Posted on 05/24/2025 11:10:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The controversy related to his recollections of his time covering the Iraq War. In January 2023, Williams told NBC viewers he had been traveling with four U.S. Army helicopters forced to land to avoid enemy fire and then trapped by a sandstorm.
That much was true, but over the next dozen years, Williams made it seem like he was closer to the action than he actually was, that the helicopter in which he was riding was shot down. Eyewitnesses, however, said other helicopters were hit and that Williams' helicopter arrived at the scene an hour later.
In a timeline of statements from Williams, CNN Business shows how his story morphed over the years — and strayed further from the truth.
In a 2003 NBC News report, he said, "On the ground, we learn the Chinook ahead of us was almost blown out of the sky."
In a 2005 appearance on Tim Russert's CNBC Show, Williams said, "The helicopter in front of us was hit. A pickup truck stopped on the road, pulled a tarp back; a guy got up, fired an RPG, rocket-propelled grenade. ... And it beautifully pierced the tail rotor of the Chinook in front of us."
In 2007, Williams suggested in a television segment that he was in one of the helicopters that encountered enemy fire, recalling "when the Chinook helicopters we were traveling in at the start of the Iraq War were fired on and forced down for three days in a stretch of hostile desert in a sandstorm."
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from the FRchives:
Never should have been on the air in the first place.
Hey, a little respect for the guy who almost prevented WWII. Honest, he was talking to Admiral Yamamoto at a DC cocktail party when he sez, “Don’t do it, Isoroku! You’ll awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve!” “Hey, that’s pretty catchy,” sez the Admiral, “Imma steal that one.”
LOL!
How is what he did any different than Hillary or Joe? They skated but he was fired. Seems a dbl standard at best. So am I to believe the dems have a liar outcome hierarchy? Some will remain untouched while others are punished?
And yet “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal sits in Congress.
“A former manager of the swanky hotel where Brian Williams stayed during Hurricane Katrina demolished his claims that he saw a body float by — and laughed off his assertion that gangs were roaming the hallways.”
https://pagesix.com/2015/02/09/brian-williams-didnt-see-any-bodies-floating-says-nola-hotel-manager/
Didn’t he get 3 Purple Hearts for that? Oh wait, that was some other leftist prick.
Kinda like that "shooting survivor" hogg they keep telling us about.
Might have pierced the aft rotor, but a Chinook has no tail rotor.
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