It&#8217;s not every day that a news article from a mainstream media outlet truly shocks you. We&#8217;re all used to the predictable narratives at this point. Most of it&#8217;s just noise. But the other day, there was a very notable exception to this general rule.
An article published by <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/race-change-to-another-trend-online-rcna93759" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>, of all places, just blew up the entire narrative of transgenderism. Out of nowhere, NBC came out with a well-researched, in-depth piece that completely debunks the entire concept — eradicates the whole ideology, you might even say. They even quote several all-important experts at prestigious universities, who concur that the madness needs to end. That&#8217;s right — after years of insisting that anyone can change their gender at will, simply by wishing it, they&#8217;ve given up. Sanity has prevailed. Not since NBC News aired Katie Couric&#8217;s colonoscopy, live on air, has the network produced content so unexpected and jarring. Yet it is a very welcome departure from the norm. I mean this article is welcome, not the colonoscopy.
Now, to be clear, as you might have guessed by now, NBC News published this in-depth analysis without realizing what they were doing. Self-awareness, as ever, is in short supply in the mainstream media. But there&#8217;s no denying that&#8217;s what they did: they obliterated, point-by-point, any logical argument in favor of transgenderism.
How did they do it? The piece in question is on NBC News&#8217; website right now. It&#8217;s headlined, &#8220;Inside the online world of people who think they can change their race.&#8221; The article is, apparently, intended to disprove the idea that you can &#8220;opt into&#8221; another racial category. And along the way, accidentally, every argument from NBC News and their &#8220;thought leaders&#8221; ends up refuting the idea that people can change their gender too.
The piece begins by describing a teenager living in Maryland who thinks she&#8217;s transforming into a Japanese woman. She&#8217;s changed her name. She also thinks that, just by wishing it, her hair is getting darker, her eyelids are getting smaller, et cetera.
Right away, the keen observer might note, that sounds exactly like the lingo that trans activists use. According to NBC, this girl also watches videos like this one, apparently to help her ‘transition’ proceed at some mental level. Here’s the video , but be forewarned that it might turn you Asian apparently: 
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Well I don’t know about you but I’m feeling more Japanese already.
Now, any sane person might look at that clip and conclude that it&#8217;s crazy — and that anyone who watches this, thinking it changes their race, is delusional. Case closed.
But at NBC News, they weren&#8217;t ready to move on so quickly. This is something of a sensitive subject for them. They&#8217;ve spent the last few years telling us that anyone can change their gender at will. So, they understand that they have to respond to the obvious question, which is: why shouldn&#8217;t we affirm the identity of this teenage trans-Japanese girl? She says she&#8217;s Japanese. She watched a few YouTube videos and maybe even bought a kimono or two. She feels more at home, more herself, in her Japanese identity. She recognizes inside herself her innate Japanese-ness. Why isn’t that good enough? Who are we to deny her lived experience? Who are we to reject her truth?
Well, here’s the crux of NBC News&#8217; argument, “Experts agree race is not genetic. But they contend that even though race is a cultural construct, it is impossible to change your race because of the systemic inequalities inherent to being born into a certain race.&#8221;
Think about what they wrote for more than two seconds, and the logic falls apart. They&#8217;re saying you can&#8217;t change your race because there are &#8220;systemic inequalities inherent to being born into&#8221; certain races. But wait a minute. Aren&#8217;t these the same experts who tell us that women live under the thumb of the patriarchy — that they can&#8217;t even earn an honest living because of how sexist our society is? That sounds a lot like &#8220;systemic inequality.&#8221; And yet they have no problem with men deciding to identify as women, despite all the &#8220;systemic inequality&#8221; women have allegedly endured. Why is that?
The NBC piece doesn&#8217;t say, which is strange, because they&#8217;ve had a lot of time to prepare for this question. 
Remember when they destroyed Rachel Dolezal a few years ago? She claimed to be black, and she drove them absolutely crazy because they had no way of refuting it. Here was Matt Lauer&#8217;s attempt at taking her down:
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Notice Matt Lauer uses all these &#8220;transphobic&#8221; arguments to disprove Rachel Dolezal&#8217;s claim that she&#8217;s black. First, he confronts her with a photo of her in her teenage years. He suggests that because she was white then, she can&#8217;t possibly be black now. Matt Lauer then calls in Dolezal&#8217;s parents, who deny her lived experience as a black woman. We&#8217;re meant to take that as proof that Dolezal is lying.
So why exactly aren&#8217;t we allowed to refute transgenderism on the same basis? Why exactly can&#8217;t we show photos of William Thomas, before he started pretending to be a female swimmer, as proof that he&#8217;s really a man? Why aren&#8217;t we supposed to call the parents of transgender activists, and ask them what gender their kid really is?
At the time, Matt Lauer and NBC News didn&#8217;t resolve that question. But now NBC is intent on addressing it, because there&#8217;s a lot more Rachel Dolezals coming out of the woodwork all of a sudden. And that&#8217;s a big problem for the trans movement. They desperately don&#8217;t want you to apply the incoherent logic of &#8220;transgenderism&#8221; in order to justify &#8220;trans-racialism.&#8221;
It&#8217;s clear why that is, and in a moment I&#8217;ll get to that. But for now let&#8217;s focus on NBC&#8217;s argument, such as it is. NBC News called in a series of experts for their article. Unfortunately for NBC, every single one of them managed to accidentally undercut the trans argument even further.
They quoted a trans activist named Tiq Milan, for example, who objects to &#8220;trans-racialism&#8221; on the grounds that people with fetishes are into it. Can you imagine? Milan says, “It’s not just putting on the hair and the makeup and talking and walking [in] a kind of way. That is fetishizing, and it’s objectifying, and it reduces the beautiful and complicated cultures of people of color.”
In other words, going full Trudeau and layering on the blackface doesn&#8217;t make you black; in fact it fetishizes and targets black people in a way that&#8217;s totally inappropriate. That seems intuitive enough. But strangely enough, the expert did not condemn autogynephiles who dress up as women for the sole purpose of arousal and debasing women. Why not? NBC News was, again, silent on that point.
Let&#8217;s pause for a second. You might be wondering whether this article was a kind of &#8220;cry for help&#8221; from deep within the bowels of NBC News. And honestly, it might be. The author of the piece is a college student at the University of Pennsylvania who&#8217;s currently interning at the network. This intern is majoring in philosophy. Why would NBC News assign a college kid to write their big takedown of &#8216;trans-racialism&#8217;? Who knows. Maybe they got played.
Either way, it&#8217;s entertaining.
And the more you read, the better it gets. At one point, the piece tries to rebut the idea that trans-racialism and transgenderism are comparable. They quote that same activist, Tiq Milan, with this line — which may be the single dumbest statement ever uttered by a trans activist, as mighty a hurdle as that would be. &#8220;Race historically emerged as a social construct to establish a racial hierarchy with the white race at the top, whereas variances in gender identity have existed for thousands of years, he said.&#8221;
It&#8217;s hard to know where to begin. The first line is simply false, for one. The concept of race did not begin with colonialism. It began in antiquity. The Roman poet Virgil called his people the &#8220;toga-ed race,&#8221; for example. And many cultures, like in Asia, established &#8220;racial hierarchies&#8221; that had nothing to do with whites. Other cultures created &#8220;racial hierarchies&#8221; that put the white race at the bottom. In fact, they&#8217;re calling for a white genocide in South Africa right now. In case you missed it, here’s footage of a leading political figure in the country chanting “kill the white farmer” as a massive crowd cheers him on:
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Shocking video shows South Africa’s black party singing “kill the Boer (Whites), kill the White farmer”
This is all downstream from the rotten secular religion of wokeness and CRT plaguing America today.
You have been warned.
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That doesn&#8217;t seem like a &#8220;racial hierarchy with the white race at the top.&#8221; So we&#8217;re left with the trans activist&#8217;s claim that &#8220;variances in gender&#8221; identity that we&#8217;re seeing today have been around for &#8220;thousands of years.&#8221; Yes, we all know that there were a bunch of pansexual aromatic non-binary&#8217;s walking around in the 1600’s. It’s just that nobody ever mentioned them. We have to believe this on faith, I suppose. It takes faith, because in fact, as it turns out, there is no recorded history — anywhere in the world, in any culture — of people believing that men could actually be women and women could actually be men. This concept did not exist anywhere until it was invented by gender ideologues in the 20th century.
But even putting all the factual issues to the side, what that &#8220;expert&#8221; said doesn&#8217;t begin to explain why people can&#8217;t change their race. Even if you assume it&#8217;s true that gender identity has been around for longer than racial distinctions, there&#8217;s still no answer to this basic question: Why can&#8217;t we change our race? Do we have to wait a thousand years or so, and then we can do it? Besides, if race is a new concept then doesn’t that make it even more fluid and negotiable? Doesn’t that make it even more valid to reject the social construct of race entirely?
Who knows. The NBC piece just moves on. They flail a bit and cite Jamie Cohen, a random Queens College professor, for some support. He says people can&#8217;t change their race because, “It’s just belief. &#8230; It doesn’t ever really work, because it’s not doing anything, but they have convinced themselves that it works because there’s other people who have convinced themselves, as well.”
Social contagion, anyone? By the way, Jamie Cohen, like the author of this piece, is not a scientist. He&#8217;s a culture and media studies professor. On his website, he says he specializes in &#8220;memes,&#8221; something called &#8220;advertising inequalities,&#8221; and social media. That&#8217;s not to say he can&#8217;t comment on this topic, of course. But it&#8217;s notable that the very same people who yell things like, &#8220;You can&#8217;t comment on transgenderism; you&#8217;re not a member of the American Medical Association,&#8221; — those same people are now quoting meme professors to explain away trans-racialism.
It&#8217;s worth pausing to note something that&#8217;s curiously absent from this NBC bombshell. And that&#8217;s the word &#8220;sex.&#8221; Nowhere in this five-page article does the word &#8220;sex&#8221; come up. They talk about &#8220;gender&#8221; and &#8220;social constructs&#8221; throughout the piece, but never sex. Why is that?
Here&#8217;s one possibility. Maybe it&#8217;s because they know that sex has a clear biological component. And at a biological level, there&#8217;s an objective, genetic explanation for why some people are men, and some people are women. And these genetic differences between men and women are far more substantial than any conceivable genetic differences between racial categories. Men have a completely different set of chromosomes than women do, and that affects the entire body and how it functions. What that means is that trans-racialism, while completely crazy, is a lot less crazy than transgenderism. The transracial Japanese girl has a much more valid claim to her Japanese identity than any man has to a female identity or vice versa. Race actually is fluid, after all. Everyone is a mix of races and ethnicities. 
So why do they want to avoid talking about genetics and objective reality? Why can&#8217;t they just come out and admit that, yes, if you support transgenderism, then you must also support trans-racialism? The truth is, they embrace transgenderism, while rejecting trans-racialism, for a simple reason — one that has nothing to do with logic or science. The Left has constructed a race-based spoils system that punishes their political opponents and elevates loyal members of their party. They don&#8217;t want that system to come crashing down on them. Self-identified transgenders are the Left&#8217;s dependable political allies. The people who could take advantage of a trans-racialism are not. If Asians and white people could instantly claim to be oppressed black men, then all of their cynical racial politics would collapse overnight. And they can&#8217;t have that. It&#8217;s that simple. The pseudoscience is a cover, and not a particularly effective one.
A lot of people have tried to make that case over the years, especially since the Rachel Dolezal episode. But few of them have done it better than NBC News and their intrepid philosophy intern. In their attempt to shut down trans-racialism, they have exposed transgenderism. To be sure, like a confused teenager in Maryland who thinks she&#8217;s Japanese, NBC has no idea what it&#8217;s doing. But in this case, they accidentally did some journalism. And for that, we should all be grateful.
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Matt Walsh 4

