all of these sexual abuse firings are designed to bump up the unemployment stats to make Trump look bad
The most bizarre aspect is that this is what NBC worried most about: getting scooped. Especially if their nemesis Fox News reported - accurately - the story.
It's an odd standard of proof or action as well. Is publicity alone - even negative publicity - a reason to sack their highly paid ratings bell cow? Is a late-shift review of a single complaint the proper venue and process? Does NBC have an employee handbook that applies to everyone? If so, isn't there a prescribed process for dealing with such complaints that would almost certainly take a number of days at least?
Mind you, I'm not defending Lauer or NBC but even when they do the right thing they do it in an incorrect way ie arbitrarily, based on emotion and one's man decision.
One can't help but suspect that many of their news decisions and opinions are also the product of whim.
When will Charges be filed?? Oh, it happened in a foreign country. That sly B@stard!
Another one bites the dust.
So he got fired.
While I have no love at all for Matt Lauer, we do have this little thing called due process...there is absolutely no proof the allegations are true...just that they have been lodged. I guess that is all thats required.
This is just not right. No matter who it happens to.
The cynic in me says men are being systematicly pushed from their jobs to make way for women...and what a handy too to use: have you stopped abusing women?
Rio, worst Olympics ever.
In the midst of all these outings and accusations, does anyone find it odd that there has not been one same sex allegation?
NBC should fir the SNL writers and staff for being offensive to people who tune in to laugh.
I am wondering about a couple of things: Matt Lauer’s shelf life might have been over and NBC might have been looking to get rid of him to begin with and second, I wonder if Bryant Gumbel (speaking of Today show hosts) would likely make Lauer look like an angel by comparison regarding treatment of women and I wonder if and when allegations involving him will come out?
Assault??? We’re defining deviancy up these days when a pinch on the bottom is rape.
What a wonderful chance for women to get even with men they don’t like.
Didn’t get that job promotion you wanted? Scream sexual assault. Voila! There’s a sudden opening in the spot your male boss used to occupy.
Still doesn’t describe the sexual assault. Was it a friendly peck on the cheek or an Al Franken-style tongue kiss. Did he simply put a neutral hand on her shoulder for a photograph or did he grab her butt or masturbate into a flowerpot in front of her?
Whoa. Well, I figured that it had to be something other than doing a consensual horizontal mambo with his cowerkers.
Is Matt a democrat? /s
Damn it! I want to know his name!
I wonder who he is?
So I guess the deal here is if you make a pass at somebody and they approve it’s good and ok.
If they disapprove, you get your rear under the bus and get publicly destroyed.
Methinks its revenge for Hellary’s ‘tough interview’ by Lauer in the election campaign. Also it’s cover for moving out Lauer who commands huge contract$ plus Lauer is getting long in the tooth. The sexual allegations are a smokescreen excuse to dump his expensive butt and shiny head.
Hey baby, I can make you a star.