Yeah, let's bring back this deep thinker.
Posted on 02/05/2015 7:31:55 AM PST by uscga77
Ok, so Brian Williams lied. So another member of the media proved to be dishonest and self-serving. Is that really news? Is that all that surprising? It seems a convenient hypocritical distraction from others that also lack integrity. I'm ready to move on.
Yeah, can’t ever kick a leftwing journalist enough for what they’ve done to our country, and the slander they’ve dished out for decent American values believing people.
It’s a little too soon to move on
Moving on = Giving cover.
I don’t except the premise that this is so normal, that we should not care.
I have been laughing my guts out at the pics on Twitter this morning!
No one gets confused about whether their helicopter was shot down or not. He is such a liar. What does it say about his “network” to keep him on. Forced sabbatical, then a quiet retirement should be in his future. Instead, he will get a raise for his “honesty”. Bah.
I’m with you. And, by the way, what’s the difference between what Brian Williams did and Hillary,who lied about being under fire? And, while we’re at it, why is Bill Clinton being given a pass, but Bill Cosby isn’t? Gimme an effin’ break!
How is this any different then Stolen Valor?
IMO, it’s the same.
Yeah, let's bring back this deep thinker.
Sure you are, and I'm the king of England.
So ready you post a vanity to stir things up even more?
Strange.
Keep kicking until a good portion of the NINE million dumb as dirt Americans who watch this lying sack on a nightly basis buy a clue.
Hillary lied about being under fire too. I guess the liberal press excused her because they have an ‘agreement’... The liberal press buys the lies of liberals... then they get to lie too.
Thank God they don’t grant that bullsh*t to conservatives or we’d have as many criminals running as they have.
If Iraq/Afghanistan War veterans are anything like Vietnam War veterans, you’ll see more and more of these “misremembering” episodes among your fellow veterans in the coming years.
I stopped attending reunions held by veterans of a unit I served with in Vietnam simply because it became too difficult for me to keep my mouth shut while they were telling “war stories” that weren’t even close to how I remembered it to have happened. I could tell by their intensity and attention to detail that they weren’t lying; they truly believed what they were saying was the truth to the point I’m sure they could have passed a polygraph.
Eventually, after several years of observing these “story tellers” at annual reunions, I think I figured out how this could have happened: In the last forty-five years, they had told this story thousands of times, and each time they told it, they changed it just one tiny bit until their memory of the incident wasn’t even remotely similar to what actually happened, but they truly believed this was exactly how it happened.
At first, I thought these flights of imagination were harmless, but when someone started collecting these stories and publishing them in books claiming to be the History of the Vietnam War, it became serious. If this is happening with the history of the Vietnam War, what does it say about the histories of all the wars going back to Thermopylae and beyond, as the histories of these wars are also “eye witness” accounts recorded many years after these wars had ended.
I have noticed when authors are given a choice between how an action actually occurred and an account of the same action that has been exaggerated, they’ll publish the exaggerated account.
In his apology he recounts that he was in the following helicopter.......fact is the helicopter he was in showed up an hour later!!!!
I have learned to be wary of those that begin with:
"This is nooo shit!"
Seriously, you are correct.
The telling of a story, no matter how true or untrue, is further embellished, each time the story is retold.
So move on. Let the rest of us keep it out front so that hopefully some lamebrain libtards will get high blood pressure from it.
Brian Williams is the face of the Liberal news media, and now everyone knows what we’ve always known - they lie.
T.R. famously said, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly . . .But many say, “It is not the owner of a business who counts - not the man who works to a bottom line and keeps expenses down while improving quality and customer service. The credit belongs to the man who criticizes, condemns, and complains - the cynic who arbitrarily says, “You didn’t build that” even though any business will turn to dust in your hands within five years if not diligently managed by someone who is trying to improve it. This cynic class consists not only of “liberal” politicians but of academics, unionists, and - most of all - journalists.
Time was, as recently as the mid-to-late Nineteenth Century, when ideological competition between newspapers was taken for granted. The perspective of the printer was a prominent feature of any newspaper, and you would only subscribe to a paper if you were interested in that publisher’s perspective. The inevitable result of the 1844 introduction of the telegraph and the 1848 founding of the New York Associated Press (now simply the Associated Press) - the inevitable result of any and every wire service - is the decision of the journalists to go along and get along ideologically. “The wire” is a virtual meeting of all major journalism institutions, and Adam Smith’s prediction of the outcome of that proves prescient:
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices . . . - Adam Smith, Wealth of NationsWhen the “people of the same trade” are journalists, they agree that critics such as journalists - and not TR’s “man in the arena" are the important ones.
I wonder why not one of his TV crew never stepped forward to expose the bald faced lie.
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