Posted on 02/28/2020 8:32:09 PM PST by conservative98
MSNBC host Chris Matthews inappropriately flirted with a much younger female guest on at least two occasions while she was getting made up to appear on his Hardball show, the woman wrote Friday.
Freelance journalist Laura Bassett, who previously wrote about the incidents in 2017 without naming Matthews, identified him in a column published by GQ.
I was afraid to name him at the time for fear of retaliation from the network; Im not anymore, she wrote.
During one incident in 2016, Matthews whos married to Kathleen Matthews, a former Maryland Democratic Party chairwoman allegedly looked over at me in the makeup chair next to him and said, Why havent I fallen in love with you yet?' Bassett wrote.
When I laughed nervously and said nothing, he followed up to the makeup artist. Keep putting makeup on her, Ill fall in love with her.'
Another time, Bassett said, Matthews complimented her red dress and asked, You going out tonight?
When Bassett replied that she didnt know, Matthews reportedly told the makeup artist, Make sure you wipe this off her face after the show. We dont make her up so some guy at a bar can look at her like this.
Chris Matthews misses the good old election days Bassett said that although shes pretty sure that behavior doesnt rise to the level of illegal sexual harassment it undermined my ability to do my job well.
Bassett, who uses a screenshot from an appearance on Hardball as her profile photo on Twitter, also said her interactions with Matthews made her noticeably uncomfortable on air.
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That works too. The one time a coworker crossed a line and groped me at work (long, long ago), my subtle hint to him was knock it off or Ill sue your a$$! It did the job.
I’d hit it.
I hate when I have to stick up for a Democrat. That said, she really needs to get a life
First of all Matthews always drools.
Secondly, only a lib feminist would consider drooling flirting. :)
As anyone who acquainted with basic math knows, 74 does not go into 30. It aint hard...to understand.
There was Senator Strom Thurmond:
but—Chris Matthews is no Strom Thurmond. :-)
(btw Strom Thurmond harassed one woman I know in the Senate Office Building elevator—apparently the guy made lewd comments to almost every women he met....)
Chris needs a better line, like telling her she causes a thrill to go up his leg. She would melt.
You’re a natural to join Gloria Allred’s legal team.
Smooth.
That was incontinence.
I had to Yippy that word. The “loss of bladder control”? OK,I’ll give you that one but he/she/it is still a pervert.
Chris Matthews wife ran for a democrat office in 2016 and lost. Trump is winning despite everything the media and the rest of the democrats has thrown at him. Chris Matthews is too old and MSNBC is looking for someone much younger at much lower pay. What is known about this case I bet was known for years with others just like all the other media personalities we have seen kicked aside.
No one likes working with - or even being in the general vicinity of - jerks.
But the implication here (i.e., what Social Justice Warriors are constantly implying should happen) is that some legislative or judicial action should be taken here to "protect" young, attractive women. Yes: additional measures (in addition to those already in place). Or at least some societal action, like mass-shaming on social media, etc.
The obvious implication is that this little "episode" somehow deserves to be seriously discussed in forums, that a "national conversation" should be conducted on the important issue of "innappropriate flirting."
BTW: In what way was this flirting "inappropriate?" I'll grant you that it was flirting (or at least some verbal posturing of a supposed alpha male trying to "mark" his terrain and/or establish dominance). But in what way was it "inappropriate?" What would have been "appropriate" flirting in this context? (Labelling it "inappropriate" implies that there is a conceivable form of "appropriate" flirting that Chris Matthews could have indulged in here.)
Regards,
She was looking at him, wasn't she?
The human race would have long ago gone extinct if men didn't generally interpret on the (to them) favorable side when a young lady accidentally dropped a handkerchief, smiled embarrassedly, etc.
Regards,
Sucks that our culture has become so damn absurd that people get bent over flirting.
If she has reached the age of 30 and hasn’t managed to figure out how to do some innocent flirting, then either she is a lesbian or a bitter woman.
She should have jokingly flirted back to him, or been ladylike and turn him down gently.
She is a product of our communist university system....indoctrinated to hate....hate men, hate white men and hate this nation.
Many young women are just looking for a reason to be offended....just like blacks and muslims.
We are creating generations of permanently offended people.
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