What the hell was that all about? The woman was completely mystified as to what Matthews was doing and then he calls her beautiful and a knock-out, what an idiot.

This guy has a major screw loose-always has.

Erin ia a major-league babe with a great smile. What normal red blooded guy couldn't be turned on by that, although they most often wisely keep their thoughts to themselves, especially on camera for professional reasons.

Maybe Matthews hadn't gotten it for a few days and had a major case of the horny teenager going on. The average guy probably has newsbabes that they like and daydream about. But they need to be professional on camera about it.

Maybe Matthews hadn't gotten it for a few days and had a major case of the horny teenager going on. The average guy probably has newsbabes that they like and daydream about. But they need to be professional on camera about it.

Wow, that was painful to watch. Like seeing your creepy drunk uncle telling your sister how pretty she is.

Try to imagine Cronkite doing that.

He's been drinking with Broadway Joe a little too much I see.

Wow... I was half expecting the next thing he'd ask her to do was see if she could touch her elbows behind her back.

"Chris, could you move away from the camera ?....No, farther than that.....Wait, I can still see you.....Ya know, you're so hideous.....keep going please....Now, tear up your contract and disconnect from the web...that's it, the women of America feel safer already. Thank you. You really don't know how hideous you are, do you ? Just disappear, won't you ?"

Me thinks the man is channeling Fred Willard.

The spittler is just a younger version of uncle Teddy on a six martini lunch junket..drool drool.. can I get Your number sweetums?

Leave it to the liberal left-wing journalists to come out in support of wackos and crazies

"Chris, could you move away from the camera ?....No, farther than that....."

...how about Furnace Creek!

Meybe he can get a job on the Playboy Channel?

Pretty creepy.

Lucky no one watches his show, or he'd be hearing from the National Association of Gals.

One of the guys I work with gets weird, too - every time a female between 16 and 60 walks by him, there's a 50% chance he'll start ranting about how hot she is - no matter what she looks like. As long as there's one recognizably-female characteristic visible, he's completely mesmerized and drooling.

It's disturbing.

Maybe Spittle Boy felt safe doing that as not even Mrs. Matthews watches his show.

I'm with JR in saying, "What the hell was that all about?" That was my first reaction and, after thinking about it for a few seconds, that's still all I can come up with. If I were her I wouldn't even contemplate being on his show again. She must've been like 'what's he going to do next? ask me to spill my cup of water all over my shirt?' In all seriousness - isn't that good old fashioned sexual harassment? Naw, can't be sexual harassment if there's no intercourse - or something like that, right?

MSNBC - where ratings go to die (for good reason)

Typical leftist behavior.

Typical of Hoosen to try to defend the reprehensible behavior.

Leftist men have no respect for women. Proven when they elected an alleged rapist to the Presidency. (Among many other examples.)

She sounds like a right-winger when she questions whether everyone has a right to own a home in this country. Code for: "let's round up all the colored people and stuff them into housing projects".

A question. Why are any of you supprised by this? He is a card carrying Democrat. Any thing that these people do is acceptable (Just ask them) He is just following in the footsteps of all the leaders of his party, JFK, Garry Heart, WJC, Teddy the drunk that killed Mary Jo, etc. OH I forgot Chris' old boss Tip O'Neal. The full list would be too long to post.
When a Republican gets in any kind of trouble, they are toast.
When a Democrat gets in any kind of trouble he ascends in the party, until they are in jail then they are a martyr to the cause.

Nathan:

Code for: "let's round up all the colored people and stuff them into housing projects".

Code for: Blithering idiot!

P. Bunyan, I clearly didn't defend Matthews. Can't you read plain English? You can't even spell my name right for starters. I simply said that Erin's a major-league babe and any normal red blooded guy could tell you that. Try washing your glasses once in a while and take a good look at her. But normal guys would also act in a responsible manner on camera and like Langtry said, avoid starting a possible workplace sexual harassment situation.

But then again maybe Matthews was just kidding around as well. Who knows what in heck was going on. But you can tell he's got the major hots for her, and acted goofy, whether as a joke or flirting, or whatever.

I'm going back to post something intelligent on foreign policy on another website and leave you alone to discuss this Chris Matthews nonsense some more here. Apparently there are some more vitally important ramifications that have not yet been brought into the light yet. Good day.

