Thursday, November 30, 2017

The Matt Lauer discussions

Katie Pavlich: The Details of Matt Lauer's Alleged Predatory Sexual Behavior Are Horrifying   . . . "Late last night Variety Magazine, whose journalists have been working on the Lauer story for months, released stunning and horrifying details of his alleged behavior." 
"   As the co-host of NBC’s “Today,” Matt Lauer once gave a colleague a sex toy as a present. It included an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her, which left her mortified.
   On another day, he summoned a different female employee to his office, and then dropped his pants, showing her his penis. After the employee declined to do anything, visibly shaken, he reprimanded her for not engaging in a sexual act.
   He would sometimes quiz female producers about who they’d slept with, offering to trade names. And he loved to engage in a crass quiz game with men and women in the office: “f—, marry, or kill,” in which he would identify the female co-hosts that he’d most like to sleep with. . . .
Katie Couric: Matt Lauer 'Pinches Me on the A*s a Lot'  . . . "As far back as 2012 there were signs that all was not right with "Today" show co-host Matt Lauer. Appearing on Andy Cohen's "Watch What Happens Live" that year, Katie Couric, who began hosting the show with Lauer in 1997, was asked about his most annoying habit. " . . .

Jonah Goldberg: Matt Lauer, Fox News, and How Tribalism Affects the Press
. . . "But back to the sexual-harassment thing. One of my longstanding gripes is how when conservatives do something bad, it’s proof of the inherent badness of conservatives and conservatism. But when liberals do something bad, it is immediately turned into an indictment of America itself. Joe McCarthy’s excesses were a window into the nature of conservatism, according to historians, intellectuals, and journalists. But when liberals — Attorney General Palmer, Woodrow Wilson, et al. — did far worse, the villain was America itself. When conservatives are racist, it is because they are conservatives. When liberals are racist it is because racism is an “American sin.” In other words, liberalism is never wrong. I could go on at length about this." . . .

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