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UTUSN

(70,652 posts)
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 10:06 AM Sep 2019

Billy Shrub says LAUER & NBC got rid of him in trying to get rid of SHITLER with the Grab tape

Note to fellow Detesters of wingnut Faux/Newscorp/MURDOCH: I am one of you/us. Please don't derail this topic via announcing your/our disdain for the NY Post et al. MURDOCH has his hands full mentoring SHITLER, juggling his wives and kids, to be micro-ordering his lowlier of his employers what to write. Please start a thread on your hate of MURDOCH, disdain for NY Post, and vague implying that I spread wingnut talking points. Just let this thread sink like a stone as mine always do. Tia!1

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https://pagesix.com/2019/09/09/billy-bush-everyone-at-nbc-knew-about-access-hollywood-tape/

Billy Bush: ‘Everyone’ at NBC knew about ‘Access Hollywood’ tape

.... “I was told that, ‘You’re good. Don’t worry about it. It’s not you. You didn’t say anything,'” Bush recalls.

Two days later, he was fired from the “Today” show.

“Remember, it was — it was leaked on a Friday,” Bush says. “And then Sunday morning, I walked out that door, right over there, with my bags to go back to work. And the driver said, ‘I’m sorry, they’ve canceled the car.’ I said, ‘Oh, that must be a mistake.’

“Called my lawyer and I said, ‘Uh, are we OK?’ ‘Nope.'”

Multiple sources later exclusively told Page Six that a “Today” show staffer leaked the tape to not only try to derail Trump’s run for office but also appease then-host Matt Lauer, who “didn’t like” Bush but later got axed himself over sexual misconduct allegations.

“The leaked tape served a dual purpose: It helped get Bush out of the way — Matt Lauer didn’t like him and felt he was a liability — and NBC thought it would derail Trump,” said a source.

“But all it did was crush Billy, and, ironically, his own network was behind it.” ....

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UTUSN

(70,652 posts)
3. Well, SHITLER doesn't think so, craps on them almost as much as on CNN. Plus, SHITLER
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 10:19 AM
Sep 2019

has slashed and burned the BUSH Family Evil Empire members from top to bottom, heh.






UTUSN

(70,652 posts)
4. Yea, Billy Shrub seems to be covering himself, granted. Am not championing him just liking the spill
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 10:21 AM
Sep 2019

hlthe2b

(102,143 posts)
5. Well, I'm sure the truth lies somewhere in between, though I don't doubt for a second Lauer probably
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 10:27 AM
Sep 2019

back-stabbed Billy Bush whenever possible. He does have a history of that, after all. Ann Curry comes to mind. Still, sorry, Billy. You may have been unfairly caught up in the scandal, but your frat boy encouragement of Trump's horrific misogyny was just that.

UTUSN

(70,652 posts)
6. What gets me is that I pegged LAUER as a BFEE kiss-up. When Kitty KELLY's book on the Bs arrived,
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 10:30 AM
Sep 2019

LAUER tore her to pieces on the first day of the two that they hosted her. Maybe his stance towards Billy Shrub was on the basis of seeing a potential career competitor?






Sanity Claws

(21,842 posts)
8. It doesn't identify the NBC staffer who thought it would derail Trump
Tue Sep 10, 2019, 10:46 AM
Sep 2019

I think NBC and Lauer were behind Trump.
I could understand a staffer think that release of the tape would derail Trump but he was not a higher up, IMHO.

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