The real "story" is about Billy, not Donald

HELLO LADIES! My name is BUSH! Billy BUSH!

Since last Friday, there has been nonstop media coverage about the 2005 "hot mike" recording of Donald Trump's thoroughly predictable comments about women. Even some of the reporting has occasionally mentioned the name of the other man's voice on that recording, the voice egging on Trump and laughing along with him. Billy Bush.

How many media pieces, however, have explained exactly who Billy Bush is?  Beyond being the host of the tabloid "Access Hollywood" show, and a recent addition to the cast of the "Today" show?

I bet if you have relied solely on a passive viewing of TV reportage about this event, you have heard nothing about Billy Bush being the first cousin of George W. Bush and JEB! Bush. Nothing at all.

I also doubt that you know that Billy was bragging to NBC co-workers last summer at the Rio Olympics about this recording.  Or that NBC was delaying releasing the recording apparently in an effort to "scrub" Bush's part out, and then release an edited version with only Donald Trump's part.  Before that could happen, someone leaked the whole thing to the Washington Post.  

That premature leak cost Billy his 3.5 million dollar a year gig with NBC, but instead of firing Bush, the network paid him a "settlement," rumored to be around 10 million dollars, though Bush's lawyer denies the amount.

Who is Billy Bush, and what is he like? According to some sources at NBC, Billy was , "more of a frat guy . . . He gets boisterous when he goes out. You can’t just go out with Billy and have tapas and relax.” 

One woman attorney in New York remembers Billy as a prep school bully back in the 1980s. "He would make fun of my clothes, he may have called me ugly or unattractive or nerdy. It was just generally disparaging comments.”

Billy seems like...well, just a typical Bush! He can alway move over to the Curvy Couch at Fox and Friends. He will get a nice soft landing somewhere.