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NBC Made Payment To Staffer After Sexual Harassment Claim Against Chris Matthews
Daily Caller ^ | 12/16/2017 | Amber Athey

Posted on 12/16/2017 7:25:19 PM PST by Az Joe

(That thrill wasn't up his leg!)

An MSNBC spokesman confirmed Saturday the company made a separation-related payment to one of Chris Matthews employees after the woman complained about sexual harassment.

Two sources familiar with the situation told The Daily Caller that Matthews paid $40,000 to settle with an assistant producer on his show, “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” in 1999 after she accused him of harassment. An MSNBC spokesperson contested that claim to the Caller, saying the company instead paid significantly less as part of a severance package.


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To: BookmanTheJanitor
You posted the clip that everyone should watch - it is evidence of Matthews harrassing Erin Burnett on the air.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBDOLdU-Ug&app=desktop

Since Matthews is a liberal, he got away with it.

Can you imagine what the media would do to Tucker Carlson if he did that on the air?

61 posted on 12/17/2017 3:47:00 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: miss marmelstein
And he was once caught on a hot mike panting after Melania.

I forgot about that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLFEpzq7sjM

62 posted on 12/17/2017 3:50:18 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Oh, well said!!! LMAO!


63 posted on 12/17/2017 3:58:53 AM PST by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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To: Az Joe

So this is their second case. Too funny.


64 posted on 12/17/2017 4:08:37 AM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democratt)
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To: SteveH

That is the problem with all of this.....if the woman is interested in you, kissing her is OK. If she is not, your career is destroyed.

Nobody should have such arbitrary power over another person.


65 posted on 12/17/2017 4:11:22 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The largest and most dangerous hate-group in the US is now the Democratic Party)
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To: Az Joe

Woman? Color me surprised.


66 posted on 12/17/2017 4:41:45 AM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Az Joe

I claim foul. Chrissie wouldn’t harass women. He would harass men, the little fruit.


67 posted on 12/17/2017 5:19:44 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Let Trump Be Trump. Would you rather have Hillary?)
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To: Az Joe

This has gotten out’a hand and it’s the Dims that are paying the price. I bet it wasn’t planned that way. The entire sexual narrative needs to go, I’m sick of it.


68 posted on 12/17/2017 5:52:22 AM PST by WeWaWes (When I look in the mirror I see an elephant--a bad ass elephant)
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To: WeWaWes

It’s now starting to make since why liberals hate men so much.... all the men they know (other liberals) have been assaulting them !


69 posted on 12/17/2017 6:07:22 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Az Joe

Today is his birthday.

Happy birthday Chris ! I hope you’re spending today reflecting on the damage you’ve done !


70 posted on 12/17/2017 6:47:49 AM PST by Celerity
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To: Az Joe

2 cents: Such a low blow against Matthews by a grifter shouldn’t bring him down.

BUT this shows, yet again, the Leftist hypocrisy - it’s a small thing to bolster the protection of President Trump.


71 posted on 12/17/2017 6:52:19 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: glock rocks

So did his leg tingle run up his leg, down his leg or stay in the same place?

Was it as good for little Chrisy as his Obama Tingle?


72 posted on 12/17/2017 7:01:14 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Build Kate's wall! Keep illegals and illegal murderers/criminals out of America! MAGA! SLAP ACT!!)
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To: glock rocks

So did his leg tingle run up his leg, down his leg or stay in the same place?

Was it as good for little Chrisy as his Obama Tingle?


73 posted on 12/17/2017 7:01:57 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Build Kate's wall! Keep illegals and illegal murderers/criminals out of America! MAGA! SLAP ACT!!)
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To: Erik Latranyi

In college, there was one girl just grabbed me and kissed me. Full tongue.

It was not a joke, and it was in a place that was public, but no one else was there at the time.

It was a bit shocking to me. Additionally, she was older than I was, which was also a surprise. I was not into her so I did not pursue her or really talk with her much afterwards. I never really knew her that well. I was a bit of a nerd.

Now, I wonder if that girl would ever experience the possible career-ruining public shaming that men seem to get nowadays for that kind of behavior. (I doubt it.)


74 posted on 12/17/2017 7:29:52 AM PST by SteveH
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To: Az Joe

“””the woman complained about sexual harassment”””

I really thought it would be a young male, not a woman for Matthews. I had him pegged as the Barnie type.


75 posted on 12/17/2017 7:55:47 AM PST by Pollard (TRUMP 2020)
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To: Az Joe

Why am I not surprised?


76 posted on 12/17/2017 7:58:42 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Az Joe; Fred Nerks

Chris Matthews NEEDS to have tingles down his leg, that’s how he functions as an alleged TV persona...... Now that Obama and Hillary are gone, he’s turned his ‘tingler’ on his co workers and friends.

What a vampire.

He has to go. RESIGN NOW CHRIS!


77 posted on 12/17/2017 8:35:55 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama Fascism) http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: jazminerose
Forty thousand? That’s hardly expensive.

In today's dollars...$59,244

78 posted on 12/17/2017 8:42:25 AM PST by JPG (MAGA)
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To: SteveH

Just my opinion, but ....

Key points :
*First* kiss attempt
High school

Most of us learn appropriate social interaction by trial and error when we are young. I’d say the limits of “young” are around 25 and perhaps also based on experience. Someone who’s been actively dating since the age of 18 (16? 14? 12?) should be socialized long before the age of 25. Someone who is extremely shy and inexperienced might still be fumbling around and making a first pass at 25.

I really don’t think that typical teenage awkwardness should qualify as harassment. That doesn’t mean that the target wasn’t hurt/offended. But I hardly think that an attempted kiss can qualify as a traumatic event, even if unwelcome. Memorable and upsetting, yes. Traumatic, no.

If I had to guess, I’d guess for the girl you kissed it was a first. I’ll bet she remembers it. Maybe with fondness, maybe she finds it amusing. Maybe both.


79 posted on 12/17/2017 9:09:12 AM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: generally

Chris needs to resign. Period.


80 posted on 12/17/2017 10:04:01 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (We're CNN. We're not lying, we're just incompetent!)
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