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NBC anchor Brian Williams' Katrina account challenged by ex-French Quarter hotel manager
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^
| 2/8/15
| Jessica Williams
Posted on 02/08/2015 5:40:16 PM PST by BBell
The former general manager of the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans, where embattled "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams reportedly roomed during Hurricane Katrina, said Sunday (Feb. 8) that neither mass flooding nor floating human remains were near the hotel after the levees broke. Her statement raises questions about Williams' stated Katrina experiences and could add to a pool of public skepticism regarding his tale.
Williams recounted his time reporting on Katrina in a 2006 interview with Disney CEO Michael Eisner. "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," he said.
As critics have pointed out, much of the French Quarter stayed dry after the storm, due to its position on high ground. However, there were rising waters as far up as Bourbon and Royal shortly after Katrina, geographer Richard Campanella said Friday.
But Myra deGersdorff, the ex-manager of the Ritz-Carlton who works as a chief human resources officer in Scottsdale, Ariz., questioned the claim Sunday that such horrors occurred anywhere near her former hotel.
"There is no physical way the water was deep enough for a body to float in," she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: brianwilliams; frenchquarter; katrina
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Just keeps getting better.
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:40:16 PM PST
by
BBell
To: BBell
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:42:22 PM PST
by
CMailBag
To: BBell
I remember when this was brought up on FR years ago during Katrina. I cannot find it on the net, but there is information about how he had to be lying.
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:43:25 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: BBell
News coverage is a branch of the Entertainment Business. It’s not serious in any way, except as a distracting piece of Bread and Circuses.
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:45:19 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
To: BBell
I can't help but wonder about the strange psychosis that inhabits the minds and hearts of liberal people. I know they are not alone in prevarication and embellishment, but they seem not only prone to lying in greater numbers, their behavior is normally accepted within lib circles.
If this hadn't come fore front as it has; someday Williams would be given a retirement farewell at a fancy NY black tie gala and as he sat on the stage some mouth piece would go through his bio telling of his heroics and how he was shot down in battle.
How could he sit there and listen to that?
I guess would be with the same pride and arrogance that Obama feels when he gazes at his Nobel Peace Prize...
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:47:04 PM PST
by
Baynative
(Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
To: BBell
Unfortunately the part that will be over looked is that this is merely a reflection of the entire MSM.
But I’ll take it.
To: BBell
Yes, it does. Loving every minute of it.
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:50:01 PM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
To: BBell
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:50:38 PM PST
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: BBell
Plenty of bodies float by face down in the French Quarter, just in their own puke and piss.
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:50:58 PM PST
by
Loyalist
(Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?)
To: Chickensoup
I wish it could be found.
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:51:11 PM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
To: BBell
In Fairness, the manager didn’t like Brian Williams and so may be lying.
It seems at that time, Brian Williams investigated and discovered that the manager was the head of an international conspiracy bent on world domination, and by using his Bas Ass Karate moves, Brian spoiled their devious plot and saved the world.
and he got the girl. just saying...
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:51:40 PM PST
by
DanielRedfoot
(Creepy Ass Cracker)
To: Chickensoup
I remember a live news feed at Katrina with a national news anchor declaring the horror and flooding while they were sitting in a John Boat. They explained that the area was underwater and it was total devastation. Then on live television three men walked thru the shot in what was less than six inches of water in a Walmart parking lot. The boat wasn't even floating.
They quickly cut to another location.
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:51:55 PM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
me too Lets check with Jim!
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:52:01 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: Jim Robinson; BBell
I remember when this was brought up on FR years ago during Katrina. I cannot find it on the net, but there is information about how he had to be lying.
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:52:56 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: DanielRedfoot
Brian Burgundy. “Stay Classy, America”
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:53:20 PM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: Baynative
For liberals, if lying or embellishing is done following their world view, or by someone with their world view, then that is OKAY.
Tell them the TRUTH that contradicts their world view and they'll call for a jihad against you.
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:54:00 PM PST
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: blackdog
I remember talking about that here.
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:54:50 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
To: BBell
Is there ever any major Network News Ancors that don’t resign in disgrace after being caught in leftist lies?
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:55:17 PM PST
by
The Toll
To: Baynative
I can't help but wonder about the strange psychosis that inhabits the minds and hearts of liberal people.Simple: The end justifies the means.
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:56:37 PM PST
by
BBell
(breathe easy obey the law)
To: blackdog
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posted on
02/08/2015 5:56:43 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
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