http://www.nationalreview.com/node/441063/print Billy Bush Is Collateral Damage in Trump Tape Controversy
In the vapid world of celebrity gossip, chuckling while Donald Trump rambles backstage is business as usual.
By Jonah Goldberg — October 14, 2016
To say I care about Billy Bush’s career is overly generous. If you’d asked me two weeks ago who he is, I doubt I could have given an answer beyond, “The name is familiar,” or, “Isn’t he on one of those shows?” And by “those shows,” I mean that undifferentiated hog trough of Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, TMZ, Inside Edition, etc.
But now, of course, I know who he is. He’s the cousin of George W. Bush who’s made a living in the worlds of infotainment, gossip, celebrity worship, and distaff daytime “news,” to be found in the crucial third hour of NBC’s Today. He smiles a lot, too.
Eleven years ago, he worked for Access Hollywood, an aptly titled program that allows the hoi polloi to participate, at a distance, in the practice of what we will have to call “stellar fornication” for the benefit of the editors of family newspapers. He was assigned the task of interviewing Donald Trump on the cusp of Trump’s cameo appearance on the soap opera Days of Our Lives in which the self-described “star” was slated to promote his reality show, The Apprentice. A weighty affair indeed.
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