Posted on 06/19/2015 3:53:30 PM PDT by John Semmens
Dismissed from his post at NBC's Nightly News for making up stories, Brian Williams has been reassigned to the company's floundering cable channel where he has vowed "to reclaim my reputation, one viewer at a time." Whether Williams will be able to accomplish was thrown into doubt by his stubborn insistence that his on-the-air fabrications "weren't intended to mislead people."
"Fiction isn't inherently untrue," Williams observed. "Many novels and movies portray deeper truths via fictional characters and events. We don't deride Mark Twain or Steven Spielberg for making up stuff. While I don't claim to be as good at it as them, I don't think I've deserved all the negative vibes I've gotten."
As an example of a "deeper truth" that his fiction helped elicit, Williams pointed to his reporting on Hurricane Katrina's effects on New Orleans in 2005. "Admittedly, I didn't see any bodies floating in the streets," he acknowledged. "But it was a big flood and there could have been bodies that I didn't see. The important point I was trying to make was that President Bush should be held accountable for the disaster."
While Bush's culpability might have been clear to Williams' addled way of thinking, the reality was more complex. Yes, Bush was president when the hurricane hit the city, but Bush had no control over the path of the storm. The City's vulnerability to flooding was decades in the making as state and local politicians squandered multiple opportunities to shore up levees.
For his part, former President Bush wished Williams "luck with his quest to restore his reputation" and allowed that "his estimate that he'll do it one viewer at a time seems to be an accurate assessment based on the size of MSNBC's audience."
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He’ll be an outstanding addition to MSNBC.
It’s good to see you going after the media, John. More, please.
Not true. the evil genius retarded chimpy BushMcHitler had Bammy's cousin Darth Cheney in a speedboat on the Gulf cutting donuts to make the storm more intense!
/BW "Reporting"
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