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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: Bonemaker

NBC culture...Matt Lauer...


61 posted on 04/26/2018 7:01:46 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: PLMerite

So did Tom..........( I do too)


62 posted on 04/26/2018 7:03:05 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: yesthatjallen

No wonder he could never pronounce “Matt Llllllllauer.”


63 posted on 04/26/2018 7:03:31 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: yesthatjallen

Well aint THIS sweet? They are ALL phonies who pretend to tell us how we should act


64 posted on 04/26/2018 7:04:01 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Yet SlowJoe still hasn't explained the dead girl in his office.
65 posted on 04/26/2018 7:08:25 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: yesthatjallen
What does this tell us about liberal women?

1)They never forget.

2)They will eat their own.

66 posted on 04/26/2018 7:12:15 PM PDT by CaptainK ("no collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker")
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To: yesthatjallen

How sickening that most of the variety comments are SUPPORTING Brokaw.

Really? So men think that a very high up supervisor can push past a junior young employee’s insistence on NOT getting together, 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?

Disgusting attitude. Hell yes, that is harrassment verging on sexual assault. A forced kiss from a hostile, aggressive boss? If women should “put up with” that, then straight men should put up with being tickled and force kissed by their much stronger gay male bosses too.


68 posted on 04/26/2018 7:20:50 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Snickering Hound

How do you prove you didn’t do something?

I would expect Brokaw to come out swinging to defend himself. He didn’t. He gave a weak statement even admitting he met with her.

What is Vester’s motive? She didn’t ask for money. She seems like a decent person with some values. Good for her.


69 posted on 04/26/2018 7:25:21 PM PDT by ZagFan
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

“It’s a w-w-waste of a good quaalude, Bill: if you’re famous they will LET you grab it!”

70 posted on 04/26/2018 7:25:34 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: yesthatjallen

Sooner or later, every man on Planet Earth will be accused.


71 posted on 04/26/2018 7:26:23 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: mylife

You say the man expressed interest in women?


So men should be free to force their bodies or faces onto subordinates? That is just “expressing an interest?” Then Clinton never did anything wrong, according to you, did he?


72 posted on 04/26/2018 7:27:38 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle
It exposes the hypocrisy of the left.

The same people likely rip Trump to shreds when a woman accuses him of ogling them.

They'll defend their own to the death.

If nothing else we now have this Brokaw issue to throw back at them.

73 posted on 04/26/2018 7:29:54 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Mr. K

How would you react if he tried this on your wife, your daughter, your granddaughter? He had the power to fire her or destroy her career. I’m glad she’s exposing this creep for what he is. Who cares when she does?


74 posted on 04/26/2018 7:31:37 PM PDT by ZagFan
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To: yesthatjallen

Tom Bwowcaw, Glen Blee Glee Glightglee Glues


75 posted on 04/26/2018 7:36:28 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: ZagFan
What is Vester’s motive? She didn’t ask for money. She seems like a decent person with some values. Good for her.

Riiiight.

She's on the wrong side of 50 in a media career fishing for that Gretchen Carlson settlement while the checks are flying.

76 posted on 04/26/2018 7:41:03 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: yesthatjallen

Every time they drag Brokaw out of the closet and have him expound on some subject I immediately think that the network should break down and buy him a $100 set of false teeth to replace the ones he got from a pawn shop or someones trash.


77 posted on 04/26/2018 7:42:26 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: yesthatjallen

First Matt Lauer, today Bill Cosby, next Tom Brokaw. NBC’s support of the Me Too Movement is blowing up in NBC’s face.


78 posted on 04/26/2018 7:45:31 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Fightin Whitey
I reckon the accuser had to get her name in the hat while he’s alive...you can’t sue a dead man, can you?

You can't sue a dead man, but you can sue his estate.

79 posted on 04/26/2018 7:47:57 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: lee martell

He was part of the sewer that shoved such crap down everyone’s throat. Let him enjoy it.


80 posted on 04/26/2018 7:48:03 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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