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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It’s the backbone of the swamp economy.
Yes but unless the woman is very confident about her self defense skills with heavy objects, the person with more upper body strength and overall body mass usually prevails, and that person is usually the male. And the consequences for making an incorrect decision could be catastrophic if not fatal.
Yes, because every time I have consensual sex with my boss I black out as well and have to be revived by co-workers and taken to a nurse for medical treatment.
Yeah, if your boss is doing it right.
She may have felt, if she and her husband were on the verge of splitting up, that she had to do it to keep her job, especially if she was going to be living on her own. Interesting that Lauer picked a woman in a marriage going south to victimize. I don’t think that was a coinkydink.
Successful predators prey on the week. If she’d been a stronger woman, he’d have avoided her like the plague.
Seems to me that locking the door in that situation is kidnapping.
...prey on the weak...
Ahhh, no I see why President Trump threw Morning Joe into his tweet
The news media, hollywierd, music and congress all know whats going on, they participate, and they cover for each other!!
“I agree except for your editorializing, i.e. ‘willingly’”
He asked her to open her blouse. She did so willingly.
He had sex with her. She apparently did so willingly because she never once says anything about force, violence, rape or assault.
That’s not editorializing on my part. It says he had sex with her. It does NOT say “He raped her”, or “He assaulted her”. The headline DOES NOT AGREE with the information in the article.
If sexual coercion is against the law in NYS, Lauer is screwed.
So she just willingly opens her blouse and bends over for him? And too scared to file charges? If men think that way about women no wonder they take advantage of them. If it had been me, Matt would have been the one needing medical attention and a lawyer.
Great find! LOL!
They don't say. Perhaps he did. Perhaps she had been drinking or doing drugs. Perhaps she had a medical condition.
I don’t disagree. This is what happens when you take Christianity out of the culture. It benefits everyone even those who believe differently.
“It’s common for women to not tell their husbands, or anyone except close friends, about rape”
If I imagine myself in the same situation this woman claims to have been in, truly non consentual, no culpability her part, my husband would be the first person I’d discuss it with. But then, my husband is my best friend.
And if the guy hadn’t understood my “No” and turned to physical persuasion, he might have some claw marks or maybe a bruise from a high velocity paper weight to back up my story. No job is worth allowing some perv to use you like that. Yuk.
Following some of the logic I’m seeing here, if she resists and gets beaten to a pulp, that’s her fault too.
Talked to my wife about this. Granted, teaching is not the news, but she said if anyone tried anything like that with her... Well they would be less of a man than when they started.
He most definitely was not Italian.
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