Matt Lauer teaches Tiki Barber the special Today Show handshake. Photo: Getty Images.
If this Page Six report is true -- especially if there's any actual, you know, documented evidence of it -- you can bet on a very special PSA about how words hurt and gays are awesome, maybe even starring Matt Lauer!
Childish staffers at the "Today" show have been reduced to homophobic name-calling about their rivals at "Good Morning America" - Diane Sawyer, Chris Cuomo, Robin Roberts and Sam Champion. A network source says, " 'Today' staffers, from top to bottom, executives to interns, refer to 'GMA' as 'Gay-MA' " and snicker about the hosts. "GMA" has been gaining in the ratings on No. 1 "Today" and cut its lead in half. For their part, the "GMA" folks are said to refer to "Today" as "Yesterday." Reps for both shows declined to comment.
A rival paper from where I once worked would slug the F-word (the gay one, not the sex one) into quotes they intended to trim out during a later edit. Until, of course, they forgot once, the slur made it into a few hundred thousand papers and they were left scrambling to explain just what the hell they'd been thinking.
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Well... I know Sam Champion is on our team. And I know Diane & Chris play for the other team. But what about Robin? She doesn't seem like a girly girl... always wear suits, never dresses. Any ideas on Robin? I'd like to think the score was tied 2-2 :)
Posted by: Meowzer | June 05, 2007 at 04:29 PM