Posted on 08/11/2006 8:29:17 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
I think Brian was answering the people who give the terrorists some sort of moral high ground for being willing to die. I don't think he was drawing a moral equivalent between the tactics. Imagine for a moment the circles Brian moves in - elite liberal media NY - we have all heard these types actually laud the terrorists for their commitment to their cause - this strikes me as an answer he has given over and over in order to say that the islmao-fascists are NOT more commited, they are not morally superior, they are not better because of conviction.
I'm giving Brian the benefit of the doubt on this one. Our guys are not afraid of the fight - in fact they'd rather look the enemy in the eye than hit civilians and run away like school girls.
" The man is sooo dumb! "
Dumb or crazy like a fox.
Williams consistently makes flowery declarative statements that he never sources . I think he gets a pass because he looks like he should be honest.
During the 2004 election season, he routinely declared that our economy " was the worst since Herbert Hoover" and then to underscore his point-he showed black and white footage of men on bread lines from the Depression.
NBCNN Jan, 2005
Williams : "With the U.S. locked in dependence on foreign oil, is it downright unpatriotic to drive an SUV?"
Shep Smith and Geraldo were panned for their hysterical Katrina coverage, but, Williams was equally as bad.
The night of President Bush's speech from New Orleans during Katrina, Williams lamented on MSNBC that the WH staff had scouted a nice location , instead of one of devastation " for their president."
Williams : “I hope the lesson of this is not that my son and daughter at home have been assigned a different value as humans in the United States than their equivalents here in New Orleans.”
He signed off NBCNN describing the lower Ninth Ward -“This is a neighborhood that’s been left to die.”
NBCNN, July 12,2006-Brian Williams declared Iraq "to be in civil war ." No documentation, just his word.
NBCNN, July 19,2006 :
Brian Williams declared that the Israeli soldiers resented being called up and did not want to fight.
Then he asked an Israeli soldier on the front lines
how he felt knowing that " today or tomorrow, going by the law of averages , one of these shells will kill a 6 yr old boy ."
Aug 23, 2005 After Pat Robertson said the US should kill Chavez
Brian Williams began NBCNN :
" Is He Serious ? "
"Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson is suggesting that America
assassinate another world leader." Another ?
Williams compared George Washington and the founding fathers to terrorists, which explains this comment he made in 2002:
Brian Williams:
“Is it fair to call him [Jimmy Carter] the best former President in, at minimum, modern American history, and perhaps, well, I guess, the last 200 years?”
My hero...
There is not a single member of the MSM that is worth spit.
It was a really stupid thing to say
If, in fact, John Edwards said what this post claims Matthews attributed to him, then John Edwards' ignorance and naievete is appalling and frightening for the future of this nation, should he ever gain national political office again!
Every time these Far Left Democratic Party Leaders open their mouths on such subjects, they also open the window to their abyssmal lack of understanding of the history of civilization.
Of course, Edwards spends his time now purportedly studying "poverty" and its causes--another indication of his shallow thinking. If he were wise and truly interested in helping alleviate poverty, he, like moral philosopher Adam Smith over 200 years ago, might find it more beneficial to study the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.
Edwards, Clinton, and others who believe that "making nice" with, and appeasing individuals intent on destroying every vestige of Western civilization reflect ignorance of human nature and of history. They, with their 20th Century educations in American institutions dominated by Leftist thought are trapped in what T. S. Eliot called "a provincialism, not of space, but of time," unable to distinguish between the ideas of tyranny vs. the ideas of liberty encapsulated in America's Declaration of Independence.
My thoughts exactly. I'm happy to give Williams a pass on his mal mot moment. Wish they'd do the same for our tongue tied Prez, who also has a good thought in his head that some times doesn't come out silver tongued.
Hello, I emaied MSNBC to slam him and Matthews and received the following lame reply:
Brian Williams read your e-mail and asked that I send along the following response:
Hello Matt
Comments I made during a live interview with Chris Matthews last night have been aggressively misunderstood in the hours since. Here was my point: people always say that our country will be at a disadvantage as long as the "other side" is willing to take their own life for the cause. I was making the point that if that's some kind of litmus test for bravery... or belief in the cause, we have those guys, too. People who fight for us, people who protect us -- know full well that the American cause is worth dying for -- as are our freedoms. People are dying for the U.S. side every day. Laying their lives on the line. And I give thanks for them every day. I was not at all equating the "other" cause with what Americans stand for. I was criticizing the view, expressed by some, that as long as we are fighting the "suicide bomber mentality" we can never get the upper hand, because, as this belief goes, "we aren't willing to give our lives the way they are." Of course we are. The difference is: the folks willing to die for OUR country do so in the act of protecting and defending it -- NOT killing civilians by detonating an explosive and killing innocent people.
I hope that clears it up.
Brian Williams
Well that explains it!?
I agree with you...it seems to me that Matthews was trying to make a big deal of the fact that, having lived among westerners, the terrorists think we are so evil (as I imagine Matthews himself believes), they are willing to die to destroy us.
I took what Williams said to mean, that they may have people willing to die to destroy us, but we have people willing to die to save us.
I thought that's what he was saying!
The Breck Girl, OMG, what a moron! They know us alright and they hate us and want us dead, get it Johnny-boy?
"Williams: "And that, Chris, that last aspect, the willingness to take one's own life -- I always tell people, you know, there are guys on our team like that, too. They're called Army Rangers and Navy Seals and the Special Forces folks and the first responders on 9/11 who went into those buildings knowing, by the way, they weren't going to come out. So we have players like that on our team."
His words in the first line are 'the willingness to TAKE one's own life'...therein lies the discrepency following that with 'I always tell people, you know, there are guys on our team like that, too'.
He's equating suicide bombers TAKING their own lives, with our honorable troops making the ultimate sacrifice perhaps. Totally different and Williams knows it!! I don't think it was a misspeak at all.
I think that this earlier quote by Williams, in an interview with Andrea Mitchell, shows that William has indeed previously equated US heroism with Islamic terrorism, and that in no way was his meaning "aggressively misinterpreted" , as Williams claimed in his psuedo apology.
Brian Williams, Chris Matthews Earn "Worst Reporting" Awards
"The Slam Uncle Sam Award" goes to Brian Williams and Andrea Mitchell for yet another example of MSM moral equivalence:
Andrea Mitchell: "It is an iconic picture: American hostages, hands bound and blindfolded, being paraded outside the U.S. embassy in Tehran by their captors. But has one of those student radicals now become Iran’s newly elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?...Tonight, U.S. intelligence officials say that they will continue to study this, but may never have definitive proof of what the role was of Iran’s new president, Brian."
Brian Williams: "Andrea, what would it all matter if proven true? Someone brought up today the first several U.S. Presidents were certainly revolutionaries and might have been called terrorists at the time by the British Crown, after all."
Mitchell: "Indeed, Brian." — NBC Nightly News, June 30.
That was John Roberts.
May I please have your autograph?
I want to put it on my mantle beside the one Buckhead gave me.
J
Congrats!
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060814.asp
Brian Williams said he was Misunderstood
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