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NBC News anchor Brian Williams' comments about dead bodies, Hurricane Katrina
The New Orleans Advocate ^ | 2/6/2015 | JOHN SIMERMAN

Posted on 02/06/2015 8:45:47 AM PST by tobyhill

NBC News anchor Brian Williams, who apologized on the air Wednesday night for lying about an experience covering the Iraq War, is now facing scrutiny over his gripping accounts of Hurricane Katrina, the disaster that burnished his nightly news bona fides almost a decade ago.

Williams’ account of seeing a body float by in the French Quarter — which remained largely dry — and even a claim of catching dysentery from drinking Katrina floodwaters have raised eyebrows among bloggers and elsewhere since he took it on the chin this week over a claim that he rode in a helicopter that was downed by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq.

“I was instead in a following aircraft. We all landed after the ground fire incident and spent two harrowing nights in a sandstorm in the Iraq desert,” Williams said Wednesday. He painted his earlier description as a “bungled attempt” to thank an Iraq War veteran.

The online feeding frenzy quickly turned to the 55-year-old anchor’s signature assignment: covering Katrina from before it made landfall, when he spent the night of the storm with refuge-seekers in the Superdome and then reported on the harrowing days that followed.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brianwilliamskatrina; brianwilliamslies; liarnbc; liarwilliams; media; msm; nbc; nohonor; nointegrity; nomoretrust4nbc; norealjournalism; notruth
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To: RetSignman
"BROKAW: “Last month we reported on Forest Service employees in Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest who felt the forest was overcut, causing fouled streams and endangering fish. At one brief point, we inadvertently used footage of dead fish from another forest farther south, not from Clearwater. We also showed workers conducting tests on water in the Clearwater where fish appeared to be dead. In fact, they were not; they had been stunned for testing purposes. And finally, we showed a large area of land that the timber industry claims was burned and not cut. Our information remains that the video accurately portrayed the clearcuts, although some portions may have been cut after a fire. We regret the inappropriate video to illustrate that was otherwise an accurate report.”

Well, did you get anything right, Tom Brokaw?!

101 posted on 02/07/2015 10:00:58 AM PST by hummingbird (US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: doug from upland
HA, HA, HA!!

If there is another report from the French Quarter after a storm, I'll go to NOLA.COM and look at WEBCAMS instead.

102 posted on 02/07/2015 10:04:52 AM PST by hummingbird (US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: terycarl
"PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW AND STOP BEING DISTRACTED."

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Good point.

On even number days, let's humiliate Williams (BIG TIME-WHAT A CLYMER!) along with daily reports of the lies that are making the rounds now.

103 posted on 02/07/2015 10:08:49 AM PST by hummingbird (US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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To: onedoug
"And at the end of each whopper he always has a military or police “friend”."

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Does he rely on "anonymous sources", too?

"Journalists" have a butt load of "anonymous sources".

104 posted on 02/07/2015 10:12:03 AM PST by hummingbird (US = Koyaanisqatsi.)
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105 posted on 02/07/2015 4:35:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary men)
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To: terycarl

It is important. The big picture here is that someone trusted by the public to bring the truth into their living rooms has been outed as a fraud in this and perhaps other stories. Any time we can hurt the credibility of those on the left, it is a good thing.


106 posted on 02/08/2015 11:27:03 AM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: tobyhill

Nail all of these people who have been propagandizing for the RATS for decades.


107 posted on 02/08/2015 1:40:01 PM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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