In the words of Dr. Evil. "Uh-huh, yeah, kinda creepy...yeah..."

Chris and Olbermann belong on the same channel.

To me it looked like he was trying to lessen her credibility by focusing on her appearance. He cut her off while she was trying to make a point. Then said it was "great getting bad news(?) even from her". A little too much behind-the-scenes up front for me. Pleh. He's the bad news.

Just don't touch a certain part of your inner horny teenager while you're motorbiking, my little munchkin.
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Nathan, last I checked it was the left that gave us the PJs.

Hoopspoon said, "But you can tell he's got the major hots for her, and acted goofy, whether as a joke or flirting, or whatever." Gee, mighty big of ya fella. I'm sure you were just as understanding of Sen. Packwoody when he was ogling/patting down, women in his office. Or was it something more like, "The man's a monster! For the love of all things decent, he must be destroyed before he strikes again!" Yeah, the Bunyanater was right, you gave him a pass alright. But then, if your type doesn't back each other up, who will ? Certainly not the women you spend so much time undressing in your twisted little imaginations.

Geez, what liberalism tries to normalize, I tell ya.

Typical of Hoosen to try to defend the reprehensible behavior.

Explain it maybe, but he certainly didn't defend it...

I don't think anyone would disagree that she's very attractive, but one would expect a professional journalist, who is married to another professional journalist, not to be lustily drooling over a colleague on camera.

Maybe we'll find out later that his marriage is kaput already...

Ah, yes. The old "there's something on your collar" gag. Hyuk hyuk hyuk.

This sort of thing illustrates ways that major networks undercut their female reporters. Anybody else remember " ... just a little bit sexy" ?

--|PW|--

"I don't think anyone would disagree that she's very attractive"

It doesn't matter that she's attractive. What, if she wasn't, it'd be okay ? Or would you then tear him a new one ? You libs are such lilly livered, transparent hypocrites, now you've invented the social-sexual version of "Some of my best friends are (insert ethnic/racial group here)". Way to go ya frickin turds.

That's my goin' off half-cocked 2 cents worth. Let's see if I can stand by it 30 minutes from now...Uh...Yup, just reread it and I'm still burnin' with conviction. I'll check back after "Malcom in the Middle".

What do you expect from a douchbag in a wheelchair? Chris Matthews can't even use
Viagara or any of those other "male enhancements" since he is only half a male at this point.

The big asshole gets off by lying on TV and making shit up. Too bad, only 3 people watch his cable TV show. What a fricking loser. Someday his brake will fail and the world will be spared from reading blogs who report his putrid spooge.

I guess now we know why he calls his show Hardball.

Well Hooson, your #3 post sure sounds like you're trying to justify (i.e., defend) him. Then in your #22 post you claim you weren't in the first paragraph, then you ironically try to justify his actions again in the second paragraph. Typical leftist.

But I do have to thank you for writing: "I'm going back to post something intelligent on foreign policy".

I was having a frustrating morning and reading that nonsensical statement gave me such a belly laugh- I'm just glad I wasn't drinking anything or it would have come out my nose!

P. Bunyan, once again for you my very slow special friend. I clearly never justified the actions of Matthews. I merely offered an analysis of what I believed to have taken place. That's pretty far from any justification for any normal readers.

I've always been a little dismayed at the extent to which people will comment on the physical appearances of others in a supposedly political or "technical" discussion. Certainly there's enough to criticize, say, Michael Moore or Rush Limbaugh for without commenting on their weight.

Hooson,

Sexual harrassment is wrong. Period. In the workplace it is especially egregious. The video clip in the original post was a clear example of sexual harassment in the workplace.

When you post things like:

"Erin ia a major-league babe with a great smile."

"What normal red blooded guy couldn't be turned on by that"

"Maybe Matthews hadn't gotten it for a few days and had a major case of the horny teenager going on."

"maybe Matthews was just kidding around"

"you can tell he's got the major hots for her, and acted goofy"

You're not "analyzing"--you're trying to rationalize, justify, and thus defend what he did and said.

Now I wouldn't expect you, as a member of the fabricated reality community to be able to recognize or admit something like that, but it's pretty clear for a rational thinking person to see.

Oh, and thanks for calling me "slow". That means in the real world (as opposed to the fabricated reality in which you exist) I'm a genius. Which is probably true considering I have a 148 I.Q.