Does Chris Matthews have a problem with women?

Yes, I've more than had enough - you say HRC would never have gotten where she was if it hadn't been for her husband cheating on her - maybe you wouldn't have hardball if Bill hadn't cheated on HRC either. Enough is enough - please look in the mirror, and ask yourself, have you ever held Bush to the standards you are holding HRC - he would never have been governor if it hadn't been for his "daddy's friends" and then therefore, would never have been president. Take a breath, please, before it's too late

Our blog was cc'd on this email to MSNBC, which readers may enjoy:

To whom it may concern: I thought you would be interested to know that the appalling way Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson, and to a lesser extent Keith Olbermann talked about Hillary Clinton before, during, and after the NH primary debate actually caused me to switch my allegiance from Edwards to her. Similarly, my sister-in-law switched from Obama to Hillary. Fortunately we Democrats are spoiled for choice -- any of the three of them would make a fine president -- so we have the luxury of being able to switch allegiances based on our visceral distaste for the misogynistic piling-on that has being passing for political commentary on MSNBC for weeks. The unsubstantiated and insulting suggestion, following the election, that racism was somehow a factor in Hillary's win only solidified that we'd made the right decision. Simply put, if the self-important misogynists of MSNBC -- some of whom have for years been propping up the debacle that is George W. Bush -- hate Hillary so much, she must be doing something right. I except from this, by the way, Dan Abrams, who alone on MSNBC has showed class -- not to mention superior political insight. I am now an avid viewer of his show. Speaking of insight, here's some for you: when the person on one of your panels with the most enlightened view of women voters is Pat Buchanan, you've got a problem. Regards, JB

Personally, I think Chris Matthews is great for Hillary. Any time a moron like this sounds off, the only people he impresses are his inbred redneck relatives.

Thank you for providing me the incentive to do something I've been meaning to do for months. I just used the email link provided to inform them that I have blocked any channels with the letters "NBC" in their name from my pre-programmed channel list of both my cable box and TV - and why Chris Mathews is the person responsible for my decision.

Would everyone also please take a few minutes to email MMFA and demand that they fix the problem with line feeds and paragraph formatting - as well as various bugs that have popped up when using IE7 to access the site - all which have persisted since the "maintenance" done on Wednesday Jan. 9th???

There is an obvious loss of interest in posting at this site ever since - you would think that by now they'd have noticed posts are down about 50% due to user frustration. This morning I sent a lengthy email numerically detailing all these new bugs, but apparently it has fallen on deaf ears. The very least they could do is put up a small notice on the login screen or the home page acknowledging the problems and informing users of the status of fixes.

I had not entirely decided who will receive my support in the upcoming caucus. I know I am a raving progressive on most issues; however, since I've grown to an advanced age, I also know that a republic/democracy requires that people learn to compromise. I have, therefoe, kept an open mind.

For that reason, I attended a rally for Hillary Clinton in Denver. I was impressed with what she had to say, though not yet convinced, though drawn to her as a woman who might make it as I dreamed Pat Schroeder or Barbara Jordan might before her. And I spoke with several women at that rally who repeated the desire not to have another man in office who would deal only with the good ole' boys in the boys' locker room. In other words, they just finally WANT a woman as President.

I've watched/listened to the debates also, after also watching Congressional hearings, etc., and listening to her question the witnesses. She impresses me with her knowledge of detail on so many issues.

BUT....as I've watched the male media talking heads and the male pundits--and some of the ridiculous female conservative pundits--bash Hillary, I've become increasingly annoyed.

I am, afterall, of her generation. I have watched the commencement address she gave back when. I watched her in the political arena all these years. I found that I have begun pulling for her to win the nomination.

The awful, gleeful headlines after the Iowa caucus, where the Baptist farm wives did not support her and the debate in New Hampshire where the young Obama and Edwards ganged up on her and made fun of her experience finally decided my vote.

You go girl!

Chris Matthews remarks regarding Senator Clinton are as sexist, egotistical and uncalled for as those of the illiterate, uneducated and prejudice as Limbaugh and Imus. These three are unworthy of being called Americans let alone journalists and should not be allowed to vent their opinions unless preceded by a disclaimer. They are the most disrespectful commentators I have ever heard and definitely offensive to the majority of honest Americans.



I respectfully request Chris Matthews be admonished, penalized and made to apologize or else permanently removed from the air.



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Pam Taylor/ Mrs. Darwin Taylor

Chris Matthews is the MSNBC spokesperson for dissing Hillary Clinton. Matthews, Limbaugh, Bortz and the rest are sexist little whiners using "witch" words to describe Ms. Clinton.

Bet they all would have been happy in Salem during the witch trials and executions, denouncing women and sending them to their deaths.

Matthews does not belong on the same network as Keith Obermann who makes no personal attacks.

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I have sent two emails to MSNBC to express my utter disgust with Chris Matthews.  I'm done with "Hardball" and will never watch any further political coverage on MSNBC excpet for Dan Abrams.  I do want to say I applaud Pat Buchanan for standing up to Matthews.  I may disagree with Buchanan's political views, but I've found him to be fair most of the time.  He was right on the money when he said this racist theory crap of Matthew's was nothing but trying to cover for the egg on his face.  Matthews has some serious issues and needs to seek professional help.

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Matthews belongs on a Fox network,....

Hmm....

 No one has mentioned the obvious, and constantly changing, "man crushes". Not that there is anything wrong with that...

I totally disagree with your analysis of Chris Matthews.  I don't see anything "sexist" in his shows at all. Being a woman, if I detected any sexist attitutude I wouldn't watch him at all.  On the contrary, I wouldn't miss him every night.

