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I disagree.

In many ways I don’t agree with the political perspectives of Brian Williams as may be presented periodically, but when I have closely listened to the taped reports, I don’t find him to be lying.

There is an art in reporting a complicated situation succinctly to a national audience. When Williams used the term, ‘we’ were shot at, he did so in context of his group of helicopters flying into a forward area.

He also reported this when the US wasn’t at war, but when the US was at the mall, and his audience was predominantly those people at the mall, trying to get them to become more involved politically in the war.

It also was the operational art of allied planners at that time, to engage the press and get them into forward areas so the fighting would be reported. This was a touchy area, because it was just as easy to report something in a limited perspective which worked against their operations as they could be reporting something which could reinforce the home effort to support our fighting forces.

I also note, those in the press who are attacking Williams so heavily, in most part, never even ventured into the theater. Williams at least had the courage to go into the area, then report succinctly what he had experienced to an audience many times reluctant to even listen.

I don’t find his reporting to be as mendacious as some other Democratic zealots in modern politics, but I believe those attacking him manifest far less grace than did Williams.