For Chris Matthews, Misogyny Pays Off

by Jill on 4.24.2008 · 10 comments

in Are you serious?, Media, Politics, Stupidity

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1 Hawise 4.24.2008 at 10:46 am

This is definitely a ‘well, duh’ article. Matthews has been profitting off of demeaning women for years and when called on it, he uses the time honored ‘I can’t be misogynistic, I have daughters’ routine. And before anyone chimes in that ‘it’s just Clinton’, it isn’t. He is a slimeball and that is the bottom line to why he gets paid the big bucks.

2 Holly 4.24.2008 at 11:09 am

The real shame here is the “Grey Lady” just letting all of that crap slide when doing a profile. Maybe they figured he would hang himself, but I doubt it. Attention is attention, and for someone like Matthews it’s generally good for your career. Heck, he probably profited, in quite literal ways, from that blogswarm.

3 Olivia 4.24.2008 at 11:16 am

Sickening, absolutely sickening. And yet, not only does he still have his own show, which I avoid like the plague, but he keeps showing up and shows I do like to watch. Ugh….

4 Natalia 4.24.2008 at 11:30 am

*facepalm*

5 norbizness 4.24.2008 at 12:29 pm

Without reading the article, I know it just isn’t Clinton, given his on-air sexual harassment of female contributors.

Note to PA organizers/voters: you may want to form a third party in advance of his running as a Democrat for Arlen Specter’s seat someday.

6 Feminist PUNK!!!! 4.24.2008 at 2:31 pm

I don’t understand why he’s still allowed on the air. Or for that matter, still married. I bet he hates his mother, his wife, his daughters (GASP!!!), and anybody else with boobs and a vagina.

7 FashionablyEvil 4.24.2008 at 5:01 pm

It seems to me that misogyny pays off for many people. Clearly I’m in the wrong line of work…

8 Kathleen 4.24.2008 at 6:03 pm

I doubt Chris Mathews hates his mother, wife, and daughters. He just does that compartmentalizing thing — they are nice good women, while other women are outside the charmed circle. HR Clinton for being a power-hungry democrat, Kerri Washington for being a sexee negress, young women associated with the show for having boobies and not being his blood relatives. What grosses me out is what that article described really well: the way that center-left men & media get off on Mathews’ “political incorrectness”. Which basically means: his behaving like a giant ass. The NYTimes is really bad in this direction in their overall style and content; they’ve never seen a sexist bullcrap evo pysch “study” they won’t write up, etc. The older I get the more it upsets me, because in my late 30s I feel like — come on, a lot of these guys are from my generation! It’s not dinosaurs producing and consuming and applauding this stuff.

9 Lisa Harney 4.24.2008 at 8:20 pm

I don’t agree with Hillary’s politics, and I find it hard to credit most criticism I hear about her, because she’s been slammed with misogyny over and over again. I don’t even want to take the energy anymore to decide if any given person is slamming her because she’s a woman or because of her stance on the war.

I mean, if I can’t figure it out without looking between the lines, then it’s probably sexist.

As for this guy, what a piece of work. Vile, disgusting work.

10 queerunity 4.26.2008 at 3:51 pm

i have to say thought that there is a tendency to say anyone anti-hillary is misogynist which simply isnt true. i am a diehard feminist but cant stand hillary because of her policies.

http://www.queersunited.blogspot.com

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