The website, citing two sources, reported that NBC paid the woman $40,000 to settle her claim against Matthews in 1999. An NBC spokesperson told The Daily Caller the network paid a smaller, unspecified amount as part of a severance package.
The woman complained to executives that Matthews, now 71, had made inappropriate comments to her and made inappropriate jokes about her to others.
An MSNBC spokesman told The Daily Caller that Matthews had been slapped with a formal reprimand at the time the woman made her complaint. The website reported that the network decided that the complaints were "inappropriate and juvenile," but were not intended as propositions.
There is no way that this should be unexpected to people who watch Hardball.
Matthews' often uncomfortable remarks toward female guests has been prominently on display for decades.
Even as a male viewer of the program, I have been creeped out by Tweety more than a few times.
However let's keep in mind that according to this story Matthews was NOT trying to sleep with these women nor using his power to bully them. At least as far as we know right now.
And that should puts him in a separate category than the Roy Moore's or Donald Trump's of this world.
I still think he is going to lose his job however.
WATCH: CNN host left speechless as ex-Fox News analyst breaks her confidentiality agreement and exposes Rupert Murdoch
ReplyDeleteCNN media expert Brain Stelter was left with little to say Sunday morning after a former Fox News personality used media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s comments about her to break her confidentiality agreement and blow the lid off of the pervasive atmosphere of sexual assault at the conservative news outlet.
Appearing on CNN’s Reliable Sources, legal analyst Tamara Holder said since she was pushed out at Fox for reporting sexual assault she has been unable to find another media job and that she is not alone among other women who were forced out at the network.
“Fox News ruined people’s lives,” an impassioned Holder explained. “He [Murdoch] ruined my life. I don’t have a job in TV anymore because the place that he has secured down like Fort Knox allowed abusive predators to work. That is not nonsense, this is people’s lives. He said it wasn’t just Roger Ailes. Well, we don’t need to name names, we know it wasn’t just Roger. He said ‘nothing more since then’ — that’s a lie. We also know that Bill O’Reilly paid $30 million plus to somebody and, of course, they rehired him after that.”
“He says there are cases that amounted to flirting,” she continued. “Let me be clear. I had a man pull out his penis in his office and shove my head on it. That was not flirting. — that was criminal. That was not sexual harassment. I’m not the only case, there are women who can’t speak out.”
“Either Mr. Murdoch is a liar or he’s delusional and old and needs to get out,” she stated. “If you’re an investor, you need to decide, do you want your money with a man who has continued to lie to you for the past 20 years, your money, hundreds of millions of dollars of your money has gone to women over and over and over again. and we’ve been told that we have to shut up.”
“I want to be on TV talking about the things that — we want to talk about what we were paid to talk about on TV,” Holder continued. “For me, it was law. I had a sports show. But I’m stuck here, talking about this, because there are people like Rupert Murdoch who continue to deny that we were abused, that we were — our careers were destroyed, our lives were destroyed. And this is not political, this is people’s lives.”
Watch the video below via CNN:
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/watch-cnn-host-left-speechless-as-ex-fox-news-analyst-breaks-her-confidentiality-agreement-and-exposes-rupert-murdoch/
I stopped watching him because he's booring and the Young Turks are on at the same time.
ReplyDeleteAlways came across as a dick to me.
DeleteOh absolutely the young durks are a lok lol.
DeleteI don't have cable, isn't he the guy that is yelling all the time?
Delete@1:57 drools and spits while he talks over his guests.
DeleteThe young dorks.
DeleteI never liked him either. He was clearly a Republican during the GW Bush years, before he found he could make money as a shouting in your face "liberal."
DeleteThis from May 2005:
"Those who label Matthews a progressive have evidently ignored telling indicators to the contrary. As recently as the May 27 edition of Hardball, Matthews responded to documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi's suggestion that members of the media -- including Matthews -- have portrayed President Bush as a "dunce" by asserting that he has voted for Bush "at least once" and that he has "defended [Bush] against the liberal elitists":"
https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2005/05/31/matthewss-statements-defy-conservatives-claims/133268
Paranoia grips Capitol Hill as harassment scandal spreads
ReplyDeleteLawmakers and aides are consumed by one question: Who's next?
