{"id":549362,"date":"2021-06-02T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T16:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=549362"},"modified":"2021-06-02T12:06:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T16:06:22","slug":"i-did-something-wrong-chris-matthews-explains-his-abrupt-departure-from-msnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-did-something-wrong-chris-matthews-explains-his-abrupt-departure-from-msnbc\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Did Something Wrong\u2019: Chris Matthews Explains His Abrupt Departure From MSNBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-did-something-wrong-chris-matthews-explains-his-abrupt-departure-from-msnbc%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=549362&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cm-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI did something wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how former MSNBC host Chris Matthews explained his sudden departure from MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews appeared on MSNBC host Joy Reid\u2019s show Tuesday after abruptly retiring in March 2020 amid allegations of inappropriate behavior. Matthews was accused of flirting with a female journalist who had appeared on his show multiple times beginning in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In a rambling explanation that both took and cast blame, Matthews said \u201cnobody has come to defend me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the reason I \u2014 I know the reason I left, somebody reported that I complimented somebody \u2014 actually, I\u2019m gonna\u2019 use the right words here. I commented, remarked on somebody\u2019s appearance in the makeup room, and I shouldn\u2019t have done that,\u201d Matthews said. \u201cNobody has to come defend me. And by the way, I kept all my friends, but nobody needs to defend me. I did something wrong. So I\u2019m going to move on from that. I took ownership of it, using a nice modern phrase. I took complete ownership. I did not deny it. I lost my show over it. That\u2019s it. So that\u2019s the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matthews announced his retirement during his show \u201cHardball\u201d on MSNBC. \u201cI\u2019m retiring. This is the last \u2018Hardball\u2019 on MSNBC, and obviously this isn\u2019t for lack of interest in politics,\u201d said Matthews. \u201cAs you can tell, I\u2019ve loved every minute of my 20 years as host of \u2018Hardball.\u2019 Every morning, I read the papers and I\u2019m gung-ho to get to work. Not many people have had this privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his own defense, Matthews said: \u201cA lot of it has to do with how we talk to each other. Compliments on a woman\u2019s appearance, that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were OK, were never OK. Not then and certainly not today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liberals quickly came to Matthews\u2019 defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChris Matthews is a friend of mine. He and I have flirted unabashedly for 20 years. This is an atrocious end to a noble, happy-warrior career. I will continue to be his friend. Angry column to follow,\u201d Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist at The Washington Post, wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d with Mika Brzezinski, also had Matthews\u2019 back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMika and I were deeply moved by @SteveKornacki\u2019s tribute to Chris Matthews. Actually, we are wiping tears from our eyes. We love Chris and will miss him every night in our home at 7pm. As Steve said, Chris was the most human TV guy and \u2018I say that as the highest compliment,\u2019\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews appeared on the Tuesday show in his old time slot for a 14-minute segment geared around hawking his new book, \u201cThis Country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe good news is, I\u2019ve never had in my life two years to actually sit down and write about my 70 years, which is to talk about an incredible life I\u2019ve been so lucky to have, to be on the inside of American politics looking out,\u201d Matthews said, later adding, \u201cIt was an amazing experience to work within democracy, and to see parts of the world fighting for democracy, like Nelson Mandela and bringing down the Berlin Wall. I got to see it all in one lifetime. I want to share with the people who watched my show so faithfully all those years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/msnbcs-chris-matthews-disappears-after-allegations-of-sexism\">MSNBC\u2019s Chris Matthews Disappears After Allegations Of Sexism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI did something wrong.\u201dThat\u2019s how former MSNBC host Chris Matthews explained his sudden departure from MSNBC.Matthews appeared on MSNBC host Joy Reid\u2019s show Tuesday after abruptly retiring in March 2020 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278904,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cm-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018I Did Something Wrong\u2019: Chris Matthews Explains His Abrupt Departure From MSNBC","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/cm-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018I Did Something Wrong\u2019: Chris Matthews Explains His Abrupt Departure From MSNBC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}