“Coming the day after Weinstein was convicted on two counts of rape and sexual assault on the strength of women’s testimony … [Chris] Matthews made clear how desperately inconceivable it is to imagine that a powerful man … might lie,” writes RTraister
Photo: Getty Images Chris Matthews finally contributed something meaningful to 2020 political analysis on Tuesday night when, during his post-debate conversation with Elizabeth Warren, he put on display the very attitudes that have given rise to the controversial phrase “believe women.”
As Warren kept talking, recalling her own memory of not having been asked back to her job teaching special-needs students after she became visibly pregnant, Matthews’s brow furrowed with confusion. The exchange was notable in the context of Matthews having recently been under fire for his bad punditry: Over the weekend he compared Bernie Sanders winning the Nevada caucus to the Nazi invasion of France ; last summer in a post-debate interview he pressed Kamala Harris on her account of having faced racism in her life, asking, “How did you come out of that and not have hate toward white people generally?” Matthews’s history of covering Hillary Clinton was wretched; he once referred to her as...
Questions of power and believability are deeply intertwined: Whose word is reflexively taken seriously? For Matthews, and for so many people who watch him, the notion that a powerful man might have an incentive to lie in order to protect his power is far harder to grasp than the idea that a less powerful woman might lie to advance her own interests.
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