Okay, so when the unseemly Access Hollywood videotape was released on Friday with Drumpf and Billy Bush, I was nauseous but I also felt sorry for Billy Bush. I've watched him on television for years and if there's one thing I thought about him, he was a suck up. Whatever the situation he was never ever going to be contrary or combative. He was an entertainment host and was going to play along in any situation. Social media immediately called for Billy Bush' firing from The Today Show. It was quicker than lightning and so predictable. We, as a society, always want to make someone pay and swiftly.
NBC, however, has an incredibly bad record. In the past decade they've messed things up and made someone take the fall, unless, of course, there's profit involved. They messed up the Conan O'Brien/Jay Leno deal and Leno took all the heat. Seriously, I never got that. From where I sat, Leno was a soldier in the NBC army and did what they told him to do, he's under contract. NBC threw them both under and both struggled to regain their footing. NBC let Lauer destroy and take the fall for the Ann Curry debacle. She was hired as his co-host and it was not the right fit. It wasn't working. NBC let him be scorched on that firing. Now, with Billy Bush, there are thousands upon thousands of hours of tape that the Today Show execs could have watched, to see if Bush would be a good fit for the 3rd and flailing hour of The Today Show. Now, whether they did or whether they didn't, Bush' participation in the now infamous and degrading video between Drumpf and Bush was theirs to seek and find. Bush comes from entertainment not their precious news division, so wasn't it on the producers and heads to ask and vet?
So this videotape is released on Friday and someone's head needs to roll. Social media is asking for Bush' head on a platter. It can't be Drumpf's, though after the pussyfooting he got from Lauer on the Commander in Chief discussion, it should be Lauer's, but he makes too much money for the network and himself. Don't for one second think that if Billy Bush had magically turned around the very problematic 3rd hour of the Today Show and was the saviour, NBC wouldn't have done things differently. BUT after first announcing Billy Bush was going to apologize on today's episode this morning, they decided to suspend him indefinitely. He, too, will go the way of Dr. Nancy Snyderman. We will never see his face again on NBC.
Now, to be fair, I defended Bush, initially, that he is just a suck up, but after watching John Oliver's show Sunday night on HBO, I can't. Oliver did what NBC hire ups should have done before they hired Bush. He found clip after clip after clip after clip of Bush being inappropriate, misogynistic. Oliver eviscerated Bush. If you take the time to watch, he won't be back. BUT again, I say, NBC execs are always good at not blaming themselves. I feel for Bush' wife and three girls, that's all on this.
Let's get to the debate or the bloodbath or the disaster we call the Presidential campaign. I'm not going to go over the words, the manner, or the disgust. What I do want to point out is how completely hypocritical all the shocked and holier than thou Republicans are. They were okay to back and support Drumpf when he called Mexicans rapists, asked for a ban on all Muslims entering the country, insult the Khan family, tweet insults to Megyn Kelly, Alicia Machado, and so many other women. He denigrated every group in this country except white men. No one has been unscathed, but the video released on Friday saying he could freely grab a beautiful woman's pussy because he's a star, that was too far. Really? All the other insulting and heinous words didn't do it, but bragging about sexual assaulting women was just too far. You are all hypocrites. You have created this monster with recklessness to our country and your Party. You, Reince Prebus, allowed the "fine" men and women of your Party to fall in line until you heard the word pussy? Now your through? Now all the spineless endorsers are falling out? You are all a disgrace. The only Republicans that can hold their heads up high, who never wavered or fell in with the Party line...Mitt Romney and John Kasich. Integrity. They're the only two.
So, tonight, when you go home, take 5 minutes and look in the mirror. Do you like what you see? I am not even involved, except as a citizen, and I'm having trouble sleeping. You?
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