No worries, mate.
Posted on 12/01/2017 12:08:57 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Staffers at The Today Show have expressed their disgust and outrage at Megyn Kelly for her smug, self-aggrandizing display and insensitivity to her distraught colleagues in the wake of Matt Lauer's firing.
Insiders at the show told DailyMail.com that if she had a public comment to make she should have focused on the accuser and the Today team who are devastated by by the allegation surrounding Lauer and his firing, which came late Tuesday night.
Instead, Kelly used her platform on her show Wednesday to say: 'This one does hit close to home. I too have known Matt for a long time and he has been a friend and kind and supportive to me in my transition to NBC News.'
And later that day, at a media event in Manhattan, she hailed his firing as 'a sign of progress.'
Her Today Show colleagues are outraged.
'We work in an industry of egos but this is the most opportunistic thing we've ever seen,' said one staffer.
'We now have the highest paid person at NBC News hosting one of the lowest rating shows, and rather than being humble, she takes the first opportunity to take the spotlight and make it all about her and what she knew.
'Our team is hurting and the newest member of the team who is yet to prove herself is out and about making public comments that she truly has no knowledge of.'
All day members of the Today show were crying and distraught, staffers told DailyMail.com.
'But rather than sticking around and spending time with the staff, Megyn made sure she was the center of attention.
'No one wanted Megyn here, she was forced upon us and today reinforced why she will never be a member of the Today family.'
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There is a ton of stuff that we'd never have heard about in America if the DM hadn't been there.
Staffers at The Today Show have expressed their disgust and outrage at Megyn Kelly for her smug, self-aggrandizing display and insensitivity to her distraught colleagues in the wake of Matt Lauer’s firing.
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Didn’t MeAgain Kelly leave Fox due to sexual harassment by her boss? At any rate, the big boss was fired for harassing females. Perhaps she doesn’t cotton to men in positions of power taking advantage of vulnerable women. Kinda the basic tenant of feminist law on male/female workplace rules I thought.
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To be honest, what’s coming out in Matt Lauer’s case is pretty unseemly stuff. A young staffer claims he locked the door, put her over his desk and raped her annaly until she passed out. Another staffer then took her to see the nurse. If the other two mentioned have corroborated this story, it should be grounds for more than just firing. Also, Meredith Viera (I think it was) claims to have discovered a large bag of sex toys in his office. But I agree with your statement in general.
...One colleague told the outlet that Lauer regularly spent time giving career counseling to young women in his office, while routinely focusing his attention on the network’s young interns and production assistants...
...One “high-level industry source” told Vanity Fair Wednesday that Lauer’s alleged behavior was an ill-kept secret.
“I don’t know what everyone is so surprised by,” the source said. “This has been going on for months and months and everybody knew it and it was just going to be which girl came forward, and who reported it first.”...
Cry me a freaking river.
Possible. More likely, I think, that she informed management that it would be really bad for NBC if she had to go public on this and maybe they should get out ahead of it.
“Kelly may have been signed by NBC because they knew they were going to lose a high-profile personality”
I like your thinking. Definitely I think that those that hired her at NBC did so for reasons that we don’t fully know.
And I absolutely don’t believe that that they were unaware of his hanky panky (or hanky pantie).
Megyn Kelly is the Colin Kaepernick of NBC.
The highest paid employee, with a failing performance level, who is sniping and causing discord - it couldn’t happen to a more deserving organization.
” Perhaps she doesn’t cotton to men in positions of power taking advantage of vulnerable women. Kinda the basic tenant of feminist law on male/female workplace rules I thought.”
A revulsion toward men taking advantage of vulnerable women isn’t just a feminist thing.
By the way, I’m a guy. I picked the name Cymbeline before knowing that it was of a female Shakespearean character.
No worries, mate.
“No worries, mate. “
Arf arf
Clearly, there’s no room in the workplace for anal rape (unless your workplace is a porn studio) and much of what happened is an informal quid-pro-quo where a man in power gets sex from an underling either with the unspoken promise that she’ll get favorable treatment later or that she won’t be treated unfavorably for refusing. Those activities are just wrong.
But that’s a whole different level than telling a crude joke in the attempt to be funny, or accidentally brushing a boob or finding a hand where it doesn’t belong. Right now, I don’t think there’s much attention to context.
What bothers me is if the guy is genuinely harmful to others, then have no sympathy and fire them but if the guy says something awkward or mistakenly touches something, it’s usually harmless and the guy just needs some talking to.
I once tried to hug my 20-something niece. At that moment when both people are deciding where their arms are about to go, we both chose the inside path and I wound up giving her breast a good thump while readjusting under her armpit. It was awkward but it was, in no way, an attempt to get a feel. Such moments, between coworkers, shouldn’t be a cause for termination 30 years after the fact. That’s where men are afraid this is someday headed.
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