Posted on 02/05/2015 9:00:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
NBC News anchor Brian Williams is taking heat after admitting Wednesday that a rocket-propelled grenade did not bring down a helicopter he had been aboard while reporting in Iraq, despite having told the story repeatedly since 2003.
“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams told Stars and Stripes in a statement. “I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.”
Despite a subsequent on-air apology during last night’s broadcast of NBC Nightly News, many viewers took to the web to voice their skepticism at Williams’ claim that he “misremembered” the event, blaming his tall tale on “the fog of memory over 12 years.”
Within hours of the revelation, #BrianWilliamsMisremembers — a Twitter hashtag poking fun at the newsman for his memory lapse — began trending and has remained a top topic some 12 hours later.
Below are a few of the trend’s most creative entries:
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I can’t tell you how often I misremember whether it was the helicopter in front of me that got hit with a rocket or the one I was riding in.
Some of those were pretty good. Some of ours were better. ;-)
Just a typical leftard.
Ted Baxter laughs at Br(L)ian Williams.
Depends on the meaning of the phrase “shot down”.
“I just kept rubbing the sticks together, faster, faster... it began to smoke... then BOOM. Flame happened. The other trogdolytes were sore amazed.”
He is a Leftist. They lie. That is what they do. It is their nature.
Did he really not think any one of those folks he was there with would turn up to call him on it?
I could see him thinking he'd get away with faking it if he was some no-name reporter from the "Podunk Patch Gazette" that no one knows of, but he's a national figure on a national network, his face on the screen every night.
Makes no sense at all.
It’s the progressive stage of acute liberalism. Others have had it, too. Remember, Al Gore “invented the internet”, Hillary “dodged bullets”, any Kerry “got a Purple Heart” in Vietnam (for a splinter I think).
There’s no limit to the liberal ego, they have no “shame” gene;
Misremembered ....sounds like a Revrunt Sharpton ...invention
Liberals lie... It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Someone speculated that he was just trying to impress Letterman during the interview and got carried away.
True enough.
But it’s stupid to do something like that when there are multiple sources that WILL show up to bite him on the arse.
I guess that’s the point I was trying to make - why do something that will ultimately, publicly, make one look like a horse’s ass?
But... it’s sort of fun to sit back and watch the sharks circle sometimes... especially when it’s well-deserved.
The difference between a combat veteran and a non-combat veteran is the NON combat vet has better war stories.
The combat vet seldom talks about his experiences.
Impress Letterman by falsifying an easily-proved/disproved event... Again... the intelligence factor kicks in.
Sort of reminds me of that guy in the Mall wearing an Army uniform, and a real Vet calls him out on it, from a few months back.
Vets who have been in harm’s way should be outraged and innundate this clown at every opportunity.
Fake but inaccurate too.
Sorry Brian but Dan Rather you ain’t.
A chosen mistake is called an “on purpose”.
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