11.29.17 Bee-otch of the Day: NBC

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Name: The National Broadcasting Company
Age: 91
Occupation: broadcast giant
Last Seen: New York, NY
Bee-otched For: allowing one brick to fall, but allowing others to stay

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OK, so when will guys learn that women don't want to see their junk or even be touched? Obviously, the likes of Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, Louis CK, Al Franken, John Conyers and - gotta throw this in - Drumpf all haven't gotten the memo.

Now, it's time to throw Matt Lauer's name onto the list.

This morning, the world was stunned when his Today Show co-anchor, Savannah Guthrie, fought back tears as it was announced that he had been terminated from NBC over a memo that network brass had received from a female coworker of his that he had done something inappropriate to her. Allegedly, the action occurred during the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Lauer had been a part of Today since 1994 as a news anchor. In 1997, he moved up to the male co-anchor chair with Katie Couric, where he remained for 20 years, making him one of the show's longest-serving hosts. Of course, the female anchor position changed many times over the years with Couric, Meredith Viera, Ann Curry and Guthrie. When Curry was let go from the show a few years ago, many blamed Lauer for her dismissal. Once a strong #1 in the morning ratings, the show has since dipped to second place behind ABC's Good Morning America.

The news of Lauer's firing from the Peacock Net comes a week after his CBS This Morning competition, Charlie Rose was also 86'd when several women claimed the same thing. He was also dismissed from his long-running PBS show.

Now, what Lauer allegedly did was probably disgusting. After all, it was sickening enough for NBC to fire him. But that's not why I'm handing NBC the honor of Bee-otch of the Day today. It's because quite simply, The Today Show sucks.

I felt that Lauer was a decent newsman up until this incident was revealed. But the sad thing is, NBC has been milking the shit out of the show like it's the only show they have to offer at times. The show is on the air four hours in the morning and to add insult to injury, they repeat the fourth hour with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb at 2:05 a.m. on many stations. The fact that NBC also decided to hand the third hour of the show to Megyn Kelley shows how fucking stupid they are.

Oh, and let's not forget that those happy-go-lucky news stories done by Dubya's little girl, Jenna. How many "#metoo" moments did she have to have to get her job? Every time I see that fat ho on my TV screen, I grab the remote. "Hi! My Daddy's stupidity killed 3,000 on 9/11 and 4,000 more in Iraq and Afghanistan! I need a job!"

To me, it's laughable seeing NBC News falling apart. As a believer in karma, I'm happy that they were forced to kick Brian Williams from the anchor chair and now, Matt Lauer after what they did to MSNBC and its once-proud left lean. Ed Schultz = GONE. Keith Olbermann = GONE. And so on. Now, it's a weird mix of what little left-wing influence they have left plus the right-winged assholes they now have like Hugh Hewlett. Granted, it is somewhat awesome that they've gotten back to being a little more to the left again, but that's only after they've realized that there's only one Fox News Channel and they're not them. Parent Comcast kissing Republican ass over net neutrality laws only got them fucked hardcore in the long run, which is why the Nightly News and Today are down in second place while scandal-free ABC is in first place comfortably.

NBC, ya gotta lotta work to do.

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