Re: [blind-democracy] NBC Suspends Billy Bush for His Role on Trump Video

You bet it's financial. Ethical? In a pig's eye! It's the old
bottom line in an old capitalist nation. Two things really crank my
engine. First, I am highly insulted by a Media that thinks I'm so
stupid I can't figure out that the Media depends on big advertisers in
order to survive, and that they, the Media, will do whatever it takes
to protect this source of Gold. So why lie?
Second. Billy Bush giggled in the background of some outright
Predator Talk by Donald Trump. Shame on Billy. But I'll tell you, it
took me a long time to stop giving polite smiles and chuckles to
sexist and Racist jokes, back in the 1970's. Long after I'd
determined never to make another sexist or Racial Slur, or pass along
a sexist or Racist joke, I still would smile and even chuckle. I
suppose that if I'd been in the "locker room" with someone like Trump,
and had my smirk recorded, it could come back to haunt me today. But
here's the thing, Billy Bush is dumped by NBC. Trump is allowed to
brand his predator talk as simply being "Locker room talk". Bull
Dooky! Bragging about being so famous that you can grab a woman's
pussy, and she'll let you do it, is not Locker Room Talk. Or, let me
say it differently. If this is still considered locker room talk by
Donald Trump, then it should shout loud and clear to the world that
Donald Trump holds women in contempt. Sure, when I was 15 years old
the boys in the high school locker room did talk like that. That was
in 1950. 66 years and a whole lot of "waking up", has made most of us
Macho guys aware of just what such "Humor" is intended to do. But
Trump doesn't get it. I see a man for whom trashing is a way of life.
A way of making himself appear to be bigger and better than the
simpletons around him. While I know that this attitude still creeps
out from under the rocks and out of the swamps, here in America,
still, it was being slowly strangled and pushed back. Or maybe I'm
being naive to think this, when I see the Empire's posture in the
world, bombing at will, murdering countless thousands of people,
because they look different, or they think different, or, Just Because
We Can Do It!
Okay, so it still exists. But putting Trump in the White House would
formally endorse such behavior. Bad enough that we have our current
Peace Pretender, but Trump? We might as well head for the Canadian
border, if we don't support his "locker room" humor.

