Compliments on a woman's appearance? I think it was a little more than that but whatever. I tried watching his show years ago but it was nothing more than a left wing version of Oreilly so there's nothing of value lost.
He said some shitty thing about Bernie Sanders that he had to do a groveling apology over the next day. Most of MSNBC hasn't been able to hide their contempt over Bernie leading in the primaries and the polls. One bitch even sighed and rolled her eyes when the Iowa numbers came in. Real professional class operation all around. Jesus, can they just clone Maddow, and have her clones run that fucking place? Whine about her quirks all you want, at least she's not a hypocrite and a phony.
MSNBC is just the propaganda arm of the DNC and the DNC doesn't want Bernie. Mathews was just doing his duty for the party. I'm sure they'll find another shill to take his place.
I would say Chris was more the Clinton wing Hannity given how unhinged and off the wall he was. Calling them the left wing is a bit dishonest given how they completely ignore left wing policies for the sake of the establishment and corporate ass slurping. If they were left wing they would be singing the praises of Bernie instead of melting down over him. However, it would be honest to either call them the Hillary wing or DNC wing which are clearly not left at all considering this present election. Your hatred does not seem to be for the left if it is for MSNBC or the dem establishment who love their corporate billionairs.
Matthews was extremely annoying for his habit of not letting his guests talk. Contrast that with Rachel Maddow who does her best to make sure her guests get a fair share of time. Matthews was the perfect Bostonian who is certain that everyone else, especially southernors, is stupid. All that is in addition to the fact that he is totally out of touch with the times when it comes to new views on sexism and he is hopelessly out of touch with stuff like sports or any kind of pop culture. I'm not going to fool anyone into thinking that I'm on top of everything, but I have some idea of what's popular in music, even if I don't like it. Contrast that with Ari Melber who regularly quotes rap lyrics and constantly has rap and hip-hop artists as guests. MSNBC should have eased him out the door years ago, but he made it easy for them in the end. It never ceases to amaze me how often sports and media stars have to be told it's time to go. I admire Johnny Carson for calling it quits when he was ready, leaving the stage and quietly disappearing.
Ya had me until the Carson thing. Johnny was largely phoning it in during the last half-decade of his career.
I won't disagree that Carson was going through the motion during the last few years, but I think he recognized that (that self-awareness thing) and walked away before he was thrown out. As opposed to Matthews...
I don't know. NBC was throwing obscene amounts of money at Carson years before he retired. When he divorced his second wife in the mid-80s, he paid her something like $70 million as part of the settlement. That's almost $200 million in today's money, and he didn't seem to bat an eye at it. He was apparently a heavy smoker and spent his final years going through lots and lots of medical treatment, not to mention that he'd basically isolated himself from the rest of the world. Ed McMahon said that in the final years of his life Carson had very few friends over.
From what I've seen, by the end Carson had shit on so many people, including McMahon, that I don't think he had many friends left at all. If you're suggesting that Carson would have been able to work until he dropped dead, you may be right, but still he saw a good time to leave and did it, which Matthews didn't.
Nope. I'm saying he kept working until his health declined to the point where he didn't want people to see him hooked up to an oxygen machine. McMahon said that in his final days that Carson had holed himself up in an exclusive place where even someone as famous as Ed had to produce ID in order to be allowed in.
That rings true. I remember reading an article by a reporter who went looking for Carson several years after he quit. He couldn't find him. Carson was always notorious for trying to protect his privacy, but just to fall off the face of the earth for someone who was so famous was not easy.
As I recall, Ed said that Johnny had taken to living on a yacht docked in an exclusive marina and you had to jump through all kinds of hoops to gain entrance. Carson, in his younger days, liked to vacation in France, since nobody there knew who the hell he was. When Carson died, I think that it was Dick Cavett who said that someone must have deeply hurt Carson a long time ago for him to be so private.
Cavett changed the course of discourse on network television. We'll never see his like again. He's still standing... a little dotty, but by me he's still an icon.
I swear we've been watching Chris Matthews slowly growing senile and losing his inner monologue over the years. He devolved into a doddering old fool and he should have retired 5 years ago.
