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Matt Lauer has some new ink. The disgraced former “Today” host was spotted in Noyack, New York on Wednesday dropping off his 13-year-old son, Thijs Lauer, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses. As Lauer reached for his steering wheel, the 62-year-old’s new tattoo could be seen on his forearm. A close-up shot shows the tattoo …
Matt Lauer has some new ink.
The disgraced former “Today” host was spotted in Noyack, New York on Wednesday dropping off his 13-year-old son, Thijs Lauer, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses.
As Lauer reached for his steering wheel, the 62-year-old’s new tattoo could be seen on his forearm.
A close-up shot shows the tattoo says in cursive, “Hatred corrodes the container it is carried in.”
The quote was originally said by Sen. Alan Simpson in his eulogy for President George H.W. Bush in December 2018.
The former senator, 88, said, “You would have wanted [Bush] on your side. He never hated anyone. He knew what his mother and my mother always knew: Hatred corrodes the container it’s carried in. The most decent and honorable man I ever met was my friend George Bush.”
It is unclear when Lauer decided to permanently mark himself with the mantra, but the ink sighting comes soon after the former news anchor angrily fired back at Ronan Farrow for rape allegations the journalist made against him in “Catch and Kill.”
“What I found when I read the book was frankly shocking, and it should concern anyone who cares about journalism,” Lauer wrote in a piece on Mediate. “This is not just about accusations against the former host of the ‘Today’ show. It’s about whether changing social attitudes can be allowed to change the most fundamental rules of journalism.”
In October 2019, former “Today” producer Brooke Nevils accused Lauer of raping her in Russia in 2014, before they began dating in New York. Lauer denied the allegations.
However, he recently said in his Mediate op-ed: “I am sorry for the way I conducted myself. I made some terrible decisions, and I betrayed the trust of many people … On October 9, 2019, I was falsely accused of rape. I am not suggesting that everything Ronan has written in his book is untrue or based on misinformation, but it is clear that over the course of nearly two years he became a magnet and a willing ear for anyone with negative stories about the network and people who worked for it.”
