“I'm retiring,” Chris Matthews announced Monday live on-air. “This is the last Hardball on MSNBC”
subsequently called out Matthews for his “objectifying and belittling comments” toward women—including Bassett herself—in a, in which she called Matthews’s continued presence on MSNBC “downright irresponsible.” “The open secret of Matthews’s everyday behavior off camera with guests ... often creeps up to the line of sexual harassment without actually crossing it, so that women can never feel that it’s worth jeopardizing their own careers to complain,” Bassett wrote.
” Matthews suggested Monday that his behavior toward women had been a contributing factor in his departure, saying that the “better standards” in the workplace he referred to largely “has to do with how we talk to each other.” “Compliments on a woman's appearance that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay—were never ok,” Matthews said. “Not then and certainly not today, and for making such comments in the past, I'm sorry.
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