[laconic]

I felt a shock this morning when I read a column by Maureen Dowd in the NY Times critical of Brian Williams. We all know that NBC News couldn’t give a farthing what WE think about his lying and the impact on what he and their network present as “news” (I haven’t watched network news on a regular basis for 30 years). They DO care what the rest of the “establishment” thinks, however, and this ain’t good news for the career of Brian Williams; once the clouds start gathering at the NY Times, they will have pouring rain at NBC and Brian Williams may be back to serving his Whoppers at Burger King and not on the nightly “news”.

[HotHunt]

I read that article too. Dowd said that the big mucky-mucks at NBC had been warning Williams for years against embellishing his resume with stories that were not true. But with many of them not around anymore to monitor or scold him, he just continued. Why he did it, we don't know. I speculate that he is a narcissist and needs to feed his ego so that he looks better to himself than he knows he is. Did he need to do it? Absolutely not. He was already at the pinnacle of his career and didn't need to artificially advance it.

He's a liberal and a liar. What else is new?