Lauer telling fans [and fan dancers] that he'll be back on TV

Matt Lauer, the disgraced follicle-challenged "Today" host is telling fellow pervs and fans that he'll be back on TV. So ladies, watch your backs.

Lauer was fired in November by NBC over sexual harassment accusations that many witnessed and none reported. He was recently spotted at Donohue's Steak House eating a dead cow when he warned his fans that his return was imminent.

One source told Page Six that "A group of older ladies came over to Lauer, saying, 'We miss you!'" as Lauer kept chewing and checking out their baggage.

They were obviously lonely and in need of a Lauer "intervention," he likely mused.

The source said Lauer told his fans, "I've been busy being a dad. But don't worry, I'll be back on TV."

He has not, however, been busy being a good husband--just ask his estranged wife, Annette Roque. Ironically, she owns a 40-acre horse farm in Water Mill and a North Haven estate that belonged to Richard Gere, of the "gerbil-up-the-nether-regions" fame. [It turned out to be a false claim according to Snopes. Of course, if it was a Trump rumor, it would have been a full-size rabbit wandering around in the dark, if you know what I mean.]

Since getting canned from NBC's "Today" show, the 'harasser' has been on the down-low in the Hamptons, but he was spotted on the Upper East Side of Manhattan at an expensive restaurant called the East Pole, where he dined with a "Today" senior producer, Deborah Kosofsky.

Matt and Deb

It is believed that he kept his mind above his waist and his hands where they could be seen as they talked about vacation spots.

There should be no surprise if the #MeToo motivator returns to TV. After all, he's a liberal, not Roseanne Barr, so he gets another shot, kind of like Anthony Weiner who got a few shots but still blew it.

Truthfully, we shouldn't care if he makes a return to the show. This is just one more reason we got Trump as president.

The hypocrisy is palpable, it's so obvious.

It's like when Tiger Woods was winning as a black golfer, got arrested as a black man, then became a mixed race Asian when he refused to disrespect the office of the president and wouldn't badmouth Trump.


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MSNBC's Joy Reid no longer identifies as being homophobic

MSNBC actress Joy Reid  opened her show "AM Joy" Saturday with an apology for her long history of homophobic comments in which she mocked the LGBTQ community but did not actually apologize to her audience for lying to them with the claim her blog was hacked. She did, however, admit that perhaps her blog wasn't hacked, but that's as far as she went with owning up to her statements.

Reid joylessly addressed the controversy around her old blog posts in which she mocked gays and those who were allegedly gay and admitted she said "dumb" and "hurtful" things in the past.

She no longer is the person she was back when she sucked at being an accepting person of those with different sexual orientations. However, she still hates President Trump and every deplorable who voted for him.

"The person I am now is not the person I was then," she said after being outed for her homophobic slurs. Somehow she has changed and because she is a leftist, must be forgiven as intersectionality suggests--she is a black, liberal woman, and that alone should exonerate her.

Earlier this week, "Lyin' Joy" claimed that somebody hacked into her account after a Twitter tweeter used the Wayback Machine and unearthed her vile homophobic posts from her now defunct blog.

Reid hired a cybersecurity "expert" to investigate and cover up her lies, while the FBI announced they too were probing her claims.

But on Saturday, Reid wasn't able to prove that her account was hacked because it wasn't. She admitted that her posts "do not appear to have been the result of hacking or tampering," which is an indirect way of admitting she wrote them.

"When a friend found them in December and sent them to me, I was stunned," she said. "Frankly, I couldn't imagine where they'd come from or whose voice this was. The reality is they have not been able to prove it."

While Reid refused to own up to her posts, she did admit she'd written anti-gay things previously, as her way of showing she didn't lie about her lie regarding the unearthed posts, but that she was, in her previous life, a homophobe but now identifies as sort of a leader of the gay rights movement.

"I looked back on some of the ways I've talked casually about sexual gender and orientation and I wonder who that even was," she said of her outer-body, 'it wasn't really me' experience. "I'm heartbroken [that she was caught] that I didn't do better back then [and please don't fire me 'cause I need the money]. The reality is I have to own the things I've written and tweeted and said," she said, without really owning them.

Following the controversy, MSNBC and NBC News has been mum over this newsworthy incident. NBC has more than enough controversy on its proverbial plate of manure. Now the "NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw is being accused of sexual misconduct in the aftermath of Matt Lauer's firing over the same issue along with Mark Halperin, Chris Matthews and Matt Zimmerman (Senior Vice President for News and Entertainment at NBC).