The details change almost daily, but the rumor won’t die: A credible news organization is preparing to unmask at least 20 lawmakers in both parties for sexual misconduct.
Speculation about this theoretical megastory is spreading like wildfire across Congress and beyond, a lurking bad-press boogeyman that’s always described as on the verge of going public. And it’s far from the only worry that’s seeped into the collective psyche of Capitol Hill, where members and aides are now perpetually bracing for the next allegation to drop.
Washington is also gripped by uncertainty over whether the nationwide awakening to workplace misconduct might be manipulated into a political weapon. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) went to law enforcement after being targeted last week by a forged harassment complaint against him, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) last month parried a false accusation of misconduct posted on Twitter.
Lawmakers and aides are consumed by one simple question: Who’s next? That and, in this turbocharged news cycle of the Trump presidency, can actual misdeeds be distinguished from false smears?
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/17/congress-sexual-harassment-paranoia-298837
Gosh,if they are all republicans it might screw up their tax scam vote;)
DeleteAl Franken was in a totally different category too, and he was the first to resign.
ReplyDeleteAl Franken has proved himself to be spineless moron.
DeleteI think Al Franken should have stayed in office and not resigned. Feel the same way about Chris Matthews as to his broadcast. I stopped watching him a long time ago due to his talking on top of his guests - a habit he has had for years. But, he doesn't strike me as one of the men that went after women on his show. Guess I could be wrong?
DeleteKnow I wasn't wrong about the asshole, Donald Trump though! He's on tape and audio! Plus, he admitted doing it and that also is on video and audio.
I don't think Al Franken should have resigned. He's a quality guy and has always been!
DeleteIf you say so, 12:24 PM. I, for one, am sick to death of celebrities pontificating to the "little" people of how life should be and how we should live it.
DeleteHe'll survive it. On of the first.
ReplyDeleteI hope it takes him out. He is impossible to watch. He asks questions of his guests, then answers them himself by talking over them. No one gets to hear anyone else's opinion because Matthews likes the sound of his own voice better. I don't even know why he has guests, he doesn't listen and doesn't let us hear. Go away, Chris. Your best days are well behind you. I'm tired of yelling 'just STFU and listen!'
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/17/senator-elect-jones-joining-calls-trump-resignation.html
ReplyDeleteWho is anyone trying to kid here, men are men. $arah can say anything she wants to about democrats, her HINO was/is up to his girly-voiced throat in prostitution. "Boys will be boys" is no longer an excuse and never should have been one in the first place.
ReplyDeletePay off$
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/17/top-senate-republican-admits-corker-kickback-bribe-buy-tax-cut-votes.html
Whatta mc$HAME:
Deletehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/sen-mccain-to-miss-vote-on-gop-tax-bill
I can't say I'll miss Chris since I didn't watch him.
ReplyDelete"Boys will be boys"
Is that what Sarah said when she took over all the reporting when Todd Palin was found without the snowmobile she said he crashed?
I watch MSNBC all the time. Chris has always been rude and dismissive of women. I recall one time when his wife was a guest, and I was appalled at how crass and demeaning he was to her. It bothered so much that I actually sent an email to MSNBC about it.
ReplyDeleteThere are plenty of talented women who could take his place, Joy Reed, Katy Tur, etc. He won’t be missed.
Strange no one has come forward about that jerk Bill Maher or has he paid them all off to keep quite?
ReplyDeleteIt has always annoyed me that they got rid of Olbermann and kept Matthews.
ReplyDeleteGod, I miss Keith! And I loved watching his final online piece on Trump recently. I wish it weren't his last, although I understand why he said he doesn't need to do it anymore.
DeleteWhen Middle Schoolers Say #MeToo
ReplyDeleteSexual harassment starts well before women enter the workplace.
Shortly after last year’s election at an elementary school near my home, boys apparently played “Trump tag” by grabbing at girls’ genitals. A school counselor at a Midwest middle school told me this week about “Grab Tits Tuesday.” The mother of a ninth-grade girl emailed that boys shouted “grab their asses” (and did) as girls filed out during a fire drill at their upstate New York high school; she said she has spent hours in the principal’s office advocating for her daughter, whose buttocks are grabbed frequently as she walks from science to history class.
