Matt Lauer Fired Over Sexual Harassment Allegations

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This one caught me by surprise because I missed that something was going on about Lauer. Charlie Rose and Mark Halperin sexual harassment scandals broke over a couple of days before those two were respectively fired. Wow.  Apparently the NYT was about to drop the hammer on him.

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AoSHQ had the dope on Lauer:

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... 

Despite being married, Lauer was fixated on women, especially their bodies and looks, according to more than 10 accounts from current and former employees. He was known for making lewd comments verbally or over text messages. He once said made a suggestive reference to a colleague's performance in bed and compared it to how she was able to complete her job, according to witnesses to the exchange. For Lauer, work and sex were intertwined. 

"There were a lot of consensual relationships, but that’s still a problem because of the power he held," says a former producer who knew first-hand of these encounters. "He couldn't sleep around town with celebrities or on the road with random people, because he's Matt Lauer and he's married. So he'd have to do it within his stable, where he exerted power, and he knew people wouldn’t ever complain."

You know who just got aroused, these women's lawyers and Lauer's wife's divorce lawyer! Geraldo thinks this is just workplace "courtship."

When a news organization fires a hugely prominent figure, it should have case ready to present to public. Don't throw two anchors on air who don't know what's going on. When CBS fired Rose, public knew overwhelming evidence. With NBC and Lauer, public in dark.

— Byron York (@ByronYork) November 29, 2017

It's November 29. Were 11 months into the phony Russian scandal and....

Donald Trump still has his job.

Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Glenn Thrush, Garrison Keillor, Mark Halperin, three CNN editors, and whole bunch of others do not...

Is this a great country or what?

— Google: "Tapper, Lewinsky, Date, Chubby" (@NolteNC) November 29, 2017

Throwback to 2012 when Matt Lauer was the “real victim” of sexual harassment on the Today show 🤔 pic.twitter.com/mYdnhEV2wv

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) November 29, 2017

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