Chris Matthews' Sexist Gaffes
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Opinion journalist Chris Matthews has a sad habit of saying embarrassing things to the women he interviews. He comes across like some nerdy adolescent. A sample:
During an August 2, 1999, interview with Gennifer Flowers, Matthews stated to Flowers: “I gotta pay a little tribute here. You’re a very beautiful woman, and I — and I have to tell you, he knows that, you know that, and everybody watching knows that; Hillary Clinton knows that. How can a woman put up with a relationship between her husband and somebody, anybody, but especially somebody like you that’s a knockout? I don’t quite get this relationship.”
A bit creepy, no?
Media Matters: With women, Matthews administers the “Chris Matthews test”