To hear the latest headlines tell it, sexual harassment among adults is a root cause of gender inequality. In fact, it is a symptom of toxic childhood lessons about gender, sex and power. As female whistleblowers have taken down titans of industry this fall, legions of underage harassers have continued to roam playgrounds with impunity. They are learning behavior that, unfettered, could graduate into adult forms of degradation. Few write stories about them. Why not?
Sexual harassment is an epidemic in U.S. middle and high schools. In a 2014 study of 1,300 middle school students, University of Florida Professor Dorothy Espelage and colleagues found that one-quarter had experienced verbal and physical sexual harassment. Another survey by Espelage’s team found that 68 percent of high school girls were sexually harassed at least once, compared to 55 percent of boys.
It is not only acts of harassment that harm girls. It is the expectation that they not resist them.
Harvey Weinstein was once a boy. So were Matt Lauer, and Charlie Rose and Louis C.K. Early on, they likely internalized lessons in what experts call toxic masculinity: the expectation that a real man, as sociologist Michael Kimmel says, should “be strong, be tough, and never show [his] feelings.” To be a real man is to be hypercompetitive, get rich at all costs and have sex with women. These messages are delivered by members of a boy’s inner circle: fathers, uncles, coaches, male friends and older siblings.
As they get older, boys develop their masculinity by punishing peers who don’t measure up, writes University of Oregon Professor C.J. Pascoe in the book Dude, You’re a Fag. To affirm their maleness, boys stigmatize sensitive peers as “gay” or a “fag,” gossip about girls’ bodies, and brag about sexual experiences.
Victims may respond to the abuse by modifying their own behavior: Espelage and her colleagues found that children taunted with homophobic slurs are more determined to prove their masculinity ― and significantly more likely to perpetrate sexual harassment in order to do it.
Harassment is one of puberty’s darkest, most unreported rites of passage. When adults do step in, it’s often to rebrand a snapped bra or yanked bathing suit as flirtation, a thing a girl might even be encouraged to feel grateful for (“He’s doing that because he likes you!”). As the lines blur between play and aggression, and desire and coercion, perpetrators progress in learning how to carry out harassment ― and victims learn to be silent.
To be sexually harassed as a girl is to learn a lesson as old as time, one that is unlikely to be displaced by well-intentioned girl-power computer science classes and soccer drills: A girl’s most important source of value is her body and how others look at it. Known as self-objectification, the trait shows up in girls as young as 11, and is linked to depression, poor academic performance, social problems and eating disorders.
Indeed, it is not only acts of harassment that harm girls. It is the expectation that they not resist them.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sexual-harassment-in-schools_us_5a32b145e4b00dbbcb5bb530?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
This was almost 20 yrs ago, and not the assault category, it is the "I've been offended category". Mathews won't go unless he decides it is time to retire.
ReplyDeleteI agree completely.
DeleteHahaha was wondering when on this guy. Finally.
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm alone here. I see him as candid with the compliments (including of males who wow him), and he now knows that everything can be read into as harassment and sometimes catches himself at times as soon as he's said something that could be read into in a way he doesn't intend. I really don't have a problem with him stating, for example, that someone is stunning to him. And as far as his wife goes, all these years I've heard him compliment "my queen" on her on her brains and beauty and the fact that he's lucky to have her as his life companion. If something icky is going on behind the scenes, that's a different story.
ReplyDeleteWow. Men are falling like ninepins. Trump has not yet fallen because he pleases people in power, and they will keep him in power because he is answering all their long held dreams to screw the middle class. By the time the Trump supporters are done seething over their racist views, it'll be too late. The damage will be done to their lives. Taxes. Healthcare. Etc.
ReplyDeleteDon't say people didn't try to warn them.
Now, to the Trump supporters, We told you so. No crying over spilled milk.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/12/18/democratic-senators-al-franken-resignation.html
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/sc-preacher-arrested-on-sexual-misconduct-charges-after-video-busts-him-touching-underage-girls-again/
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