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; I’m not anymore,” she wrote.
During one incident in 2016, Matthews — who’s 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 haven’t 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, I’ll 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 didn’t know, Matthews reportedly told 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.”
Chris Matthews misses the good old election days Bassett said that although she’s “pretty sure that behavior doesn’t 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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Matthews is getting hit everywhere since he came after Bernie.
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Ya got that right
SNOWFLAKE.
She’s acting like she has a right to never have any man talk to her unless she’s interested in him, with him being required to have the psychic powers to know that.
Frankly, I no longer give a damn when some woman is offended by male attention.
Matthews needs a better pair of glasses
At LeAsT hE diDnT uSe ThE P-WoRd!!!!!!
— Outraged Progressives
Exactly,although not a fan it seems he was just encouraging a homely woman.
They are raising the bar. Anything a male says or does can be called sexual harassment by a female, and he has no defense.
Further confirmation on this thread—young people—you want to become a sexual harassment lawyer—get rich quick!
Send a hot woman into an office with celebrities, run the hidden camera, and sue the employer and the celebrities, and start raking in the cash.
This is _too_ easy.
Once an old dog, always an old dog.
Out of the mouth the abundance of the heart speaks.
Chris Matthews is a total numbnuts asshat, but this is just clumsy, stupid flirting. He didn’t touch her or “pull it out” and ask for favors. It was just a jerky come on.
Besides, his leg only tingles for Obama.
“What would have been “appropriate” flirting in this context?”
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The terms “appropriate” and “inappropriate” should be banned from the language, people need to learn to use “right” or “wrong” instead. Besides, “inappropriate” is for using the wrong knife to cut your steak, not for presumed great social-societal questions.
“Just ‘cause a dog is chained to the porch doesn’t mean he can’t howl at the traffic”
As mush as I dislike Mathews, he didn’t do anything but pay this young snowflake a compliment.
Good thing this chick didn’t live in the 40’s or 50’s. Wolf whistles and winks and nods; lots of cute remarks. Girls all thought that was normal back then.
She’s doesn’t look that hot to me. Typical bad American dentistry, too.
Poor old Chris. Has never realized the 70s are OVER!
Helloooo! Lady, believe me, if I tell somebody to “keep putting makeup on her, I’ll fall in love with her yet,” I’m saying you don’t look good without it.
Everything he said sounds like complete sarcasm to me, yet this narcissist thinks he was flirting.
“Be sure and take the makeup off her before she leaves. We can’t have some poor sap at a bar thinking she isn’t the dog she really is!”
Lady, you ain’t never heard nothing yet. Don’t go out in the country. From your picture, every farmer who sees you will reflexively shout “Sooooiieey!” And you will be overrun by the hogs they call in.
I would say, Get a life. But in your case, Get a burhka!
But don’t let me defend Chris Matthews. He deserves what she is giving him, she and Bernie.
Give me a break! A man saying something nice to an attractive woman.
How might she have reacted to the very same comments, in exactly the same context, not by Matthews (whom she apparently finds repellant), but by another man to whom she is physically attracted?
That is the world—attractive people rule and everybody else gets sued for sexual harassment.
“A man has got to know his limitations.”
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