Matt Lauer Walks Rapper Kanye West Through Bush Apology — But Utterly Ignored NBC’s Fault in Airing His Racism Charge
On Thursday's Today, NBC host Matt Lauer played an interview he taped with rapper Kanye West about his charge that President Bush didn't “care about black people.” Lauer began by implying strongly that Bush is strange to pick this out as his presidency's worst moments, when Bush was responsible for so many: “He was a two-term president who ran the country during Katrina, 9/11, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the financial meltdown – and he's pointing the finger at Kanye West and that incident, as the worst moment in his presidency.” Lauer failed to note at any time in this interview or the promotions of it that West said these scandalous, hurtful, and untrue words on the airwaves of NBC, at their invitation, and their refusal in any way to interrupt him or dispute him during their telethon for Katrina victims. While he walked West through an apology, Lauer offered no apology on NBC's behalf. At the time, Lauer lamely excused it as live television, and NBC had “Saturday Night Live' do a skit about it to take the sting out of the incident, and laugh it off. But the damage to Bush's image remained. West began: read more
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Matt Lauer Walks Rapper Kanye West Through Bush Apology — But Utterly Ignored NBC’s Fault in Airing His Racism Charge
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