A Brief History of War Zone Lies — Notice a Trend?

http://www.mediaite.com/ ^ | February 5th, 2015 | Andrew Kirell

[jessduntno]

By now you may have heard that a certain NBC News anchor has been repeatedly fibbing (or misremembering, as he would have it) about having been on a helicopter shot down by an RPG during the Iraq War.

It turns out that Brian Williams isn’t the only major public figure to have lied about or misrepresented his or her war zone experiences. Let’s take a look:

[jessduntno]

I think that these others are worse. Williams is just the latest in a long line of lies about their "brushes with war."

[BeauBo]

Q: What’s the difference between a war story and a fairy tale?

A: A fairy tale starts off “Once upon a time”, but a war story starts off “This is no bull...”

[Doogle]

[Tailback]

Exactly. Here’s an example.

Now this ain’t no bull, there I was knee deep in grenade pins when the third wave hit the wire.

[jessduntno]

Hahahaha...yeah, it’s the “Honest, this really happened” shit that kills me.

[struggle]

If Brian Williams told us lies about the Iraqi War, how much of the media’s narrative of the last 15 years is a lie as well??

[dead]

[BeauBo]

There is no mention of John “swift boat” Kerry.

Probably strikes to close to bone for the Democrat writer and editor, seeing how he is among their top serving leadership.

They had to cut the list off, because if complete, it would show this to be an overwhelmingly Democrat phenomena.

They lie for a living.

[arthurus]

But what about a revered newsman in a business predicated entirely on accuracy and truth-telling?

That is simply a silly thing to say. It is not true, even remotely. It is a business predicated on convincingly delivering the Democrat/presidential line or the Democrat antipresidential line, depending on who is in the White House.