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[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Matt Lauer ? On Wednesday morning  NBC confirmed that they had fired morning news anchor  Matt Lauer .  Lauer  has served as the centerpiece of Today  which The New York Times calls âthe most important part of the NBC News franchise â since 1997. A memo from NBC News chairman Andy Lack cited âinappropriate sexual behaviorâ as the grounds for termination.
âOn Monday night â Lack wrote  âWe received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by  Matt Lauer . It represented  after serious review  a clear violation of our companyâs standards.â
While NBC took swift action against  Lauer  even before the allegations went public  itâs safe to assume that this story is far from over. As Lack himself acknowledged  âWhile it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over twenty years heâs been at NBC News  we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident.â
In the wake of  Lauer âs unexpected departure  Today was forced to reckon with the story in real time. Lauerâs co-host Savannah Guthrie was tasked with reporting on the latest in a string of sexual misconduct stories  this time involving her âdear  dear friendâ and colleague. âHow do you reconcile your love for someone with the revelation that they have behaved badly?â an emotional Guthrie asked. âAll we can say is we are heartbroken; Iâm heartbroken.â
Like the other recently disgraced media men before him  Lauerâs career is now open for reexamination. One incident thatâs already been circulated and picked apart by social media is the Presidential Forum that  Lauer  moderated in September 2016. At the time   Lauer  was widely criticized for the way  he  interacted with candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton  with many accusing the Today host of employing a sexist double standard. In one article  âHow Sexism  Like Matt Lauerâs  Could Imperil the Nation â Adele M. Stan wrote  âWhen questioning Clinton   Lauer  was all alpha-male  interrupting  her  and tsk-tsking  her  for criticizing  her  opponent after he had asked  her  not to do so. But when paired with Trump  it became clear who was the alpha in that set-up. It clearly wasn't  Lauer   who allowed Trump to talk over him  and to evade specifics.â
While  Lauer âs tendency to interrupt Clinton repeatedlyâwhile letting Trump go largely unchallengedâwas certainly cringe-worthy  it may not be Lauerâs most painful on-air interaction. Anyone searching for an example of overt sexism need look no further than his 2012 Today interview with Anne Hathaway. The actress  who was promoting her film Les Miserables at the time  had had the misfortune of being photographed during a âwardrobe malfunction.â âI was getting out of the car and my dress was so tight that I didnât realize it until I saw all the photographersâ flashes â she reportedly said in response to the âdevastatingâ incident. As if the revealing photographs werenât enough  Hathaway was then grilled on the minor controversy by  Lauer   who opened the interview with a gross allusion to the intimate pics.
âAnne Hathaway  good morning  nice to see you. Seen a lot of you lately â  Lauer  greeted  his  guest. While Hathaway  who responded that  âIâd be happy to stay home â clearly had no interest in discussing the upskirt shots   Lauer  continued. âLetâs just get it out of the way. You had a little wardrobe malfunction the other night. Whatâs the lesson learned from something like that  other than that you keep smiling  which youâll always do.â To summarize:  Lauer   mistaking pervy paparazzi pics for actual news  asked an accomplished actress about a painful incident  phrasing the invasion of privacy as a personal failing (âwhatâs the lesson learned from something like that?â). To make matters even worse  he all but told Hathaway to smile through itâwhich is just what every woman wants to hear from a man whoâs talking down to her about her lack of underwear on national television.
Hathaway  to her credit  managed to own  Lauer   replying  âWell  it was obviously an unfortunate incident. It kind of made me sad on two accounts. One was that I was very sad that we live in an age when someone takes a picture of another person in a vulnerable moment  and rather than delete it and do the decent thing  sells it. And Iâm sorry that we live in a culture that commodifies sexuality of unwilling participants  which brings us back to Les Mis  because thatâs what the character [Fantine] is. She is someone who is forced to sell sex to benefit her child because she has nothing and thereâs no social safety net so yeahâletâs get back to Les Mis.â
[EX A]: Negative

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Roy Moore ? WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump formally endorsed  embattled Republican Roy Moore  in the Alabama Senate race on Monday  looking past sexual misconduct allegations against the GOP candidate to argue that  Moore 's vote is needed in Congress.
Trump tweeted early Monday that "Democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive Tax Cuts is why we need  Republican Roy Moore  to win in Alabama."
Trump also spoke with  Moore  by phone. White House Spokesman Raj Shah said the two discussed the state of the Alabama Senate race and that the president "endorsed Judge  Moore 's campaign."
It was Trump's strongest show of support for  Moore  since allegations surfaced that the candidate had sexually assaulted teenage girls decades ago  including one who said he molested  her  when  she  was 14 and he was in his 30s. Many national Republicans have called on  Moore  to step aside in the wake of multiple sexual assault and harassment allegations.
Shortly after Trump's tweet   Moore  responded on Twitter: "Thankful for President Trump's support. The America First agenda will #MAGA. Can't wait to help him #DrainTheSwamp."
Trump also had assailed  Moore 's Democratic rival Doug Jones  tweeting that "Putting a Pelosi/Schumer Liberal Puppet Jones into office in Alabama would hurt our great Republican Agenda of low on taxes  tough on crime  strong on military and borders...& so much more."
FILE - In this Nov. 28  2017  file photo  Alabama U.S. Senatorial candidate Doug Jones talks with the media after touring the Northport Medical Center  in Northport  Ala. Jones is the democratic candidate facing republican Roy Moore for Alabama's U.S. Senate seat in the Dec. 12 special election. (Vasha Hunt/AL.com via AP  File)
Trump for weeks was silent after the allegations against  Moore  surfaced  and the White House has said  he  had no plans to make campaign appearances before the Dec. 12 election. But Trump in recent days has raised doubts about the allegations against  Moore   and he has agreed to headline a campaign-style rally in Pensacola  Florida — less than 20 miles from the Alabama border — just four days before the Alabama election.
And Trump tweeted of  Moore  on Monday: "We need his vote on stopping crime  illegal immigration  Border Wall  Military  Pro Life  V.A.  Judges 2nd Amendment and more. No to Jones  a Pelosi/Schumer Puppet!"
Short said Trump's point is that "when allegations arise 38 years later  when  Roy Moore  has been a very public figure for those 38 years   he 's run multiple times statewide in Alabama  the people in Alabama have an opportunity to choose and make some decisions about  Roy Moore 's character. Putting all that together   he 's encouraging the people of Alabama to make the right decision."
[EX A]: Positive

[EX Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Scott Boras ? Is this the year  Scott Boras  fails to pull a rabbit out of a hat? Or three or four rabbits  to be precise?
 Scott Boras  is known for holding out to get the deals  he  wants  but it might not work this time. (Paul Sancya/AP)
Talking to scouts and executives on Wednesday  I heard  Boras â name a lot  as some are convinced  his  refusal to bend on  his  demands has created a stalemate for  his  top-of-the-market guys that has a trickle-down effect on other free agents.
The same executive made the point that  Boras  has often managed to swing deals late in the offseason by going directly to ownership  particularly with the Tigers and the Nationals. But Detroit owner Mike Ilitch died last year at age 87  and in Washington Ted Lerner reportedly has no intention of adding any more big salaries.
J.D. Martinez: Who blinks first  Red Sox or  Boras ? Hard to believe Martinez would walk away from five years and $125 million  no matter how much more  Boras  wants.
[EX A]:
Neutral