Matt Lauer is a girly man.  Girly men may look like males but they think and react like women.  They are tend to be motivated by their emotions as opposed to logic and reason.

As such, policies like welfare reform are 'mean' because it takes money away from the poor (even though it has resulted in a 50% reduction in welfare rolls and lower levels of child poverty), tax rate redcutions are 'unfair' to the working class (even though it results in the wealthy paying more in taxes, a stronger economy and increased tax revenue to the government--which I would argue is a BAD thing), private accounts for social security are 'bad' because some people 'depend' on their 'guaranteed' check (even though the current system is at the point where those contributing will get a NEGATIVE return on their money, public employees who have opted out of SS for a 401K styled retirement program like Gavelston, TX have seen their monthly benefits at levels 2-3 times what it would have been if they stayed in SS).

Like all liberals, facts are unimportant to girly men.  One can quote all kinds of evidence and facts on a whole host of issues to girly men but it won't have any impact on their opinions.     

I live in the Knoxville area, and I remember this incident.  It got some local coverage, most noteably from the news talk radio station (a FOX affiliate), but I never saw blip one on the national radar.

Matt Lauer is positively Michael Moore-ish in his anti-gun bias, and nothing illustrates it any better than the burial of this story.  As a journalist, he is honor-bound to report these sorts of things, whether they dovetail with his socialist worldview or not.  Whoops, I forgot: he and his ilk have no honor.

One thing I would like to add is that, even in the local reporting of the story, no one made mention of the fact that, from a strictly legal standpoint, Lambert would have been well within his rights under Tennessee law to shoot his would-be assailant immediately upon perceiving the imminent threat.  In fact, Lambert unnecessarily jeopardized his own life by not burning the guy where he stood, especially in hindsight when you consider that the guy had already murdered another man just hours before.  And the MSM would die and go to hell before they ever put a spotlight on THAT.

How many women look at Matt Lauer and think to themselves "I would really like to bear his children."?

Rochester, Minnesota: A Fem_Leftist City!