Posted on 02/05/2015 5:28:19 AM PST by KeyLargo
NBC'S Brian Williams admits on air to lying On 02/04/2015 Front Page,U.S.,World
NBC News’ Brian Williams has been caught in a lie and forced to recant.
The nation’s top-rated news anchor apologized on the air Wednesday evening for fabricating a story of personal heroics, claiming to have been aboard a helicopter in Iraq in 2003 when it was hit by enemy fire.
“I made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago,” Williams said.
At the time Williams reported the original incident, he did not claim to be on the Chinook copter that was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in the rear rotor.
“On the ground, we learn the Chinook ahead of us was almost blown out of the sky,” he said in 2003.
His story was no different five years later in a 2008 blog post: “Chinook helicopter flying in front of ours (from the 101st Airborne) took an RPG to the rear rotor.”
But something changed last week when Williams spoke at a New York Rangers hockey game, honoring a retired soldier who had provided security for grounded helicopters in 2003 when the newsman was in Iraq.
“The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG,” Williams recalled. “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry.”
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First things first. Have we even verified he was even IN Iraq at that time?
False, but accurate.
I thought it was true. Hillary Clinton described her being in the chopper with him when it made an evasive corkscrew landing. She had to dodge sniper fire.
He didn’t admit to lying, which it was in spades. He made a mistake, he was confused. He still hasn’t manned up.
THAT IS NOT THE SAME AS ADMITTING A LIE!
No different than the rest of his news.
Pray America is waking
“As we reflect on the hot mess that used to be the career of Brian Williams, Fox News’ Monica Crowley reminds us that Williams’ memory problems aren’t unique:
Bingo! Will Hillary’s now infamous Bosnian sniper gaffe hurt her chances in 2016?
John Kerry’s war record got him a promotion to Secretary of State:
Heh. How soon until Williams’ supporters accuse us of swiftboating him? And let’s not forget Sen. Blumenthal who was caught lying about serving in Vietnam:
And that’s the problem right there. These lying liars do get elected or appointed to the highest offices in our government all the time.”
Watched it live and he probably lied some more in his half assed apology for misremembering.
NBC and its even worse spin off MSNBC lie about everything, thus their persistent last place in the ratings
dan rather’s illegitimate son.
“The nation’s top-rated news anchor.........”
Since when has anyone on NBC been on top of anything? The only thing they are on top of is the “Bull Shit” ratings, in that category they are definitely number one.
That was only admission of a “mistake”
which, in fact, is yet another lie.
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