Say it ain’t so. Now Matt Lauer

[cabanafrau]

Eh. Lots of disgraced people find a way to come back after they've done a mea culpa, written a book, and gotten "treatment." Hey, some of them don't even get treatment. They just deny, deny, deny, and somehow, enough of the public forgives them or doesn't care that they are "back" before they've even left.

I predict the same for Matt Lauer. Give it a couple of years. At most.

I think ML is going to be toxic waste professionally a good long while at a minimum. It does bring up an issue that will have to be faced in light of all that's going on, there will have to be a road back to employment for some who have done wrong, taken their lumps and work to change their behavior. Most perpetrators are not in a position to be able to simply retire and live off their riches.

Incidentally, I'm talking about those who harass colleagues with inappropriate comments, jokes or more tame physical actions such as a neck rub, NOT those who venture into outright physical assault, coercion, etc., etc.

 

[Dentam]

Eh. Lots of disgraced people find a way to come back after they've done a mea culpa, written a book, and gotten "treatment." Hey, some of them don't even get treatment. They just deny, deny, deny, and somehow, enough of the public forgives them or doesn't care that they are "back" before they've even left.

I predict the same for Matt Lauer. Give it a couple of years. At most.

It's hard to imagine a news organization that would be willing to hire him after this. Talk about a PR nightmare. I think he's done. A book, sure I could see that. But no company will want to take him on with what is now openly known about his behavior.

 

[Wishing on a star]

I am just now seeing that clip of Katie Couric, some years ago, where she said that Matt's most annoying thing was "Pinching her on the butt a lot."
OMG, the look on her face as she mentally debated saying that.
No wonder she 'walked'!

And, of course, when the news broke, everyone was just so surprised and shocked!!!

Personally, I do not believe that there is any 'treatment' for this kind of thing.
Sexual perversion and assault is what it is.
Fake apologies and 'help' mean absolutely NOTHING to me.

 

[NHdisneylover]

I found it, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/business/media/nbc-matt-lauer.html

Interesting. I can understand a button that locks the door from the outside, so that no one can come IN, but I am suprised that it would also serve to lock peopel who are in from getting out---seems like a fire code issue among other things (and not needed for the security reason that keeping out might be needed)

 

[Imzadi]

Interesting. I can understand a button that locks the door from the outside, so that no one can come IN, but I am suprised that it would also serve to lock peopel who are in from getting out---seems like a fire code issue among other things (and not needed for the security reason that keeping out might be needed)

There are locks that are keyed from both sides. Maybe the inside having a key is enough for fire code issues. So if the electric button fails during a fire or power outage, the key will always work.

 

[Kitty 34]

I saw on a news program that they said Matt Lauer will have jobs offer pouring in. What do you all think? Will this be the nail in coffin or will he be on another station before we know it.

Maybe if he buys and operates his own station!!!

 

[AppleDumpling]

Yeah, that door lock button under the desk thing is really sketchy. Lauer got what he deserved; I only wish it had happened sooner. I hope he never works again.

None of these recent revelations surprise me, but it just makes me sad. Why do women have to put up with this kind of stuff just because some men are pigs and can’t control themselves?

 

[Imzadi]

This is an interesting & ironic twist: Geraldo Rivera tweets yesterday, coming to the defense of Matt Lauer:

"Sad about @MLauer great guy, highly skilled & empathetic w guests & a real gentleman to my family & me. News is a flirty business & it seems like current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation."​

To which Bette Midler has come forth with her own #MeToo tweet with a video clip she has of her being interviewed by Barbara Walters back in 1991, in which she details how she had been groped by Geraldo, after he & his producer pushed her into a bathroom and stuck poppers (a drug causing a headrush,) under her nose.

"In the interview, Midler tells Walters, "Geraldo and his producer came to do an interview with me, in the '70s, the early '70s. And this was when he was very, sort of, hot. And he and his producer left the crew in the other room. They pushed me into my bathroom. They broke two poppers and pushed them under my nose and proceeded to grope me."

"Poppers" is slang for the recreational drug alkyl nitrite.

"Grope?" Walters asks, looking surprised.

Midler responds, "Groped me. I did not offer myself up on the altar of Geraldo Rivera. He was ... he was unseemly.”​

Geraldo verified this by boasting about it in his 1991 memoir, titled "Exposing Myself." He wrote: "We were in the bathroom, preparing for the interview, and at some point I put my hands on her breasts."

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...ry-geraldo-rivera-allegedly/story?id=51491052


NBC news has been quick to get out the same news story since it takes down a FOX TV person and takes the focus off of their guy.

