And here's MSNBC's Chris Matthews, sitting beside the pool outside his Nantucket vacation home, wearing sunglasses:
Posted on 03/23/2009 6:19:22 AM PDT by abb
Chris Matthews, the usually garrulous host of “Hardball” on MSNBC, has quietly signed a new long-term contract to remain with the cable network through the next election, signaling that he had quit entertaining any plans to run for a Senate seat.
The deal is for at least four years. Financial terms were not disclosed, and neither side would confirm whether MSNBC had won a reduction in salary for the host, as it had been reported to be seeking. Previous reports put his annual salary at about $5 million.
One executive involved in the negotiations said, “Whether he took a slight cut or got a slight raise, it’s nobody’s business.”
Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, said the deal would guarantee that Mr. Matthews would “be around to cover the next presidential election.” Mr. Matthews, known for his combative interviews, said he was happy to be staying on. “I love what I do,” he said. “It’s transparent. You can see it in my face.”
For some time last year it was not clear just how much Mr. Matthews, 63, did love what he did. He was exploring a run for Senate from his home state, Pennsylvania, as a Democrat. Mr. Matthews had at one time worked as an aide to Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. of Massachusetts, the Democratic House speaker during much of the 1980s.
Mr. Griffin said about Mr. Matthews’s dalliance with a political career, “I never really took it seriously.” But his rather public testing of the waters during a presidential campaign raised questions about how he could remain at a news organization while seeking public office.
Mr. Matthews said that he had been serious about the Senate seat and took umbrage at any suggestion that he might have been using the idea as negotiating leverage.
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yah.. put 90% tax on his income. let see how long that tingling up his leg lasts after that.
MSNBC? Isn’t that where failed GM execs (e.g., all of them) go to further improve their failure methods?
This is an outrage! GE took more than 5B. Confiscate it!
I think ACORN needs another rent-a-mob bus tour of NBC and MSNBC news personalities’ “luxury homes.”
YES, and compensation past....say....$250,000 should be taxed at 90% for any bailed out company.
I like it!
Call their bluff
And here's MSNBC's Chris Matthews, sitting beside the pool outside his Nantucket vacation home, wearing sunglasses:
With executive decisions like that, it's no wonder GE's stock is in the toilet. Hey, Crissy, better run down to the bank and cash that check today! LMAO
Just like AIG bonuses are no one's business? Where's the outrage?
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/48254/
Acorn people, look at this big house of a bailed out employee - get those buses rolling - protest on a weekday, you’ll get more to show up - liberals don’t like to protest on the weekends- that’s ‘their time’
Grosss! Too much of his tingly area visible!
Matthews never mentions that years ago, he ran for Congress and got roundly defeated.
How much are we taxpayers paying this guy?
https://www.ge.com/contact/contact_form.html
Regards . . . Penny
GE took government money - why should he be paid $5 million dollars. Another example of gross Dem hypocrisy. Matthews can lecture the world on the greed of Wall Street but look at his own filthy hands. From every corner of your life the Democratic Party will lecture you, from income levels to racism to public schools but don’t ask them to abide by it, don’t ask Barack Obama to send his kids to public schools - he is fighting to keep DC black kids out of his daughters’ private school. These people are frauds and should be constantly exposed.
What a waste.
Talk about OVER paid. $ 90,000/yr. for the number of viewers he has might be over paid as well.
Chris Matthews’ House
The television talk show host and pundit, known for a nightly hour-long talk show, “Hardball with Chris Matthews”, lives here.
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/48254/
Chris gave directions to his white-frame Victorian house in Chevy Chase, Md., built in 1885. “Right across from Tommy Boggs’s house,” he said, referring to the Washington lobbyist, son of the former House majority leader. The Matthews house is sun-lit, art-filled and cozy, with three Mercedes of various sizes and degrees of wear in the driveway. I arrived at 11 a.m., just as Matthews was leaving.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13matthews-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
Looks like a jam-up location for a Tea Party, doncha think?
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