Posted on 04/25/2015 9:59:13 AM PDT by Libloather
A months-long internal investigation of Brian Williams by NBC News has turned up 11 instances in which the anchorman publicly embellished details of his reporting exploits, according to a person familiar with details of the probe.
NBC undertook the examination of Williams’ statement after he apologized in early February for saying on “NBC Nightly News” that a military helicopter in which he was traveling at the start of the Iraq War had been damaged by rocket fire. His account was challenged by soldiers who were on the flight, leading to a furor that prompted NBC to suspend Williams for six months without pay and to investigate other statements he’s made.
The Iraq claim was one of the 11 suspect statements that a team of NBC News journalists has identified during the inquiry, said the individual, who asked not to be identified because he isn’t authorized to talk about an internal matter.
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Yeah...but you gotta admit though, those Williams raps that Fallon played were fricking hilarious.
Gee...if only they would investigate the O and the Clintons to this degree
Gee...if only they would investigate the O and the Clintons to this degree
” rather’s ‘fake but accurate’ story which damaged President Bush but was later found ot be a lie and exposed as such”
Blather STILL goes around giving speeches claiming the story was actually correct.
Even more troubling - there are idiots that go to hear him!
Lord, I can’t Change! Fly Free!
LOL
I love that reply
yep, once upon a time we were zombies .... somebody lied ... of course .... does the enemy have a brain?
Maybe they should be “investigating” Obama instead.
No, if the investigation costs $1 million, but gives them the ammo to fire Williams and terminate his contract, that’s a massive bargain.
and the media would do this because ???? Remember the media hates America and Americans!
Embellished?
“LIED” to be more exact.
No you don’t. You’d have to be scum-sucking, bottom-dwelling soulless person, and you, as a normal human, couldn’t stand it.
I know. He pizzed someone off, really bad, or some other issue. This is SOP for the MSM, as I type.
Oh, now it’s called embellishing? Hard to keep up with the evolution of the English language! Changing faster than the climate these days!
David Bloom, a highly regarded NBC correspondent, died in Iraq in April 2003, while embedded with our troops. Williams was named to head NBC Nightly news some 18 months later.
There are many who thought that Bloom, before his death, was the rising star at NBC and that he would get the key spot. Williams obviously has issues of inadequacy, and felt he had to embellish his record, in order to compete, in his own mind, with Bloom.
If they’re no longer giving him a pass, he’s toast.
This is the tip of the iceberg. If an honest look was taken at the liberal media, they would see loads of this going on, IMO. I doubt the powers that be aren’t looking to closely at others. Williams was just one of the unlucky ones who got caught.
In the eyes of NBC, the worst thing Williams did was to be so blatant that he didn’t have an out and they couldn’t cover for him. For the alphabet networks, making sh!+ up is SOP. They’re other favorite trick is that a headline can say anything if they put a question mark at the end.
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