Here we go again. The “Me Too” movement has ensnared another liberal, this time it’s MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. And the accuser is a former guest on MSNBC who said he would make creepy comments to her before her appearances. From the Hill:
Journalist Laura Bassett penned an op-ed in the online magazine GQ recounting her experience with sexist remarks from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.
Bassett, a former Huffington Post reporter, noted that Matthews was the unnamed media figure she wrote about in a 2017 essay, who said he’d “fall in love with her” while they were getting their makeup done before a TV hit.
“Five minutes later, I was sitting next to him on the set, under bright lights, with a microphone clipped to my shirt and three cameras pointed at me,” Bassett wrote. “He asked me questions about sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump, and I had to look him in the eyes as I responded. I stumbled over my answers and forgot basic vocabulary words, the uncomfortable moment in the makeup room crowding my mind.”
Oh boy. I believe it. I’ve seen him get a little too flirty with his attractive female guests enough to think he might have continued his comments during the commercials. And she says she’s heard from others:
“And after I published a story about it, even though I didn’t name him, dozens of people reached out to say they knew exactly who it was,” she wrote. “Many had similar stories.”
Hmmm. On the other hand, she admits that he didn’t cross the line inasmuch as he sauntered up to the line and tried to seduce it.
IN any case, I’m wondering if everyone is forgetting the existence of this creepy interaction when he made Erin Burnett very uncomfortable at the start of her show:
Yeah. That stuff just doesn’t fly anymore…
Then again, all of this stuff is conveniently surfacing right when he’s been hammering away at Bernie Sanders and his socialism, in fear it will tank the Democratic party. Could it be the Bernie Bros are getting some revenge? Hmmmmm…