Posted on 02/05/2015 11:25:03 AM PST by MAKOTHEDOG
The MSM is reporting on this now and Williams isn’t faring very well. NPR, the Washington Post, CNN, etc. are all on the attack.
Exactly. NBC hires this type of person because they commiserate with this type of person.
He’s your next White House Press Secretary. Showing great promise, but will have to work hard to match Jay Carney.
“Braved,” is the operative word.
Brian Williams has been a liar for years while doing his job to mislead low information voters.
The Media is so openly, brazenly corrupt anymore I’m surprised this is even news.
Is he a relative of John “Vietnam” Kerry and Hillary (&^*%) Clinton?
Believe me, if you’re ever in an aircraft that gets hit by an RPG, you’ll damn well know it.
What else can we expect from the “Nothing But Calumny” network?
In one story, he claims he saw a body float by his hotel room window in New Orleans. In another, he claims his five-star hotel was overrun with gangs while he was sick with floodwater dysentery, and was rescued from a stairwell by a police officer. Williams recounted the first story about the floating corpse in a 2006 interview with former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, blogger Charles C. Johnson reported Thursday.
"When you look out of your hotel room window in the French Quarter, and watch a man float by face-down, when you see bodies that you last saw in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, and swore to yourself that you would never see in your country . . ." Williams said, recounting the 2005 hurricane. "These are Americans. These are my brothers and sisters and one of them was floating by."
The likelihood that a body would be "floating by" in the French Quarter neighborhood is highly unlikely, as several news outlets noted that there was no flooding there — it sits at one of the highest elevations in the city. The New York Times reported just days after the storm that, "the Quarter's elegant 150-year-old buildings look relatively unruffled, except for some loosened bricks, having been spared the worst of Hurricane Katrina's winds and sitting high enough to have avoided the flooding."
Another blogger noticed a story Williams told not long after the storm.
"My week — two weeks there — was not helped by the fact that I accidentally ingested some of the floodwater. I became very sick with dysentery. Our hotel was overrun with gangs," Williams said in an interview with Tom Brokaw. "I was rescued from the stairwell of a five-star hotel in New Orleans by a young police officer. We are friends to this day."
The blogger noted that Williams doesn't appear to have told the story ever again, but did say in a subsequent Dateline special that the police in New Orleans used the Sheraton hotel as a staging ground for their operations, and that they allowed his film crew to film outside.
I heard on Rush that there has been at least one other “journalist” that has come to BWs rescue, saying that they have been in many war zones together, BW is very brave, etc. Rush speculated that otherjournalists would probably be joining in this support.
But How do we know that particular journalist isn’t just doing this for BW because BW has some similar goods on him? Just speculating...
Like Cosby, NBC is going to learn that the internet changes things, even from 10 and 12 years ago.
Yeah, but the one who came to the rescue is Dan Rather, so one can speculate on exactly how much that's worth.
"Ok, Sully, remember to keep the nose slightly elevated and the wings level. We're all pulling for you."
Brian Williams
It is interesting how many times he repeated the lie. I guess one of your choices is to stick with it until the end. I guess when NBC reported it you have no choice.
Company man
They all know they are lying
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