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(47,481 posts)He was so biased one had to wonder why he was there. Was not a debate, just questioning each at a time but still.
FarPoint
(12,405 posts)I did sense his arrogance then...I feel a little validated now...but then I need to stay focused...
I do not support Trial by Media...
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)Butterflylady
(3,544 posts)Matt, yours just came around.
SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)except for Trumpf. His time is coming.
malaise
(269,016 posts)SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)Could be another Weinstein situation.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)I assumed his lousy performance in those debates was because he wasn't used to being on air that long without a break for a cooking demonstration.
MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,116 posts)he wasn't fired for the biased treatment of the debate. Wish he were . . .
KPN
(15,646 posts)Though that would be nice (and comforting to know) if it were so. NBC is mega-MSM. They are not on our side.
FarPoint
(12,405 posts)That was filthy of him essentially. Hyped his questions in tRump style.
jalan48
(13,869 posts)More deregulation, the elimination of net neutrality and lower taxes being at the top of the list. If they thought Trump was a better option in that respect they would skew their coverage accordingly.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)but I'd say lauers performance at the debates was politically motivated. George Clooney could have been the candidate and lauer still would have gone easy on trumpft.
Sexism, like racism, is a good tool to whip up the masses. But the real issues are political. They want their tax brakes and de-regulation, and democrats aren't going to give it to them.
sexist after sexist after sexist is discovered having helped shape the narrative of 2016. If this had happened to Obama and we found out that the drivers of the narrative belonged to the Klan we wouldn't be spouting off crap about how racism is just a distraction.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)jalan48
(13,869 posts)analyzing the news. They are ALL Comcast. It's a type of slight-of-hand being performed by our owners.
KPN
(15,646 posts)never watch him. Has he come out against the tax bill and net neutrality?
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Last edited Wed Nov 29, 2017, 05:59 PM - Edit history (1)
That shitshow got 4 pages in her book.
Link to tweet
Oppaloopa
(867 posts)calimary
(81,283 posts)i remember that. I was pissed off about the open hostility he showed to her, particularly when you compared it to the cozy way he dealt with trump. He seriously disrespected her!
So if this is his karmic comeuppance, then so be it. I'll take what I can get.
SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,984 posts)I remember everything
Maven
(10,533 posts)Last edited Wed Nov 29, 2017, 12:39 PM - Edit history (1)
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that they all seem to have made it their mission to take down our nation's first viable female candidate for president. Is Chuckie Todd next?
padah513
(2,502 posts)When I first heard that Lauer was implicated, I don't why Toad came to mind, but he did.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)That's a ridiculous statement. Nor was it Rose's job, or Halperin's.
I have no idea who Thrush is.
7962
(11,841 posts)Maven
(10,533 posts)After the election he actually lamented that he and others in the media couldn't portray HRC as negatively as they wanted to (!) because they would be painted as misogynists. If the shoe fits, Chuckie.
Halperin's animus toward HRC is well-documented. Google "Mark Halperin Hillary Clinton" for some examples.
Thrush is a (now suspended) NY Times reporter who, along with Maggie Haberman, has been a Hillary-hater extraordinaire. His Twitter account went dormant right before he was suspended from the Times for sexual harrassment claims. That was right after he posted an unhinged tweetstorm in which he claimed HRC deserved all negative coverage she received and the MSM did nothing wrong in 2016.
Maybe before you rudely call someone else's statements ridiculous, inform yourself.
aggiesal
(8,915 posts)had nothing to do with is line of questions to
each candidate.
Hekate
(90,704 posts)IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)Think of the children
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Response to Kingofalldems (Original post)
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PatSeg
(47,468 posts)how rude he was to Hillary, rushing her when she responded to his questions, claiming they only had so much time. Then he let Trump do whatever he wanted. Lauer disdain and disrespect for Clinton was so in-your-face.
I never understood why this talentless, unappealing buy had such a high paying job on television.
Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)He's an asshat.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)So tired of the conservative press catering to the conservatives and the so-called liberal media also catering to the conservatives, while simultaneously allowing the MSM to be denigrated by rwnj as the liberal media. Lose-lose-lose. Sick and fucking tired of it.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)I have seen his hypoctitical mug.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)and came off as an ass.
MojoWrkn
(139 posts)fawning over trump just helped trump get "elected"! Matt Liar (what I've always called him) deserves this!
Javaman
(62,530 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)Matt Lauer---meh--he's no loss to me.
benld74
(9,904 posts)mountain grammy
(26,622 posts)The misogyny was so thick you could see it.. so long Matt!
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)niyad
(113,318 posts)(anybody who is subjected to the rabloids at supermarket checkstands is not in the least shocked by the latest revelations about lauer.)
Gothmog
(145,288 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)Miigwech
(3,741 posts)Who cares when they get canned? Not a bad thing to remind the power abusing arss holes that they are not as big as they think.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)but I think that his treatment of Hillary was completely unconscionable.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,956 posts)...he was very unfair. Happy to see him go...
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)yardwork
(61,622 posts)sandensea
(21,636 posts)Time, of course, has proven her right.
BootinUp
(47,154 posts)liberalla
(9,248 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)He got what he deserved
kimbutgar
(21,155 posts)When I heard it this morning I was happy they kicked his a$$ to the curb.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)He knew a psycho like Trump would be the one to do it. Bigger ratings,bigger contract for Lauer.