Following the blog post incident, the Daily Beast suspended Reid, who was a paid contributor for the media outlet.

Somehow, she still has her job at MSNBC, the leftist network, and they still don't think Reid's story is newsworthy.



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Former 'Today' staffer speaks about Lauer affair

Addie Collins Zinone, a former NBC News production assistant for the "Today" show spoke out about the  month-long sexual relationship she had with the married Matt Lauer in the summer of 2000.

Zinone interviewed with former Fox News host Megyn Kelly who now hosts a lesser-known show whose title escapes me. 

In the aftermath of coming forward about the hot times with the old guy (she was 24, he was in his 40s) Zinone is facing attacks online for coming forward.

One person who is not President Trump tweeted: 

"Stop playing the victim! You are NOT a victim! You are a whore! Plain and simple."

I don't agree with that completely, but I do believe they both were wrong to have the affair. But I do mostly agree with the next tweet:

"Addie Zinone just wanted some 5 minutes attention...her affair with Matt Lauer was 100% consensual and she honestly should have never brought it up. She made the choice to be a homewrecker and gives a bad name to the real #MeToo people."

The only problem I have with the above tweet is referring to her as a "homewrecker." The so-called home she allegedly 'wrecked' was probably waiting for the wrecking ball before the affair began. You need to call Lauer a homewrecker too.

Then there came angry, somewhat illiterate tweets, but I won't go into them because they're simply angry and stupid.

Zinone described the negative feedback she received since revealing the affair.

"I understand that people are going to paint me as a homewrecker, as a slut and a whore and those are things I have been called. It was suggested yesterday to me that 'Please please go get hit by a bus,'" she told Kelly.

The alleged affair lasted about a month and Zinone claims to take full responsibility for her actions, calling them a "massive mistake" that still haunts her, but she asserted that Lauer steered her into the uncomfortable situation.

So which is it? Lauer steering her into the uncomfortable situation is to blame, or her going along with it and having sex with Lauer?

"These are very hard things to talk about," she told Kelly's TV audience of hundreds. "My family is shattered by this. They are afraid for me. This all trickles down to a lot of people that are affected, so having these conversations is really important, but also there's a lot of shame attached to what I did." 

So she's telling the world what she did in order to absolve herself of the shame while kind of blaming Lauer while pretending to take responsibility.

Zinone alleged that she struggled with hiding her story for 17 years and was fearful of telling the world about her shame.

So why did she have to tell the world of hundreds of Megyn Kelly viewers?

Her shame, she seems to be hoping, can be marketable. Can't wait for the tell-all book about her four weeks of fame.


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They all knew about Lauer

They knew. They had to know the reason that Matt Lauer gave his penis a name was because he didn't want a stranger making all his decisions.

The media laughed their collective butts off at a 2008 Lauer "secret" roast where the jokes centered around Lauer's office sexual behavior with coworkers, his marital situation and his generally deviant past.

I will not go into what was said because I value my blog and don't want to lose it, but you can go here to Fox News and get the idea of how it went.

The jokes weren't just sexual in nature, they were also sexist, homophobic, racist and quite obscene. There can be little doubt that the "surprised" folks at NBC weren't really surprised at all.

Joe Scarborough attended the secret roast but claimed he left early, feeling uncomfortable and brought it up on "Morning Joe," a TV show evidently. Scarborough said that Lauer's peccadillos were not just known about--at the time, they were celebrated.

"The whole theme was that he does the show and then he has sex with people, with employees," Scarborough said. "So was this whispered behind closed doors? No. It was shouted from the mountain tops and everybody laughed about it."

Some of those in attendance in 2008 at the Friar's Club roast at the New York Hilton included: Donald Trump, Norman Lear, Diane Sawyer, Brian "I Saved America" Williams and Howard Stern. Other top executives from across the business were also there and just about all the upper mucky mucks at NBC.



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NBC up to their lips in it

One can imagine how nauseous the executives are at NBC over the blitzkrieg firing of Matt Lauer, their number one star. But in the midst of this comes mounting pressure on Comcast, the parent company, to launch an investigation into whether NBC's top executives knew about Lauer's sexual misconduct and harassment with women. And if they knew about it, when did they know?

NBC News Chairman Andy Lack and Noah Oppenheim, his deputy, have been close to Lauer for many years, and both spent most of their careers at NBC.

However, NBC said, "We can say unequivocally, that, prior to Monday night, current NBC News management was never made aware of any complaints about Matt Lauer's conduct."

Yeah, sure.

