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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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To: Lazamataz

Time to break out the bag of sex toys to cheer himself up.


61 posted on 12/05/2017 7:29:05 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: conservative98
It's a women....or a gay dude.

Ain't no man...that's for sure...

62 posted on 12/05/2017 7:32:31 PM PST by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
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To: Lazamataz
I'm feeling very low on myself right now.

Dude....!!!

What....?!?!

63 posted on 12/05/2017 7:35:04 PM PST by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
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To: Osage Orange
"I'm feeling very low on myself right now."

Dude....!!! What....?!?!

Yeah. Life is suckin' right about now.

64 posted on 12/05/2017 7:49:11 PM PST by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: Lazamataz
“He is weak and broken and ashamed by his own admission,” Image and video hosting by TinyPic That doesn't cut any ice with Moe Green.
65 posted on 12/05/2017 8:06:42 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: Lazamataz

‘They all knew’
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/05/media-elite-laughed-at-2008-roast-sending-matt-lauer-s-pervy-behavior.html


66 posted on 12/05/2017 8:51:10 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Lazamataz
He is weak and broken and ashamed

Well... then the immediate gratification and satisfaction he felt throughout better be enough to carry him through the rest of his life.

-PJ

67 posted on 12/05/2017 8:57:48 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Skybird

#38 At the family business at what we called the north plant, we had a supervisor who one day did not show up to work. A week went by and the mechanic went to the guys home and took back the company car. In his office we found in his desk in a double drawer many many xxx magazines. The office was glass in closed on 3 sides with solid walls half way up. How he looked at those magazines without the others seeing I cannot guess.


68 posted on 12/05/2017 8:58:19 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Lazamataz

He should be in jail.


69 posted on 12/05/2017 9:00:10 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Lazamataz

MSN already starting the rehabilitation of poor, sad victim Matt Lauer.


70 posted on 12/05/2017 9:12:00 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Lazamataz
Matt Lauer Is 'Weak and Broken and Ashamed' After Today Show Firing, Friend Says

Well gee... sorry about your luck there Matt! /s

71 posted on 12/05/2017 9:20:39 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Slyfox

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

And more than HALF of his money!


72 posted on 12/05/2017 9:41:39 PM PST by faucetman (Ju"st the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: leapfrog0202

Not so sure that there is a friend. This reminds me of one of those stories that starts out “I have this friend who has a problem see and he doesn’t know what to do about it . . .” My money is on a lawyer, agent or publicist, with a vested interest in rehabilitating Matt’s image, if not Lauer, himself.


73 posted on 12/05/2017 9:43:46 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: jttpwalsh

Good point.


74 posted on 12/05/2017 11:06:14 PM PST by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: Lazamataz

The surprise for me is that he actually molested women. I thought it was a job requirement that liberal news anchors had to be gay.


75 posted on 12/09/2017 8:04:06 AM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
ashamed by his own admission,

Ashamed he admitted it? What a loser.

76 posted on 12/09/2017 8:11:05 AM PST by Kudsman ( Anyone to the Right of Stalin is a Far Right Wing candidate to the Far Left Wing Media.)
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To: MarvinStinson
MSN already starting the rehabilitation of poor, sad victim Matt Lauer.

He is toast. Nobody will hire him as an employee. If he got caught banging hookers he would have been rehabilitated.

77 posted on 12/09/2017 9:42:18 AM PST by EVO X
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