Matt Lauer, powerful host of NBC's Today Show has been fired over allegations of "sexual misconduct." One more in a trail of powerful men in the media brought down for misbehavior ranging from rape to harassment. All fine and good. No one should be permitted to abuse their position to act badly. Yet, some Clintonites are claiming this is a vindication of Hillary? WTF?

Lauer’s abrupt termination marks the third time in recent weeks that a prominent journalist who played a key role in shaping coverage of the 2016 campaign has been accused of sexual harassment or assault. Last week, Vox broke news that multiple women had accused Glenn Thrush, one of the New York Times’ top White House reporters, of exploiting his powerful position to sexually harass women. And at least a dozen women have recently accused author and former ABC News correspondent Mark Halperin of sexual harassment or assault. Thrush, Halperin, and Lauer all established reputations for their tough coverage of Trump’s Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton — coverage that at times fixated on her emails.

So what does asking legitimate questions about a former Secretary of State's breaking official rules by using a private server to conduct official business (quite possibly to avoid potential Freedom of Information Act requests about her conflicts of interest) have anything to do with the sexual misconduct of powerful journalists? Well, according to Joe Romm of Think Progress, these men mistreated Clinton out of sexist or misogynistic motives. In other words, once more, Clinton and her followers are piggy-backing on the real suffering the women who were victimized to make political hay on her behalf. You see, it was all part of a sexist conspiracy by these awful sexual abusers to take her down.

Here's Romm's argument. At the "Commander-in-Chief forum" Lauer moderated on September 7, 2016, Romm claims Lauer "re-litigated" (interesting choice of words, all things considered) while lobbing softball questions at Trump. Clinton even made a point in her memoir, "What Happened," to say how "ticked off" she was at Lauer for "his performance," which she described as “disappointing but predictable.”

I get that Clinton feels victimized by everyone and their dog over her loss to Trump, her hand-picked opponent. But what purpose does it serve to use the victimization of women by Matt Lauer at NBC to once again intrude herself into the national conversation? Lauer's misdeeds at NBC toward his co-workers has nothing to do with her. So why exploit the pain and suffering of the women upon whom Lauer preyed to once again claim Hillary was cheated out of the Presidency?

In his questioning at that infotainment event (one can hardly call it anything else without being deservedly mocked), Lauer was doing his job as only the host of a morning infotainment show could do when forced to interview two despicable and unlikable candidates. I assume both Clinton and Trump could have demanded someone else to handle his duties, someone with more foreign policy experience, but they did not. Instead they agreed to Lauer. And it is not like the controversy over Clinton's private email server while Secretary of State would have been considered by Clinton to be off the table, even if it obviously was not a topic she wanted to discuss. Indeed, despite the excuses Hillary and her surrogates have continued to make, the use of a private server to shield her official business while holding the highest position in our government that deals with foreign relations was fair game.

Her failure to respect the rules and laws requiring transparency was unethical at best, and illegal at worst, despite the kid gloves treatment she and her team received from the FBI during its the investigation. One hardly needs to mention that the ultimate outcome, which avoided any charges against her, may ultimately have turned on an unscheduled private meeting between Bill Clinton and Attorney General Lynch on the scorched tarmac of the Phoenix airport.

Hillary and her surrogates post-election campaign of non-stop grievances and vindictiveness against anyone who didn't treat her as a special case, one deserving of a greater measure of deference and respect than any other candidate in history, has been destructive, counter-productive, boorish and frankly exploitative of the real pain the women who bravely came forward with charges of sexual misconduct have endured for years. Clinton lost because she was a horrible candidate who ran a horrible campaign. What right does she have now to piggy-back on the suffering of others out of some perverted sense of revenge?

Others in the Democratic party and on the left have spent their post-2016 time opposing the atrocities of a Republican controlled government run by Trump. They have worked tirelessly to expose his administration's misdeeds while also advocating for policies and strategies to recover from the disaster for which Clinton's incompetent and clueless campaign was largely responsible, along with all the other entitled centrist Dems.

Yet Hillary and her loyalists have nothing better to do than lash out and try to settle scores with her innumerable "enemies," further dividing those within her own party and fracturing the possibility of alliances with progressives necessary to end Trump's reign as well as the Republicans' consolidation of political power at every level of government. People are hurting in ways Hillary and her fan boys and fan girls cannot possibly understand. I'm tired of her shameless and selfish martyr complex. It serves no purpose other than to keep her and her supporters in denial over her many flaws and failures. That and keeping her name in the public eye, I suppose.

But, friends, those are not good enough reasons for this nightmare of recriminations Hillary keeps shoving down the public's throat. Not that she gives a flying you know what about the "deplorable" American public, regardless of race, color or any other distinguishing characteristics. All she cares about is herself and her ambition. The misery and struggles of those who serve neither interest are of little consequence to her and her ilk.