The statement isn't being believed by industry observers amid a slew of press accounts saying repeated complaints about the sleazeball were ignored by executives more worried about pleasing Lauer than doing the right thing. In fact, it's known that the "Today" show was a sex-charged "boys club" filled with lewd comments and mistreatment of women.

"It seems that those at the top of the NBC food chain have really dug themselves into a hole. A lot is still unknown, but it could be a lose-lose situation for Lack and Oppenheim," Mediate columnist Joey Wulfsohn said.

He went on: "Either they continue their lack of transparency, which only feeds into the narrative that there was complicity among NBC management; or they reveal the truth, which may also prove complicity among NBC management."

Now there are three scandals in which Lack and Oppenheim have kept quiet about, yet promised transparency. Who knew about Matt Lauer? What about Ronan Farrow's story that would have outed Harvey Weinstein as a sexual predator--when did these two clowns spike the story? And why did NBC do nothing for all those years over the "Access Hollywood" tape in which Donald Trump and future "Today" co-host Bill Bush made disgusting comments about women and grabbing them by their genitalia?

The network said they were investigating all three scandals and would be transparent but alas . . . crickets.

Now it's beginning to appear as if all three scandals could be linked.

Regarding Lauer, Lois Boynton, a journalism professor and media ethics expert at the University of North Carolina, said that from an ethics perspective, 'there is a concern about a conflict of interest since the two execs are friends" with Lauer.

Everyone knows that Lack is a close personal friend with the disgraced anchor and it was Lack who promoted Lauer to co-host "Today" when Lack was president of NBC News in the 1990s. They have also vacationed together, but never to "Lolita Island" with Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein.

Oppenheim also has close ties to Lauer and he spent most of his career at NBC since graduating from college. He was senior producer at "Today" for several years and worked closely with Lauer both in the office and on the road.

The close relationships of the executives likely made it impossible for them to keep Lauer in check.

The Variety reporters who broke the story on Lauer, Elizabeth Wagmeister and Ramin Setoodeh, essentially told Fox News' Tucker Carlson on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Thursday that Lack and Oppenheim were lying to cover up knowing about widespread sexual corruption of the studios at '30 Rock'.

Setoodeh feels "it's a fair question to ask as a journalist" why Lack and Oppenheim have remained silent and failed to publicly clarify what they knew and when they knew it.

"As two reporters who have been covering this story pretty aggressively, we would like to interview either of them," Setoodeh told Carlson.

Andy Lack first claimed that a complaint he received Monday night resulted in Lauer's firing, and said it was the first complaint regarding his [Lauer's] behavior "in the over 20 years he's been at NBC News."

Then NBC had to clarify the statement and issued another stating that "prior to Monday night, current NBC News management was never made aware of any complaints about Matt Lauer's conduct."

Yeah, sure.

Setoodeh said it was curious that the word "current" was in the network's statement about which managers knew about Lauer's sexual misconduct. He also explained that NBC staffers told him that the term "current" is being defined in a "very narrow circle" and "there are people who work at the 'Today' show, staffers, producers, anchors--current and previous anchors--of the 'Today' show who were aware there had been complaints about Matt Lauer's alleged conduct toward women."

Also on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Melissa Francis said that a friend of hers had been sexually assaulted by an NBC executive when she was at the network.

"People are really shocked right now," Wagmeister said. "They're waiting for answers."

Now we have to sit and wait to see if Comcast executives step in to staunch the bleeding.

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Lauer's sexual harassment allegations include exposing himself

Matt Lauer is now being accused of exposing himself to an employee in his office and taunted her and harassing her. 

It was also reported that Lauer had a switch under his desk which was used to lock his office door in order for him to allegedly be sexually inappropriate with women.

The inappropriate behavior that got the media star booted from the "Today" show was not a one-time sleaze deal, Variety reported Wednesday.

The "detailed complaint" was evidently believable to the executives at NBC and it motivated the network to fire him preemptively, before other media got the story in their hands.

Variety reported that Lauer's behavior with women at NBC included luring a woman employee into his office and exposing his penis to her, giving her a sex toy as a gift and playing a game called "F**k, marry or kill."

Just this past September, Lauer interviewed Bill O'Reilly formerly of Fox News, and questioned him about his alleged behavior with women who made similar claims as Lauer is now facing. 

The irony was palpable.

The incident in question with Lauer took place during the 2014 Sochi Olympics, NBC said Wednesday. Variety said that Lauer would use his time traveling with the network's Olympic coverage to ask female staffers to join him in his hotel rooms. The magazine spoke to three women who alleged to be victims of Lauer.

