Posted on 02/08/2015 8:27:06 AM PST by Reverend Saltine
He’s the one we’ve been waiting for. The inimitable Mark Steyn has taken on Brian Williams, perhaps the most satirized figure in public life of the last month. Actually, with Williams, Steyn offers both wisdom and potshots, musing on the way memories embellish themselves over the years, but pointing out the egregiousness not only of Williams’ self-promotion, but the failure of the NBC organization to do much beyond ensure that his hair is perfect when he appears on camera.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Brian Williams holds the values and ethical standards that characterize NBC news. They are proud to have him as their anchor and executive editor.
That funneh :)
The Left owns the old-school "network news".
The Left has a post-modern "there is no such thing as Truth" view of the world.
This is an opportunity for the Right to step up and demand that the media and the government stop lying to us.
The GOP should take Brian Williams and use him as an object lesson for why Hillary Clinton cannot be president. It's just a matter of connecting the dots from: "it depends on the what the meaning of is is" to "I stared down the barrel of the RPG".
Brian Williams is Hillary Clinton.
This is a golden opportunity.
The real issue isn't the helicopter ride. The real issue is the Unemployment numbers.
He would make a great Press Secretary for Obama , LOL
Great point. Williams had somebody put that story into his TelePrompTer. And then he read it as if he was reliving extemporaneously. Whatever extemporaneously means.
It’s astounding (to me) that this clown has 9m viewers each night.
Well, hell, those people can barely get out of their beds to go the bathroom let alone walk over to the tv hanging in the corner and reach up and change the channel.
Posted something like this on an earlier comment about Williams. Williams, the NBC news anchor, will now be known as the NBC ‘nose’ anchor in honor of Pinocchio the great and remembered story teller. Williams will soon be elected into the Pinocchio Hall of Shame.
I can't stop laughing
“I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared — seared — in me.”
——John Kerry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27211-2004Aug23.html
“Danger is his middle name. It used to be Dan Rather’s middle name, but Brian bought it at Dan’s yard sale a few years back.”
He Got it for fiddy cents I believe
NBC = News Brian Contrived
The GOP should take Brian Williams and use him as an object lesson for why Hillary Clinton cannot be president.
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They should, but they won’t. I think we can be pretty sure about that. In many respects, the GOP is as phony as Brian Williams is.
I once saved a house from a burning dog.
Many reports seem to suggest he is paid between $10M and $13M/yr. Some indicate he recently signed a 5 year contract. I suspect that there are guarantees or severance clauses which would either pay him the rest of the contract or perhaps 3 years of salary if he is forced out. I cannot imagine that they would have written a morals clause in the contract that anticipated exactly this circumstance. So, he has probably made ~$110M in the last 11-12 years, could have a golden parachute of $30M for jumping. Why not quit? How would staying vindicate anything? You cannot recover lost integrity. The faster NBC realizes that, the better.
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