NBC News Totally Obliterates Trans Ideology By Accident

Matt Lauer

Matt Walsh

NBC News

Race

Readers Pass

Transgender

During a shareholders meeting on Wednesday, Comcast CEO and Chairman Brian Roberts rejected multiple proposals from investors, including one that demanded the company hire an outside investigator to look into how NBC News handled complaints of sexual harassment against fired “Today” show anchor Matt Lauer.
The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-06-03/comcast-rejects-outside-investigation-sexual-harassment-nbc-farrow-lauer?_amp=true">reported</a> that some investors asked why Comcast didn’t hire an outside investigator to look into allegations of sexual misconduct. CBS and Fox News, for the record, each hired outside law firms to investigate such allegations within their ranks. Yet NBC has still refused, instead relying on an internal investigation with assistance from two outside law firms that concluded NBC News was not at fault and that no complaints had been filed against Lauer until November 2017.
More from the Times:
<blockquote>One shareholder, Arjuna Capital of Manchester, Mass., requested the company conduct an “independent investigation and report on risks posed by failing to prevent sexual harassment.”
The firm noted that NBC News’ digital editorial staff voted to form a union with the NewsGuild of New York because staff members, among other things, have “serious questions” about management’s handling of allegations of workplace sexual misconduct. Allegations about inappropriate comments by managers have been made by three Comcast call center employees, according to Arjuna.
“Workplace harassment can harm shareholder value,” Arjuna Capital wrote in its proposal. “To avoid legal and reputational risk, as the employer of 184,000 workers, Comcast must create a culture of accountability and transparency, and protect employees from harassment and discrimination.”</blockquote>
Comcast fought the suggestion, asking shareholders to reject Arjuna Capital’s proposal because “our company has been built on a foundation of respect, integrity and trust, and we are committed to creating a work environment that promotes those values.”
Last fall, former NBC host Ronan Farrow published a book alleging a conspiracy to cover up allegations against Lauer. Farrow’s book was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/business/media/ronan-farrow.html">criticized heavily</a> by New York Times media columnist Ben Smith. Lauer himself wrote <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/matt-lauer-why-ronan-farrow-is-indeed-too-good-to-be-true/">an article</a> for Mediate highlighting numerous factual issues with Farrow’s book, providing evidence to back up his criticism.
NBC did hire an outside firm to look into allegations from Gabrielle Union, who claimed racism and a toxic environment led to her exit from “America’s Got Talent.” That outside firm concluded that an alleged toxic environment had “no bearing” on her leaving the show.
In addition to requests for the outside investigation into sexual allegations, an elderly couple also requested “senior discounts” for cable customers. Another shareholder concern was that some MSNBC anchors were supporting protesters even as protests across the country turned violent. Chairman Roberts, however, dismissed concerns and ignored the violence.
“It is truly heartbreaking and tragic that, in 2020, we find our society still struggling with issues that are so core to human dignity. Racism, injustice, violence have no place and cannot be tolerated,” he said. “By and large, I think the coverage continues to inform and educate our society. &#8230; But thank you for your comment.”
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Comcast Building

Comcast Continues To Reject Demands For Outside Investigation Into NBC’s Handling Of Sexual Harassment Complaints

