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Brian Williams Must Step Down
Townhall.com ^ | February 11, 2015 | Brent Bozell

Posted on 02/11/2015 7:14:19 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 02/11/2015 7:14:19 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

6 months means it is pretty much over for Mr. Williams.


2 posted on 02/11/2015 7:17:46 AM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: Kaslin

Ask yourself this....NBC has to find some four-star guy/gal to stand in for six months and hope they don’t lose an audience. Temp guy? No....they will go straight for Matt Lauer. If the guy delivers the same numbers...Williams might return in six months to find they don’t need him and he’s shifted into the Today Show for the remainder of his contract.

The six-month thing simply helps NBC move to a new position on the story.


3 posted on 02/11/2015 7:19:05 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Kaslin

I hope he stays and I hope people quit watching and his network continues it’s death spiral.


4 posted on 02/11/2015 7:19:23 AM PST by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: Biggirl

He’ll skate, and the liberal media will openly admire how cleverly he will be in skating.


5 posted on 02/11/2015 7:19:51 AM PST by Daveinyork ( Marbury vs.Madison was the biggest power grab in American history.)
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To: Kaslin

Lying Williams will blame his “memory lapses” and story telling on alcohol and go into rehab. You watch.


6 posted on 02/11/2015 7:20:04 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kaslin
"I carried a case of Vienna sausage ... as collateral in case we had a smash-and-grab carjacking. I was going to offer it to someone in exchange for my life."

And now we know what Brian Williams' life is worth. I propose that everyone send NBC a case of Vienna sausages to forward to Brian, as a form of severance payment.


7 posted on 02/11/2015 7:22:10 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Kaslin

Needs to be said. FR brought Rather down and it started with Buckhead.


8 posted on 02/11/2015 7:22:33 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Daveinyork

To me, it was all over once Tom Brokow called for Brian Williams to quit. He will not skate and you can take this to the bank.


9 posted on 02/11/2015 7:22:50 AM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: Kaslin

Williams won’t rip up his contact, and pretty sure there’s not a liar liar pants on fire clause. Maybe he’ll return to interview other liars like Hillary, Kerry, Sharpton, Bill, Barry, Dean... Hey, that’s like his bud squad right there...


10 posted on 02/11/2015 7:26:48 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Kaslin

FINALLY – it appears that Brian Williams is HISTORY! The corrupt behavior of the NY based media makes incest look like a normal family activity! These network anchors are paid 7 figures to read teleprompters filled with “news” items pulled directly from the leftist New York Times while assuming appropriate facial expressions. And those in the so-called main stream media wonder why it is sinking into a well deserved grave!
Now it’s on to that clown show over at MSNBC!
Which raises the issue of NET NEUTRALITY.
If anyone is STILL not sure how to feel about the intentionally confusing 332 page FCC monstrosity called Net Neutrality, all you really need to know is that this is OBAMA’S effort to bring to heel the burgeoning internet alternative to Big Brother’s statist propaganda dispensing TELESCREEN. Go online and search “Senators and Representatives who support or oppose net neutrality”. In the support column you will find the usual leftist democrat suspects. There ya’ go!


11 posted on 02/11/2015 7:27:17 AM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Kaslin
Most damning of all: Williams wrote a daily blog on NBC.com during this time. Nowhere did he report floating bodies, dysentery or gangs.

Maybe he was just lying to his diary as Clinton's Treasury ghoul Joshua Steiner claimed to Congress in describing discussions with Robert Altman circa 1994/5.

If a person LIES about his/her most personal experiences, how difficult would it be to LIE about most anything?

NBC and the rest of the three-letters and dinosaur paper media can boohaha all they want about it but you can't spit polish a turd unless you're ready to get down there right with it and put some distasteful effort into it.

12 posted on 02/11/2015 7:28:10 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Biggirl

Agree, does anyone really think Williams will return to his anchor chair in 6 months? NOPE, evening news needs to protect their percieved “brand” of truthfullness and integrity (we know this becuase they deny their bias).

This is the cowardly liberal way to fire someone, no Black and White with liberalism, if there was they would have fired him on the spot.


13 posted on 02/11/2015 7:34:48 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: central_va

Brian is just another Dem hack who will be replaced by another Dem hack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTaFJJgYftg


14 posted on 02/11/2015 7:40:37 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Kaslin; MeshugeMikey; GeronL; Slings and Arrows; PJ-Comix
How Brian will remember this...


15 posted on 02/11/2015 7:41:21 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Gaffer

This embellishing of history is going to come back to bite the Hillary scampaign in 2016.

Can’t have one high standard for a newsreader and another lower one for the President of the United States.


16 posted on 02/11/2015 7:43:36 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

“YA WONT HAVE BRIAN WILLIAMS TO KICK AROUND ANYMORE”


17 posted on 02/11/2015 7:44:14 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Kaslin

I expect an announcement in the next few days of a severance agreement between Williams and NBC. He has a high priced lawyer who will negotiate some kind of “mutual Agreement” between the parties which include an “undisclosed” monetary settlement and restrictions on future employment for an unspecified period of time. Is that ambiguous enough? Anybody want to bet against it?


18 posted on 02/11/2015 7:46:37 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Kaslin

They couldn’t really fire him because it would bring pressure for Hillary and John Hanoi Kerry to step down.


19 posted on 02/11/2015 7:47:38 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: a fool in paradise

That holds true for the liar and thief in the White House too, right?


20 posted on 02/11/2015 7:49:19 AM PST by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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