Posted on 02/04/2015 8:32:55 PM PST by kristinn
If credibility means anything to NBC News, Brian Williams will no longer be managing editor and anchor of the evening newscast by the end of the day Friday.
The admission from Williams Wednesday that he lied about being in a Chinook helicopter that was hit by enemy fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 is astonishing. And he only admitted the lie after being confronted with it by the military publication, "Stars and Stripes," which has a well-documented report and timeline showing his shifting version of events over the years.
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Really, if this was 10 or 15 years ago, an anchor at any network would be gone by Friday after an admission of such deception - especially when it is placed alongside the sacrifices made and pains suffered by military personnel and their families.
How could you expect anyone who served in the military to ever see this guy onscreen again and not feel contempt? How could you expect anyone to believe he or the broadcast he leads has any credibility?
I wonder how the newsroom Williams is supposed to be leading will look at him tomorrow morning when he arrives for work.
I can't wait to see how the feckless NBC News handles this nightmare.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
BREAKING: Brian Williams said today that he remembers Woody Allen touching his no-no parts on that helicopter over Iraq. It was so traumatic his brain created the false memory of being shot down instead.
BREAKING: Brian Williams: the horrific gang rape I experienced at the hands of a college fraternity may have contributed to my hazy memories from the war.
NBC, lets fake a car wreck, has trouble with credibility? No, never!
[It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order. But the American colonies did it once and brought forth one of the most nearly perfect unions the world has ever seen. The circumstances were vastly different, obviously. Yet just because the task appears forbiddingly hard, we should not shirk it. We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic U.N. federation.]
Delusional, wasn’t he?
What bothered me most about that was not that he was a global statist, many of our liberal politicians are, and most of the members of the media.
What bothered me was the deception, that so many Americans thought he was an American, one of us. And he wasn’t.
And he is STILL venerated, most American just don’t know what he really was.
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