Katie Couric didn't know?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In think it's possible that she was in such a place of privilege and power that she was unaware that his inappropriate but in her mind innocent-enough behaviors would be acted out in coercive ways against women in subordinate positions. I'll give her that. I think it's possible that she was clueless, but she would acknowledge that she was so high on a pedestal in the morning news world that she wasn't vulnerable in the ways other women were, and therefore was able to remain unaware of it.

If you have reason to believe that any particular person knew Matt Lauer assaulted someone, please contact the New York City Police. If youre whining that people knew Matt liked to date or get laid at work with consenting adults, uh, who cares as long as you don't face Mrs. Lauer often?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She even said he pinched her ass too much.
Of course she knew what was going on.
And covered for him.

For the ZILLIONTH time: she stated that she was KIDDING about the ass pinching remark. http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/katie-couric-is-disturbed-by-the-matt-lauer-allegations.html

The whole brother/sister relationship they had was what made her JOKE about him pinching her ass. She was making a joke and knew he'd laugh.

You mean she fabricated that? Come on, be for real.
He pinched her ass and she didn't appreciate it.

I don't know if she made up the ass-pinching or if it really happened and she thought it was funny. Either way, it didn't seem to have bothered her at all, but her comment was totally taken by everyone else as this horrible, sexual harrassment that she obviously didn't intend. I used to work with a guy, and we would do things like that to each other all the time - I'd swat his butt in passing, he'd swat or pinch mine. We were buddies and that's just how we related to each other. It sounds like Couric and Lauer were also very much buddies/brother-sister types.

Whatever. No matter what anyone says, you'll still believe he sexually harrassed her by "pinching her butt." Personally, I'm going to take her word for it that she was just joking around.

She's the one who exposed his pinching her ass. She wasn't joking when she talked about it. It was more with a tone of disgust.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Abusers are masters at manipulation and fooling people. They are sociopaths who are very charming on the outside, but hide their evil on the inside. I believe that she didn't know. You have no idea how skillful abusers are when it comes to deluding people.

+ 1. They are not abusing every one. They are picking and choosing powerless victims. Katie has never been powerless compared to Matt.

There's a point I hadn't considered.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In think it's possible that she was in such a place of privilege and power that she was unaware that his inappropriate but in her mind innocent-enough behaviors would be acted out in coercive ways against women in subordinate positions. I'll give her that. I think it's possible that she was clueless, but she would acknowledge that she was so high on a pedestal in the morning news world that she wasn't vulnerable in the ways other women were, and therefore was able to remain unaware of it.

If you have reason to believe that any particular person knew Matt Lauer assaulted someone, please contact the New York City Police. If youre whining that people knew Matt liked to date or get laid at work with consenting adults, uh, who cares as long as you don't face Mrs. Lauer often?

If Harvey Weinstein can be a free man after raping hundreds of girls, certainly Matt Lauer can do whatever he did.

[Anonymous]

She probably knew.

I don’t have a lot of respect for Katie Couric.
Lost most of any respect I had left when she was caught editing the video about gun control to make gun owners appear like they were clueless.
She does what she thinks makes her look good, everyone else be damned.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She even said he pinched her ass too much.
Of course she knew what was going on.
And covered for him.

For the ZILLIONTH time: she stated that she was KIDDING about the ass pinching remark. http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/katie-couric-is-disturbed-by-the-matt-lauer-allegations.html

The whole brother/sister relationship they had was what made her JOKE about him pinching her ass. She was making a joke and knew he'd laugh.

You mean she fabricated that? Come on, be for real.
He pinched her ass and she didn't appreciate it.

I don't know if she made up the ass-pinching or if it really happened and she thought it was funny. Either way, it didn't seem to have bothered her at all, but her comment was totally taken by everyone else as this horrible, sexual harrassment that she obviously didn't intend. I used to work with a guy, and we would do things like that to each other all the time - I'd swat his butt in passing, he'd swat or pinch mine. We were buddies and that's just how we related to each other. It sounds like Couric and Lauer were also very much buddies/brother-sister types.

Whatever. No matter what anyone says, you'll still believe he sexually harrassed her by "pinching her butt." Personally, I'm going to take her word for it that she was just joking around.

She's the one who exposed his pinching her ass. She wasn't joking when she talked about it. It was more with a tone of disgust.

No, it wasn't said with disgust. She was joking in a deadpan way. It's called, "having a sense of humor."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some of you really rush to judgment when in reality, you have NO idea what Katie Couric knew or did. It's disturbing and I don't believe for a second that any one of you would jeopardize your own livelihoods in a similar situation, especially if you were a single mother caring for two young daughters. It makes you seem really angry and unhinged.

How many people at work "pinch" your "ass"?

How many times does this have to be stated: She recently said that the "ass pinching" line was just a joke. IT WAS A JOKE, PEOPLE! Good grief.

If you believe it was a funny joke,
post here a YouTube link of that clip.

Nope, we've all seen that clip. Instead, I'll post a link to her recent interview in which she states she was joking about the ass pinching and that she and Lauer had a "brother/sister" relationship.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/01/13/katie-couric-breaks-silence-matt-lauer-firing-not-matt-we-knew/1031514001/

You're a pathetic coward.

Wow. Why don't you post a clip of the WWHL interview, then? Are you incapable of doing so? You're a pathetic drama queen who is trying to make something out of nothing. Couric even said as much. Grow up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:She even said he pinched her ass too much.
Of course she knew what was going on.
And covered for him.

