Did Tweety address the "severance pay" for his harassment victim? What's his pass secret?!1

[UTUSN]

It was news over the weekend, I didn't see him yesterday, nothing today.

Here's my old Demopedia entry on him, updated with paragraphs on his misogyny:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029994585

[wasupaloopa]

1. So we are going gunning for Mathews now?

Where are the folks who believe in giving a person his day in court?

[CTyankee]

2. All I know is that he said he quit drinking because he was fondling a woman and

then decided it was time to stop drinking...

[Sophia4]

13. Did he say the woman he was fondling worked with him?

Or did he just meet her at a party?

[CTyankee]

17. I don't remember...

[Sophia4]

29. Sexual harassment is usually in the workplace, not just at some random party.

So I'd like to know.

[wasupaloopa]

19. Who of us hasn't done something wrong like that?

Should we be dragged out before the public for it?

[CTyankee]

21. I never have fondled a woman...

My husband thinks that's very funny...

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

26. Not without consent, no, never.

[CentralMass]

27. Most of us.

[dawg day]

30. REally?

You think most of us fondle people without their consent?

You must not have a very high opinion of us.

[UTUSN]

5. It's a bit late for giving a day in court. Am checking on where the pendulum is for now. Being at DU

means keeping up, no? My Demopedia entry shows I've been sniping at Tweety for a decade or two.

[Demsrule86]

8. All your posts seem like this one.

[wasupaloopa]

20. Yea well I don't have the herd instinct you do

[Demsrule86]

38. Hahaa...no you don't.

And you think that is a good thing?

[Irish_Dem]

10. It's called the court of public opinion. nt

[Garrett78]

15. The problem is he settled out of court. So, the question is, should he face a greater consequence?

Sexual harrassment is pretty damn serious, and I'm inclined to say he should have lost his job if he's guilty. NBC should have suspended him, rather than pay off his accuser. Then, if it turns out he's innocent, reinstate him.

[Demsrule86]

39. I am inclined to say no he shouldn't lose his job now for something that happened in the 90's.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

3. He' won't do anything if it hurts his book sales.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. Whatd he have to say about Franken?

Already forgot

What’s al going to do, btw?

What’s the latest conjecture?

Is he going to run next year?

I support him for pres in 2020

[UTUSN]

6. I don't monitor consistently any more, can't pinpoint *anything* he's said about any accused on this

My little viewpoint from my insignificant laptop is that Al is a good Dem, but *my* latest conjecture is that it's too late and screwed up for him to flip back on resigning and news is that he's working on the transition to the appointee, AND (my insignificant input) is that he was thrown under the bus and the Dems who are recanting now are spineless. If we can't fix on a principled position, can't even step back and take a breath at the start of a principled position, we're fools.

[Gabi Hayes]

25. Thx....couldnt agree

MORE! The very apotheosis of being thrown under the bus. I was for AF for pres in 16, btw, even though I knew he had no chance of getting the nom. He’d have killed the orang in the election. Nobody had more baggage than Hill, through no fault of her own

Can we say VRWC for the last 25+ years?

My desktop screen saver for years was a jellyfish, connoting you know what.

FIGHT the F BACK!!!!!

And wtf are they doing not attacking the fact that since the reagan tax cut boondoggle, the wealthy have gotten a brazillion times more wealthy, and joe shmuck’s wages have actually DECREASED in real terms

Why is that not the ONLY point they repeat, just as the pugs do with their slimy, snake oil messaging

Just sayin

[Demsrule86]

7. Gunning for Matthews with an almost 20 year old allegation...not interested...funny how it is the

progressive leaning ones getting hammered...makes you go think.

[UTUSN]

11. Tweety is "progressive leaning"?!1 He spent about 15 years crapping on Dems & only barely rehabbed

himself when OBAMA came along. If anything, the rap on him here has been that he's a weather vane. I'm curious about the seeming contradiction between your post here and the one up thread.

For a few years I wondered how much his "rehab" it would take for me to "forgive" him for all the sabotage he did on Dems, and eventually decided that "forgiveness" was not in play, that, rather, the final position on him is not to trust him even when he's momentarily being good on our side.

[Demsrule86]

18. He worked for Tip O'Neil...he is certainly not conservative. The sabatage in 16 had nothing to do

with Chris Matthews.

[UTUSN]

23. Nothing I said about sabotage was limited to 2016. My link in the o.p. spells Tweety out.

[Demsrule86]

34. I am not going after Chris Matthews who is pretty solidly in our corner...consider that the

only folks getting jobs at MSNBC lately are Republicans...so why not save your powder for Republicans.

[IluvPitties]

9. To use the right's own lingo...

Nothingburger!

[UTUSN]

12. I really *really* detest "the right's own lingo" and especially that word.

[IluvPitties]

14. I used it ironically.

They are the ones behind this smear campaign and we should do our best to avoid falling for it.

[UTUSN]

16. Not sniping at you personally, just at the wingnuts and their words. That said,

That a gigantic corporation supposedly reviewed Tweety and his accuser and got rid of her with "severance pay" says to me that something happened, a concrete something, a semblance at least of due process. "Smear campaign" is how O'LOOFAH called anything and everything said against him, all of which was TRUE, not a "smear". I myself don't "fall for it" about Tweety because he has plenty of crap on him that I have seen him do in plain sight on the air (his crapping on Dems) that I don't consider criticizing him to be "falling for it" on any topic.

[Demsrule86]

35. A big who cares about something that happened in 99.

I suggest you save your fire power for Trump who is a rapist.

[Demsrule86]

40. Yes indeed we should not fall for it.

[EffieBlack]

22. An accusation that a man said something inappropriate about (but not to) a woman 20 years ago? Yawn

No groping. No grabbing. No touching. No quid pro quo. No bullying. One inappropriate comment for which he was reprimanded and she was compensated. As I said, Yawn.

Unless I hear of more incidents since then or see a pattern, this is a ridiculous hit.

[UTUSN]

24. I wasn't litigating the weight, extent, or age of the reported incident. Wanted what HE said abt it.

[eleny]

28. I'd be happy if David Sirota would have his time slot

I know - never happen. But it would be nice to have a consistent liberal like Lawrence O'D in Tweety's hour on tv.

[dawg day]

31. Love Sirota--

Hope you're right.

Or they could give JOY his prime slot!

[Demsrule86]

36. they would give it to a Republican is what would happen...Did Joy get a weekday show? Let's keep

what we have. Matthews has been consistently taking on Trump.

[riverwalker]

32. Ffs it was 30 years ago

Told some bad jokes. C’mon

[UTUSN]

33. Post #24

[Demsrule86]

37. I don't care about this crap.

I have no idea why you do.

[UTUSN]

41. 10 posts in a thread you blight with non-caring & insults & unwanted advice.

Please put me on Ignore.

[Demsrule86]

42. I can post what I choose within the rules...sick of seeing this sort of thing.

And I have a right to my opinion...whether you like it or not. This story started in the Daily Caller think about that.