 

[tinatark]

I'm not following your meaning. Are you saying this case is harassment & a lot of other claims aren't, or are you saying that a lot of this case isn't harassment because it was taken out of context also?

Sorry - late night posting!

My opinion is that the majority of the harassment cases being brought forward today are not harassment at all.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Here is my response....

 

[penn19]

This is an interesting & ironic twist: Geraldo Rivera tweets yesterday, coming to the defense of Matt Lauer:

"Sad about @MLauer great guy, highly skilled & empathetic w guests & a real gentleman to my family & me. News is a flirty business & it seems like current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation."​

To which Bette Midler has come forth with her own #MeToo tweet with a video clip she has of her being interviewed by Barbara Walters back in 1991, in which she details how she had been groped by Geraldo, after he & his producer pushed her into a bathroom and stuck poppers (a drug causing a headrush,) under her nose.

"In the interview, Midler tells Walters, "Geraldo and his producer came to do an interview with me, in the '70s, the early '70s. And this was when he was very, sort of, hot. And he and his producer left the crew in the other room. They pushed me into my bathroom. They broke two poppers and pushed them under my nose and proceeded to grope me."

"Poppers" is slang for the recreational drug alkyl nitrite.

"Grope?" Walters asks, looking surprised.

Midler responds, "Groped me. I did not offer myself up on the altar of Geraldo Rivera. He was ... he was unseemly.”​

Geraldo verified this by boasting about it in his 1991 memoir, titled "Exposing Myself." He wrote: "We were in the bathroom, preparing for the interview, and at some point I put my hands on her breasts."

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...ry-geraldo-rivera-allegedly/story?id=51491052


NBC news has been quick to get out the same news story since it takes down a FOX TV person and takes the focus off of their guy.

Was anyone under the impression that Geraldo was a stand up guy? I would be more shocked if I heard he HADNT sexually harassed anyone.

 

[Imzadi]

Was anyone under the impression that Geraldo was a stand up guy? I would be more shocked if I heard he HADNT sexually harassed anyone.

I meant that I find it ironic that every powerful/famous man who has sexually harassed someone aren't all hiding under a rock somewhere by now and keeping quiet. Because if they come forward, especially to defend another harasser, someone from their past WILL out them now. And Geraldo was stupid enough to do that, and Bette spoke up.

 

[OhMari]

I meant that I find it ironic that every powerful/famous man who has sexually harassed someone aren't all hiding under a rock somewhere by now and keeping quiet. Because if they come forward, especially to defend another harasser, someone from their past WILL out them now. And Geraldo was stupid enough to do that, and Bette spoke up.

Didn't he even brag about cheating on his wife, he made a comment on how it was impossible to remain faithful.

 

[L&Lfan]

Apparently Lauer's lawyers want NBC to pay the 30 million still left on his contract.

 

[TheFloatingBear]

Apparently Lauer's lawyers want NBC to pay the 30 million still left on his contract.

But he is really sorry. And in his statement he says he needs to do a lot of soul searching, so he probably can't work during that process - as he said, it will be his "full-time job." So, yeah...

 

[OhMari]

But he is really sorry. And in his statement he says he needs to do a lot of soul searching, so he probably can't work during that process - as he said, it will be his "full-time job." So, yeah...

Hopefully there is a clause that null and voids the contract for inappropriate behavior. But I doubt Matt would of signed it if it had something in the contract like that.

 

[sam_gordon]

Apparently Lauer's lawyers want NBC to pay the 30 million still left on his contract.

Hopefully there is a clause that null and voids the contract for inappropriate behavior. But I doubt Matt would of signed it if it had something in the contract like that.

It depends on what the contract says. It's possible he's entitled to the $30mil.

 

[Queen2PrincessG]

Didn't he even brag about cheating on his wife, he made a comment on how it was impossible to remain faithful.

I heard that TOO! Its like, then don't get married! Or find someone who's ok with an open marriage.

 

[lorimay]

I heard that TOO! Its like, then don't get married! Or find someone who's ok with an open marriage.

I will be surprised if she doesn't "get out" after this.

 

[Imzadi]

It depends on what the contract says. It's possible he's entitled to the $30mil.

I will be surprised if she doesn't "get out" after this.

Matt Lauer's wife, too. She had filed to divorce him years ago, while 8 months pregnant. She claimed in the filing, she suffered “cruel and inhumane” treatment from him that he was controlling and demonstrated “extreme anger and hostility.” She withdrew the divorce filing a month later before having their child. She might leave him for good this time and take half of that $30mil, so he'll need the rest for his "therapy" and soul searching.