Two years ago I was a young media reporter and stumbled across a tip about Chris Matthews. Soon discovered he runs an abusive and sexually charged work environment that is so bad staffers called themselves members of the “battered wives club.”
He had a sexual harassment settlement in the late 1990s. Rated guests on a numerical scale. Rearranged sets to sit next to female guests. There’s more I’ve heard that’s even worse but don’t have enough sources to confirm for reporting.
He is a stain on the network and it’s shocking that they didn’t investigate his show when I dropped all of this at the time. Beyond the sexual harassment, staffers and guests on his show told me he was so deranged they felt like they were walking on eggshells around him.
He was liable to explode at any moment. Guests felt like they were walking into an unhappy home. Some stopped appearing on his show because of how uncomfortable it was.
The problem is that NBC has executives who in many cases are as dirty as the hosts. They can’t expose them because it would expose themselves. It’s why it took them so long to get rid of Lauer.
They threaten reporters with lawsuits as soon as they get anywhere close. They’re a huge network and so they effectively shut down any challenged to their sick regime.
But don’t forget for a second that this is a cabal of power abusers. They grift off of progressives while destroying women behind the scenes. It is evil and it needs to end.
