Gropegate a $Ten Million Payday for Billy Bush?
Billy Bush will be leaving the Today show’s 9 a.m. hour, effective today,” Noah Oppenheim, who oversees Today, said in an email to employees. “While he was a new member of the Today team, he was a valued colleague and longtime member of the broader NBC family. We wish him success as he goes forward.”
Bush was suspended indefinitely from his hosting position on the NBC morning show last week after a leaked tape from 2005 showed he had participated in a vulgar conversation with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump about groping women without their consent. Bush was a host for Access Hollywood at the time, and joined Today last August.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Bush could receive up to an estimated $10 million as part of the pay-out settlement of his three-year contract. Bush released his own statement on Monday, saying, “I am deeply grateful for the conversations I’ve had with my daughters, and for all of the support from family, friends and colleagues. I look forward to what lies ahead.”
http://fortune.com/2016/10/17/billy-bush-today-show-donald-trump/
I'm guessing what lies ahead for Billy Bush is retirement from show business (unless maybe he hires out to do laugh tracks or porn). But, fear not! He will not be relegated to getting his protein solely from dried beans and non-organic eggs about to pass their expiration date, like some retirees. It's good to be the king, but being the laugher about sexual assault ain't bad, either!
"He was a valued colleague." HA! I love it: "He was a valued colleague"--which is why we can't wait to get him off our network. We valued getting rid of him at 8 figures, which is a mega clue as to how valued a colleague he actually was.
FWIW, Access Hollywood, like Today, is an NBC program and Comcast owns NBC, of which MSNBC is part. And, Billy Bush, like W and JEB!, is a grandson of Prescott.
Gee, I hope this doesn't cause a rift between the Clintons and the Bushes, especially at this time of year. No one loves awkward family holiday celebrations!
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The American Dream
is only for those who create nightmares for others.
Want to make it big in America? Shoot an innocent black male teenager.
Some say, "good guys finish last" well not in America.
Who here lost their job due to being vulgar and got a ten million dollar kick in the ass?
"Love One Another" ~ George Harrison
Great way to put it: a ten million dollar kick in the ass.
1%ers have everything in common with each other and
nothing in common with us. They will always "deserve" to be paid millions while the 99% must get by on pennies.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Exactly. And, as the Carlin video says,
they're coming for Social Security. Criminal Hillary has already met with Petey Peterson and that is the thorn in his side.
Comey should be tarred and feathered. Kerry, too. And why, oh why did Assange wait so long to release those emails?
You're Fired. Clean Our Your Desk. No Severance For You. nt
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu