[badpacifist]

GENERAL HONORE: That is BS. I will take that on behalf of every first responder down there. It is BS, I will not defuse where the Congressman may have got that from or if he had a personal answer, but I can tell you that, that is BS

[Newtoidaho]

Does anyone take these preening, self-important buffoons or the questions they ask seriously?

[cubreporter]

Gloves off? Won't their little hands get too rough?

[cubreporter]

Brian Williams...isn't he the one that looks like he just came off the ski slopes? You know...color all over except around his eyes where sunglasses or goggles would have been? I wonder...does he pay to have someone give him that look or ... does Bri go skiing everyday somewhere and then come back to his desk? Just curious. Someone shoujld tell him that look is passe just the way he too is passe.

[Lancey Howard]

Translation: "We finally have the opening we've been begging for so that we can to go to bat for our party and smear Bush, big time."

[Owl558]

"Perhaps we've taken something off our fastball and perhaps this is the story that brings a healthy amount of cynicism back to a news media known for it."

The MSM doesn't lack for cynicism, it lacks honesty.

[Ciexyz]

bump with no comment

[swmobuffalo]

I'm still waiting for a response to an e-mail I sent to NBC specifically aimed at pompous Mr. Williams.

[Gay State Conservative]

Given what we've seen come from the poisoned pen of America's Newsman (Cronkite) and The Dean Of The White House Press Corps (Helen Thomas),shouldn't Americans demand that all "reporters" publicly,and regularly,declare their political/philospohical loyalties?

[Peter Libra]

.....we've offered the preaponderance of the benefit of the doubt over past couple of years.....

Problem here is the man possibly believes what he has said. The sick delusion of it all.

Good bye Jennings. Hello Williams.

[OKIEDOC]

This article has a lot of GAUL calling the current crop of inept news talkers as Journalists.

[halfright]

ya know...two can play this game...I'm sure we have enough Freepers to organize an in-depth background investigation of every media person that cares to start SH*T.

We actually have more resources and our labor is free. Wonder what Bryan was doing in HS and college......Does he have any felony convictions?? How bout the rest of the MSM?? One at a time we can Blather them and expose them.....

[ClearCase_guy]

2000 (early) -- When Bush was governor of Texas we journalists were prepared to treat him with respect, but now that he is running for president we have to examine his record closely. AND LOOK! He was arrested from DWI years ago! This changes everything! Now the gloves are off!!

2000 (late) -- When Bush was running for president we journalists were prepared to treat him with respect, but now that he has stolen the election this changes everything! Now the gloves are off!!

2001 -- When Bush was vegetating in the White House we journalists were prepared to treat him with respect, but now that we have been attacked by terrorists, this changes everything! Now the gloves are off!!

2002 -- When Bush was leading us in the days after 9/11 we journalists were prepared to treat him with respect, but now that he has invaded Afghanistan this changes everything! Now the gloves are off!!

2003 -- When Bush destroying the terrorsts in the Taliban we journalists were prepared to treat him with respect, but now that he has invded Iraq, this changes everything! Now the gloves are off!!

2004 -- While Bush had his first term we journalists were prepared to treat him with respect, but now that he intends to continue his efforts to turn this country into a Right-wing Theocracy, this changes everything! Now the gloves are off!!

2005 -- Even though George Bush lied to us about WMD, lied to us about the Texas Air National Guard, lied to us about Valerie Plame, and caused thousands of our soldiers to die in a pointless war, we journalists have always treated him with respect, but now that he has a bungled operations at the state and local level in the wake of Katrina, this changes everything! Now the gloves are off!!

[Sisku Hanne]

Here's a new flash for Williams: I was on the left in 2000. And it's been this incessant and hysterical media witch-hunt against President Bush and his administration that embarassed me even then. I soon felt like the blinders had been ripped off and I was surrounded by evil shape-shifting harpies. I ran from them like my @ss was on fire, never looking back. So if Mr. Williams ever wonders why Bush gained votes in all demographics, including Democrats, he and his ilk need only look in the mirror.

[Reactionary]

"NBC's Brian Williams says the lasting legacy of Hurricane Katrina for journalists may be the end of an unusual four-year period of deference to people in power."

Oh, yeah. Pouty-Boy is all about speaking stupidity to power - at least while the evil George Boosh is *in* power.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

This clown is not only light in the loafers, he's light upstairs.

[jwfiv]

Both Williams and the writer of this article are fools to suggest that the media has been giving the President their kid-gloves treatment.

An absurd and rediculous thing to believe and say ... and so true to type of the Leftie thought process.

[manwiththehands]

Oh, yea? Oh, yea? OK! WE'RE REALLY MAD NOW!!!

LOL (snort) LOL (snort)

[SierraWasp]

Didn't somebody here on FR try to tell us that Brian Williams was gonna be way better than Tom Brokejaw about truthful, even handed news reading??? Maybe even with a conservative bent to better compete with FOX???

I guess I was "hearing things!"

[texasbluebell]

...may be the end of an unusual four-year period of deference to people in power.

I must have missed something somewhere along the way.