Did Tweety Matthews get fired?

I turned on the TV this morning and Joe (hide the dead intern) Scarborough and Mika were lamenting about Media Matters and others have been taking shots at poor Tweety boy for attacking Dems. Kind if like they were reading his obituary or something.

Whats going on? Anyone know?

Don

No, unlike Imus he insults all women, not just some, so he gets to stay.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011702828.html

Chris Matthews Backs Off 'Nasty' Remark on Clinton

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 18, 2008; Page C01

Under pressure from feminist groups and his own bosses at MSNBC, Chris Matthews apologized yesterday for remarks about Hillary Clinton that he now admits sounded "nasty."

For 10 days, the "Hardball" host had doggedly insisted he was just reciting a bit of history when he said on the air that "the reason she's 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."

But protests against those and other remarks by Matthews reached a peak yesterday when the presidents of such groups as the National Organization for Women, Feminist Majority and National Women's Political Caucus sent a joint letter of complaint to NBC News President Steve Capus.

I heard none of that yesterday.

:eyes: :wtf:

My goodness, what a self-pitying little man. "Me, me, me, I, I, I." Yes, filling the dead air on live TV can cause anyone to say something on the spur of the moment to take a verbal shortcut and say something that doesn't reflect their actual views. But the compendium at Media Matters shows that Tweety's condescension toward women isn't some aberration. Telling professional journalist Erin Burnett she's a "knockout" and urging her to get closer to the camera (as he did on August 10, 2007) wasn't a momentary lapse in judgment and wasn't a heat of the moment blurt; it was calculated bullying of someone who didn't have any warning and who wasn't prepared to tell him to shove his piggery up his sty.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200801110011

Go to the link, because that's not all.

Bill messed around and she got the sympathy vote).

He apologized during his show last night.

Like a cockroach, he will be back tonight.

Rat bastard deserves to be fired, but 'wingnut welfare' (in the form of employing RW assholes like Tweety) has been preserved.

I was half asleep and didn't know what was going on. I do now.

Don

Openly leering at attractive professional women, for example.

Never mind the unmitigated hypocrisy of calling this "censorship" of Matthews, when if a Democrat says anything negative, the GOP circles the wagons and beats them into submission until a public apology is given. Never mind that, I'm pissed at the lying about it being ONLY about the comment about Hillary Clinton getting where she is only because of Bill's affair. Did these idiots ever READ the Media Matters piece? Did they even consider the barrage of e-mails regular people sent to General Electric Media over the entire tenor of Matthews' daily rantings?

Of course not. Joe Scarborough is a fucking idiot. At least it was refreshing hearing David Schuster slap him down and remind Joe that it is not a reporter's job to act as stenographer for the campaigners. Still, Joe couldn't grasp that point either.

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any wonder why Scarborough took the position he did? In his mind - a journalist is not to challenge a politician - just report the lies. I wish someone would post a video of the interchange between them. It would show Morning Joe for what he is.

trying to beat him up for defending the reporter who caught NitMitt in a lie about lobbyists running his campaign.

Scarboro trained under Newt -

Shuster defending being an investigative reporter. YAY Shuster.

I never watch scarboro but so disgusted with CNN I turned it on - first mistake
so irritated I was going to email - what a jerk he was

He has an appalling record of sexist comments, not just about Hillary Clinton, but other female guests, reporters, story subjects and apparently just about any other female luckless enough to come to his demented attention. The Media Matters piece was pretty damning, and I guess Tweety felt he had to do a half-assed Henry IV repentance spiel.

If the past is any prologue at all, it should be more than sufficient for him to maintain his elevated perch as King Shit of Turd Island.

he apologized to Hillary watch here

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Chris_Matthews_airs_apology_to_Hillary_0117.html

and i forget just how he did it ... and then said, "i just hope he hasn't been forced to ..." by which time i couldn't take it anymore and turned off the television so i don't know if the missing word within my ear range might have been "resign", or "apologize" ... the kind of crap the passes for ........... anything other than tabloid television these days is just plain :puke:
sickening.

then earlier joe scar-brawl-oro was making a comment on how jopurnalists should not really confront candidates on an issue and nag them to the death, he was referring to the mitt romney AP press guy confrontation yesterday; until david shuster stopped scar-bowl-o and said something about that might be so in russia but not here and asked, "do you think if putin is sitting next to romney or whoever he is going to ask nice questions because he doesn't want to upset the guy?" -- they went to a break and when they came back scar-brawl-o had changed his tune about hard questions needing to be asked by journalists, maybe not in russian, but definitely here in these u.s.a. ... although, i think he may have been mocking the media, shuster, and the breszinsky gal all in one swoop of the breath.

the abuse being meted out by the corporate media, the well paid pundits, talking heads, so called journalists and everyone else who can get their hand on the pie ... is simply sickening.

Guess the clamor for his t.v. demise is just goo great.
:rofl:

and NOT the MANY sexist things he has said and done regarding ALL women, and NOT the innumerable ridiculous things he says about anybody, his punditry based on weird sexual fantasies or just off the top of his head.


Fired?!1 Heck no. He didn't even get slapped when he caused a gun incident:

How Tweety "Triggered" a Gun Incident (re: Kathleen WILLEY). At the height of the FAKE impeachment, Ms WILLEY claimed that a mystery jogger had threatened her or her cat or somebody. Several months later, there was gossip that the jogger had been identified. Tweety hosted her and it appeared they had discussed the identity off camera. He tried mightily to get her to say the name on the air, which she wouldn't do. Finally, he himself blurted it out, "Was it Name/Surname?" She would not confirm it. Within days there was a bizarre incident, with the mentally disabled brother of Pat and Bay BUCHANAN going with a gun to the house of the supposed jogger, where there were only some foreign exchange students present. Later it was determined that the person Tweety named on the air had NOTHING to do with the supposed jogger incident.