Ronan Farrow

Sexual Misconduct

Former &#8220;Today&#8221; host Matt Lauer has officially moved on to a new girlfriend after finalizing his divorce in the aftermath of a spate of #MeToo allegations that torpedoed his career.
According to <a href="https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/matt-lauer-dating-shamin-abas-annette-roque-look-alike/">In Touch</a> magazine, Matt Lauer is now dating marketing executive Shamin Abas, a friend of his since 2005.
&#8220;The new couple enjoyed a romantic getaway to New Zealand over the holiday weekend, shortly after they were spotted catching a flight out of New Jersey on December 19, as seen in exclusive photos obtained by In Touch,&#8221; the outlet reported.
An insider source said the relationship happened gradually, but they are now a &#8220;full-fledged item.&#8221; Lauer was reportedly “<a title="https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/matt-lauer-is-ready-to-move-on-after-annette-roque-divorce/" href="https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/matt-lauer-is-ready-to-move-on-after-annette-roque-divorce/">on the prowl</a>” for a new girlfriend in the wake of his divorce; Abas is one of the few friends who apparently stood by him following the slew of allegations.
“She knows who he is,” the source said. “She’s thrilled she’s with him. She doesn’t seem to have a care in the world. For everything he may have done, Matt’s very charming. I can see how Shamin fell for him.”
“He can trust Shamin,” they added.
Matt Lauer remained mostly silent after exiting NBC over a series of sexual assault allegations, choosing only to publicly defend himself after a former colleague, Brooke Nevils, openly accused him of rape this past October. In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-matt-lauers-open-letter-slams-accusers-my-silence-was-a-mistake">strongly-worded</a> letter, Lauer described the allegations against him as unequivocally false.
“Over the past two years people have asked why I have not spoken out to defend myself more vigorously against some of the false and salacious allegations leveled at me,” Lauer wrote. “It is a fair question and the answer is deeply personal. Despite my desire to set the record straight and confront the individuals making false allegations, I wanted nothing less than to create more headlines my kids would read and a new gathering of photographers at the end of our driveway. So I decided to just stay quiet and work on repairing my relationship with the people I love. It has been the most important full-time job I have ever had.”
“But my silence has been a mistake,” Lauer continued. “Today, nearly two years after I was fired by NBC, old stories are being recycled, titillating details are being added, and a dangerous and defamatory new allegation is being made. All are being spread as part of a promotional effort to sell a book. It’s outrageous. So, after not speaking out to protect my children, it is now with their full support I say ‘enough.&#8217;”
In response, Brooke Nevils accused Lauer of &#8220;victim blaming&#8221; by saying they had consensual sex the night that their encounter took place.
“There’s a Matt Lauer that millions of Americans watched on TV every morning for two decades. And there is the Matt Lauer who this morning attempted to bully a former colleague into silence,” Nevils said. “His open letter was a case study in victim blaming. I am not afraid of him now regardless of his threats, bullying, and the shaming and predatory tactics I knew he would and now has tried to use against me.&#8221;

Today – Season 66

Matt Lauer Has A New Girlfriend

MeToo

On Monday, author Sil Lai Abrams explained how her rape accusation against music mogul Russell Simmons and sexual assault charge against then &#8211; “Extra” host A.J. Calloway were allegedly killed off by NBC in 2018.
Abrams says Simmons, who has since moved to Bali, raped her in 1994. Mr. Calloway, who no longer works at &#8220;Extra&#8221; — which &#8220;airs in major markets on NBC owned-and-operated stations,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/russell-simmons-an-extra-host-nbc-news-a-sexual-assault-accusers-story-1123824">The Hollywood Reporter</a> — allegedly sexually assaulted the author in 2006. Both Simmons and Calloway have denied the allegations.
According to Abrams, her #MeToo claims were set to be covered by MSNBC host Joy Reid before the interview was killed off by NBC higher-ups in the same fashion journalist Ronan Farrow&#8217;s reporting on Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was apparently buried.
&#8220;I have been struck by the company’s (NBC) insistence that Ronan didn’t have the Harvey Weinstein story in the bag,&#8221; Abrams writes at <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-not-just-ronan-farrow-nbc-news-killed-my-rape-allegation-story-too?ref=scroll">The Daily Beast</a>. &#8220;I don’t believe a word of what it says because in 2018, the network killed my #MeToo story that was being reported by MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid. Incredibly, a year after NBC botched Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein, they had the audacity to do it again.&#8221;
Abrams says she was put through &#8220;a thorough vetting process” and an on-camera interview with Reid was taped on January 7, 2018, which was scheduled to air six days later. She assumed they would go forward with the taped interview and publish an accompanying #MeToo piece written by Reid for New York magazine. Neither, however, would hit the press. 
The day before the interview was set to air, Abrams was asked to contact Reid. 
&#8220;When we spoke a few hours later, she informed me that Russell Simmons&#8217; attorney had gone ballistic and NBC was not going to air the segment, and the New York magazine story was also on hold since they were paired,&#8221; Abrams said. &#8220;She assured me the story wasn’t dead, but that NBC simply needed more vetting done in order to feel comfortable with moving forward.&#8221;
&#8220;Over the next several months, NBC put me through an elaborate and bizarre vetting process,&#8221; Abrams continues. &#8220;I provided legal documentation, hospital bills, and over a dozen corroborating witnesses. Still, they stonewalled. I asked Joy repeatedly if NBC was going to do to her what it did to Ronan, and she said that she didn’t think so.&#8221;
In mid-February, Reid allegedly emailed Abrams:
<blockquote>“So basically the story got caught up in a couple of vices: the struggle to get comments from the principles (now mostly alleviated), threats from Russell’s lawyer that spooked NBC,” Joy told me via email. “So now NBC… is demanding that I do all of this additional reporting to meet a legal and standards review.”</blockquote>
“Still not clear why NBC is demanding more corroboration regarding A.J. [arrest] &#8230; his lawyer already confirmed the case, but I know this isn’t about you,” Abrams replied to the MSNBC host. 
“My team and I, my PA and senior producer helping me with the story met with the standards department rep today just to figure out what the heck’s going on,” Reid explained to Abrams in a phone call two weeks later. “I just have to get my company to have the guts to do the story. I’ve never done a story that has this much evidence before. I have more evidence than the LA Times and The New York Times stories combined. So the whole thing is, if my company will trust the evidence that I’ve shown them, which is substantial, they will do the story.”
When Abrams asked if the network was going to kill her story due to legal threats from Simmons&#8217; and Calloway’s attorneys, Reid allegedly told her: “We have enough that we have satisfied the standards side, but this is now in the hands of lawyers who have to determine the likelihood of a lawsuit by two people now, and what is the likelihood that we will prevail. … This has now gone up past the attorneys I deal with to the head of NBCUniversal’s lawyers. I’ve never been through anything like this.”
Abrams writes that the last time she spoke with Reid was on April 6, 2018, when Reid told her should take her story elsewhere. Senior management, Reid reportedly told her, had stopped responded to her inquiries about the story.
As reported last week by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-floats-real-reason-megyn-kelly-was-canned-from-nbc">The Daily Wire</a>, Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested that former NBC host Megyn Kelly was canned from the network because she called for an outside investigation into internal claims of sexual misconduct by former “Today” host Matt Lauer and the handling of Farrow’s reporting on Weinstein. 
“Last September, early September, you (Kelly) on your show, on the air on NBC, called for an independent investigation into these allegations,” Carlson said to Kelly, who appeared alongside the host on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Wednesday night. 
Carlson ran a clip of Kelly from September 2, 2018. “There is a question about whether or not there should be an outside investigator to take a hard look at this,” she said. “To me, as a lawyer, it’s just always better to just send it outside, and then people can have more faith in it and if there’s nothing to hide, you have no worries about it,” Kelly added. 
“People’s jaws hung open when you said that,” Carlson told Kelly. “There have been a couple of published accounts that say you were fired from NBC, a little more than a month later, for saying that.”
Kelly was ostensibly canned from NBC in October for discussing whether it’s “racist” or not for people to darken their faces for Halloween costumes.  
Carlson then pointed out that MSNBC host Chris Hayes similarly questioned NBC’s handling of such allegations and reporting. “He (Hayes) is saying essentially what you said, which is he doesn’t trust the management at NBC News,” he said to Kelly. “Given your experience, do you think he’s in jeopardy of being fired?”
Tellingly, Kelly responded: “No comment to that.” 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-floats-real-reason-megyn-kelly-was-canned-from-nbc">Tucker Carlson Floats Real Reason Megyn Kelly Was Canned From NBC: Called For Independent Investigation</a>

