If the new standard on sexual misconduct, as recently articulated by Joe Biden, is that all women deserve to be “heard” and then have their allegations set aside, why wouldn’t we lend that same courtesy to other men? How about for Matt Lauer?
For the first time since his abrupt firing from NBC in 2017, Lauer on Tuesday addressed the specific allegations that he had engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment and assault.
In an essay for the website Mediaite.com, Lauer denied that he ever mistreated anyone, though he admitted, as he has done in the past, that he had at least one consensual affair with a woman on Today’s production team.
There isn’t really that much differentiating Lauer from Biden, who has been credibly accused by a former staffer in his Senate office of having sexually assaulted her nearly 30 years ago.
