BREAKING: Lauer Accused Of Sexual Assault During Rio Olympics, More Allegations On Their Way

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By Ben Shapiro
http://www.dailywire.com/news/24094/breaking-lauer-accused-sexual-assault-during-rio-ben-shapiro

Matt Lauer is out at NBC. And that’s not the end of the story.

Lauer’s abrupt firing from NBC raised a number of serious questions about the network’s handling of the
controversial anchor – particularly since serious allegations about Lauer have apparently been floating
around for years. Variety and The New York Times have both been working on stories about such allegations.
On Wednesday morning, The New York Post ran with the first such allegation . . .

. . . According to the Post, Lauer had numerous affairs with subordinates at the network, but they were said
to be consensual. The Rio situation was not. More details will be forthcoming soon.

Lauer’s firing does demonstrate, however, that there is a vast gap between media treatment of sexual assault
and harassment, and political treatment of sexual assault and harassment. In the past few months, we’ve
seen the following major media figures thrown into the ashbin of history: Harvey Weinstein, Bill O’Reilly, Roger
Ailes, Kevin Spacey, Charlie Rose, Michael Oreskas, Mark Halperin, and Leon Wieseltier, among many others;
we’ve seen figures including Glenn Thrush, Louis CK, Brett Ratner and John Lasseter go into absence.

In politics, Republican Roy Moore is still set to win his Senate race; Al Franken (D-MN) is set to keep his Senate
seat; and nobody’s actually forcing Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) out . . .