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Brian Williams’ heroic stories include Princess Di and Hurricane Katrina
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Posted on 02/07/2015 3:27:02 PM PST by 4rcane

He lives in a vivid fantasy world that would make Walter Mitty blush — never missing a chance to shamelessly play the hero or embellish a news story. Reality-challenged NBC anchor Brian Williams once boasted about abandoning a dying buddy to cover the death of Princess Diana — but said it was worth it because it won him worldwide fame. “I lost a very good friend to Agent Orange-related cancer,” he told Alec Baldwin in a March 2013 interview on the “30 Rock” actor’s “Here’s the Thing” show on WNYC radio. “I was in the hospital room with him. It was a Saturday night, I had just done ‘Nightly News.’ My pager went off: ‘Diana, car accident, Paris.’ I called the office, and they said, ‘You better get in here,’ ” Williams recalled. “I had no idea that I’d be announcing to what was then, I mean, they plugged us into cable all over Europe. I have people wherever I go to this day who say, ‘I was with you the night Diana died,’ ” the anchor said. Williams has spun more wild story lines than his own network’s sitcoms.


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KEYWORDS: brianwilliam; brianwilliams; brianwilliamslies; nbc; nobrainscollectively; princessdi
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To: 4rcane

I don’t think he will be back. The story has taken on too many legs to go away. NBC crew members and others will start coming forward and telling more stories. More leaks,
more embarrassment and ridicule not just for Williams but for NBC and its executives.


61 posted on 02/07/2015 4:12:19 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: 4rcane
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(with special thanks to a FReeper who posted this earlier somewhere)

62 posted on 02/07/2015 4:13:13 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: 4rcane

Run Forrest run! :-)


64 posted on 02/07/2015 4:15:30 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: 4rcane
In mitigation of his hubris, during his brief career as `Mr. Sparkle' Brian Williams demonstrated his profound disrespect for dirt. And bogles. Engrish photo:  IMG_2432.jpg
65 posted on 02/07/2015 4:16:32 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: 4rcane

It has gotten so bad for Williams that he now takes the NBC helicopter to get work and because he was so traumatized by his battle experiences it corkscrews down to the helipad.


66 posted on 02/07/2015 4:19:48 PM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: billorites
It’s hard to recover after being made a laughingstock.

I don't know. Obama got re-elected and we still laugh at the SOB.

67 posted on 02/07/2015 4:20:57 PM PST by llevrok (I fear the US government more than I do al Qaeda)
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To: 4rcane

To me, this whole Brian Williams thing is delicious. I never liked the smarmy piece of shit, and now his mouth has come home to roost.


69 posted on 02/07/2015 4:24:55 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: nomad

He blew up the Death Star, but only after making a secret agreement with the surviving aliens in the Roswell crash he was reporting on. The aliens transported him to the future and back, but only after returning from the past where he explained Islam to a guy name Mohamed and gave him a special rock as a reminder of his visit.


70 posted on 02/07/2015 4:32:36 PM PST by Carthego delenda est
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To: SpaceBar

To me, this whole Brian Williams thing is delicious. I never liked the smarmy piece of shit, and now his mouth has come home to roost.


This is the third best schadenfreude moment I can imagine. Second best would be hillary getting called out for all of her lies plus Benghazi and Vince Foster. Best? Oh, that’s easy. Proof that Obama is not just gay but has been a prostitute for money and cocaine a la with Larry Sinclair, and proof that he was never an American citizen until the government handed him a passport when he was a US Senator. Oh, will that be a happy day.


71 posted on 02/07/2015 4:32:46 PM PST by Yaelle (No Cruz? Then "I'm Ready for Hillary; What Difference Does It Make?")
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72 posted on 02/07/2015 4:35:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary men)
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To: Carthego delenda est
Then after wards he used their quantum mirror to jump into an alternate Earth and save President Lincoln, stop the 1929 stock market crash, kill Adolph Hitler, design the Saturn moon rocket, and HE invented the Internet, BOO-YA, Al! We`re on to you, thanks to Brian!
73 posted on 02/07/2015 4:46:34 PM PST by nomad
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To: Kickass Conservative
I hear he is the only Survivor from Little Big Horn. He was rescued by an Indian Squaw, Lieawatha Warren.

One lies and the other swears to it!

74 posted on 02/07/2015 4:52:29 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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To: 4rcane

Hurricane Katrina was spun into a hit piece on GWB. Compare coverage with Hurricane Sandy. Only Republicans are responsible for natural catastrophes. No surprise he embellished the Katrina story for political reasons.


75 posted on 02/07/2015 4:54:28 PM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Huskrrrr
Actually I hope NBC decides to keep Brian Williams (I have never watched the show). It would be nice to have a liberal clown sitting on a trapdoor, over the MSN dunk tank, for us to lob baseballs at.

Unfortunately, 95% of Americans will never hear about this story and he and Dan Rather will be brought back in five years to do the news ala Huntley and Brinkley.

76 posted on 02/07/2015 5:04:18 PM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: llevrok
"I don't know. Obama got re-elected..."

I have no experience with either man. Still, I sense a certain difference in character.

Uh, Attorney General Holder just pointed out that I was being racist and must submit to a civil forfeiture of all my assets.

My bad.

77 posted on 02/07/2015 5:08:03 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Gamecock
snort...

guffaw.

78 posted on 02/07/2015 5:10:14 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: 4rcane
From Wikipedia: Williams became anchor of NBC Nightly News on December 2, 2004, and his first year in that post was marked by coverage of two disasters: the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. His work helped earn NBC a Peabody Award,[16] the Peabody committee concluding that Williams and the Nightly News staff "exemplified the highest levels of journalistic excellence in reporting on Hurricane Katrina."[17] He also earned the George Polk Award for the extensive coverage of the hurricane.[18]

Does this mean NBC will give back the Peabody Award? There is as much probability in that as, Will Barack Hussein Obama give back the Nobel Peace Prize.

79 posted on 02/07/2015 5:13:57 PM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: Ken H

To Ken H and Farmer Dean.
Ammunition costs money, but in his case I am willing to donate.
(GENEROUSLY)


80 posted on 02/07/2015 5:23:59 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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