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 dont 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 nights 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?
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When do mediots lie?
Now Blatantly Communist!
TYVM!
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TYVM!
Feel free to share. Rule #5 of Rules For Radicals works BOTH WAYS!!
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.
Well, Hillary got all shot up once too; along with Chelsey.
Hope they fail.
Fake but accurate.
Define ‘near’.
Same thing's been happening to me... it's a good sign.
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