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To: bryan999
I don't understand how he admitted to the hoax now after all these years of sticking with it. What made him come clean?!

I wish the whole lot of them stepped away from news after admitting to bias, spin and lies.

22 posted on 02/07/2015 1:37:09 PM PST by Moorings
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To: Moorings

He came clean because a soldier on the chopper posted on NBC’s FB page “Sorry, dude. You weren’t on the chopper I was on” or something like that.


130 posted on 02/07/2015 4:03:25 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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To: Moorings

Williams told the story at a hockey game where some guys who had been there paid attention.

http://www.stripes.com/news/us/nbc-s-brian-williams-recants-iraq-story-after-soldiers-protest-1.327792

...The admission came after crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment’s Chinook that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire told Stars and Stripes that the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft or two other Chinooks flying in the formation that took fire. Williams arrived in the area about an hour later on another helicopter after the other three had made an emergency landing, the crew members said...


137 posted on 02/07/2015 4:11:09 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Moorings

The soldiers that were actually under fire came forward and said he was no where near, let a lone in the Chinook that took fire..still don’t know how Bri-Bri was able to tell the lie for so many years...


192 posted on 02/08/2015 10:48:43 AM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: Moorings

The soldiers that were actually under fire came forward and said he was no where near, let a lone in the Chinook that took fire..still don’t know how Bri-Bri was able to tell the lie for so many years...


193 posted on 02/08/2015 10:56:04 AM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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