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Then-married former NBC employee claims Lauer sexually assaulted her until she passed out in office
Fox News ^ | 30 Nov 17 | Edmund DeMarche

Posted on 11/30/2017 5:30:42 AM PST by SkyPilot

Matt Lauer, the disgraced former anchor of NBC's "Today" show who was fired Wednesday for “inappropriate sexual behavior,” once summoned a married female employee to his office, locked the door and sexually assaulted her until she passed out, the New York Times reported after interviewing the accuser.

The alleged incident occurred in 2001. The woman, who was not named in the report, told the Times that she was in her 40s at the time.

According to the report, Lauer was behind his desk and she took a seat in the office. She said he locked the door from a button at his desk and he asked her to unbutton her blouse. She said she complied and claims he got up from his desk, approached her from behind, bent her over his desk and had sex.

Woke up on the floor

Matt Lauer has been terminated from NBC News. On Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer. As a result, we’ve decided to terminate his employment. pic.twitter.com/1A3UAZpvPb — TODAY (@TODAYshow) November 29, 2017

She claims that she passed out during intercourse and woke up later on the floor in his office. She said Lauer had his assistant take her to a nurse. She told the Times that Lauer never mentioned the encounter with her again and she said she left the network about a year later.

The accuser asked the paper not to identify her in the report. The paper said it contacted her ex-husband who said he remembered the alleged encounter. The two were reportedly separated in 2001 and are now divorced.

The Times report said NBC received at least two more complaints about Lauer after the network announced he was fired prior to Wednesday’s "Today"...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mattlauer; media; nbc; sexualassault
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To: SkyPilot

I don’t get the passed out thing. Did he choke her?


121 posted on 11/30/2017 7:26:56 AM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: SkyPilot

Another good Ol’ liberal rapist, just like Bubba. How nice.


122 posted on 11/30/2017 7:27:21 AM PST by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: Unassuaged

“Taking off your clothes is not consenting to sex. Lots of men like to think so, however.”

There’s no hint in the article that she did not consent. Just be honest. If it was not consensual, there where is the evidence - from the woman’s own words - that it was an assault?

There is none - not in any of the versions of this story that I have seen so far and that has to be three versions already this morning. Even the fainting doesn’t tell us anything about it not being consensual.

It is amazing to me how in the age of “women’s liberation” we suddenly treat women as if they are not consenting adults when their own words show they are. She never once - in any of the published versions of this story - says ANYTHING about physical force, rape, assault, being held against her will or anything even approaching that. The simple fact is - if all we have is what has been published- she willingly had sex with Lauer and then woke up feeling like she had been used because he left her on the floor like discarded trash. She might have passed out from low blood sugar for all we know. Or she might simply be like this woman: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4241544/The-wife-FAINTS-sex.html


123 posted on 11/30/2017 7:40:26 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Bigg Red
I despise Lauer, but this story is just a little too difficult to believe.

It sounds to me like an office party in which the woman had too much to drink and Lauer took advantage of her.

124 posted on 11/30/2017 7:43:15 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: vladimir998

I agree except for your editorializing, i.e. ‘willingly’


125 posted on 11/30/2017 7:46:35 AM PST by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: yldstrk

Yeh pretty much me too. Most guys don’t have the nerve to mess with me but its happened. My response is always short and sharp.

That story is sickening and I’m sure Lauer is a first class d$#k but her actions sound strange.


126 posted on 11/30/2017 7:50:07 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: SkyPilot

....She said he locked the door from a button at his desk and he asked her to unbutton her blouse. She said she complied and claims he got up from his desk, approached her from behind, bent her over his desk and had sex....


Sounds like she complied with the unbuttoning of her shirt AND the bending over his desk.

Her first mistake was unbuttoning her shirt. That’s when you call your co-worker(s), or SECURITY, and demand they come rescue you from that devil’s den.


127 posted on 11/30/2017 7:51:26 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: b4me; SkyPilot

Maybe, for whatever reason, she had a camcorder/video going in her/the room. Maybe she suspected he was a perv and had her phone videoing just in case?


128 posted on 11/30/2017 7:59:50 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Wolfie

That’s confusing. You can say whatever you wish to yourself. Claiming to yourself you are being forced doesn’t change your expressed actions. Now if instead of saying it to yourself you say it to the other person then you may have a case to make that it is not cnsensual sex.

Are you saying that Laurers power position made this rape regardless of the expressed statements and actions of the other person?


129 posted on 11/30/2017 8:13:48 AM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Bodleian_Girl; SkyPilot

She was not an intern at the time of her death. The fact that some so-called journalists still say that on TV shows how ill-informed they are. Maybe they say that so it can be said that any questions about how she died have been debunked.


130 posted on 11/30/2017 8:16:04 AM PST by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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To: Wolfie

You have no proof that that is the case.


131 posted on 11/30/2017 8:16:09 AM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: SkyPilot

132 posted on 11/30/2017 8:16:09 AM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: Avalon Memories

Same here. The NBC nurse or whoever it was the assistant took her to?


133 posted on 11/30/2017 8:26:41 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: SkyPilot

134 posted on 11/30/2017 8:30:00 AM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: SkyPilot

He’s truly sorry though, so no prob.

/s


135 posted on 11/30/2017 8:31:08 AM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: SkyPilot

of course inappropriate. Missing the sexual assault description. Did she say no. Did she physically resist. Did she willingly submit?


136 posted on 11/30/2017 8:33:18 AM PST by morphing libertarian (A proud member of the Ruthie Bader Afternoon Nap Club)
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To: Bodleian_Girl
I never understood the part about her being an intern and being 28 years old.

Daddy wants his precious pumpkin to have a job here in the Swamp. He is influential and suggests to the swampcritter whose election he supported [Daddy could work on K-street or could own a stable of K-street folks, for instance], that he might like to provide an office telephone and job title for his precious little girl who never learned how to grow up and so something useful.

She is likely cute and bubbly and has a wardrobe the cost of which all out of proportion to any salary anyone on a public salary could earn at any level from President on down.

They occupy the executive suites of most government agencies, and house and senate staffs. And these "highly placed government officials" help ensure the flow of information to the public by spilling their guts at various swamp-watering holes

137 posted on 11/30/2017 8:37:27 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: SkyPilot

138 posted on 11/30/2017 8:40:11 AM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: AndyJackson

That explains it.


139 posted on 11/30/2017 8:40:17 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Please see my profile to find out why the Birmingham News is trying to destroy Judge Roy Moore)
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To: Jane Long

Mona Charen was on EWTN Nightly News last night and said the democrats brought this on themselves starting in the 60s with the “free love” movement and trying to destroy the family. Now it’s coming back to bite them in the butt. She went on to say something I hadn’t heard before, She said the reason Roger Ailes was fired from Fox News is because
Gretchen Carlson had an iPhone when she went into his office. He started putting the hit on her and she let him talk and talk, with every bit of it being recorded by her cell phone.


140 posted on 11/30/2017 8:44:25 AM PST by NKP_Vet ("Man without God descends into madness")
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