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The Brian Williams scandal is an NBC News-wide scandal
Washington Post ^ | 2/5/15 | Eric Wemple

Posted on 02/05/2015 11:16:14 AM PST by jalisco555

The Brian Williams scandal has burst onto the public square through a feat of Internet accountability. After NBC Nightly News last week posted to Facebook a clip of the anchor reminiscing about having embedded with the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, some Facebookers took issue with the particulars. Whereas Williams claimed that he was riding in a helicopter that was forced down after being hit by an RPG, others had a different recollection. “Sorry dude, I don’t remember you being on my aircraft. I do remember you walking up about an hour after we had landed to ask me what had happened,” wrote Lance Reynolds in a Facebook comment responding to the Williams segment.

In issuing an on-air apology for his “mistake” in misremembering the circumstances of the March 2003 episode, Williams credited “some brave men and women in the air crews who were also in that desert” for debunking his set of facts. “I want to apologize. I said I was traveling in an aircraft that was hit by RPG fire. I was instead in a following aircraft,” he said on Wednesday night’s “NBC Nightly News.”

Why did it take pushback from “some brave men and women in the air crews,” however? Do these folks have to fight our wars and fact-check NBC News?

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brianwilliams; brianwilliamslies; fraud; lying; nbc; williams
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To: jalisco555

When do mediots lie?


41 posted on 02/05/2015 1:10:58 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Will French, German & Belgians make anti-terror raids on our White House, AG Dept and Homeland Sec.?)
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To: Wicket

Now Blatantly Communist!


42 posted on 02/05/2015 1:36:01 PM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: VideoDoctor

TYVM!

Feel free to share. Rule #5 of Rules For Radicals works BOTH WAYS!!


43 posted on 02/05/2015 1:37:29 PM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: VideoDoctor

TYVM!

Feel free to share. Rule #5 of Rules For Radicals works BOTH WAYS!!


44 posted on 02/05/2015 1:37:36 PM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: jalisco555

It was not just “in a following aircraft”.

That implies it was flying at the same time as the chopper that was hit.

He was following in a craft an hour later AFTER the strike, that is what I have seen in other articles.

So we are way past misleading and misremembering, and into wholesale lying.


45 posted on 02/05/2015 1:42:42 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: jalisco555

Well, Hillary got all shot up once too; along with Chelsey.

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/02/05/sharyl-attkisson-brian-williams-not-alone-hillary-clinton-lied-about-being-shot-at-in-bosnia/


46 posted on 02/05/2015 6:10:39 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: jalisco555

Hope they fail.


47 posted on 02/05/2015 6:11:31 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: Republican1795.

Fake but accurate.


48 posted on 02/05/2015 6:11:56 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: PCPOET7

Define ‘near’.


49 posted on 02/05/2015 6:13:56 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: jalisco555
You know, lately I've been developing a strange new respect for the WaPo.

Same thing's been happening to me... it's a good sign.

50 posted on 02/11/2015 3:02:08 PM PST by GOPJ (If you can't get on the high horse for men burned alive and children raped, what's the horse for?)
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