Carl Jarvis



On 10/11/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> What does this ssay about our society? This guy was just doing what a lot
> of
> guys do and, unfortunately, he got caught because he was doing it with a
> presidential candidate. So now his career is ruined because NBC doesn't
> want
> to lose viewers which would mean losing advertising. But they're giving
> their reason for firing him as ethical. It isn't. It's financial.
> Miriam
>
> Stelter writes: "Billy Bush has been suspended from the 'Today' show
> 'pending further review of the matter.' It is unclear if he will ever
> return
> to the broadcast."
>
> Billy Bush and Donald Trump. (photo: Rob Kim/Getty Images)
>
>
> NBC Suspends Billy Bush for His Role on Trump Video
> By Brian Stelter, CNN
> 10 October 16
>
> Billy Bush has been suspended from the "Today" show "pending further review
> of the matter."
>
> It is unclear if he will ever return to the broadcast.
> "He will never be on the show again," an on-air source said Sunday night,
> reflecting what staffers are saying behind the scenes.
> A second source at the network confirmed Monday that his return is
> unlikely.
>
> "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie briefly told viewers about Bush's
> suspension on Monday morning.
> The sudden change came amid a chorus of calls for disciplinary action
> against Bush over his vulgar 2005 conversation with Donald Trump that was
> caught on tape and revealed on Friday.
> "He's suspended or perhaps fired for what he said. The other guy's running,
> still, to be the head of the free world," CNN media analyst Bill Carter
> said
> on Monday's "New Day."
> NBC sources initially said Bush was not being disciplined and that he would
> be in his usual spot as co-host of the "Today" show's 9 a.m. hour on Monday
> morning.
> As late as Sunday morning, one of the sources was saying that Bush would
> use
> Monday's broadcast to reiterate the apology he made Friday.
> But on Sunday afternoon, senior NBC executives made the decision to bench
> Bush on Monday, effectively reprimanding him.
> A couple of hours later, the executive in charge of "Today," Noah
> Oppenheim,
> said in an internal memo that the executives had decided to go even further
> and suspend Bush.
> "I know we've all been deeply troubled by the revelations of the past 48
> hours," Oppenheim wrote.
> "Let me be clear -- there is simply no excuse for Billy's language and
> behavior on that tape," he wrote. "NBC has decided to suspend Billy,
> pending
> further review of this matter."
> Before the memo was released, the on-air source said staffers were in the
> dark, stuck refreshing Twitter to find out what was going on with Bush.
> The suspension was a stunning turn of events. The "Today" show recently
> made
> a multi-million-dollar bet on Bush, relocating him from Los Angeles to New
> York and making him a co-host.
> But the taped 2005 conversation between Bush and Trump has upended the
> careers of both men.
> Trump's vulgar and aggressive comments about women, alluding to sexual
> assault, caused some Republican leaders to retract their endorsements of
> him.
> Bush played along and joked with Trump, even while Trump talked about
> trying
> to sleep with one of Bush's colleagues.
> At the time the video was recorded, Bush was a co-host of NBC's
> entertainment show "Access Hollywood." Now he is a key player on the
> "Today"
> show, the profit engine of NBC News. Until Friday, some observers believed
> he was being groomed to take over for Matt Lauer someday.
> Bush is a cousin of both former President George W. Bush and 2016 Trump
> opponent Jeb Bush.
> Bush issued a forthright apology statement on Friday, but it did not quiet
> the calls for action by NBC. There was an online petition circulating that
> calls for his firing, and there are hundreds of outraged comments on the
> "Today" show's social media pages.
> On top of that, as Anthony Quintano -- who formerly ran the "Today" show's
> social media efforts -- pointed out on Friday, "a majority of the 'Today'
> show production staff is female." It "won't go over well internally to keep
> Billy Bush around," Quintano said in a tweet.
> Bush's 9 a.m. hour is heavy with lifestyle fare, with less political news
> than the earlier hours. Still, it is a product of NBC News, so the news
> division has ethical considerations to make about Bush's role in the tape
> --
> and in ongoing coverage of the election.
> Decisions about releasing the "Access Hollywood" tape reached to the
> highest
> level of NBCUniversal, to the office of CEO Steve Burke, the Wall Street
> Journal reported on Sunday.
> An NBC source confirmed Burke's involvement and reiterated that the network
> was preparing to broadcast a report about the tape when it was leaked to
> the
> Washington Post on Friday.
> Adding a slightly bizarre element to the story, the New York Times reported
> Sunday that the outgoing voicemail message on Bush's extension at NBC says,
> "You've reached Billy Bush's office, he's busy making America great again,
> please leave a message." The voice is apparently not his.
>
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> Billy Bush and Donald Trump. (photo: Rob Kim/Getty Images)
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> NBC Suspends Billy Bush for His Role on Trump Video
> By Brian Stelter, CNN
> 10 October 16
> Billy Bush has been suspended from the "Today" show "pending further review
> of the matter."
> t is unclear if he will ever return to the broadcast.
> "He will never be on the show again," an on-air source said Sunday night,
> reflecting what staffers are saying behind the scenes.
> A second source at the network confirmed Monday that his return is
> unlikely.
>
> "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie briefly told viewers about Bush's
> suspension on Monday morning.
> The sudden change came amid a chorus of calls for disciplinary action
> against Bush over his vulgar 2005 conversation with Donald Trump that was
> caught on tape and revealed on Friday.
> "He's suspended or perhaps fired for what he said. The other guy's running,
> still, to be the head of the free world," CNN media analyst Bill Carter
> said
> on Monday's "New Day."
> NBC sources initially said Bush was not being disciplined and that he would
> be in his usual spot as co-host of the "Today" show's 9 a.m. hour on Monday
> morning.
> As late as Sunday morning, one of the sources was saying that Bush would
> use
> Monday's broadcast to reiterate the apology he made Friday.
> But on Sunday afternoon, senior NBC executives made the decision to bench
> Bush on Monday, effectively reprimanding him.
> A couple of hours later, the executive in charge of "Today," Noah
> Oppenheim,
> said in an internal memo that the executives had decided to go even further
> and suspend Bush.
> "I know we've all been deeply troubled by the revelations of the past 48
> hours," Oppenheim wrote.
> "Let me be clear -- there is simply no excuse for Billy's language and
> behavior on that tape," he wrote. "NBC has decided to suspend Billy,
> pending
> further review of this matter."
> Before the memo was released, the on-air source said staffers were in the
> dark, stuck refreshing Twitter to find out what was going on with Bush.
> The suspension was a stunning turn of events. The "Today" show recently
> made
> a multi-million-dollar bet on Bush, relocating him from Los Angeles to New
> York and making him a co-host.
> But the taped 2005 conversation between Bush and Trump has upended the
> careers of both men.
> Trump's vulgar and aggressive comments about women, alluding to sexual
> assault, caused some Republican leaders to retract their endorsements of
> him.
> Bush played along and joked with Trump, even while Trump talked about
> trying
> to sleep with one of Bush's colleagues.
> At the time the video was recorded, Bush was a co-host of NBC's
> entertainment show "Access Hollywood." Now he is a key player on the
> "Today"
> show, the profit engine of NBC News. Until Friday, some observers believed
> he was being groomed to take over for Matt Lauer someday.
> Bush is a cousin of both former President George W. Bush and 2016 Trump
> opponent Jeb Bush.
> Bush issued a forthright apology statement on Friday, but it did not quiet
> the calls for action by NBC. There was an online petition circulating that
> calls for his firing, and there are hundreds of outraged comments on the
> "Today" show's social media pages.
> On top of that, as Anthony Quintano -- who formerly ran the "Today" show's
> social media efforts -- pointed out on Friday, "a majority of the 'Today'
> show production staff is female." It "won't go over well internally to keep
> Billy Bush around," Quintano said in a tweet.
> Bush's 9 a.m. hour is heavy with lifestyle fare, with less political news
> than the earlier hours. Still, it is a product of NBC News, so the news
> division has ethical considerations to make about Bush's role in the tape
> --
> and in ongoing coverage of the election.
> Decisions about releasing the "Access Hollywood" tape reached to the
> highest
> level of NBCUniversal, to the office of CEO Steve Burke, the Wall Street
> Journal reported on Sunday.
> An NBC source confirmed Burke's involvement and reiterated that the network
> was preparing to broadcast a report about the tape when it was leaked to
> the
> Washington Post on Friday.
> Adding a slightly bizarre element to the story, the New York Times reported
> Sunday that the outgoing voicemail message on Bush's extension at NBC says,
> "You've reached Billy Bush's office, he's busy making America great again,
> please leave a message." The voice is apparently not his.
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