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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBilly 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/
.... I was told that, Youre good. Dont worry about it. Its not you. You didnt 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, Im sorry, theyve 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 Trumps run for office but also appease then-host Matt Lauer, who didnt 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 didnt 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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Desert Dem
(78 posts)was in the bag for Trump from 2015 escalator appearance on.
UTUSN
(70,851 posts)has slashed and burned the BUSH Family Evil Empire members from top to bottom, heh.
Me.
(35,454 posts)or seem to go along with it, did they?
UTUSN
(70,851 posts)hlthe2b
(102,636 posts)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
(70,851 posts)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?
hlthe2b
(102,636 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,869 posts)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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