Matthews suggested his Clinton comment was an aberration, but he's been making similar remarks for years

SUMMARY: On January 17, Chris Matthews addressed the firestorm sparked by his January 9 comment that "the reason" Sen. Hillary Clinton is "a U.S. senator, the reason she's a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around." Matthews said: "The truth, of course, is finer, smarter, larger than that" and suggested that in the course of "the heated, fast-paced talk we have here on Hardball," he did not "take[] the time to say things right" or "simply said the inappropriate thing." But contrary to his suggestion that his January 9 comments were an aberration, Matthews has repeatedly attributed Clinton's success to her status as "victim" of an adulterous husband.

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