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Bush: Worst Moment as President Involved ... Kanye

Bush 'didn't appreciate' being called 'racist' by rapper

(Newser) - The lowest moment of George W. Bush’s presidency may not be the one you’d guess: It was when rapper Kanye West said, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, that Bush “doesn’t care about black people.” When he heard the comment—which he interprets as West...

Obama Weighing 'Whose Ass to Kick'

 Obama Weighing 
 'Whose Ass to Kick' 
AND he'd fire BP CEO
Jun 8, 2010 7:36 AM CDT

Obama Weighing 'Whose Ass to Kick'

He'll make company pay 'if it's the last thing I do'

(Newser) - President Obama offered an impassioned defense of his administration’s handling of the oil spill today, promising to make sure BP paid for the disaster “if it’s the last thing I do.” In an interview on the Today Show , Obama said he would have already fired Tony...

Author: Palin 'Incites Hatred' Like a 'Nazi Trooper'

Joe McGinniss says he grabbed the house because it was cheap

(Newser) - For much of his interview with Matt Lauer this morning on the Today show , author Joe McGinniss seemed reasonable enough. Sarah Palin's least favorite new neighbor said he's not up to anything “creepy,” and that he'd “be living in this house if the Palins lived on the...

Fuming Matt Lauer: My Marriage Is Solid

'Today' anchor, wife angrily deny breakup rumors

(Newser) - Matt Lauer and his wife, Annette, are angrily denying a report that they've split. "I have never moved out. I am not moving out. There is no truth to that," Matt Lauer tells People from Cannes, where he's covering the film festival for the Today show. "I...

Karl Rove: I Wasn't Bush's Brain

Adviser rejects nickname as political dirty trick

(Newser) - Karl Rove dismisses the notion that he was George W. Bush's "brain" as the oldest political trick in the book. “If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler," he tells Matt Lauer of Today . “I’ve known him...

NBC's Rah-Rah Coverage of Team USA Nauseates
NBC's Rah-Rah Coverage of Team USA Nauseates 
OPINION
Feb 22, 2010 11:40 AM CST

NBC's Rah-Rah Coverage of Team USA Nauseates

As anchors fawn, foreign athletes described with 'hoary cliches'

(Newser) - Shaun White may be introducing new tricks during these Games, but NBC’s coverage of him, and Team USA in general, remains an unchanged lesson in "network heavy breathing," writes Alessandra Stanley. “Hyped-up commentators” explain the action “often incomprehensibly,” but once the race is over...

Family Ties' Meredith Baxter: I'm Gay

Sitcom mom says she wanted to break the story instead of tabloids

(Newser) - Meredith Baxter, best known as Family Ties matriarch Elyse Keaton, came out on this morning’s Today Show , telling Matt Lauer, “I want to say I’m a lesbian.” Baxter, a thrice-married mother of five, has been secretly dating women for 7 years, but decided to share her...

Prosecutors Eye Savio Divorce in Peterson Case

Ex-cop risked losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in split

(Newser) - Drew Peterson prosecutors are scrutinizing his divorce from Kathleen Savio as they ready their murder case against him, the Chicago Tribune reports. Peterson could have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in the pair’s split—but Savio was found dead in a bathtub one month before the trial that...

Edwards Responds to Critics
 Edwards 
 Responds 
 to Critics 
Interview
May 11, 2009 10:08 AM CDT

Edwards Responds to Critics

She agreed to book before affair surfaced

(Newser) - Elizabeth Edwards responded today to the critics who’ve been lambasting her for releasing her tell-all book, telling Matt Lauer she’d agreed to write the book before John’s affair surfaced, and hadn’t intended to write about it. She said that during John’s presidential run she’d...

Captain: 'I Didn't Think I'd Ever Get Out of That Boat'

Capt. Richard Phillips credits Navy

(Newser) - Capt. Richard Phillips thought he'd never escape the Somali pirates holding him hostage, MSNBC reports. “I didn't think I'd ever get out of that boat," Phillips tells Matt Lauer in a Today Show interview airing Tuesday. He had resigned himself for the worst. “It was just settling...

