OPINION: In Cable News, It’s Better To Be A Pervert Than A Conservative
By Ben Johnson
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Jun 28, 2021 DailyWire.com
One day, we may look back and dub this month in cable news history “the return of the pervert,” as CNN and MSNBC welcomed back commentators and contributors accused of sexual harassment or other carnal improprieties to their airwaves. Abusing their position to obtain sexual favors, exposing themselves, or racking up a years-long history of inappropriate comments to female guests and co-workers could not stand in the way of Leftists’ return to the class of punditry.
Everyone from former Rep. Katie Hill (D, naturally, CA), to Jeffrey Toobin, to Chris Matthews have shaken off the muck of scandal and plunged into the ranks of cable news talking heads.
Katie Hill’s “throuple” with a young staffer exploded into public view after the Daily Mail published photos of Hill and her then-husband pawing a woman roughly half her age. The power differential between Hill and the employee raised questions of sexual harassment in the age of #MeToo. Still, CNN not only invited Hill, who spent less than a year in Congress, to offer commentary on a subject about which she clearly had no expertise, but CNN host Brianna Keilar practically begged her to return to politics.
Meanwhile at MSNBC, Joy Reid ushered her predecessor, Chris Matthews — who faced amorphous-yet-sustained charges of making inappropriate comments to female guests — back into his old time slot as a political commentator earlier this month. Days later, “Deadline White House” host Nicolle Wallace introduced “my friend, Chris Matthews” to her viewers. (He went on to say that Donald Trump “is up there with Benedict Arnold right now.”)
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