Chris Matthews retires from MSNBC after string of recent controversies

(CNN Business)Chris Matthews, one of the country's best-known political talk show hosts, is retiring from MSNBC, effective immediately, after a string of recent controversies on and off the air.

Matthews made the announcement on Monday night's "Hardball," the cable news show he has hosted for more than 20 years.

Monday will be his last broadcast, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.

Matthews, 74, has been a staple of MSNBC's political coverage almost since the cable channel launched in the mid 1990s. Through all of the channel's changes and rebrandings, he has been a familiar face.

But he has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately — for likening the Bernie Sanders campaign to the Nazis, for misidentifying an African American politician, and for allegedly making sexist comments to a guest.

When Sanders took an early lead in the Nevada caucuses last month, Matthews likened the moment to Nazi Germany invading France during World War II. Aides to Sanders, a Jewish 

12-17-1945=29,74,93,30,48
He's 74 years old... Born with 74 numerology..12+17+45=74
Jewish=74

too many verbal gaffes...

retiring because of comments he made about Bernie Sanders

for controversies..

recent string of controversies..

born with 29 numerology...12+17=29

this happens 290 days before his 75th birthday