For the ZILLIONTH time: she stated that she was KIDDING about the ass pinching remark. http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/katie-couric-is-disturbed-by-the-matt-lauer-allegations.html

The whole brother/sister relationship they had was what made her JOKE about him pinching her ass. She was making a joke and knew he'd laugh.

You mean she fabricated that? Come on, be for real.
He pinched her ass and she didn't appreciate it.

I don't know if she made up the ass-pinching or if it really happened and she thought it was funny. Either way, it didn't seem to have bothered her at all, but her comment was totally taken by everyone else as this horrible, sexual harrassment that she obviously didn't intend. I used to work with a guy, and we would do things like that to each other all the time - I'd swat his butt in passing, he'd swat or pinch mine. We were buddies and that's just how we related to each other. It sounds like Couric and Lauer were also very much buddies/brother-sister types.

Whatever. No matter what anyone says, you'll still believe he sexually harrassed her by "pinching her butt." Personally, I'm going to take her word for it that she was just joking around.

She's the one who exposed his pinching her ass. She wasn't joking when she talked about it. It was more with a tone of disgust.

I didn't take it that way at all. She was trying to embarrass him, the way colleagues who joke with each other try to do. She didn't "expose" anything, other than their goofing around together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She probably knew.

I don’t have a lot of respect for Katie Couric.
Lost most of any respect I had left when she was caught editing the video about gun control to make gun owners appear like they were clueless.
She does what she thinks makes her look good, everyone else be damned.

Prove that, point to evidence of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She probably knew.

I don’t have a lot of respect for Katie Couric.
Lost most of any respect I had left when she was caught editing the video about gun control to make gun owners appear like they were clueless.
She does what she thinks makes her look good, everyone else be damned.

Prove that, point to evidence of that.

Look up the word "probably". - DP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:did she say she didn't know? She was on the record long ago saying that Lauer pinched her ass. She's a victim of his hideous behavior.

http://ew.com/tv/2017/11/29/matt-lauer-pinches-katie-couric/

No, she's a victim of her own ego and climb to power. If Matt did this years ago, why didn't she raise the roof about it then?

Because... it's generational. Women Katie's age didn't care about the occasional pinch on the butt or constant flirting enough to complain. It would have been career suicide! Back then there were so few women and the attitudes towards them would make you whiny millennials run home to breastfeed. Times have changed. Attitudes have changed. No one is tolerating that b.s. anymore and the impact to revenue and the bottom line proves it. Someone Katie's age would essentially be crying over spilt milk now; particularly since the women in her age group, in that business, have enjoyed professional success and the creepy men they encountered along the way were par for the course. Not so much today.

Um, no. Women Katie's age knew nothing would be done about complaining. Two very different scenarios.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She even said he pinched her ass too much.
Of course she knew what was going on.
And covered for him.

For the ZILLIONTH time: she stated that she was KIDDING about the ass pinching remark. http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/katie-couric-is-disturbed-by-the-matt-lauer-allegations.html

The whole brother/sister relationship they had was what made her JOKE about him pinching her ass. She was making a joke and knew he'd laugh.

You mean she fabricated that? Come on, be for real.
He pinched her ass and she didn't appreciate it.

I don't know if she made up the ass-pinching or if it really happened and she thought it was funny. Either way, it didn't seem to have bothered her at all, but her comment was totally taken by everyone else as this horrible, sexual harrassment that she obviously didn't intend. I used to work with a guy, and we would do things like that to each other all the time - I'd swat his butt in passing, he'd swat or pinch mine. We were buddies and that's just how we related to each other. It sounds like Couric and Lauer were also very much buddies/brother-sister types.

Whatever. No matter what anyone says, you'll still believe he sexually harrassed her by "pinching her butt." Personally, I'm going to take her word for it that she was just joking around.

She's the one who exposed his pinching her ass. She wasn't joking when she talked about it. It was more with a tone of disgust.

Just wanted to circle back to those of you claiming Katie Couric was serious when she JOKED about Matt Lauer pinching her ass. You people refused to believe it when you were told that it was obvious she was kidding around. You always want to believe the absolute worst about people. Well, here's Couric, in her own words, setting the record straight. You're welcome.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/katie-couric-is-‘really-sorry’-for-that-matt-lauer-‘a-pinching’-joke/ar-AAwDm3d?ocid=spartanntp

[Anonymous]

Katie surely had to put with all kinds of crap from men as she moved up the ladder. To her (and to many of us) this was unwanted, but normal. And yes, you can joke about it years later, because you are rich, successful and have moved on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Katie surely had to put with all kinds of crap from men as she moved up the ladder. To her (and to many of us) this was unwanted, but normal. And yes, you can joke about it years later, because you are rich, successful and have moved on.

She just stated, “It was totally a joke," Couric continued. "But I was really sorry I had made that joke because people misconstrued it."

But sure, go ahead and pretend she was serious because it fits your narrative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In think it's possible that she was in such a place of privilege and power that she was unaware that his inappropriate but in her mind innocent-enough behaviors would be acted out in coercive ways against women in subordinate positions. I'll give her that. I think it's possible that she was clueless, but she would acknowledge that she was so high on a pedestal in the morning news world that she wasn't vulnerable in the ways other women were, and therefore was able to remain unaware of it.

Good point.