Billy Bush was a co-host of NBC’s entertainment show “Access Hollywood.” Now he is a key player on the “Today” show, the profit engine of NBC News. Until Friday, some observers believed he was being groomed to take over for Matt Lauer someday.
However, the taped conversation from 2005 between Bush and Trump has upended the careers of both men. Trump’s school boy comments about women, caused some Republican leaders to retract their endorsements of him.
According to 100 Percent Fed Up:
Sunday afternoon, senior NBC executives made the decision to bench Bush on Monday, effectively reprimanding him. A couple of hours later, the executive in charge of “Today,” Noah Oppenheim, said in an internal memo that the executives had decided to go even further and suspend Bush. “I know we’ve all been deeply troubled by the revelations of the past 48 hours,” Oppenheim wrote. “Let me be clear — there is simply no excuse for Billy’s language and behavior on that tape,” he wrote. “NBC has decided to suspend Billy, pending further review of this matter.”
The suspension is not a stunning turn of events, at least to me. The “Today” show recently made a multi-million-dollar bet on Bush, relocating him from Los Angeles to New York and making him a co-host. NBC has had this video in their back pocket for 11 years.
NBC is in the tank for Hillary, and to lose the leftist audience of the “Today Show” that drives revenue over this video without any consequences, well that just cannot be. It was nice knowing Billy, next stop traffic reporting in Southeast New Mexico.
What do you think?