FiveThirtyEight had confirmed that MSNBC’s Chris Matthews will run for United States Senate in Pennsylvania in 2010.

Matthews, 62, will run as a Democrat. Arlen Specter, the aging Republican incumbent, will be 80 if he chooses to run for re-election.

Update:

Chris Matthews has denied this report that he’s hiring staff for a Senate campaign in a statement posted on FiveThirtyEight.com, the site that originally reported the news. “It is absolutely not true,” said Matthews, in a statement.

Enjoy! No groping this time!

Is this the right thing for a journalist to say?

Last month, New Agenda, a non-partisan women’s group, began trying to get Chris Matthews fired for sexist on-air behavior.

The group has now sent a letter to NBC Universal head Jeff Zucker asking for a “a meeting to discuss Matthews’ attitude toward women,” reports the LA Times.

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When asked during a conference whether MSNBC was benefiting from its left wing bias, NBC President and CEO Jeff Zucker stated, “15 months ago, you wouldn’t have even asked me about MSNBC, so I think we’ve made great progress…clearly, it has struck a chord with the audience.”

MSNBC had previously removed Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchoring the RNC.  So what does Jeff think of Keith?

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Phil Griffin, the president of cable-news network MSNBC, is getting sick of defending his decision to replace Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews with David Gregory as anchor for big political events.

Griffin is claiming that a report from the New York Post, which stated that the change came from Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of NBC’s parent company General Electric, after “a lot, maybe thousands” of shareholders had called up to complain about Olbermann during the DNC and RNC, is categorically false.

“This makes me so mad, because it’s so untrue,” Griffin said. “Somebody is spreading rumors. It’s wrong. It’s getting into the echo chamber.”

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David Gregory loves to dance.  Here he was getting down to Mary J. Blige while on the Today Show.  We can only hope that we’ll see more of this type of choreography when he takes over for Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews while he anchors the election coverage for MSNBC.

Click through for more on the shake up at MSNBC.

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As the co-anchors of MSNBC’s coverage of the election.

The on-air squabbling between Keith and Chris was fun to watch while it lasted!

But apparently the editorialising of the campaign wasn’t building a large enough audience.

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MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has been attacking everyone lately.  The newest is the Associated Press’s Charles Babington.   Olbermann disagrees with his take on Obama’s speech.