Posted on 12/16/2017 9:50:05 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
NBC made a separation-related payment years ago to an employee who worked for Chris Matthews after she accused him of sexual harassment, according to a report Saturday.
The unidentified woman, a former assistant producer on his MSNBC show, "Hardball with Chris Matthews," told company executives that Matthews made inappropriate remarks and jokes about her with others present, the Daily Caller reported.
After a review, Matthews received a formal reprimand, but determined that his comments towards the woman were only childish and inappropriate and not meant as propositions.
Sources told the outlet that NBC paid the woman $40,000 in a 1999 settlement, but an MSNBC spokesperson disputed the amount, claiming it was lower.
While the woman reportedly left MSNBC and went on to work in other journalism-related jobs, Matthews has remained a fixture at MSNBC, still hosting the "Hardball" show he's had since 1997 and also had hosted another program, "The Chris Matthews Show," from 2002 to 2013.
Matthews has raised eyebrows before, notably during the 2016 campaign when he was caught on a hot mic checking out Melania Trump, wife to President Trump.
"Did you see her walk? Runway walk. My God is that good," Matthews said in May 2016. "I could watch that runway show," he added.
Matthews, now 71 years old, has railed against Trump for making sexist and demeaning comments about women. He is married to Kathleen Matthews, the chair of the Maryland Democratic Party.
Before joining MSNBC he worked as a Capitol Police officer and later waded into politics. His jobs working for Democrats included being a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter and chief of staff to House Speaker Tip O’Neill, D-Mass.
The report Saturday follows other revelations about sexual misconduct accusations aimed at prominent members in the media, including NBC's Matt Lauer, who was fired from the network in late November.
This is a twofer. It shows once again that phony NBC is a willing enabler of sexually harassing women. Not so progressive now is it?
HARDBALL ?
That dirty old man!
The bad jokes write themselves.
Even Hamilton Berger wouldn’t do that.
reminds me of the old Robin Williams skit of the Olympics announcer and Nadia Comaneci
Say What!
Must have been in the public relations section. No way a hard core drunk like Chris would have been issued a service weapon.
If being a hard core drunk preludes to being issued a service weapon, would we have a much smaller police force...
In defense of Mathews, he used to be a reasonable left winger, years ago his show was interesting and he had good guests until the booze and diabetes ruined his brain.
I don't think he is a faggot either....
You make an interesting point. I don't think Matthews falls in that category though.
In the cable world Hardball has a nice sized audience compared to other cable networks.
He also has a hardcore moon-bat libtard following that think every lip spittle that he declares is truth and light.
Today is his birthday.
I though Mr Tingles was a pillow biter?
Yep. Just look at the clothes the homosexual designers create. Absolutely hideous.
Honestly the year this happened is a bit suspect. Clinton was impeached, and Chris had been hammering him and Hillary for two years. Post Obama getting elected Chris reverted to a leftist shill, but during the Clinton era he was a voice of reason on the left.
NBC would have settled regardless as organizations do not want this sort of thing to go to trial even if the named perp is innocent.
It is really, really getting creepy, now since they have had decades of normalizing their behaviors in little five year olds with that “sodomy Pride” movement of the 70s. They even co-opted the rainbow to appeal to little five year olds and hyper-sexualize them-—making everything represent vulgar sex acts.
The homosexuals want all boys emasculated (for their “lifestyle”) so they can “dominate” them which is what their behavior is all about-—lust and domination (control of the Alpha males)..... and they have literally created eating disorders in girls trying to make them look like boys (remember Twiggy???—first supermodel???) Androgyny is being forced onto our children so that the boys can be girls and visa versa-—pure Marxism where Evil is Good and Up is Down and Boys are Girls (total removal from Truth (God) and Reality and Science)-—and there is no such thing as the Natural Family (biological connections are non-existent—as in the Communist Manifesto’s “utopia”).
Their ideal of beauty is a 13 or 14 year old virgin boy just like Milo was—their ideal. All homosexual cultures glorify the rape of boys, like Zeus with Ganymedes.
“”Matthews received a formal reprimand, but determined that his comments towards the woman were only childish and in appropriate and not meant as propositions.””
And that’s WHY there was a settlement made, right? Why hasn’t that worked for anyone else? Could Roy Moore have gotten away with that excuse?
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