Posted on 02/10/2015 8:15:55 AM PST by grundle
Emmy Award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson, who covered the story of Hillary Clinton's lie about being shot at in Bosnia, says she can't understand how the former secretary of state weathered the scandal while NBC News anchor Brian Williams may not.
"To me, part of the irony is if Brian Williams isn't able to survive it — that we think it's important enough when somebody gives this kind of story that he would lose his career — yet we didn't care enough to have it matter that much with someone who became our secretary of state," Attkisson said Monday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
"[A person] we relied on for honest answers and truths in the aftermath of Benghazi and so on."
Last Wednesday, Williams, one of NBC's biggest stars, recanted his longtime claim of being aboard a helicopter forced down by a rocket-propelled grenade during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment’s Chinook hit by two rockets and small arms fire told Stars and Stripes that Williams was nowhere near that aircraft — but on another aircraft that took no fire.
Williams, who apologized on his nightly newscast, told Stars and Stripes: "I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another."
"Is it really more important that Brian Williams has a certain type of character and honesty than a presidential candidate or secretary of state?" said Attkisson, a former CBS News reporter.
Clinton's gaff came during her 2008 run for the White House, when she claimed she and her staff had dodged sniper fire on an airport landing strip in Bosnia. But news video of the event revealed it never happened.
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Because for libtards the ends justify the means and if the means involves dishonesty then so be it. Also, for postmodernist libtards the narrative is more important than reality, and there is no such thing as objective truth,so the truth doesn't matter.
Hillary serves the banking elite, that’s why.
Because she has dirtbags like Brian Williams protecting her.
“....says she can’t understand how the former secretary of state weathered the scandal while NBC News anchor Brian Williams may not.”
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Brian is not running for POTUS in 2016. That’s why.
“Brian is not running for POTUS in 2016. That’s why.”......
Right on! Williams may be a liberal news person but at this point, he’s not a politician nor in particular, a Clinton. Hitlary is the medias darling and they want no part in smearing her or causing anything which would result in her losing a potential POTUS election. God Forbid!
This was hubby Bill’s excuse for her - repeated over and over. I think I’ve read that she used it too but I can’t find that now....Sure Bill, we all get old and forget that we weren’t shot at in a war zone.....we got mixed up and it was in a drunken stupor that we were careless with words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJzqDbUj9qU
The party turned its back on Hillary.
-PJ
Well she lost because she didn’t understand how the elections work. She focused on the big states many of which are proportional and ignored the small states many of which aren’t. So her big state wins didn’t give her the numbers she expected and her small state losses gave Obie big numbers.
But in the long run, 6 years later nobody likes her anymore. Her political career is done, nobody buys her books, she’s in mediocre health and she almost certainly won’t run next year. The whys and wherefores are many and debatable, but it does make me question the idea that she survived a Williams-like tale. It might be only a small part of why it’s over for her, maybe even not a part at all, but it is over for her, and it never really started.
She should have left him after leaving the White House. She was a bad decision-maker then, and she's still a bad decision-maker now.
-PJ
Well she can, but she’s a mean nasty person and Bill is the sole source of her likability. Many bad things can be said about Bill and they’d all be true, but one thing that must be admitted is the guy has star power. The camera loves him, the crowds love him, and reality around him just seems more fun. Really most of her recent failures are because she’s largely separated from him and standing on her own she has no light. She’s not exciting, she doesn’t project well, and reality around her seems very gray and dull.
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