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Matt Lauer Is 'Weak and Broken and Ashamed' After Today Show Firing, Friend Says
MSN ^ | 12/5/2017 | Charlotte Triggs

Posted on 12/05/2017 5:16:17 PM PST by Lazamataz

A week after NBC fired Matt Lauer, the ousted anchor is still reeling.

“He is weak and broken and ashamed by his own admission,” one of Lauer’s former Today show colleagues tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue.

“He is my friend,” the colleague adds. “He is human, and he is flawed. But is he going to use his power to be a predator on women? Until I see solid evidence of that, I just can’t believe it. We don’t know the details.”

Lauer, 59, was terminated after the network received a “detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior,” with reason to believe “this may not have been an isolated incident.” A source later told PEOPLE that Lauer was let go due to sexual misconduct with that woman throughout 2014, including at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. (Another source with knowledge of the situation said Lauer had viewed this relationship as “consensual” and was “dumbfounded” by the accusation.)

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He had a remote door lock under his desk. This seems predatory and premeditated.

I do feel some schadenfreude that the attempt to bring Roy Moore down has backfired so much on so many.

1 posted on 12/05/2017 5:16:18 PM PST by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz

Poor guy.

Wonder if he feels as bad as the women he abused.


2 posted on 12/05/2017 5:19:10 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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3 posted on 12/05/2017 5:19:40 PM PST by KavMan
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To: Lazamataz

I’m getting my Talking Heads mixed up, since I rarely watch the shows anyway. At first I thought the subject was Chris Cuomo, not Matt Lauer. Probably because I would love it for Chris to go down in ugly flames the way Matt has done for the present. Chris has said some rather hateful things about conservatives over the years. He knows that management agrees with him.


4 posted on 12/05/2017 5:20:08 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Lazamataz

Why doesn’t the colleague reveal his or herself?


5 posted on 12/05/2017 5:21:45 PM PST by conservative98
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To: Lazamataz

Unless he’s been *very* unlucky or *very* stupid with his money he’s gotta be worth tens of millions.And at his age 10 million should be able to provide him with a comfortable life even if he doesn’t earn another penny in his life.


6 posted on 12/05/2017 5:22:16 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Remember: All Cultures Are Equal!)
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To: Arm_Bears
I wonder if he feels bad about what he has done to his wife and his children.

They will have to live with his shame for the rest of their lives.

7 posted on 12/05/2017 5:23:05 PM PST by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: Lazamataz

Maybe.

But he is still rich.


8 posted on 12/05/2017 5:23:24 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: Lazamataz

Lauer, named “The Cock of 30 Rock” in a 2008 secret roast.


9 posted on 12/05/2017 5:23:53 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Lazamataz
I always thought this guy was an arrogant jerk who seemed to have lots of weird "issues."

I never knew what anyone ever saw in him.

Today's audience is majority female. Did they like this twerp?

It has been known for years that he was a serial adulterer.




10 posted on 12/05/2017 5:25:37 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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Aw....Poor Matty. Poor, poor Matty......


11 posted on 12/05/2017 5:26:00 PM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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To: Lazamataz

Now, just add “incarcerated,” and it will be about right.


12 posted on 12/05/2017 5:26:25 PM PST by Timmy
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Oh, we feel so sorry for Matt Lauer!!! NOT!!!

It is the nation we feel most sorry for.

The sheeple, in masses, have been taken in by the media all alone, while far too many in the media intentionally kept all of their sex-gate scandals as “insider-only-knowledge” while pretending the were “mainstream” and above political bias.

The media now stands as the naked emperor pretending to be wearing a cloak of respectability, which everyone can see is as phony as a three-dollar bill.


13 posted on 12/05/2017 5:27:42 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Lazamataz

Lots of criminals are sorry after they get caught.


14 posted on 12/05/2017 5:27:57 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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He’s just upset that his dirty laundry was publicly aired. He’d been allowed to get away with it for so long, he figured he was safe.


15 posted on 12/05/2017 5:31:21 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Lazamataz

Who the hell cares? Move on and let this scum bag rot.


16 posted on 12/05/2017 5:31:41 PM PST by Kahuna
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To: lee martell
These are my favorite Talking Heads.
17 posted on 12/05/2017 5:33:13 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Lazamataz
There is not enough schadenfreude in the universe to keep up with what I feel these days.

By the way, lets talk about the "income gap" between Matt Lauer and — lets say — the that of the person who cleans his office.

18 posted on 12/05/2017 5:33:21 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Arm_Bears

I think he’s mostly depressed to lose the $30 million he had the gall to expect, for being terminated before his contract ran out. NBC laughed.

Seems his contract also had a morals clause that Laur clearly set on fire with his behavior, permitting NBC easily to dispatch and dismiss his sweaty azz, for cause.


19 posted on 12/05/2017 5:33:39 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public education & academia= the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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“He is weak and broken and ashamed by his own admission,” <<<

my best advice to him is to go to his remote door locked room....lock it.... and play Russian Roulette with a fully loaded .45 in till he wins....

20 posted on 12/05/2017 5:33:47 PM PST by M-cubed
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