The website, citing two sources, reported that NBC paid the woman $40,000 to settle her claim against Matthews in 1999. An NBC spokesperson told The Daily Caller the network paid a smaller, unspecified amount as part of a severance package.
The woman complained to executives that Matthews, now 71, had made inappropriate comments to her and made inappropriate jokes about her to others.
An MSNBC spokesman told The Daily Caller that Matthews had been slapped with a formal reprimand at the time the woman made her complaint. The website reported that the network decided that the complaints were "inappropriate and juvenile," but were not intended as propositions.
There is no way that this should be unexpected to people who watch Hardball.
Matthews' often uncomfortable remarks toward female guests has been prominently on display for decades.
Even as a male viewer of the program, I have been creeped out by Tweety more than a few times.
However let's keep in mind that according to this story Matthews was NOT trying to sleep with these women nor using his power to bully them. At least as far as we know right now.
And that should puts him in a separate category than the Roy Moore's or Donald Trump's of this world.
I still think he is going to lose his job however.
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