Billy Bush Negotiating Exit From NBC After Lewd Tape
Source: NYT
Four days after the explosive Donald J. Trump Access Hollywood tape was made public, Billy Bush is negotiating his exit from NBC.
Mr. Bush and NBC are working out the terms of his departure from Today, which may come in the next few days, according to two people briefed on the plans.
It would be a swift fall for Mr. Bush after a brief tenure as a host in the 9 a.m. hour of the show. He joined Today this summer.
In the videotape from 2005, which was filmed during the taping of an Access Hollywood segment, Mr. Bush laughs and goads Mr. Trump as he speaks about women in vulgar and lewd terms, claiming he tried to have sex with the woman who was then Mr. Bushs co-host.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/business/media/billy-bush-to-make-abrupt-exit-from-nbc-after-lewd-tape.html?_r=0
Good. NBC isn't messing around and neither should our country. Billy Bush didn't get fired for "locker room talk".
Ah ha!
central scrutinizer
(11,662 posts)So long, creep.
no_hypocrisy
(46,203 posts)JDC
(10,135 posts)Pair him up with someone from the Ailes stable(pls excuse this expression).
*Edit typo
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)He should be run out on a freaking rail. This shit is so unacceptable
underpants
(182,904 posts)These things have to be negotiated
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Yer fired ya sleazy bahstard!
cstanleytech
(26,322 posts)(and he probably would) he is likely to win and then they have to pay him his money plus his legal fees and then he might even win more for firing him and breaking the contract so they are probably going to simply cut their losses and pay his contract off.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)About teachers being untouchable.
This is so Trumpian!
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)Send him to cover the steer judging at the Whiskey Gulch County Fair or travel the country delivering birthday greetings to centenarians. After a while, I believe he will just quit.
cstanleytech
(26,322 posts)that plus it does not really address the problem.
What I suspect will happen if they don't want to get rid of him is that they will announce he has left, been let go or is taking a sabbatical and in a few months they will bring him back once the controversy has died down.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)Particularly in television. Especially in television.
Be looking for Billy doing live shots at the next hurricane.
cstanleytech
(26,322 posts)If it has a clause where he can reject an assignment or that they cannot send him x miles from his home without his approval then they are SOL.
polynomial
(750 posts)Been off the grid for some time now. I dont watch cable news only have free air television. So this Billy Bush character is something new or special to me.
A personal experience has turned hobby, an impassioned private endeavor to collect and seek out the history of the Bush family and its secrets, in particular railroad operations and connections or ownership in the Union Pacific railroad.
It is known that Former Vice President Cheney was on the board of directors of the Union Pacific during George W. Bushs term in office. This was a very powerful logistic position for transportation in materials for the Iraq war.
There is something real creepy about the Bush family connection with this Union Pacific railroad. Any News about Billy Boy Bush, or others keep it coming we want to get it all as the rail road crews would say.
Its going to get heated up in this part of the industry. The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the so called IEEE is conducting talks, electrification of the railroad system.
That is a big deal, and will change the consumption pattern of diesel fuel effecting the gas supply. Imagine the Union Pacific does boast that in burns as much fuel as the American Navy. Thats a lot of fuel to convert to gas. If the Bush own stock in the Union Pacific, they may very well dump it because they are not big on innovation.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)Oneironaut
(5,525 posts)Trump could have said, "Gee... Hitler was a great guy!" and Billy would have agreed 100%. I'm not so sure he's a sexist himself - Trump is no doubt a sexist, but Bush was in full bootlicker mode, like he was a puppy and Trump had a treat in his hand.
Cha
(297,733 posts)UMTerp01
(1,048 posts)He's a fucking asshole. I heard that he was not well liked at the Today Show. I know Al Roker can't stand his ass and I'm not sure even Tamron Hall does. He was not what I wanted to see on the 3rd hour of today because he wreaks of WASPY frat boy entitlement. The thing that really bugged me on the tape was his encouragement of the actress to hug Trump after he had just gone on that vile rant!!! So yeah...no sympathy. Bye bitch!!
Judi Lynn
(160,631 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)Orange face. I don't think she wanted to hug Trump at all. She clearly didn't plan on it, and she looked hesitant and uncomfortable. Of course then Trump ordered her to hug Billy Bush. Trump is such a cowardly asshole. He sits there blathering obscene crap in the bus and then pretends he's all sweetness when meeting the actress from the soap opera. Pig.
DeeDeeNY
(3,356 posts)Cha
(297,733 posts)the American People are going to have to fire trump on Nov 8th!
Thank you, DeeDee!
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)No one wants to think about that convo while they having coffee and getting the kidlets ready for school.
Cha
(297,733 posts)to bite you in the arse years later and you don't know wth hit ya.
Mahalo
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)This just reinforces the fact that the guy is a total douche.
Cha
(297,733 posts)watching any of that. But, I did look up a clip the other night. I think Al Roker handled that well. "We'll have to agree to disagree"..
FailureToCommunicate
(14,023 posts)Cha
(297,733 posts)does that to trump.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)so I don't give a rat's ass.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)colleague who he worked with every day? Yeah, that made what he did that much worse. Any woman who worked with him would think he would throw her under the bus like that.
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Cha
(297,733 posts)either. No wonder they let him the hell go.. so many reasons.
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)I don't imagine cousin Jeb isn't real happy that Billy didn't give him this tape a year ago.
sheshe2
(83,933 posts)Thanks Cha.
Cha
(297,733 posts)http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/heres-an-old-clip-of-billy-bush-asking-jennifer-lopez-about-her-butt_us_57fe9355e4b0162c04399801
How Billy Bush Happened
Its been five days since leaked audio from a 2005 taping of Access Hollywood revealed long-time NBC employee Billy Bush to be the type of man who not only laughs off stories about sexist behavior (and sexual assaults) told by powerful men, but actually joins in to get a laugh or two of his own.
The Pussygate Tape, as its come to be known (I guess?), led to an unprecedented mass rescinding of endorsements for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. For Billy Bush, the Lefou to Trumps Gaston, the backlash was similarly destructive.
ETA~ On the red carpet, he is relentless and unafraid. Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly called him an idiot...He got a forearm swat from J.Los bodyguard when he chased her backstage at the Grammys. Bush laughs it off.
More to the story...
http://jezebel.com/how-billy-bush-happened-1787713581
Rex
(65,616 posts)A Bush. Meh.