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Bryant Gumbel SEXUAL HARASSMENT Of Female Staff @ The Today Show


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From the book "Inside Today: The Battle for the Morning" By Judy Kessler (former staffer)
Gumbel checked female coworkers’ backs for bra straps
Assessed their bust sizes at meetings
Waved dead mice in their faces
Disparaged the prowess of those he claimed to have bedded
Hid behind doors on his hands and knees, leaping out to bark at women in an effort to scare them.
Plus Gumbel had a special pet name for his co-host Jane Pauley, the "C" word. Such as saying "Jesus that C--- was really on Pluto today"
To hear Kessler tell it, Gumbel’s boorishness was symptomatic of the testosterone poisoning that helped Today fall so far out of touch with its female viewership. Mistakes like Pauley’s abrupt ouster cost NBC an estimated $40 milion. The men in power were vicious even by Manhattan standards, literally playing hardball in the studio and conking passing female staffers on the head.

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