Talk about empty suits.......FGS!
" 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?”