NBC didn't respond to requests for comment regarding the allegations.

"There were a lot of consensual relationships, but that's still a problem because of the power he held," a former producer told Variety. "He couldn't sleep around town with celebrities or on the road with random people, because he's Matt Lauer and he's married. So he'd have to do it within his stable, where he exerted power, and he knew people wouldn't ever complain."

Lauer has not as yet released a statement regarding the allegations, but I wouldn't want to be him, especially after he falls asleep tonight next to his wife. 

He better sleep with one eye open.


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Matt Lauer fired: the latest sexual misconduct allegation

Matt Lauer is the latest  person to be fired for sexual misconduct and it happened in conjunction with the lighting of the huge Christmas tree outside the NBC studios. 

"Today" show co-host Matt Lauer was fired Wednesday due to inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace. The executives of the show heard the  allegations two days ago and the news was announced by Savannah Guthrie, who was joined by Hoda Kotb to announce the stunning news.

"This is a sad morning here at 'Today' and at NNC News," Ms. Guthrie said and then read a note from BC News Chairman Andy Lack.

"Dear colleagues, on Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer," Lack's statement read. "It represented, after serious review, a clear violation of our company's standards. As a result, we've decided to terminate his employment."

According to the statement, this was the first complaint against Lauer "in over 20 years he's been at NBC News." 

"We were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident," the statement added.

Guthrie tweeted:

"I'm heartbroken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story and any other women who have their own stories to tell." --Savannah Guthrie

Lack went on to bloviate that NBC's "highest priority is to create a workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected, and to ensure that any actions that run counter to our core values are met with consequences, no matter who the offender. We are deeply saddened by this turn of events."

The bigger questions are: will Lack be the next one on the chopping block? What about Chris Matthews? Al Roker? Lester Holt?

Who's next?

An emotional Guthrie lamented "we just learned this moments ago" adding that the "Today" team is "devastated and we are still processing all of this."

"All we can say is that we are heartbroken. I'm heartbroken for Matt. He is my dear, dear friend and my partner and he is beloved by many, many people here. And I'm heartbroken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story and any other women who have their own stories to tell."

How can you be heartbroken for the victim and the alleged perpetrator? Is anyone heartbroken for Harvey Weinstein? 

NBC will be covering the story in the coming days "and will share more details," said Guthrie.

During the 8 a.m. hour, Stephanie Gosk told viewers that Lauer's alleged victim complained about Lauer's inappropriate behavior throughout 2014, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

The New York Post cited a source about an incident that occurred during NBC's coverage  or the 2016 Olympics in Rio. The details are unconfirmed.

President Trump tweeted:

Wow, Matt Lauer was just fired from NBC for "inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace." But when will the top executives at NBC & Comcast be fired for putting out so much Fake News. Check out Andy Lack's past!

He forgot to use a question mark after 'Fake News' but at least he remembered his signature exclamation mark!

Lauer, 59, will no longer rake in $20 million a year that extended to 2018. This leaves George Stephanopoulos as the only remaining anchor of the three major network morning shows.

The way things are going, women are going to rule the world and old white men are going to be in chains.

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Earpieces banned after Lauer used one on Hillary

The Commission on Presidential Debates will allow presidential debate moderators to wear earpieces if they choose, but only the executive producer of the commission will be the person at the other end of the wire.

Thus, executive producers from each news organization will be denied editorial control and the earpieces will be used mostly to keep track of timing.

Now Lester Holt, Martha Raddatz, Anderson Cooper and Chris Wallace won't have to deal with questions being fed to them by their respective bosses in the upcoming presidential debates, as was the case with Matt Lauer when he moderated the "Commander in Chief Forum" between Clinton and Trump on September 7th.

Lauer wore an earpiece in that debate and it left many people, particularly Hillary Clinton fans, complaining about Lauer's interviewing skills and judgment. 

The "disastrous performance" was largely due to NBC News chief Andy Lack pushing Lauer to press Clinton on the email scandal. How dare they question the honesty and integrity of Hillary Clinton.

According to one NBC representative, it was the executive producer, not Lack, who was directing Lauer during the interview. "Andy was not in [Lauer's]ear. It's totally untrue. The fact of the matter is he would never be in the ear of any host during a program--it would be way too distracting," the rep said. He claimed that Lack was in the control room giving feedback during the interview, but didn't speak directly to Lauer.

Lauer took all the blame and New Yorkers, liberals mostly, expressed their desire to have the host shocked with a cattle prod, tarred and feathered and spit upon by all Hillary supporters. 