Spitzer: 'What I Did Was Egregious'

Former guv has tried to address his 'gremlins'

(Newser) - Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer opened up about his “egregious” call-girl dalliance and subsequent resignation on NBC's Today this morning. Spitzer, who also discussed his re-emergence as a Slate columnist, claimed that he didn’t hire prostitutes frequently—“not long in the grand context of my life”...

Lauer Has Deer Run-in, Misses Today

Anchor skips hosting Today

(Newser) - Matt Lauer was forced to skip Today this morning, after being slightly injured by a deer that jumped into the path of his bike over the weekend, Us reports. But where did the deer come from? Lauer “thinks the deer was hired by the competition,” said co-anchor Meredith...

Recession Grounds Lauer's World Tour

(Newser) - NBC is taking globetrotting out of Today host Matt Lauer’s job description, the AP reports, shelving his “where in the world” segment for fear of looking too extravagant during the recession. Rather, the network said today, the morning show will profile affordable US vacation destinations during a week...

'I Can't Do Anything Wrong Once I'm in the Pool'

(Newser) - In his first post-bong-photo interview, Michael Phelps says he has a sure-fire way to stay out of trouble—get back to the "normal routine" of the swimming pool. In the interview—it airs tomorrow on NBC's Today show, notes Entertainment Tonight—Matt Lauer asks Phelps if he's worried the...

Your Ad Free on Today —Just Bring a Sign

Well-placed posters benefit from nearly 5M viewers

(Newser) - It costs $50,000 to get a 30-second ad spot on NBC’s Today, but advertisers needn’t pay to get their messages out if they’re willing to brave the weather, Advertising Age reports. All they have to do is stand in the Rockefeller Center Plaza with a sign...

Lauer Meets Older Self: Abe
 Lauer Meets Older Self: Abe 
Jan 23, 2009 1:02 PM CST

Lauer Meets Older Self: Abe

(Newser) - Matt Lauer took some ribbing this week when Today co-host Meredith Vieira unveiled side-by-side photos of him and Abe Vigoda to demonstrate what he'll look like in old age. Vigoda got the last laugh today in a light-hearted appearance on the show, People reports. Vigoda, 87, says he has a...

Coulter Talks Today 'Ban' ... on Today

Critics not exactly impressed with Peacock's kowtowing

(Newser) - Ann Coulter parlayed her non-appearance on NBC’s Today Show yesterday into a session with Matt Lauer this morning, Hamilton Nolan writes on Gawker. “She is that person you didn't want to invite to the party, but did, and then wished you hadn't,” writes Nolan. Fully two minutes...

Madoff Was Livin' Large in Lap of Luxury

High-roller owns yacht, jets, and properties up and down East Coast

(Newser) - If disgraced money-man Bernard Madoff felt any guilt about his Ponzi-scheme hedge fund, you'd never know it. Now that he's under house arrest, his "lifestyle of the rich and infamous" is somewhat limited, but in a fitting tribute to a man who just fleeced investors of $50 billion, CNN...

Cruise, Lauer Grip and Make Up
 Cruise, Lauer Grip and Make Up 
Dec 15, 2008 11:40 AM CST

Cruise, Lauer Grip and Make Up

Calmer interview follows 2004 Today showdown

(Newser) - Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer met on Today for the first time since an infamously tense 2005 interview, and this time, things were more relaxed, People reports. The pair chatted about their previous meeting. "I came across as arrogant," Cruise said, adding, "that's not the person I...

Cruise's Craziest Moments
 Cruise's Craziest Moments 
OPINION
Dec 11, 2008 3:10 PM CST

Cruise's Craziest Moments

From blow-ups over Scientology to couch acrobatics on Oprah , Tom's had his share

(Newser) - Three years after Tom Cruise and Today's Matt Lauer went a few rounds over Scientology, drugs, and Brooke Shields' postpartum depression, the pair is set for a rematch Monday—which spurred the Los Angeles Times to list Tom's top 5 head-smacking interviews:
  1. Oprah, May 2005: Cruise dances around proclaiming love
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