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kairos12

(13,706 posts)
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 08:27 PM Mar 2020

Here is why Both Siderism Matthews is gone. Good riddance.

https://www.gq.com/story/chris-matthews-experience

snip:
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 there’s “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, “where’s that Bill Cosby pill,” referring to the date-rape drug.
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Here is why Both Siderism Matthews is gone. Good riddance. (Original Post) kairos12 Mar 2020 OP
Let's not forget his interview with Sen Warren last week tishaLA Mar 2020 #1
The article covers that as well. kairos12 Mar 2020 #2
Like him better than virtually all of FOX News. Who around here wouldn't? Jarqui Mar 2020 #3
I didn't know he was gone today . I never watched him but from what I've read here it's a good thing lunasun Mar 2020 #4
Aside from all that, he's one of the worst interviewers I've ever seen. Goodheart Mar 2020 #5
+1 moondust Mar 2020 #7
I never watched him, stopped watching that show when Hortensis Mar 2020 #6
Never a fan. cwydro Mar 2020 #8
RAYGUN and Shrub lover, him. UTUSN Mar 2020 #9
Grave dancing superpatriotman Mar 2020 #10
He's not dead. SharonClark Mar 2020 #12
I could never watch him Skittles Mar 2020 #11

tishaLA

(14,794 posts)
1. Let's not forget his interview with Sen Warren last week
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 08:31 PM
Mar 2020

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.

Jarqui

(10,924 posts)
3. Like him better than virtually all of FOX News. Who around here wouldn't?
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 08:39 PM
Mar 2020

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)
4. I didn't know he was gone today . I never watched him but from what I've read here it's a good thing
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 08:55 PM
Mar 2020
 

Goodheart

(5,760 posts)
5. Aside from all that, he's one of the worst interviewers I've ever seen.
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 09:24 PM
Mar 2020

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.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. I never watched him, stopped watching that show when
Mon Mar 2, 2020, 09:48 PM
Mar 2020

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.

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