Williams in 2007: I looked down the tube of that RPG launcher (man the lifeboats alert)

Hot Air ^ | February 7, 2015 | Ed Morrissey

[Zakeet]

Via Ace and Twitter user Niedermeyer’s Dead Horse, yet another tale of Brian Williams’ heroism on that fateful day in Iraq in 2003 has emerged, this time from 2007. Don’t forget that the absolutely false version of his helicopter ride being hit by an RPG had been floating around since 2004, this time the story has even more compelling detail. Williams tells Fairfield University reporter Emily Fitzmaurice in November 2007 about all of the close calls he’s had as a reporter, including the 2003 incident in Iraq in which he looked down the tube of the RPG launcher. Pick up the tales of Williams’ adventures at the two-minute mark:

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[Zakeet]

Our news reader has quite a combat record ... he is lucky to be alive ... and he deserves the Medal of Honor!

[Secret Agent Man]

Brian Williams is a major liability to nbc’s news department.

I wonder if they will be smart enough to recognize that fact.

[petercooper]

Wasn’t NBC the one that weakened the roof supports on that Volvo that they tested for safety?

[SaveFerris]

Interesting. This time he admits it hit another chopper, not his.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

I navigated for Washington as he crossed the Potomac - Brian Williams.

[CrazyIvan]

You can’t look down the tube of an RPG if it is loaded.

[Olog-hai]

Phew. Not hard to guess that “tube” is euphemistic language for something not quite military-related . . . especially in context with “looking down” said “tube”.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/f/frank_sinatra/there_used_to_be_a_ballpark_lyrics.html#!

[USMCPOP]

Hell, I was there when Ft. McHenry got pounded. Never bragged about it. But I did help Scotty Key write the part about “...and the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air...” He was stuttering and at a loss for words.

Then another time ...

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Not for nothing but why all of a sudden the attack on this specific guy when ALL of the left wing media lies and regularly? Take a look at MSNBC for example, you would think you were watching The Onion tv show, I mean my God they even gave Al Sharton hosting his own show “Politics nation” Oh yes, where else should you go to get the truth but from a professional scam artist.

http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation

[Steely Tom]

Brian Williams is a major liability to nbc’s news department.

I wonder if they will be smart enough to recognize that fact.

If they decide he's making it more difficult to sell the narrative, he's gone.

I think we're approaching that point.

[Red in Blue PA]

A world known liar is the perfect mascot for NBC.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Williams in 2007: I looked down the tube of that RPG launcher (man the lifeboats alert)

The good thing is that this exposes the load of TOTAL BS that Williams and his lib buddies have been shoving down the throats of the public for decades.

He is Dan Rather's successor and should get the same treatment.

[GraceG]

We should call him Hap Shaughnessy.

Red, did I ever tell you about the time I was shot down in Iraq in a Helicopter?

[LostInBayport]

"And that's the way it is. I just made up that saying. This is the National Broadcasting Corporation. It's called that because it was started by a broad. Yeeeah, that's the ticket!"

[Bob]

While I don’t know about the Volvo roof supports, I’m fairly certain that it was Dateline that outfitted incendiary devices on pickup trucks’ gas tanks to get the effect they needed for a story.

[petercooper]

Right.

[central_va]

If you look at the Iwo Jima flag raising on Mt Suribachi Brian Williams is the guy fourth from the left.

[Sacajaweau]

I like that one............

[Secret Agent Man]

Honestly I don’t know. There’s just too many news organizations that have done that sort of thing. There was one about pickups they had rigged/weakened and fuel lines. There are more than one example and I can’t keep them straight.