In an informative post from Gawker about MSNBC's prime-time misogynist Chris Matthews, we learn that Kathleen Matthews, wife of Chris, has donated the maximum allowable amount to Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. Yes, Chris Matthews has a wife. Life is full of dumbfounding puzzles.
While Media Matters has documented Matthews's on-air misogyny, as well as the misogyny of the MSNBC boys' club, it turns out that MSNBC has so little respect for women that the network actually expects women to work on Matthews' staff!
Ewwww:
Chris has consistently gone after Hillary Clinton with vehement misogyny since the late '90s ("Hillary Clinton bugs a lot of guys, I mean, really bugs people -- like maybe me on occasion. . . . She drives some of us absolutely nuts."). So it should probably surprise no one that Matthews' "strong" wife Kathleen donated the maximum allowable amount to Hillary's campaign.
Matthews' issues with women are no secret to anyone who watches his show, but former staffers tell us he's actually reined in his gynophobic tendencies (esp since the wild and crazy Lewinsky years). "He can't control himself when it comes to women, and it's not malicious, it's just wildly inappropriate," one told us.
And hey, here's a montage of Chris Matthews cursing on-air. Best one is the last, from Super Tuesday, where Matthews berates his staff for "putting on shit."
After Matthews was caught saying "shit" on air last spring, he fired his producer, Tammy Haddad.
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