Sil Lai Abrams

Author Says Her Rape Claim Set To Air With Joy Reid Was Killed By NBC

Megyn Kelly

Sexual Assault

Tucker Carlson

On Wednesday, NBCUniversal announced that there will not be any additional investigations into sexual misconduct allegations surrounding former “Today” host Matt Lauer. 
&#8220;There is no additional investigation being launched,” NBCUniversal spokesperson Hilary Smith said, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nbcuniversal-wont-conduct-new-matt-lauer-investigation-1248592">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. &#8220;We are very confident in the report that was conducted.”
&#8220;We fired Matt Lauer within 24 hours of learning what he did, and promptly launched a corporate investigation,” Smith contended. “Based on our investigative findings, we have swiftly taken appropriate actions to address the situation and improve workplace culture. It is also worth noting that this was a corporate investigation that was conducted by an almost entirely female team, none of whom are part of the News division.&#8221;
Megyn Kelly, a former NBC employee who’s been vocal in her support for an outside investigation, blasted the network for their lack on transparency. 
“CBS, FOX, NPR, NFL &#8211; all hired outside investigators,” she posted to Twitter. “NBC again refuses to do so &#8230; as it claims it has ‘nothing to hide.’”
“RELEASE ALL LAUER ACCUSERS FROM THEIR NON-DISCLOSURES,” Kelly added, in all upper case letters.
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CBS, FOX, NPR, NFL &#8211; all hired outside investigators. NBC again refuses to do so &#8230; as it claims it has “nothing to hide.” RELEASE ALL LAUER ACCUSERS FROM THEIR NON-DISCLOSURES. <a href="https://t.co/cMoLMYCcE6">https://t.co/cMoLMYCcE6</a>
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While working for NBC, Kelly publicly called for an outside investigation into the network over internal claims of sexual misconduct regarding Lauer and the suspect handling of allegations into Democrat megadonor Harvey Weinstein.
“There is a question about whether or not there should be an outside investigator to take a hard look at this,” Kelly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-floats-real-reason-megyn-kelly-was-canned-from-nbc">said</a> on NBC airwaves on September 2, 2018, referring to the Lauer allegations and apparent stonewalling on Weinstein reporting from then-NBC journalist Ronan Farrow. “To me, as a lawyer, it’s just always better to just send it outside, and then people can have more faith in it, and if there’s nothing to hide, you have no worries about it,” she added.
While Kelly was ostensibly fired from NBC a month later for remarks about darkening one&#8217;s face for Halloween costumes, Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested Wednesday that Kelly was actually canned for calling for an outside investigation.
Kelly neither confirmed nor denied Carlson&#8217;s theory.
“There needs to be an outside investigation into this company,” she told Carlson. “They investigated themselves, that doesn’t work. Fox News had an outside investigator, CBS News had an outside investigator, NPR, the NFL, this is how it’s done. You get somebody on the outside who can be trusted.” 
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-lauer-accused-of-rape-by-former-colleague-lauer-responds">The Daily Wire</a> last week, former NBC news employee Brooke Nevils claims she was raped by Lauer in 2014 while covering the Sochi Olympics, Farrow&#8217;s new book &#8220;Catch and Kill&#8221; reveals.
“Once she was in his hotel room, Nevils alleges, Lauer — who was wearing a T-shirt and boxers — pushed her against the door and kissed her. He then pushed her onto the bed, ‘flipping her over, asking if she liked anal sex,’ Farrow writes. ‘She said that she declined several times,’” a report from Variety said.
Nevils claims she “was in the midst of telling him she wasn’t interested again when he ‘just did it,’” Farrow wrote in the book. “Lauer, she said, didn’t use lubricant. The encounter was excruciatingly painful. ‘It hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?’ She told me she stopped saying no, but wept silently into a pillow.”
“It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent,” the former NBC employee told Farrow. “It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn’t want to have anal sex.”
Nevils admitted that she had consensual sexual encounters with Lauer following the alleged rape — some of which she initiated.
According to Farrow, Nevils says the alleged incident was an open secret at NBC before a formal complaint was filed and Lauer was canned.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-floats-real-reason-megyn-kelly-was-canned-from-nbc">Tucker Carlson Floats Real Reason Megyn Kelly Was Canned From NBC: Called For Independent Investigation</a>

NBC Won’t Open New Investigation Into Matt Lauer; Megyn Kelly Responds

Rape

On Wednesday night, Fox News&#8217; Tucker Carlson, citing published accounts, suggested the real reason Megyn Kelly was canned from her job at NBC last year was because she called for an outside investigation into the network over internal claims of sexual misconduct and the suspect handling of allegations into Democrat mega-donor Harvey Weinstein. 
&#8220;Last September, early September, you (Kelly) on your show, on the air on NBC, called for an independent investigation into these allegations,&#8221; Carlson said to Kelly, who appeared alongside the host on &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight.&#8221;
Carlson ran a clip of Kelly doing just that on September 2, 2018. &#8220;There is a question about whether or not there should be an outside investigator to take a hard look at this,&#8221; Kelly said, referring to allegations of sexual misconduct aimed at former “Today” host Matt Lauer and apparent stonewalling on Weinstein reporting of then-NBC journalist Ronan Farrow. “To me, as a lawyer, it&#8217;s just always better to just send it outside, and then people can have more faith in it and if there&#8217;s nothing to hide, you have no worries about it,” Kelly added. 
&#8220;People&#8217;s jaws hung open when you said that,&#8221; Carlson told Kelly. &#8220;There have been a couple of published accounts that say you were fired from NBC, a little more than a month later, for saying that.&#8221;
Kelly was ostensibly canned from NBC in October for discussing whether it’s “racist” or not for people to darken their faces for Halloween costumes. 
Carlson then pointed out that MSNBC host Chris Hayes similarly questioned NBC&#8217;s handling of such allegations and reporting. 
&#8220;He (Hayes) is saying essentially what you said, which is he doesn&#8217;t trust the management at NBC News,&#8221; Carlson said to Kelly. &#8220;Given your experience, do you think he&#8217;s in jeopardy of being fired?”
&#8220;No comment on that,&#8221; Kelly tellingly responded. “I will say, the question is open as to whether [NBC] put dollars ahead of decency.” 
“There needs to be an outside investigation into this company,” she continued. “They investigated themselves, that doesn&#8217;t work. Fox News had an outside investigator, CBS News had an outside investigator, NPR, the NFL, this is how it’s done. You get somebody on the outside who can be trusted.” 
As outlined by Tiana Lowe earlier this week, it’s become increasingly clear that Kelly was likely fired for questioning NBC management, rather than the “blackface” comments, in light of reporting from Farrow&#8217;s new book &#8220;Catch and Kill.&#8221;
“Ronan Farrow&#8217;s explosive reporting on the lengths NBC went to shut down his investigation into Harvey Weinstein grants further credence to an unpalatable, sexist, and abhorrent rationale for Kelly&#8217;s firing: NBC wanted to silence Kelly&#8217;s coverage of their former anchor, Matt Lauer,” Lowe posted at <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/nbc-probably-fired-megyn-kelly-for-her-matt-lauer-coverage">The Washington Examiner</a>. 
“In the weeks before the blackface nothingburger, Kelly spent ample amounts of time on her talk show reporting on the numerous sexual assault and harassment allegations plaguing Lauer. Unlike many of her fellow daytime hosts, Kelly had covered the #MeToo beat in scrupulous and, at times, necessarily unsavory detail: conducting explosive interviews with multiple Weinstein victims, and when the Lauer story broke and his termination from NBC came shortly thereafter, Kelly covered it with the same righteous indignation,” she continued. “On live television, Kelly called on her own employers to allow an external team to investigate the network&#8217;s handling of the entire Lauer affair, and she went so far as to interview one of Lauer&#8217;s accuser on air.”
“It&#8217;s a massive gamble to criticize the ethics of your own employer on national television, but Kelly rightly made that bet. And NBC fired her for it,&#8221; Lowe claimed. &#8220;We can be more confident thanks to new reporting by Farrow.&#8221;
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Tucker Carlson Floats Real Reason Megyn Kelly Was Canned From NBC: Called For Independent Investigation

