" about her fetus. "Why would he lie?," our great defender of patriarchy asked.
kairos12
(13,706 posts)Disgusting.
Jarqui
(10,924 posts)But his appeal from earlier years waned.
I think this is an opportunity for MSNBC to raise the bar with good new talent.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Goodheart
(5,760 posts)He's in love with himself... he asks a question then doesn't let the interviewee fully respond without giving his own take to his own question.
Endlessly annoying.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Tim Russert died and his replacement was appallingly unable to fill his shoes, and clearly never would be. Wrong stuff. So I never learned about the rest. But Matthews was there for 20 years, so obviously some liked his comparatively low style.
Whatever. I have to offer good wishes to almost the only person on MSNBC to point to serious problems with Bernie Sanders, even if his fact-free, slanderous way of doing it is the very reason why I never watched him. Simple truth would have done so much better.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Buh bye.
UTUSN
(77,795 posts)superpatriotman
(6,882 posts)Lets show some class, please.
SharonClark
(10,497 posts)Skittles
(172,880 posts)could not get past the slobbering
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