Good Bye Chris Mathews
Chris Mathews resigned/retired abruptly on Monday with an apology for inappropriate comments to women at the age of 74. He had also made some on air flubs but the final straw was an essay by Laura Bassett GQ about Mathew's serial insensitivity related to comments to women.
Chris Mathews spent his adult entire life in politics and political journalism.
A native of Philadelphia but a creature of Capitol Hill — his first job in Washington was as a Capitol Police officer — he wrote speeches for President Jimmy Carter and battled the Reagan White House as press secretary for Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill before moving into print journalism as a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Matthews’s first show, “Politics With Chris Matthews,” aired on the short-lived Roger Ailes-created, NBC-owned America’s Talking channel, which was eventually subsumed in 1996 by the new MSNBC. His show moved over to CNBC, where it was renamed “Hardball,” and then moved to MSNBC, where it aired every night for two decades.
Times have changed. Eligibility for Social Security Benefits/ Medicare was 65 years old. Just think if he had retired nine years ago.
No drama, I' against working after retirement age but they should realize it comes with some risks.
Ask Joe Paterno.
Chris Mathews spent his adult entire life in politics and political journalism.
A native of Philadelphia but a creature of Capitol Hill — his first job in Washington was as a Capitol Police officer — he wrote speeches for President Jimmy Carter and battled the Reagan White House as press secretary for Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill before moving into print journalism as a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Matthew
got his on-camera start as a regular fill-in panelist in the early days
of “The McLaughlin Group,” along with the likes of Lawrence O’Donnell,
another young Hill staffer who would also eventually make his way to
MSNBC. The show, launched by Jesuit priest-turned-Republican operative
John McLaughlin in 1982, turbocharged the once-sedate tradition of
punditry debate panels. And Matthews had a style — shouty, combative,
glib, pointed — perfectly suited for this new kind of discussion. It
was, in essence, what cable news would eventually become.
Matthews’s first show, “Politics With Chris Matthews,” aired on the short-lived Roger Ailes-created, NBC-owned America’s Talking channel, which was eventually subsumed in 1996 by the new MSNBC. His show moved over to CNBC, where it was renamed “Hardball,” and then moved to MSNBC, where it aired every night for two decades.
Times have changed. Eligibility for Social Security Benefits/ Medicare was 65 years old. Just think if he had retired nine years ago.
No drama, I' against working after retirement age but they should realize it comes with some risks.
Ask Joe Paterno.
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