Harvey Weinstein

A “well-respected” star at NBC had an affair with former “Today” host Matt Lauer — a tryst which “represent[ed] a ‘clear imbalance of power,’” according to the <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/10/15/matt-lauer-had-an-affair-with-a-well-respected-nbc-star/">New York Post</a>. 
The alleged affair hit the news on Tuesday, a mere week after news broke of a rape accusation against Lauer from former NBC employee Brooke Nevils. The accusation has been vehemently denied by Lauer. 
The woman Lauer allegedly had an affair with signed a nondisclosure agreement before she departed NBC, the Post reported. 
“Matt had influence over everyone’s career — one word and your career would be sunk. I know there was a clear imbalance of power in this woman’s relationship with Matt,” a TV source told the paper. 
Journalist Ronan Farrow’s new book “Catch and Kill” “claims Lauer repeatedly harassed a fellow on-air NBC personality, who was allegedly forced to sign a strict NDA when she left the network in 2012,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/matt-lauer-affair-respected-nbc-star-report">Fox News</a> noted Wednesday. It’s unclear if the woman in the book is the same one tied to Lauer in the Post report.
According to Farrow, the woman who left the network in 2012 claimed Lauer and another NBC executive “propositioned her and made lewd comments about her during broadcasts,” Fox reported.
“I was like meat on a hook … I would walk into work with a knot in my stomach. I would come home and cry,” she claimed. 
After she turned down their advances, the woman claimed her “career took a sharp nosedive.” 
The accuser told fellow colleagues of the alleged harassment but never filed a complaint with human resources, noted Fox. “When she left, NBC forced her to sign a nondisclosure agreement that waived her right to sue and banned her from making disparaging comments about the network, the book states.”
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-lauer-accused-of-rape-by-former-colleague-lauer-responds">The Daily Wire</a> last week, Nevils told Farrow that she was anally raped by Lauer in 2014 while covering the Sochi Olympics.
Nevils said that she, then-“Today” anchor Meredith Vieira, and Lauer had drinks at the hotel bar the NBC team was staying at during the Olympics. After socializing, Nevils said she went to Lauer’s hotel room to get back her press credentials, which she said were taken by Lauer as a joke. She then returned to his room a second time upon invitation, when the alleged rape took place.
“Once she was in his hotel room, Nevils alleges, Lauer — who was wearing a T-shirt and boxers — pushed her against the door and kissed her. He then pushed her onto the bed, ‘flipping her over, asking if she liked anal sex,’ Farrow writes. ‘She said that she declined several times,’” the Variety report said.
Nevils claims she “was in the midst of telling him she wasn’t interested again when he ‘just did it,’” Farrow wrote in the book. “Lauer, she said, didn’t use lubricant. The encounter was excruciatingly painful. ‘It hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?’ She told me she stopped saying no, but wept silently into a pillow.”
“It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent,” the former NBC employee told Farrow. “It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn’t want to have anal sex.”
Nevils admitted that she had consensual sexual encounters with Lauer following the alleged rape — some of which she initiated.
On Wednesday, Lauer’s lawyer sent Variety an open letter admitting to the affair with Nevils but sharply denying any coercion. 
“In a new book, it is alleged that an extramarital, but consensual, sexual encounter I have previously admitted having, was in fact an assault,” wrote Lauer. “It is categorically false, ignores the facts, and defies common sense.”
“I had an extramarital affair with Brooke Nevils in 2014,” the 61-year-old continued. “It began when she came to my hotel room very late one night in Sochi, Russia. We engaged in a variety of sexual acts. We performed oral sex on each other, we had vaginal sex, and we had anal sex. Each act was mutual and completely consensual.”

Sexual Harassment Accusations Roll In Against Lauer, Affair With ‘Well-Respected’ NBC Star

NBC News President Noah Oppenheim is attempting to get ahead of the scandal included in former MSNBC host Ronan Farrow’s new book, “Catch and Kill,” which releases on Tuesday.
On Monday morning, Oppenheim sent a lengthy email to NBC News staffers laying out what he alleges are factual inaccuracies in Farrow’s book. The content of the email was shared on Twitter by journalist Yashar Ali. Oppenheim objects to Farrow’s characterization of NBC as having covered up former “Today” show host Matt Lauer’s sexual misconduct in part through payouts to “silence” his accusers who came forward.
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4. NBC News President Noah Oppenheim just sent this long email to NBC News staffers in advance of <a href="https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonanFarrow</a>’s book which comes out tomorrow <a href="https://t.co/i62JjZlDit">pic.twitter.com/i62JjZlDit</a>
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&#8220;Matt Lauer&#8217;s actions were abhorrent, and the anger and sadness he caused continue to this day,&#8221; Oppenheim began the email. &#8220;As we&#8217;ve said since the moment he was fired, his abuses should never have happened.&#8221;
&#8220;Ronan Farrow&#8217;s book takes that undeniable fact and twists it into a lie – alleging we were a &#8216;company with a lot of secrets.&#8217; We have no secrets and nothing to hide,&#8221; he continued.
Oppenheim wrote to employees that NBC employees have read Farrow’s book and determined that “it’s clear &#8212; his smear rests on the allegation that NBC’s management knew about and took steps to hide Matt Lauer’s misconduct before his firing in November of 2017.  Without that, he has no basis on which to rest his second conspiracy theory &#8212; that his Harvey Weinstein reporting was squashed to protect Lauer.&#8221;
Oppenheim claims that “the so-called evidence Farrow uses in his book to support the charge collapses under the slightest scrutiny.” The NBC president then laid out the company’s alleged counter evidence – an analysis from “Kim Harris and the [NBC Universal] Legal Team.”
This analysis claims that the “only three examples we can find that Farrow alleges are Lauer-related before 2017, with even minimal detail, involve employees who by their own admission made no complaint to management, and whose departure agreements were unrelated to Lauer and completely routine.”
The first example involves a named woman in Farrow’s books who, according to Oppenheim, told former NBC host Ann Curry about Lauer’s behavior. Curry, Oppenheim claims, merely told two NBC executives that Lauer “had a problem with women.” One of the executives allegedly denied having heard any such claim. This accuser apparently left the company three years after her allegations and “made no complaint about Lauer.” At the time of her departure, she “was paid 22 weeks of severance based on her years of service, and was asked to sign a separation agreement that was standard for departing employees at the time.”
That contract, according to NBC, was not designed to prevent employees from reporting misconduct.
The second example was an “on-air personality” who also “signed a completely standard separation agreement, including a routine confidentiality provision that was in her original employment contract.” This employee also, according to NBC, did not make any report to management but did show inappropriate messages from Lauer to “colleagues.” The third example involved a “senior member of the Today show team” who received a severance NBC claims, “was commensurate with her salary.” Farrow in his book says the woman received a “seven-figure payout.”
Oppenheim claims the agreements were about protecting “proprietary company information.” It will be hard for regular Americans to understand how much money was given to these three women as “severance” without it looking like a payoff.
Oppenheim also failed to address audio recorded by Ambra Gutierrez showing Harvey Weinstein trying to get her into his hotel room despite her repeated refusals. As Farrow writes in his book, NBC squashed his story about Weinstein’s sexual assault and says that Oppenheim dismissed the audio by saying “Eh … I mean, I don’t know what it proves.”

