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Cheer up, Matt Lauer. The week’s almost over. Of course, the past few months haven’t exactly been a picnic for  the handsomely paid host of the “Today” show.  But did Al Roker that his forecast for late March would be a severe crap storm?Now in his 20th year as NBC’s main man in the morning, Lauer was long considered near-invincible. He was good looking enough to lure bleary-eyed morning viewers, possessed a gravitas that enabled him to cover serious political stories and interview heads of state, but was also playful enough to invite the audience to go on a worldwide treasure hunt searching for… him. In the halcyon Katie Couric era, “Today” seemed precisely what America wanted for breakfast.But it’s been a rocky public relations period since. Last year, there was the awkward, much-rumored courtship between Lauer and ABC, while his home network allegedly dangled his “Today” show seat before featherweight Ryan Seacrest. Lauer ended his dalliance with ABC and stayed on “Today” when NBC made him the highest, most grudgingly paid morning anchor in television history. Meanwhile, until she was clumsily shown the “Today” door, there was Lauer’s on-air partnership with Ann Curry — a textbook example of whatever the German word for “the opposite of chemistry” is.Continue Reading… … Read More