Lauer Questions If It’s ‘Egocentric’ to View Fall of Berlin Wall as ‘American Victory’

"I know, I think it may be a little egocentric but I think most Americans look at that event and they think of it as an American victory. When you talk to Germans today, do they view it that way?"

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November 9, 2009 at 2:16 pm - Today Show
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Rod   November 9th, 2009 - 2:28 pm

Hey, Matt – You’re standing too close to the tree to see the forest.

anon   November 9th, 2009 - 2:35 pm

…and black is white, and 2 + 2 = 5

Begin   November 9th, 2009 - 2:38 pm

It is an Israeli victory that they have infiltrated our government and sending our money to Israel and our soldiers into battle for THEIR wars.

MattLauerisafreak   November 9th, 2009 - 2:41 pm

“I think brushing our teeth and taking baths is egocentric, why should we be clean when so many aren’t? I don’t mean me or Katie Couric though because we are on TV and famous and stuff”.

AlexK   November 9th, 2009 - 2:48 pm

What’s up with a few of these crypto-nazis in here relating every single story to their irrational hatred of all things Israeli and Jewish. Begin, get bent.

dontflagmebro   November 9th, 2009 - 2:49 pm

Matt how does it feel for you and your MSM friends to now be in the history books as people like Goebbels and the Nazi propaganda in WWII Era? You guys have said more lies and covered more than the 3rd Reich. Enjoy your service to the 4th Reich. And Katie we are not ignorant and afraid. We are smart and angry. And you’ll see it come november when the DNC get’s arse handed back to Howard Dean and the other enemies of America at the polls.

R from ID   November 9th, 2009 - 2:51 pm

Perhaps the only ego that’s larger than the United State’s is Mat Lauer’s.

Me thinks he’s pretty proud of himself.

Metrosexual Lauer   November 9th, 2009 - 2:51 pm

I along with my life partner Matt Damon think that it is egocentric for Americans to expect to own a car or a house or even a pet. These selfish items are utterly beyond any doubt destroying the planet and who are we to say that we are allowed to destroy the planet. Except for Mattie and my fellow progressive Democrats since we are the self proclaimed intellectuals and deserve such items in our life.

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H2K   November 9th, 2009 - 3:14 pm

Naturally Matt thinks that the wall would have fallen by itself without any help from Pres Reagan or Margaret Thatcher. Anyone with any kind of perspective of world events understands Reagan and Thatcher’s contribution. There were thousands of German families reunited after the fall.

Matt, Katie, and all liberals had no interest in the wall coming down. They were happy with complete East German communist domination. It fits their world view of people under government oppression but they are the chosen view who are blessed with perks by the ruling class for representing their policies on TV. East Germany was an incredibly bleak country prior to the wall coming down, and there have been much improvements since.

It was a proud American moment when the fall occurred. I’m sure little Mattie had no idea.

Ozark_Sunshine   November 9th, 2009 - 3:20 pm

This shows how ignorant Matt Lauer is and how he needs to be removed from his repoter status because of his lies and hatred for America. Ths idiot is trying to rewrite American history into a liberals view and that is plain out and out wrong. No wonder the network news are failin and losing viewership.

kmichaels   November 9th, 2009 - 3:25 pm

Matt Laur (Liar) is your standard liberal poster boy MORON.

demdicks   November 9th, 2009 - 3:30 pm

Another bitter clinger, to his self loathing white guilt liberalism. Lauer the loser.
The current faux pas in chief? Now THERE’S an ego for you.

cooperscopy   November 9th, 2009 - 3:59 pm

Matt Lauer again doing the work of the left and America haters….And the mainstream media wonders why everyone’s turning to Fox News…

http://cooperscopy.blogspot.com/

Gordon   November 9th, 2009 - 4:02 pm

And Ronald Reagan had nothing to do with it?
If you want something to make you feel better watch this:

Redfoot   November 9th, 2009 - 4:18 pm

I think it was a victory for everybody. I don’t think of the last (U.S.) election as largely historic as they wanted to believe. It was just another candiate to me and another election that was professed to be bigger than anything. The wall falling was historic to me. It was a good time.

James K   November 9th, 2009 - 4:34 pm

When Freedom Reigns in a nation, America Wins.

YERMOM   November 9th, 2009 - 4:45 pm

the answer to your question Matt…

is no it is not egocentric

Other   November 9th, 2009 - 4:53 pm

It went down due to the actions of Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Helmet Kohl.

Hooter   November 9th, 2009 - 5:20 pm

The final poker round was played with John Paul II, Reagan, and Thatcher… Gorby folded.

It was a Allied Victory… America, West German, Belgium, Netherlands, UK, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Norway, Portugal, Canada, Denmark, Luxembourg, All NATO nations and free peoples around the world. It was the end of a communist regime that caused more death since 1917 than the Nazi’s in WWII.

Celebration, yes, but also contemplation of history…

peter c   November 9th, 2009 - 5:31 pm

This just shows even more how much this idiot hates America…how he revises history…how he tries to get away with insanely Anti-American statements…and works for GE…and Obama.

Obama tried to take credit HIMSELF for the Wall coming down 20 years ago…What an EGO HE Has. That’s who Matt should be asking about ego.