"Death is too good for that scum," one woman who wished to remain anonymous said. "He is a sexist, misogynistic, vile, disgusting crap weasel of a host and he deserves to be banned from television, radio and Facebook. I hate him so much I could spit. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him . . . " and she kept saying that until the interviewer's mic was turned off.

Lauer took the week off  after the interview and has lost all credibility with liberals who believed he was too hard on Clinton and much too easy on Trump. They're not used to the liberal mainstream media doing that and it was clearly a shock to their systems.

An investigation will be underway to see whether Lauer turns out to be a registered Republican.

Holt, on the other hand, will host the next NBC debate between the two most detestable party nominees in the history of the United States. The debate will be on Monday, September 26th at 9 p.m. Following that will be the second debate on October 9th, hosted by Raddatz and Cooper, and the final debate on October 19th, on Fox News, hosted by Chris Wallace.

If Donald Trump can put his ego aside for the 90 minutes, he stands a good chance to win.

If.


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Hillary attacks Donald who attacks back better

Hillary Clinton said of the GOP front runner, Donald J. Trump, that he was "becoming ISIS's best recruiter." She said that ISIS "is going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists."

She carefully avoided using the term "radical Muslims" even though jihad is an Islamic term. But worse, there is no actual evidence that her claim is true. None.

And it's pretty obvious that ISIS will use anything it can to recruit Muslim jihadists. They use our freedom and democracy to recruit, our Constitution versus their Sharia law, to recruit, anything that goes against their Islamic ideology. I wouldn't be surprised if they wouldn't use Hillary's acceptance of same sex marriage as a recruitment tool.

Trump told Matt Lauer of the "Today Show" that he wants Clinton to apologize for making that statement. Hillary has as much chance of giving Donald an actual apology as Bernie Sanders has of not giving Hillary one. 

"Whether it was Whitewater or the email scandal, she always lies. And now to be saying that we're just right in the perfect spot [to defeat ISIS]," he said, referring to another debate statement she made, "I don't think that's a lie, I think she really doesn't know what she's doing." He went on to say, "She's been a mess no matter where she's been. She has created a mess--look at her record as Secretary of State."

Does Hillary Clinton have a bad relationship with the truth? I discuss it here in part, but there's plenty of evidence that concurs with Trump's assessment (although his statements are also occasionally murky regarding the facts).

Hillary's spokesliar, Jennifer Palmieri struggled with a few verbal contortions in a feeble attempt to defend her boss, as she spoke to ABC's George Stephanopoulos. It was pathetic.

"Um, the uh, uh, you know, Donald Trump, I think, was talking, uh, you know, what Secretary Clinton was saying last night is that one of the many dangerous things about Donald Trump is that, uh, his hot rhetoric, saying we shouldn't allow Muslim refugees into the country is being used, and this is something that [an international group] has who monitors social media and uh, on ISIS has said--" Palmieri babbled as Stephanopoulos interrupted.

"But there have been no videos," he said. 

"Well, what they have said is that they are using him--he is being used in social media by ISIS as propaganda," Palmieri stammered. "She didn't have a particular video in mind, but he's being used in social media, and, uh, you know what they haven't found is the video Mr. Trump keeps talking about, this alleged mystery video of thousands of people in Jersey cheering the collapse of the World Trade Center. But it is true he is being used in social media by, um, ISIS, to, to help recruit and propaganda." 

"But to be clear, you don't have a video, as she said," Stephanopoulos asked.

"She's not referring to a specific video. But he is being used in social media by ISIS as propaganda." 

But she clearly said that Trump appears on videos that are being used by ISIS to recruit jihadists. 

Sorry, that's what Clinton said. Changing the argument to "Well Trump said there are videos with Muslims dancing in the streets in Jersey when the World Trade Center came down," [my paraphrase] is using a post hoc ergo propter hoc argument or perhaps a false analogy. It doesn't change the fact that Hillary is a liar who lies even when she yells "Good morning," to Bill in the next room. 

If you want to see more about Hillary Clinton's short list of lies, Politifact can get you started. However, the site only discusses the more recent lies and doesn't go into the Benghazi scandal, the email scandal that was generated by the Benghazi scandal, and Whitewater. 

This is an excellent video by Rush Limbaugh that clearly explains what Whitewater was all about. 

Hillary should not be in public office, she should be in prison. The notion that she actually could be our next POTUS is frightening.

Hillary has never met a scandal she didn't lie about and never gave an apology she should have given.

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