We need to start thinking of 'us' as the collective – the United States that we used to know.
Was he paid to make people sit through his Obama infomercial? The narcissism is way over the top.
Posted on 06/11/2008 2:50:27 AM PDT by Man50D
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams pleaded with graduates from Ohio State University in Columbus to repair America during a commencement speech Sunday.
"I come here today with a request for the Class of '08: We need you to fix the country – and I'm sorry to ask this of you," Williams said, suggesting that the U.S. is broken. "And I'm deadly serious and we really do. I am 49 and on behalf of my generation, I'm so sorry …"
The news anchor, who was awarded an honorary Doctor of Journalism degree from the university, said the Internet has distracted Americans from tending to their country.
"With apologies, we need you all to step up," he said. "And every adult in this place has every faith that you are up to the job. … You are the most fearsome weapon in the world. You are students in the United States, armed with a newly minted college degree from the Ohio State University."
Williams urged graduates to choose from areas such as energy, politics, diplomacy, science, education, military, transportation and make changes in society.
"Start with climate," he said. "Something tells me this may be a challenge in the years ahead. Tomorrow's predicted high for Columbus is 220 degrees."
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What a doofus.
I do not watch the news, ever. This sorry POS is on the news every single night (I know this, because my wife watches him at full volume) with an unrelenting stream of bad news.
I DETEST people like him and Katie Kouric with their breathless, smarmy tones of concern, when it is clear that they regard this as great news because it is bad.
“We all have to start thinking and acting as one.”
Yavoll heir Doofusdant!
What a douchebag.
Totalitarians send millions like him into the killing fields every chance they get.
Williams and his ilk never understand why they are singled out; they are "intellectuals" after all.
Shut up and read the news, you idiotic presstitute! How are 22 year old kids going to change anything?! It’ll be 10 years before most of them know their a$$ from a hole in the ground! Get real!
He is one of the people who excoriate the verbal stumbles of someone like President Bush with the faux tones of concern with statements like “Are the verbal gaffes the President commits an indication of an underlying lack of gravitas and intellectual rigor...”
I really dislike ALL those people in that business. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds. And they have no shame, either.
And the other thing...if you read his address, at the end, he praises veterans, asking them to stand up, etc.
This pathetic sack of crap has done more harm to our men and women in uniform than nearly anyone else in the media with his unrelenting, nearly gleeful reports of any bad news out of Afghanistan and Iraq that can be mustered.
To me, he is just as much a vainglorious fake and fraud as Dan Rather. What an ass.
And what's the deal with his eyebrows....
Tomorrow's predicted high for Columbus is 220 degrees."
He was addressing college grads and not kindergardeners, right?
Remember, this is the guy who reads the news to millions of Americans every night....and THEY believe him....
Wow, I thought 100 degrees was high around here last weekend?
If the country is broken, Obama is the perfect example of what’s broken about it.
Brian Williams is ONLY copying what yours truly, Sen. Obama said to the new graduates over at Weslyin University in Middletown CT said a few weeks ago. We should not be suprised.
I dont know.
Are they like Andy Rooneys eyebrows? They could cool Columbus flapping Rooneys eybrows. Have you ever seen Rooneys eyebrows...?
We need to start thinking of 'us' as the collective – the United States that we used to know.
Was he paid to make people sit through his Obama infomercial? The narcissism is way over the top.
Only if he's talking about the number of people graduating. If this isn't a misquote, Brian Williams is a moron - actual he's a moron regardless.
MY part of America is NOT BROKEN, Brian. It’s just little twerps like you who are enabling Maroons like Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Spitzer/Paterson, Silver, Hinchey, and I could go on, to RUIN Liberty and a limited government. Why don’t you tell the Graduates that LESS government would go a heck of a long way to FIX the stupid problems you are referring to? BE HONEST WITH THEM AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!! The SUCCESS of America lies within the gumption of it’s people, not it’s bloated, self serving government!
Then do your part to solve the problems, and go away. I suggest a VERY late term self abortion, Brian...
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