Posted on 05/01/2018 6:47:57 PM PDT by ethom
Katie Couric, half of the former Today show duo with Matt Lauer, explained away the sketchy, secret button used by her disgraced ex-colleague: A lot of NBC executives have that. Appearing on The Wendy Williams Show, Couric waded into dangerous territory: I think the whole button thing.... a lot of stuff gets misreported and blown out of proportion.
Couric continued her assessment of the button. Note how she altered what it apparently did: A lot of NBC executives have those buttons that opened and closed doors. No. Heres how Variety first reported the purpose of Lauer's office button:
His office was in a secluded space, and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside without getting up. This afforded him the assurance of privacy. It allowed him to welcome female employees and initiate inappropriate contact while knowing nobody could walk in on him, according to two women who were sexually harassed by Lauer.
Locking is the key word here. Not opening and closing as Couric massaged.
Host Williams appeared shocked by the explanation that a lot of NBC executives have a similar button:
WENDY WILLIAMS: Oh really?
KATIE COURIC: They did. I mean, it was really just a privacy thing. It wasnt
WILLIAMS: Shhh. You are saying a lot, girl. You are saying a lot.
Still, when asked if she had such a button, Couric quickly shot back: I did not. No, no, no. As Williams looked appalled, Couric dug deeper: I don't think it was a nefarious thing. I really don't. And I think that is misconstrued.
Finally, she stopped and added: You can look at me like that if you want. Youre not helping, Katie. Perhaps Couric should go back to promoting her TV special on sex robots.
Shes an Aunt Katie, right Ms.Wolf?
EEeeeek! 12 men, 7 women, and only ONE person (maybe two!!!!) of “color”!
Where are the picketers at NBC demanding fairer representation?
She couldn’t get laid in a prison nurse’s station if she had a crate of Viagra. She’s a fat little rodent in a pool of sleek females. Maybe in a bowling alley in Pittsburgh after 15 beers someone would take her for a spin. Her sexiest moment was the video of her colonoscopy.
Was there ever a more disgusting, nauseating looking person than Weinstein? It gives me the heebie jeebies just looking at his perverted oleaginous mug.
His normal leftist sexual behavior was apparently widely known (and even laughingly joked about) by his esteemed liberal peers.
Good thing for the Internet.
If not for the Internet, all of these pictures of these liberal stains getting all chummy with Weinstein would have disappeared, much as Nikolai Yezhov (Chief of the Soviet secret police) was removed from a photo with Stalin.
Couric forbidden dancing = a 5 alarm barf alert:
http://gawker.com/5410874/katie-courics-forbidden-dance-of-gin
So its company policy to give employee’s rape buttons? Good to know.
Hey officers, please investigate them more thoroughly.
So says the woman who had the nation look up her wazoo during a live colonoscopy.
Tell us more!
This is shadowy world that most of us have no knowledge of.
I’ll bet Brokaw had a secret button... Sounds like he’s the typical liberal elite jerk.
The “press” set this stuff up to damage Trump and conservatives... little did they know it would backfire on them...
The pressitutes are gullible and easily misled, but the prominent men who are also old and in the way are under attack by a bunch of single party state fanatics who are going to feed the prominent into the wood chipper if they can. Since the victims have already agreed that the "cause" is "just", they can't offer any defense other than, but look what a lot of good I accomplished in my storied career. How's that defense workin' out for ya?
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
O'Brien, from Nineteen Eighty-Four, pt 3 ch 3, George Orwell, pub 1949
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