Media Matters' "Take Action" Campaign Aimed at Chris Matthews (contact info included)

[DeepModem Mom]

TV Newser: Fri, Jan 11, 2008
Media Matters' "Take Action" Campaign Aimed at Matthews

Media Matters, which describes itself on its web site as a, "progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media," has taken aim at MSNBC's Chris Matthews for what it says is a trend of "sexist displays."

Media Matters has started a "take action" campaign, urging readers to contact MSNBC and express their disapproval of Matthews current attacks on Sen. Hillary Clinton and past comments.

Karl Frisch, Media Matters spokesperson, tells TVNewser, "We encourage people to take action for a variety of reasons — being able to point to a clear trend in coverage is obviously helpful, as is the case with our current Matthews effort."...

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/msnbc/media_matters_take_action_campaign_aimed_at_matthews_74971.asp

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Media Matters for America: Does Chris Matthews have a problem with women?



Using overtly sexist language, he has referred to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) as a "she devil" and compared her to a "strip-teaser." He has called her "witchy" and likened her voice to "fingernails on a blackboard." He has referred to men who support her as "castratos in the eunuch chorus." He has suggested Clinton is not "a convincing mom" and said "modern women" like Clinton are unacceptable to "Midwest guys." He has called her "Madame Defarge" and "Nurse Ratched."

Had enough? Contact MSNBC to tell them what you think.

Mr. Phil Griffin,
Senior Vice President, News
NBC Television Network
30 Rockefeller Plz
New York, NY 10112
[e-mail]

Steve Capus,
President, NBC News
[e-mail]

MSNBC
[e-mail]
MSNBC/Microsoft-NBC
30 Rockefeller Plz
3rd Fl
New York, NY 10112
[phone]

Chris Matthews
[e-mail]

After Clinton won the New Hampshire Democratic primary, Matthews asserted: "(T)he reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around." He described her performance at a debate last Saturday as apparently "good enough to seem good enough here for women who wanted to root for her anyway."

His sexism is hardly limited to comments about Clinton. During coverage of the New Hampshire primary, he said that Clinton is the only viable woman presidential candidate "on the horizon." He couldn't think of a single female governor eligible to run: "Where are the big-state women governors?" he asked. "Where are they? Name one." In fact, several of the states that currently have women governors are comparable in population to the states in which the male presidential candidates serve or have served as governor.

In November 2006, shortly after the Democrats took the majority in Congress, Matthews asked a guest if then-presumptive speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was "going to castrate Steny Hoyer" if Hoyer (D-MD) were elected House majority leader. During coverage of a presidential debate last spring, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell was compelled to remind Matthews that Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) wife, Michelle, is a Harvard-educated lawyer after he focused obsessively on her physical appearance.

The good news is that people are speaking out against Matthews' flagrant, persistent sexism. Of the New Hampshire primary results, the blog TalkLeft, observed:

"It was a revolt of women sick and tired of the likes of Chris Tweety Matthews and the Media Misogynists. Barack Obama did not lose New Hampshire. The Media did. Their misogynist hatred of Hillary Clinton was soundly rejected by the voters. Especially the women voters of New Hampshire. How the Media will react to this well deserved rebuke is the question. And let's be clear, Chris Matthews should be removed from covering this race. His offensive behavior is a disgrace to NBC."

It's time to play a little "hardball." Please contact MSNBC and Chris Matthews today and let them know what you think.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200801110002?f=h_top

[ruggerson]

1. k/r

[jasmine621]

2. Another kick. nt

[NanceGreggs]

3. And off you go ...

... to the GP!

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Thank you, Nance!

:patriot:

[NanceGreggs]

5. Oh, my pleasure, ma'am! n/t

[Lucinda]

6. K&R

[Iceburg]

7. K&R /nt

[DeepModem Mom]

8. a.m. kick

[Cameron27]

9. Thank you,

Emily's List also has a petition against him.

K&R

[DeepModem Mom]

10. Thanks, seasonedblue, for the Emily's List info! nt

[creeksneakers2]

11. 4 E-mails sent and

K & R. Matthews is unfair to Hillary and he's weird too. The guy has a problem.