Posted on 11/29/2017 2:43:53 PM PST by nickcarraway
Matt Lauer made headlines today, November 29th, after being fired from NBC over allegations of sexual misconduct in the workplace. And while many are shocked, a look back shows that Lauer has behaved questionably towards women in the past to varying degrees. In fact, in her recent memoir, What Happened, Hillary Clinton wrote she was “ticked off” at Lauer for his line of questioning at the Commander-in-Chief Forum before the 2016 election.
In the book, Clinton noted that Lauer focussed intently on her private email server, repeatedly returning to the topic even after it had been thoroughly discussed — all while throwing relatively easy questions Donald Trump’s way.
"Now I was ticked off," she wrote. "NBC knew exactly what it was doing here. The network was treating this like an episode of The Apprentice, in which Trump stars and ratings soar [...] Lauer had turned what should have been a serious discussion into a pointless ambush. What a waste of time."
Clinton wasn’t the only one disappointed by Lauer’s line of questioning. All in all, Lauer spent one-third of Clinton’s allotted 30 minutes questioning her about her emails, which meant she had little time to discuss complex issues like terrorism or the economy.
Critics also pointed out that Lauer continually interrupted Clinton, but not Trump.
Some also noted that Lauer failed to fact-check Trump’s claim that he had always opposed the war in Iraq — which would have been a relatively easy point to tackle. Twitter users expressed frustration with Lauer’s performance, accusing him of sloppy journalism.
While we will never know how much Lauer’s line of questioning in this forum affected the outcome of the presidential election, it serves as a reminder that women in politics are still subjected to unfair biases, and perhaps even indicates that Lauer was himself biased against a female candidate — a theory that holds weight in light of recent allegations.
Describes every MSM interview of conservatives.
That was about the only time she was really questioned about her e-mail server.
Yeah HOW DARE ANYONE in the liberal media ask the Chosen One a question..don’t they know the drill, they have to give her the questions in advance, ask her and her hired goons if they are OK with them, and if not, they get returned to them the questions that they do want asked such as “Beautiful day isn’t it?” and “What is your favorite sitcom?”
C’mon Hillary! You have many more scores to settle! These people betrayed you!
The left is A OK when this is done to Conservatives..but ask a liberal a question and they scream SEXISM!!
Maybe she was ticked off because Matt didn’t put the moves on her.
Because it sounds like it wasn’t a secret that Matt was a horndog.
Ohhh...it’s not nice to fool ‘Mutha Nature...
Always amazed at Hillary’s ego. How dare anyone ask her about any of her scandals. This is precisely why people didn’t vote for her. She is worse than Richard Nixon in terms of “Above the Rest of us” rhetoric.
Hillary was ticked off?
Lauer should be lucky he was only fired for this creepiness. Hillary could have had him Arkancided.
Terrorism and the economy are very simple issues. Kill the terrorists, cut taxes and spending.
No one gives a shi...er...Obama about Hillary.
No one.
Why Hillary,he didn’t want to pinch your butt?
Amen!! Preach it Brother! No One will hit that!!!
If I get the gist of this story, then it means Hillary is the one who is behind the curtain/funding the takedown of all these people.
Hard to miss
Not even Laz.
Rumor has it that Huma did.
But that was probably an attempt to get state secrets from Hildabeast to pass on to her Muslim Brotherhood pals.
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