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NBC Staff Memo Claims Ronan Farrow’s New Book Takes A Fact ‘And Twists It Into A Lie’

On Wednesday evening, Matt Lauer&#8217;s rape accuser Brooke Nevils ripped the former NBC daytime news host&#8217;s open letter defense, accusing him of &#8220;victim blaming.&#8221;
&#8220;There’s a Matt Lauer that millions of Americans watched on TV every morning for two decades. And there is the Matt Lauer who this morning attempted to bully a former colleague into silence,&#8221; Nevils wrote in the statement to NBC News, according to <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/10/09/brooke-nevils-calls-lauer-defense-a-case-study-in-victim-shaming/?_ga=2.254381576.1881320997.1570721058-1941273117.1559752445">Page Six</a>.
&#8220;His open letter was a case study in victim blaming. I am not afraid of him now regardless of his threats, bullying, and the shaming and predatory tactics I knew he would and now has tried to use against me,&#8221; the accuser added.
Nevils&#8217; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-lauer-accused-of-rape-by-former-colleague-lauer-responds">rape allegation</a> against Lauer hit the press earlier on Wednesday. Nevils, a former NBC News employee herself, told journalist Ronan Farrow she was anally raped by Lauer in 2014 while covering the Sochi Olympics.
After socializing at a hotel bar with Lauer and then-&#8220;Today&#8221; anchor Meredith Vieira, Nevils said she went to Lauer’s room to get back her press credentials, which she said were taken by Lauer as a joke. She then returned to his room a second time upon his invite, when the alleged rape took place.
&#8220;Once she was in his hotel room, Nevils alleges, Lauer — who was wearing a T-shirt and boxers — pushed her against the door and kissed her. He then pushed her onto the bed, &#8216;flipping her over, asking if she liked anal sex,&#8217; Farrow writes. &#8216;She said that she declined several times,'&#8221; the <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/matt-lauer-rape-nbc-ronan-farrow-book-catch-kill-1203364485/">Variety</a> report said.
Nevils claims she &#8220;was in the midst of telling him she wasn’t interested again when he &#8216;just did it,'&#8221; Farrow wrote in his book &#8220;Catch and Kill.&#8221;
&#8220;Lauer, she said, didn’t use lubricant. The encounter was excruciatingly painful. &#8216;It hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?&#8217; She told me she stopped saying no, but wept silently into a pillow,&#8221; the book claimed.
&#8220;It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent,&#8221; the former NBC employee told Farrow. &#8220;It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn’t want to have anal sex.&#8221;
Nevils admitted that she had consensual — though she described them as &#8220;transactional&#8221; — sexual encounters with Lauer, some of which she initiated, after the alleged rape took place.
Lauer flatly denied the rape allegation in a fiery <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-matt-lauers-open-letter-slams-accusers-my-silence-was-a-mistake">open letter</a>, saying Nevils&#8217; accusations &#8220;defy common sense.&#8221; He also noted that his past silence on the matter was &#8220;a mistake.&#8221;
&#8220;Over the past two years people have asked why I have not spoken out to defend myself more vigorously against some of the false and salacious allegations leveled at me,&#8221; Lauer wrote in the letter, which was released by his lawyers and published by <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/matt-lauer-pens-open-letter-ronan-farrow-book-allegations-1246419">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. &#8220;It is a fair question and the answer is deeply personal. Despite my desire to set the record straight and confront the individuals making false allegations, I wanted nothing less than to create more headlines my kids would read and a new gathering of photographers at the end of our driveway. So I decided to just stay quiet and work on repairing my relationship with the people I love. It has been the most important full-time job I have ever had.&#8221;
&#8220;But my silence has been a mistake,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Today, nearly two years after I was fired by NBC, old stories are being recycled, titillating details are being added, and a dangerous and defamatory new allegation is being made. All are being spread as part of a promotional effort to sell a book. It’s outrageous. So, after not speaking out to protect my children, it is now with their full support I say &#8216;enough.'&#8221;
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-matt-lauers-open-letter-slams-accusers-my-silence-was-a-mistake">READ IT: Matt Lauer’s Open Letter Slams Accusers: ‘My Silence Has Been A Mistake’</a>

Matt Lauer’s Rape Accuser Rips His Defense As ‘Victim Shaming’

