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Tom Brokaw wants Brian Williams fired
New York Post ^ | February 5, 2015 | Emily Smith and Kenneth Garger

Posted on 02/06/2015 4:10:54 AM PST by abb

You know you’re in trouble when Tom Brokaw is out for your blood.

NBC’s most revered journalist is furious that Brian Williams is still in the anchor chair after he sheepishly admitted he hadn’t traveled on a helicopter hit by enemy fire.

“Brokaw wants Williams’ head on a platter,” an NBC source said. “He is making a lot of noise at NBC that a lesser journalist or producer would have been immediately fired or suspended for a false report.”

On Wednesday, Williams, 55, acknowledged that he had repeatedly said he was aboard a chopper that had been hit by a rocket-propelled grenade during a 2003 reporting trip to Iraq, when he was actually safely traveling in a different aircraft.

Brokaw, 74, was still the “Nightly News” anchor when Williams came back from his Iraq expedition — and an insider said he knew the story Williams later spouted was bunk.

“Tom Brokaw and [former NBC News President] Steve Capus knew this was a false story for a long time and have been extremely uncomfortable with it,” the source said.

NBC News execs had counseled him to stop telling the tale.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anchorliar; brianwilliams; brianwilliamslies; brokaw; liarwilliams; nbc; nbclies; nbclikesliars; tombrokaw; williams
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1 posted on 02/06/2015 4:10:55 AM PST by abb
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“Tom Brokaw and [former NBC News President] Steve Capus knew this was a false story for a long time and have been extremely uncomfortable with it,” the source said.

So if this report is correct then the problem is not that "Williams lied", it's about the embarrassment at NBC when the story got out into the open? Yeah, sounds like a liberal attitude.

2 posted on 02/06/2015 4:17:03 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: abb

Pravda policing Pravda?

Impossible comrade!!!

/s/

IMHOl


3 posted on 02/06/2015 4:17:16 AM PST by ripley
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To: abb

Except, of course, Rather, who is awarded a prize.


4 posted on 02/06/2015 4:23:24 AM PST by Freedom_Fighter_2001
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To: abb

I agree, and Hillary should be barred from seeking any future elective office for concocting a similar false story. Right, Tom?


5 posted on 02/06/2015 4:24:07 AM PST by Will88
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To: abb
Brokaw, 74, was still the “Nightly News” anchor when Williams came back from his Iraq expedition — and an insider said he knew the story Williams later spouted was bunk.

So ole' Tom was pushed out of the big chair by the canadian upstart and now he wants his pound of flesh.

I love it when rabid liberals chew their own asses off.


6 posted on 02/06/2015 4:25:03 AM PST by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: abb

It’s so funny, for the last month, NBC has been running ads on Brian Williams trust and integrity, with voice of Michael Douglas.

The timing could not be worse.


7 posted on 02/06/2015 4:27:03 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: abb

Just move him into the 8pm MSNBC slot Olbermann Occupied. MSNBC hasn’t had a Congenital liar in that time slot since he left.


8 posted on 02/06/2015 4:30:26 AM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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“He is making a lot of noise at NBC that a lesser journalist or producer would have been immediately fired or suspended for a false report.”

A threat from one of their own..

the aging 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus radical, psycho spoiled brats and their ideological litter occupying the nation's mainline news media face total wipeout.

9 posted on 02/06/2015 4:31:38 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Tallguy

If indeed Brokaw knew, why isn’t he being lampooned and his integrity questioned?


10 posted on 02/06/2015 4:33:40 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: USS Alaska

Stalinist vs. Trotskyite power struggle.


11 posted on 02/06/2015 4:39:37 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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These people think that firing a guy that has been lying for ten years will somehow give that network that has been lying for the past 40 years some credibility.
Hate to break it to you Tommy but that train left the station a long time ago.


12 posted on 02/06/2015 4:43:42 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: abb

They fired Janet Cooke and Jayson Blair.


13 posted on 02/06/2015 4:45:17 AM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: abb

I am absolutely flabbergasted at the brouhaha over Brian Williams lying.
Lying is the norm for the left wing media, most politicians and Hollywood celebrities.
After all Williams’ lie is just one more pebble on a beach of lies.


14 posted on 02/06/2015 4:47:23 AM PST by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan by the day)
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To: abb

Broke wants to get the band back together.


15 posted on 02/06/2015 4:48:58 AM PST by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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16 posted on 02/06/2015 4:49:11 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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RATagandists behaving badly.


17 posted on 02/06/2015 4:51:40 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Freedom_Fighter_2001

LOL and Rather & Lyin’ Williams seem to have the same set of moral deficiencies:

Dan Rather Defends Brian Williams: He’s ‘An Honest, Decent Man’

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dan-rather-brian-williams


18 posted on 02/06/2015 5:03:51 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Chode; All

ROFLMAO! Thanks, Chode. Great visuals with the great commentary in this thread..


19 posted on 02/06/2015 5:05:31 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Chode

LOL


20 posted on 02/06/2015 5:10:47 AM PST by QualityMan (Don't Tread on Me)
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