This is no surprise, my first reaction to the shock of the NBC staff on TV was BS. Employees know WTH is going on, who has an alcohol or drug problem, who is creepy and a perv, who loves sex and is willing to perform, etc...
Besides, everyone on the show with him was making big bucks, they were all co-dependent.
My hope is Lauer decides the only way to make this right is to expose how bad it was, to admit all that he did to those young interns and then to tell everyone how he bent over all these married female co-anchors that used him liked he used them and then feigned all this unknowing shock. Men are getting and deserve a bad rap right now, but there is also plenty of sexually aggressive women attracted to power that also have power.
I believe some of the females that had some power at NBC wanted to bed Lauer, and betrayed many other women at NBC that wanted no part of Lauer and turned a blind eye and created an atmosphere that all women were game, bad enough the attitude of the men was this way. The jokes are funny because there is a bunch of truth to them, those women enjoyed the sexually charged environment. I feel bad for Ann Curry, she was abused there IMO.
I have no proof, but that is the way it looks to me. Out the whole thing Lauer, your bosses and the female co-workers that empowered you and were Co-dependent and left a lot of young women defenseless.