Crime

Amid multiple reports based on new allegations detailed in Ronan Farrow&#8217;s upcoming book, former &#8220;Today&#8221; anchor Matt Lauer has come under fire again for alleged past sexual misconduct. While NBC News has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/horrific-nbc-news-nukes-former-anchor-after-explosive-new-allegations">made clear</a> that it stands with Lauer&#8217;s accusers, the embattled former host has felt compelled to write a lengthy open letter expressing his regret for having chosen to stay silent and denouncing the allegations of his accusers.
&#8220;Over the past two years people have asked why I have not spoken out to defend myself more vigorously against some of the false and salacious allegations leveled at me,&#8221; Lauer wrote in an open letter released by his lawyers and published Wednesday by <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/matt-lauer-pens-open-letter-ronan-farrow-book-allegations-1246419">The Hollywood Reporter</a> (full letter below). &#8220;It is a fair question and the answer is deeply personal. Despite my desire to set the record straight and confront the individuals making false allegations, I wanted nothing less than to create more headlines my kids would read and a new gathering of photographers at the end of our driveway. So I decided to just stay quiet and work on repairing my relationship with the people I love. It has been the most important full-time job I have ever had.&#8221;
&#8220;But my silence has been a mistake,&#8221; Lauer continues. &#8220;Today, nearly two years after I was fired by NBC, old stories are being recycled, titillating details are being added, and a dangerous and defamatory new allegation is being made. All are being spread as part of a promotional effort to sell a book. It’s outrageous. So, after not speaking out to protect my children, it is now with their full support I say &#8216;enough.'&#8221;
Lauer was fired by NBC in late November of 2017 after a series of allegations of sexual misconduct came to light. Ahead of the release of Farrow&#8217;s big book, &#8220;Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators&#8221; (Oct. 15), multiple outlets have reported on some of the book&#8217;s key claims. In a report Wednesday, <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/matt-lauer-rape-nbc-ronan-farrow-book-catch-kill-1203364485/">Variety</a> detailed the allegations of former NBC News employee Brooke Nevils:
<blockquote>In Sochi, Nevils was tasked with working with former “Today” co-anchor Meredith Vieira, who’d been brought back to the show to do Olympics coverage. In Nevils’ account, one night over drinks with Vieira at the hotel bar where the NBC News team was staying, they ran into Lauer, who joined them. At the end of the night, Nevils, who’d had six shots of vodka, ended up going to Lauer’s hotel room twice — once to retrieve her press credential, which Lauer had taken as a joke, and the second time because he invited her back. Nevils, Farrow writes, “had no reason to suspect Lauer would be anything but friendly based on prior experience.”
Once she was in his hotel room, Nevils alleges, Lauer — who was wearing a T-shirt and boxers — pushed her against the door and kissed her. He then pushed her onto the bed, “flipping her over, asking if she liked anal sex,” Farrow writes. “She said that she declined several times.”
According to Nevils, she “was in the midst of telling him she wasn’t interested again when he ‘just did it,’” Farrow writes. “Lauer, she said, didn’t use lubricant. The encounter was excruciatingly painful. ‘It hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?’ She told me she stopped saying no, but wept silently into a pillow.” Lauer then asked her if she liked it. She tells him yes.</blockquote>
Nevils told Farrow that the incident &#8220;was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent&#8221; and that she allegedly told him &#8220;multiple times&#8221; she did not want to perform the act.
In his open letter, Lauer blasted Nevils&#8217; claims, suggesting that she is willfully lying about the nature of their relationship and that specific encounter.
&#8220;The story Brooke tells is filled with false details intended only to create the impression this was an abusive encounter,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;Nothing could be further from the truth. There was absolutely nothing aggressive about that encounter. Brooke did not do or say anything to object. She certainly did not cry. She was a fully enthusiastic and willing partner. At no time did she behave in a way that made it appear she was incapable of consent. She seemed to know exactly what she wanted to do. The only concern she expressed was that someone might see her leaving my room. She embraced me at the door as she left.&#8221;
&#8220;This encounter, which she now falsely claims was an assault, was the beginning of our affair,&#8221; Lauer continues. &#8220;It was the first of many sexual encounters between us over the next several months. After we returned to New York, we both communicated by text and by phone. We met for drinks, and she met me at my apartment on multiple occasions to continue our affair. Our meetings were arranged mutually. At no time, during or after her multiple visits to my apartment, did she express in words or actions any discomfort with being there, or with our affair. She also went out of her way to see me several times in my dressing room at work, and on one of those occasions we had a sexual encounter. It showed terrible judgment on my part, but it was completely mutual and consensual.&#8221;
He goes on to suggest that she is lying about the incident for profit.
&#8220;It was not until I was called in to speak to an NBC attorney on November 28, 2017 that I first learned Brooke had any complaint. I answered all questions openly and honestly for more than an hour. At that meeting I was never told that Brooke claimed our encounter in Sochi was non-consensual. Had I been, I would have defended myself immediately,&#8221; he states. &#8220;After Brooke filed her complaint in late 2017, her attorney publicly insisted she wanted to remain anonymous. He said she just wanted NBC to “do the right thing.” But within a year she was reportedly out trying to sell a book. And it appears that she also sought a monetary payment from NBC. Now she is making outrageous and false accusations to help sell a different book and stepping into the spotlight to cause as much damage as she can.
Below is the full text of the letter:
<blockquote>Over the past two years people have asked why I have not spoken out to defend myself more vigorously against some of the false and salacious allegations leveled at me. It is a fair question and the answer is deeply personal. Despite my desire to set the record straight and confront the individuals making false allegations, I wanted nothing less than to create more headlines my kids would read and a new gathering of photographers at the end of our driveway. So I decided to just stay quiet and work on repairing my relationship with the people I love. It has been the most important full-time job I have ever had.
But my silence has been a mistake.
Today, nearly two years after I was fired by NBC, old stories are being recycled, titillating details are being added, and a dangerous and defamatory new allegation is being made. All are being spread as part of a promotional effort to sell a book. It’s outrageous. So, after not speaking out to protect my children, it is now with their full support I say “enough.”
In a new book, it is alleged that an extramarital, but consensual, sexual encounter I have previously admitted having, was in fact an assault. It is categorically false, ignores the facts, and defies common sense.
I had an extramarital affair with Brooke Nevils in 2014. It began when she came to my hotel room very late one night in Sochi, Russia. We engaged in a variety of sexual acts. We performed oral sex on each other, we had vaginal sex, and we had anal sex. Each act was mutual and completely consensual.
The story Brooke tells is filled with false details intended only to create the impression this was an abusive encounter. Nothing could be further from the truth. There was absolutely nothing aggressive about that encounter. Brooke did not do or say anything to object. She certainly did not cry. She was a fully enthusiastic and willing partner. At no time did she behave in a way that made it appear she was incapable of consent. She seemed to know exactly what she wanted to do. The only concern she expressed was that someone might see her leaving my room. She embraced me at the door as she left.
This encounter, which she now falsely claims was an assault, was the beginning of our affair. It was the first of many sexual encounters between us over the next several months. After we returned to New York, we both communicated by text and by phone. We met for drinks, and she met me at my apartment on multiple occasions to continue our affair. Our meetings were arranged mutually. At no time, during or after her multiple visits to my apartment, did she express in words or actions any discomfort with being there, or with our affair.
She also went out of her way to see me several times in my dressing room at work, and on one of those occasions we had a sexual encounter. It showed terrible judgment on my part, but it was completely mutual and consensual.
Brooke now says that she was terrified about the control I had over her career and felt pressure to agree to our encounters after Sochi. But at no time during our relationship did Brooke work for me, the Today Show, or NBC News. She worked for Meredith Vieira (who had not worked for the Today Show in several years) in a completely different part of the network, and I had no role in reviewing Brooke’s work.
I admit, I ended the affair poorly. I simply stopped communicating with her. Brooke continued to reach out. She admitted to NBC at the time she filed her complaint that she called me late at night while I was home with my family in an effort to rekindle the affair. But I attempted to go back to my life and pretend as if nothing had happened. I understand how that must have made her feel. However, being upset or having second thoughts does not give anyone the right to make false accusations years later about an affair in which they fully and willingly participated.
Between February 2014 and November 2017, Brooke and I saw each other more than a dozen times at professional gatherings, both large and small. Despite the fact that our affair was over, she always went out of her way to greet me warmly and engage in conversation. It was not until I was called in to speak to an NBC attorney on November 28, 2017 that I first learned Brooke had any complaint. I answered all questions openly and honestly for more than an hour. At that meeting I was never told that Brooke claimed our encounter in Sochi was non-consensual. Had I been, I would have defended myself immediately.
After Brooke filed her complaint in late 2017, her attorney publicly insisted she wanted to remain anonymous. He said she just wanted NBC to “do the right thing.” But within a year she was reportedly out trying to sell a book. And it appears that she also sought a monetary payment from NBC. Now she is making outrageous and false accusations to help sell a different book and stepping into the spotlight to cause as much damage as she can.
But Brooke’s story is filled with contradictions. Which Brooke is to be believed?
• She claims our first encounter was an assault, yet she actively participated in arranging future meetings and met me at my apartment on multiple occasions to continue the affair.
• She says I was the one pursuing the relationship, yet once it was over, she was the one calling me asking to rekindle it.
• She says she felt pressure to continue the affair because I had control over her career, but she did not work for me, the Today Show, or NBC News.
• She said she wanted to remain anonymous, yet she was reportedly trying to sell a book within year after filing her complaint.
• She said she just wanted NBC to “do the right thing,” yet she sought a monetary payment, and two years after I was fired, she is stepping forward to do more damage.
There are people who fully understand the actual dynamic that existed between Brooke and me. They have reluctantly and quietly reached out in the past two years and shared what they know. They have accurately described Brooke and her role in this affair. I hope those people will understand that these allegations cross a serious line, and what they can share is a vital truth, even if it may seem unpopular.
Because of my infidelity, I have brought more pain and embarrassment to my family than most people can ever begin to understand. They’ve been through hell. I have asked for their forgiveness, taken responsibility for what I did do wrong, and accepted the consequences. But by not speaking out I also emboldened those who continue to do me harm with false stories.
One such story I should have confronted a long time ago is an example of why I believe my silence was a mistake. Despite numerous erroneous reports in the past, there was not a button in my office that could lock the door from the inside. There was no such locking mechanism. It didn’t exist. NBC confirmed this fact publicly following my termination.
It would have been impossible to confine anyone in my office, for any purpose, and I have never attempted to make anyone feel as if they were confined in my office. I have never assaulted anyone or forced anyone to have sex. Period.
Anyone who knows me will tell you I am a very private person. I had no desire to write this, but I had no choice. The details I have written about here open deep wounds for my family. But they also lead to the truth. For two years, the women with whom I had extramarital relationships have abandoned shared responsibility, and instead, shielded themselves from blame behind false allegations. They have avoided having to look a boyfriend, husband, or a child in the eye and say, “I cheated.” They have done enormous damage in the process. And I will no longer provide them the shelter of my silence.
Matt Lauer</blockquote>
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New allegations leveled against NBC News and its former anchor Matt Lauer have been met with multiple vehement denials and one particularly harsh rebuke.
On Wednesday, multiple reports based on previews of former NBC reporter Ronan Farrow&#8217;s new book, “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators” (available October 15), detailed explosive claims about Lauer and the network, which Farrow says protected the &#8220;Today&#8221; anchor amid alleged sexual misconduct.
Among the claims leveled by Farrow — who left NBC after the network refused to run his bombshell Harvey Weinstein exposé — is that the network was cowed by Weinstein and quashed Farrow&#8217;s story after the mega-producer &#8220;made it known to the network that he was aware of Lauer’s behavior and capable of revealing it.&#8221;
Farrow&#8217;s book also lays out new allegations against Lauer, including from former NBC News employee Brooke Nevils. <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/matt-lauer-rape-nbc-ronan-farrow-book-catch-kill-1203364485/">Variety</a>, one of the outlets which obtained an advance copy of the book, reports:
<blockquote>In Sochi, Nevils was tasked with working with former “Today” co-anchor Meredith Vieira, who’d been brought back to the show to do Olympics coverage. In Nevils’ account, one night over drinks with Vieira at the hotel bar where the NBC News team was staying, they ran into Lauer, who joined them. At the end of the night, Nevils, who’d had six shots of vodka, ended up going to Lauer’s hotel room twice — once to retrieve her press credential, which Lauer had taken as a joke, and the second time because he invited her back. Nevils, Farrow writes, “had no reason to suspect Lauer would be anything but friendly based on prior experience.”
Once she was in his hotel room, Nevils alleges, Lauer — who was wearing a T-shirt and boxers — pushed her against the door and kissed her. He then pushed her onto the bed, “flipping her over, asking if she liked anal sex,” Farrow writes. “She said that she declined several times.”
According to Nevils, she “was in the midst of telling him she wasn’t interested again when he ‘just did it,’” Farrow writes. “Lauer, she said, didn’t use lubricant. The encounter was excruciatingly painful. ‘It hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?’ She told me she stopped saying no, but wept silently into a pillow.” Lauer then asked her if she liked it. She tells him yes.</blockquote>
&#8220;It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent,&#8221; Nevils told Farrow. &#8220;It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn’t want to have anal sex.&#8221;
In response, Lauer released a statement denouncing Nevils&#8217; claims as &#8220;categorically false.&#8221;
&#8220;In a new book, it is alleged that an extramarital, but consensual, sexual encounter I have previously admitted having, was in fact an assault,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is categorically false, ignores the facts, and defies common sense.&#8221;
NBC News, which fired Lauer in November 2017 shortly after initial allegations against him hit the papers, made clear that it does not stand behind its former anchor.
&#8220;Matt Lauer&#8217;s conduct was appalling, horrific and reprehensible, as we said at the time,&#8221; NBC News said in a statement reported by Variety. &#8220;That’s why he was fired within 24 hours of us first learning of the complaint. Our hearts break again for our colleague.&#8221;
While the network is not pushing back on the book&#8217;s claims about Lauer&#8217;s alleged sexual misconduct, it is adamantly refuting Farrow&#8217;s claims that the network caved to Weinstein&#8217;s pressure, which Farrow says was aided by American Media Inc (AMI), the publisher of Enquirer, digging up &#8220;dirt&#8221; on Lauer.
&#8220;Citing anonymous sources at NBC and AMI, Farrow, 31, claims that Weinstein was using the Enquirer‘s accumulated dirt on the Today show star’s alleged workplace misconduct to pressure NBC executives to kill Farrow’s long-gestating Weinstein exposé,&#8221; <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/ronan-farrow-book-how-harvey-weinstein-may-have-leveraged-matt-lauer-1246149">The Hollywood Reporter</a> explained in its own &#8220;Catch and Kill&#8221;-based report Wednesday.
But NBC says that&#8217;s &#8220;preposterous.&#8221;
&#8220;NBC News was never contacted by AMI, or made aware in any way of any threats from them, or from anyone else, for that matter,&#8221; a network spokesperson told the outlet. &#8220;And the idea of NBC News taking a threat seriously from a tabloid company about Matt Lauer is especially preposterous, since they already covered him with great regularity.&#8221;
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‘Horrific’: NBC News Shreds Former Anchor After Explosive New Allegations

