Looks like Tweety's in trouble

[connecticut yankee]

I realize that this is from Fox News, but apparently Tweety's foot-in-mouth-disease has struck again.


https://www.foxnews.com/media/chris-matthews-absent-from-msnbcs-primary-coverage-after-sexism-allegations-on-air-slip-up

[zackymilly]

1. Maybe his wife blackened his eye and he couldn't get the swelling down. n/t

[duforsure]

2. Never cared for him

And maybe his time to go.

[Skidmore]

3. Trump and FOX

are both trying to get MSNBC off the air. Reason we watch them

[FakeNoose]

4. He has also had health problems recently

So maybe he's taking time off for a health-related issue, or maybe it's a combination of reasons.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. Here's the Daily Beast link:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/chris-matthews-misses-msnbc-south-carolina-primary-coverage-after-sexism-accusations

The MSNBC host was nowhere to be found on air a day after he was accused of sexual harassment.

Maxwell Tani
Media Reporter

Updated Feb. 29, 2020 9:03PM ET / Published Feb. 29, 2020 8:39PM ET

A day after he was accused of sexual harassment by a journalist, MSNBC decided to keep host Chris Matthews off its airwaves during coverage of the South Carolina primary results.

Matthews is normally a fixture of election night coverage, which made his absence on Saturday all the more notable. His disappearing act came as MSNBC faced calls from a feminist organization to fire him because of sexism and sexual misconduct allegations—after raised eyebrows over other on-air remarks.

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Bassett said Matthews continued to comment on her appearance, at one point telling 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.”

It was reported in late 2017 that NBC had paid separation compensation to a producer who accused Matthews of sexually harassing her. The network claimed at the time that the host had been “formally reprimanded” over the incident.

On Friday night, Matthews had another cringe-worthy moment. While covering President Donald Trump’s South Carolina rally, he mistook South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Jaime Harrison with footage of another black politician, Tim Scott (R-S.C.).

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[jcgoldie]

7. Might be time for Tweety to hang it up

His brand is to be a bit abrasive and those sexist comments in the makeup chair, while relatively innocuous do have an effect as the lady said and they seem to be more his style than aberrations... that shit would have flown 20 years ago but not now.

[DFW]

8. If it turns out to be his forced retirement, it's not the way I would have wanted, but I'll take it

I have ALWAYS hated the aggressive Fox Noise type of interactive "journalism," which basically consists of inviting guests on, and then constantly interrupting them or talking over them.

Not "hardball," but more like "blowhard." Even when I agree with him, it's always in spite of him. I've never met him, and maybe he's not really a nasty guy. Maybe he just can't help himself, but I still wish someone would help him into retirement.

[dewsgirl]

9. I always have such mixed feelings about him. I have

childhood memories of watching him and Tim Russert with my grandparents, it makes me feel bad to root for his downfall...yet he is not my favorite by any stretch.

[samplegirl]

10. I wouldn't care if he was gone

Never had much respect for him after he cheerlead for Bushs second term. His words.... we needed Bush Cheney to keep us safe!
They called that a flip flopper in the day!

[JHB]

11. Long overdue

I took a disliking to him back when I first realized that if you pointed over his shoulder and exclaimed "Oh my God! Is that Bill Clinton's penis!?" he'd whip his head around so fast he'd snap his own neck.

He's just bad at his job, at least the publicly-disclosed job of journalist and political analyst. His real job seems to be "keeping the guy who signs his paychecks happy", which is a whole different set of priorities.