Chris Matthews Debuts New Hairdo

MSNBC host Chris Matthews took to the airwaves Thursday night with a new 'do. The normally bleach blond Matthews, host of "Hardball," now has noticeably darker hair. It's more of a russet/rusty coloration and is a bit shorter.

Below are 4 screengrabs. The first two are from Tuesday night, the second two are from today's - Thursday's - "Hardball." They are taken from the same television and same DVR machine onto the same computer.

Pick an adjective you would use to describe the color and leave it in the comments.

Comments

[PrObama29]

03:48 PM on 05/11/2008

Hey, the guy wants to be a Senator! Everyone knows that voters like younger candidates better than older ones!

He wants to look young and virile instead of droopy and d**kless.

Too bad it didn't work.

[We]

03:34 PM on 05/11/2008

Does the carpet match the drapes?

[Trittydi]

12:29 PM on 05/11/2008

Sorry Tweety - the old one really was better.
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[Amalek]

09:30 AM on 05/10/2008

Sorry Chris, still not setting off my gaydar.

[racom]

10:47 AM on 05/11/2008

Like 'lipstick on a pig'!!!

[coldcanuckinwhite]

08:18 AM on 05/10/2008

Not only did he sport a new hair color, the makeup artist got it all wrong with his one eyebrow - just a stroke of the pencil - how artificial looking. When does all this become unimportan­t??

[Newyorkgal]

02:07 AM on 05/10/2008

Easy. It's Redacted Reddish Republican Revolting Rant-color­ed.

[rudyinbama]

10:01 PM on 05/09/2008

When women of a certain age choose that color, it's known as "menopause red."
He's probably on the blue pills already, too.

[GeorgeKaplan]

08:23 PM on 05/09/2008

What would we do without the Huffington Post!

[dax49]

08:13 PM on 05/09/2008

his hair is as credible as his reporting

[Obamacan]

06:11 PM on 05/09/2008

He wants to look more like his big brother Russert. ;)
But he looks younger with it darker. The blond was almost a white on TV which adds years.

[bikerdude]

06:06 PM on 05/09/2008

He still looks and sounds like "Tweetybir­d"...He is wearing me out!

[MCJ22]

05:55 PM on 05/09/2008

BIG HEAD
BIG HAIR
BIG CLOWN...

[biglover]

03:33 PM on 05/09/2008

It's news about as much as Katie Couric and Miley Syrus are news. I wish HuffPo would stick to news and politics and leave all the other stuff alone.

[DanoS]

03:24 PM on 05/09/2008

Come on. I'm a bit pissed Mathews is playing monkey business with the dem race sighting he wants this to go on and on, but to knock personal appearance is in poor taste. So what he colored his hair, most people on TV do and a great many men and women do outside of media do as well.

This is a fast was for the Huffington Post to start loosing credibilit­y. Please remove the story.

[bikerdude]

06:09 PM on 05/09/2008

You can't say losing credibilit­y if its already lost. Someone there has lost their sense of what is newsworthy­. Now the site seems to cater to the most sophomoric of the comment writers. I could see a "rant and rave" section, but keep the news reporting front and center....­and as pure as possible.

[Hardbull]

03:34 AM on 05/11/2008

Is this why anyone reads Huffpost? And why pick on Matthews when most of the cable news talking heads over 40 do exactly the same thing? (They do if they want to keep their jobs.) Or is Huffpost now going to be keeping score on the irrelevant grooming habits on all our fave on-air talent? If so, get ready for some amazing cellulite sunbathing photos of our Sunday morning talkshow hosts.

[indeevoter]

11:37 AM on 05/09/2008

Get a grip, people...i­t's a career move. Television suits throw people under the bus over appearance all the time. "Old" and "Grey" doesn't sell ad dollars. Youth sells. We all want to forget that we're going to get old and gray one day...and probably look a whole lot worse than Matthews or Dobbs. So we make nasty comments about them, comments that we wouldn't want any of them to say about our Mother, or our Father...a­nd definitely not about US!

That's why they dye their hair, whiten their teeth, get botox injections­, and go on crash diets. They're just trying to keep their job.

[nellie]

07:42 AM on 05/10/2008

I don't know. Blitzer's hair is pretty gray. I think MSNBC is trying to appeal to its "new" demo, and Matthews got caught looking too—somthi­ng, not sure what. I actually think he looks better in the before pictures.