On Wednesday morning, a rape allegation against former NBC daytime news star Matt Lauer hit the press. Brooke Nevils, a former NBC News employee, claimed she was anally raped by Lauer in 2014 while covering the Sochi Olympics. 
The accusation was detailed in journalist Ronan Farrow’s book &#8220;Catch and Kill” and picked up by Variety. 
Lauer has since flatly denied the accusation of rape, adding that it “defies common sense.” 
Nevils told Farrow that she, then &#8212; &#8220;Today&#8221; anchor Meredith Vieira, and Lauer had drinks at the hotel bar the NBC team was staying at during the Olympics. After socializing, Nevils said she went to Lauer’s hotel room to get back her press credentials, which she said were taken by Lauer as a joke. She then returned to his room a second time upon invite, when the alleged rape took place. 
“Once she was in his hotel room, Nevils alleges, Lauer — who was wearing a T-shirt and boxers — pushed her against the door and kissed her. He then pushed her onto the bed, ‘flipping her over, asking if she liked anal sex,’ Farrow writes. ‘She said that she declined several times,’” the <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/matt-lauer-rape-nbc-ronan-farrow-book-catch-kill-1203364485/">Variety</a> report said. 
Nevils claims she “was in the midst of telling him she wasn’t interested again when he ‘just did it,’” Farrow wrote in the book. “Lauer, she said, didn’t use lubricant. The encounter was excruciatingly painful. ‘It hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?’ She told me she stopped saying no, but wept silently into a pillow.” 
“It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent,” the former NBC employee told Farrow. “It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn’t want to have anal sex.”
Nevils admitted that she had consensual, though she described them as “transactional,” sexual encounters with Lauer, some of which she initiated, after the alleged rape. 
The allegation was an open secret at NBC for years, Nevils claimed. 
“She told colleagues and superiors at NBC,” Farrow said in the book, adding, “This was no secret.”
In 2017, however, Nevils was encouraged by Vieira to go to NBC Universal human resources with a lawyer and make the complaint. Lauer was soon fired, though he denied any accusations of coercion. 
Lauer’s lawyer sent an open letter to Variety soon after the rape allegation hit the media on Wednesday, wherein Lauer denies all coercion claims by Nevils. 
“In a new book, it is alleged that an extramarital, but consensual, sexual encounter I have previously admitted having, was in fact an assault,” Lauer said. “It is categorically false, ignores the facts, and defies common sense.”
“I had an extramarital affair with Brooke Nevils in 2014,” the 61-year-old continued. “It began when she came to my hotel room very late one night in Sochi, Russia. We engaged in a variety of sexual acts. We performed oral sex on each other, we had vaginal sex, and we had anal sex. Each act was mutual and completely consensual.”
Mere hours after the allegation hit the media, “Today” show hosts Savanah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb reacted to the “shocking” claim. 
WATCH:
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Overnight, troubling new allegations about former TODAY anchor Matt Lauer were revealed from journalist Ronan Farrow’s soon-to-be-released book “Catch and Kill.” <a href="https://twitter.com/MorganRadford?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MorganRadford</a> reports the details. <a href="https://t.co/7ooO3oAJ5X">pic.twitter.com/7ooO3oAJ5X</a>
&mdash; TODAY (@TODAYshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1181893809564770305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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