Posted on 04/07/2015 1:44:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Embattled news anchor Brian Williams couldn’t bring himself to admit he lied about coming under fire on a chopper in Iraq — so he instead wondered aloud if he had a brain tumor, a new report claims.
Several NBC News insiders told Vanity Fair that the fact-challenged Williams — who was suspended without pay for six months from his “Nightly News” gig — had trouble explaining what had happened.
“(He said,) ‘Did something happen to (my) head? Maybe I had a brain tumor, or something in my head,’” a source told the magazine in its upcoming piece. “He just didn’t know. We just didn’t know. We had no clear sense what had happened. We got the best (apology) we could get.”
In the aftermath of the scandal, people at NBC News have repeatedly cited Williams’ penchant for bureaucratic infighting and his limited interest in “heavy” news, the piece says.
“Brian has very little interest in politics,” one insider told the magazine. “It’s not in his blood. What Brian cares about is logistics, the weather, and planes and trains and helicopters.”
Williams was described as very insecure because he had never been a foreign or war correspondent. The insiders said his gussied-up accounts of seeing bodies floating in post-hurricane New Orleans were his way of trying to prove his journalistic chops.
“He didn’t want to leave New York,” a onetime NBC exec told the magazine. “Getting him to war zones was real tough . . . but when he did go, he came back with these great stories that kind of put himself at the center of things.”
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I think Brian is about ready to have his 19th Nervous Breakdown. That song was actually about Brian Williams. He didn’t tell you? Mick used to call him Long Distance (Collect!) several times a month for singing and dancing ideas.
Invoking the Americans With Disabilities Act to save his paycheck.
How liberal of him.
He is right about something wrong with his his head... 10 lb of crap in a 5 lb box.
Brain tumor or brain fart?
Brain fart.............
GMTA!.............
Well sure Sherman, I agree with that type of memory drift. I see examples in myself of that sort of thing. When it comes to actions I was involved in, I may also forget colors or the exact people who where there, but I don’t forget if I was there or what the general circumstances were.
Was I in a combat zone? Was I actually in Cambodia on Christmas? Was there live ammo whizzing past my head? These are general things that don’t get fuzzy until you start losing your memory in age related ways.
Williams, Hillary Clinton, and others just flat out lie. And I think they know better. If these were issues of wrong colors and such, folks wouldn’t really care either.
These are more substantive and hard to forget circumstances.
Your “generic point” is simply a weak one and your example about the color of a “wet suit” is, as you say, “50 years later” is not perfect.
Williams was recounting a “story” that had happened in his recent past. He was lying, period. Embellishment is one thing but he was not telling the truth. What reason? Who knows, but I suspect a pathology trait in this case.
My husband died of a GBM (glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor). He collapsed at home and died 15 days later. He had no symptoms until he collapsed. This idiot has no clue of the devastating effects of a REAL brain tumor — on both the patient and the family. I shouldn’t be surprised — BW is a lib-journalist and a liar.
Don't worry there Brian. just take some of that same "prescription" Hillary Clinton takes and you'll blot it out like it NEVER HAPPENED.
I believe Mrs. Clinton has a PERMANENT PRESCRIPTION and uses it regularly.
No, Brian.
You’re just a liar.
Repent.
While you can.
Actually, very few people remember things as they actually happened.
Most , in retelling the story, are telling you HOW THEY FELT and what was going on in their head. Not the actual facts of the event.
Every fish I have ever caught has always been much larger than what I told people. I knew others simply couldn’t handle the truth.
“Darn if the suit wasn’t white! Not at all the way I remembered.”
Was it still shaped the same?
Yahh. I remembered that aright. Not bad for almost 50 years.
Of course, at the time I didn’t realize how idiotic the “science” part of this science fiction movie was.
Williams ended by saying, “It was a brain tumor or my evil twin brother. Which ever is more convincing.”
More likely just the run-of-the-mill lying libtard.
“Maybe I HAD a brain tumor?” So a brain tumor just goes away? Nothing less than miraculous.
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