FYI: It's Nurse Ratchet, a reference to the mechanical, masculine nurse in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.

 

There should be more news people who are not afraid to express themselves.  He is right about Clinton.

I agree with everything barbara Walters and the ladies on the view said about Chris, beside biong a woman hater, he is a closeted rupublican that voted for george bush in 2000

 why does msnbc still have that wack job on the station..... time for the womens groups to go after  his spondors

 

PJ:

My paragraphing is now fixed. It would be nice, however, if LINKS would automatically be highlighted, and if hitting "next" would take you to the TOP of the next page. Hope you mentioned these, too.

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NOW, about Matthews. I hesitate to "take action" when I fear it might be successful. Matthews is part of the political process in America today, thanks to "our Media", and his inclusion, as with all things, is for good or ill.

At the moment, thanks to the Gods of Sanity, Matthews is actually HELPING Hillary in particular, and also no doubt HELPING to bring out angry Democratic voters, who are sick and tired of blatant rightwing media bias.

The more Matthews is ON, the better it is for ME and the causes I champion.

For over a decade, I have watched not only Matthews, but also O'Reilly, and Beck and others ... and wondered if they were being effective in promoting the cause of the GOP ... after all, the GOP has been electorally successful since 1994. Of course, then there was Limbaugh and Hannity and Savage and Coulter and Ingraham and dozens of others on the RADIO practicing their HATE SPEECH against Democrats and Liberals. The demonizing was successful, inasmuch as Republicans seemed to be winning at the ballot box. I couldn't believe it, I couldn't understand it.

But now the trend has changed, REVERSED. The demonizing has been SO hateful and SO unfair and SO one-sides for SO long, we are now seeing a backlash (backfire, blowback, whatever term is appropriate). Rightwing HATE has energized Democrats, and they are turning out as never before.

WHY would I want Matthews -- or any of the OTHER Rightwing hatemongers -- to quit NOW? They're finally doing some GOOD for this nation! I say, let 'em rant, let 'em keep digging that hole!

I never thought that I would see the day that I preferred to watch Bill Oreilly over you.  I always thought that that fair and balanced slogan was a joke.  During this campaign I have found myself watching Fox more and MSNBC less.  I have become completely turned off by the absolute bias against Hillary Clinton.  The night of the NH primary I watched Fox all night, because I didn't want to see Chris fawning over Obama, who I thought would win by double digits.  I was pleased with Fox, just giving out the results and talking about the race in an impartial way.  When Hillary was declared the winner, I turned to MSNBC and saw Chris being taken to task by Tom Brokaw and Pat Buchanan.  Voters don't want the media telling us who to vote for.  Does MSNBC think Obama would make a better president or do they hate Hillary so much, they don't care?  Our country needs a great leader to follow Bush.  I would hope that all of the candidates were given a fair chance to show us how they would lead our country out of this hole.  Hillary just might make the better president, but you would never know that watching MSNBC.  This is not a game.  I don't understand how any woman could come on your show and not be offended by your commentary on Hillary Clinton.  She has been politically active since her college years.  She is a very accomplished woman in her own right.  The people of NY should be livid that you think they picked her out of sympathy.  This woman deserves everything she has attained in her life, because she has worked her tail off to get it.  She has shown an incredible amount of strength in the face of the media, Obama and Edwards, and the republicans attacking her in unison.  No other candidate,  certainly not Obama, has had to face that kind of scrutiny and ridicule.  I think this all stems from the fact that she is a strong, intelligent , capable woman.  Many are still threatened by that.  MSNBC has become more irritating than Fox News.  Joe, David, Tucker, and Chris have all become advocates for anyone but Hillary and it is extremely unattractive.  I am a black male and many black people respect the Clintons.  I think MSNBC will lose a lot of viewers because of this and they won't come back.  CNN and Fox News are giving more straight forward news coverage of this race.  

Also - contact GE. They OWN MSNBC.

https://www.ge.com/contact/contact_form.html

the GE CEO is Jeffrey Immelt

"[T]he reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around." Please watch the episode of Morning Joe from a couple days ago.  He and Mika have a very in depth conversation about this that very same quote.  I would also like to see more then just "quote marks" around phrases you claim to be his.  Site which shows, episodes, and dates they're from so that someone can actually factcheck them instead of posting them as fact without any real way of reasearching the information.

"[T]he reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around." Please watch the episode of Morning Joe from January 11th.  He and Mika have a very in depth conversation about this that very same quote.  I would also like to see more then just "quote marks" around phrases you claim to be his.  Site which shows, episodes, and dates they're from so that someone can actually factcheck them instead of posting them as fact without any real way of reasearching the information.

I sent letters to both Matthews and the MSNBC Letters e-mail addresses.

 (I sent them "return receipt requested")

Within minutes I got  this e-mail:

Your message

  To:      Letters
  Subject: Letter to Chris Matthews
  Sent:    Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:29:57 -0800

was deleted without being read on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:30:02 -0800

 

I quit watching Matthews a long time ago. He would make 'Worst Person in the World' about 2 or 3 times a week if he were on another network. You know things are really bad when O'Reilly says he 'went too far'. It's time for him to spend more time with his family or MSNBC should just fire him, and when I say fire him, I mean like a human cannon ball, right over to FOX. As he exits the cannon, he would be quoted as saying -

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Tim Geg

 

I urge everybody to take Matthews off your DVR/TIVO and let MSNBC know you are doing this. Hurt him where it hurts ... his ratings. Let's get rid of this Fascist ... once and for all.

Chris Matthews is losing his mind and we all get to watch it on TV

There you go again - picking on the fat kid.