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Tom Brokaw Accused of Sexual Harassment By Former NBC Anchor
Variety ^ | April 26, 2018 | Elizabeth Wagmeister and Ramin Setoodeh

Posted on 04/26/2018 5:46:50 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Linda Vester had a reputation for covering tough stories. As a war correspondent for NBC News in the ’90s, she spent three tours of duty in the Middle East and took two assignments in Africa.

But as it turned out, her biggest battle at work wasn’t in the field. She says it was as a victim of sexual harassment by Tom Brokaw, the legendary newsman who manned the anchor desk for “NBC Nightly News” for 22 years and hosted “Today” and “Meet the Press.”

In a series of interviews with Variety conducted over several months, Vester alleged that Brokaw physically tried to force her to kiss him on two separate occasions, groped her in a NBC conference room and showed up at her hotel room uninvited. Two friends who Vester told at the time corroborated her story with Variety, and she shared her journal entries from the time period. Brokaw, who has been married to Meredith Auld since 1962, has never before been publicly accused of sexual harassment.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brokaw; lindavester; metoo; msm; tombrokaw; vester
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To: ZagFan

“How do you prove you didn’t do something?”

It will be a civil suit if anything.

She has contemporaneous notes and contemporaneous phone conversations with a colleague.

He has “mumble, mumble, mumble”.


101 posted on 04/27/2018 7:22:29 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: yesthatjallen
I'm not impressed.

If you can't make a complaint in, say, the same calendar year, don't.

102 posted on 04/27/2018 7:25:40 AM PDT by gogeo
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To: faucetman

I don’t remember but surely the FBI can fabricate something.


103 posted on 04/27/2018 7:26:41 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: EDINVA

“She was on Fox for several years, then as I recall, had a couple of children and decided to stay home to raise them.”

Ahh, spend more time with the kids excuse .....

Maybe Roger Ailes & Tom Brokaw were sharing notes.


104 posted on 04/27/2018 7:29:53 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Yaelle
Force a get together, and when there, and given ZERO signal to get romantic, FORCE bodily contact against her will?? And she should just shut up about that?

Could she...oh, I don't know...maybe make an issue of it in the same century?

105 posted on 04/27/2018 7:34:25 AM PDT by gogeo
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To: jch10

“25 years ago? Sit down and shut up, Linda.”

You find out today that 25 years ago Tom Brokaw, your daughter’s boss and already a dirty OLD man, tried to force himself on her.

Would you say “25 years ago? Sit down and shut up, Linda.?”

Hey let’s invite your old boss over for dinner. We can reminisce about the “old days”.


106 posted on 04/27/2018 7:37:15 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: faucetman

Agree 100%!


107 posted on 04/27/2018 7:50:34 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (#KATE'SWALL Build it Now)
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To: yesthatjallen

108 posted on 04/27/2018 10:23:51 AM PDT by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: gogeo

Should a woman not make an issue of her powerful boss’s advances?

Look, even in a day before so much harrassment talk, it was not ok for a big honcho to hit on and expect satisfaction from the junior women.

Yes, women should call men on it. And public figures, even more so, because they frequently get away with dozens of such attacks, and it’s abusive.

Powerful men will simply have to get actual, consensual dates (or hired hands) outside of the office, period.


109 posted on 04/27/2018 11:49:05 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: yesthatjallen

I’m loving this. This guy went to bat for Honey-dipper Dan Rather so you know he’s a born liar.


110 posted on 04/27/2018 11:58:38 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: yesthatjallen
After a careful reading of Mr. Brokaw's forceful, fact-filled and convincing denial, I can only come to the conclusion that

he's guilty as hell! L O L

111 posted on 04/27/2018 12:59:33 PM PDT by keat
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To: yesthatjallen
After a careful reading of Mr. Brokaw's forceful, fact-filled and convincing denial, I can only come to the conclusion that

he's guilty as hell! L O L

112 posted on 04/27/2018 1:11:59 PM PDT by keat
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To: Fightin Whitey

Oh the baritone, how could I have ever forgotten? It was always so exaggerated that I expected grrrr at the end of every sentence. I had forgotten how much I disliked him.


113 posted on 04/27/2018 3:08:10 PM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

It’s all catching up to them and I do love seeing them fall now. They are older and it may be too late to rehab their image. Instead of making the broadcaster’s hall of fame they will be inducted in the Abuser’s Hall of Shame.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!


114 posted on 04/27/2018 3:16:58 PM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

He is convinced that he is still listened to and respected. This should take him down a peg or two.


115 posted on 04/27/2018 3:19:11 PM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: Bonemaker
In today's St. Paul paper alone, there were two "accusation" stories in addition to the Brokaw allegations.

One involved a massage therapist found not guilty of sexually assaulting a client. The allegation cost him his job. One can imagine his losses didn't stop there.

The other accusation was of "inappropriate touching" by a (Republican) state legislator on a 23-year-old woman who just happens to be a sexual assault victim's advocate. The legislator seemed to me to be genuinely surprised by the charge.

Allow me to make the blasphemous (in today's political climate) suggestion that the more these accusations pile up the less credible they seem.

It occurs to me it's becoming frightfully easy to make this type of claim stick, valid or not.

Questioning the veracity of the accuser is simply not proper.

116 posted on 04/27/2018 3:48:10 PM PDT by daler
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