It WAS America that did what should have been done so the Wall would come done…Not NBC….Not Jimmy Carter…Not The Democrats who thought we never could do it and should just be friends with the Soviets.

But if you check out History Classes in our schools today…it was Gorbachev…and the Soviets who did it on their own…Out of the goodness of their hearts.

Ronald Reagan…Pope John Paul the second…M.Thatcher….and a beaten..out spent Gorbachev….caused the Wall to fall…

If it were up to Clinton…Obama..Pelosi…Reid…Kerry…Kennedy…and Frank…the Wall would still be up.

Liberals are KILLING us folks….They are taking America down…Do something…resist…fight back…Let your reps know they will be gone if they continue to ignore the PEOPLE.

Tell your kids the truth about our great history….look at their books and get them straight…show them that this country was built on Christian values….Not Socialist Values…if their are such things.

My wife was freed from the yokes of Socialism…She and all her people give thanks to America…R.Reagan and the Pope…and their long time fight…resistance…against Communists and Socialists like Pelosi..and her Messiah Obama.

Ignore NBC…MSNBC….ABC….CBS….PBS….vote all democrats out in 2010 and their Egoist Supreme Messiah Obama out in 2012 to save our great Nation.

melli50   November 9th, 2009 - 5:32 pm

It never would have happened without the greatest nation in the world and Ronald Reagan.

Rexter   November 9th, 2009 - 5:44 pm

Better tear down that wall in the Middle East or we will see a world war.
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/

pepito cojones   November 9th, 2009 - 5:49 pm

Lauer & Brokaw are a bunch of bumbling idiots! America Ego-centric? Then the doofus Brokaw gives credit to Gorbachev and makes no mention of Kennedy, Reagan, etc.
These two are the stupidest…

peter c. is right! Ignore NBC, MSNBC, CBS, CNN, ABC PBS and the rest of the ignorant & lying egocentric mainstream media…

Larse   November 9th, 2009 - 5:52 pm

Simple!!!

It’s an (insert any country name you wish here) Victory!!!

:)

ann gaede   November 9th, 2009 - 6:43 pm

the one and only reason that europe is free and the ussr is gone was tge u!s!a! and Ronald Reagan.

period.

Government Mess   November 9th, 2009 - 6:58 pm

Matt Lauer and Katie Couric are Obama Lap Dogs that ask for permission before they report! I have no use for any Network News other than Fox News anymore! Even the Network Shows are laced with Left wing talking points and secret hidden agendas too. Government is trying to control everything including all of us citizens! Dark Days are ahead people, we haven’t seen anything yet!

http://governmentmess.blogspot.com/

Don't Drink the Kool Aid   November 9th, 2009 - 8:55 pm

Typical self-loathing comment by Lauer…what a cry baby…he’s says things to make himself sound astute, but he’s just another talking head doing the bidding of Obama. They’ll do anything to minimize or degrade something good that the Democratic party wasn’t envolved with.

TulsaMark   November 9th, 2009 - 10:21 pm

Reagan not only told Gorbachov to “tear down that wall” he built up Western Europe’s
defense, and the U.S. military, and Gorbachov was FORCED to tear it down. So, if
Matt Lauer and Tom Brokaw want to say it was the benevolence of Gorbachov that
led to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, they can live in their pc fantasy.
When you tell the bad guy who breaks into your house to “Get out or I’ll blow your
head off!” should we praise the bad guy for his judgment to leave? Or should
we praise the home-owner for protecting his family and property?

Ted in Japan   November 9th, 2009 - 11:37 pm

Lauer and Brokaw are so conditioned to rewrite the history of the cold war. What a pair of mindless tools! First, Lauer takes a cheap shot at his own country, dicrediting it for liberating Eastern Europe from Communist tyranny. Second, Brokaw takes a cheap shot at President Reagan by crediting Gorbachev, a dictator who was invested in the destruction of our country.

Clearly, Reagan’s words and strategy turned his stated goals into reality.

Conversely, Gorbachev’s goal certainly wasn’t to tear down the Berlin Wall and liberate the captive nations behind the Iron Curtain.

If you take Reagan out and put in…say…Carter, the outcome would almost certainly be different.

But if Reagan is still there, making the same decisions, with some other card-carrying commie in Gorbachev’s place, I think it’s safe to say that the wall still would have come down. Reagan is the one who made it all happen. He was the one who took action. Gorbachev simply reacted to whatever Reagan did.

Not only do these two media bozos question the importance and the goodness of our country and president, they also inflate the importance and imagine the goodness of one of the most evil and destructive forces in the 20th century.

Lauer and Brokaw make me sick, pure and simple.

Simon Templar   November 10th, 2009 - 4:27 pm

Matt says things like this because he really sees America as the problem and cause of may injustices in the world like most neo-communist do that call themselves liberals these days. History and reality are irrevelant. We do not have to consider the efforts and heroic commitment to the fall of communism from John F Kennedy to Ronald Reagan. If Jack Kennedy were alive today he would slap this twit right across the face. The real issue is not Matts political opinions but a public that tolerates such treasonous speech and historical revisionism.

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