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 anchors 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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Dan is the candy-coated clown they call the Sandman.
Walter was Dr. Evil, Brian is just his Mini-me.
This story has legs and will only get worse as more is known. Yes absolutely, where is the outrage!?
They were in Cambodia together too.
They flew out of Fort Chaffee (over burning black churches) and crossed the Pacific in a manner reminiscent of Genghis Khan...
MAN I miss Baghdad Bob he was $$$ during Iraqi war
And Williams looks soooooo sincere when reporting the news what with his eyebrows at a “please believe me” angle ... and nope, don’t watch him, just some pictures of him I’ve seen.
We all know soldiers are a bunch of cowardly liars. What good is their word against that of a uber liberal talking head? /sarc
What is most disgusting about Lyin Brian is not what he said about Katrina and Iraq, he wasn’t much worse than most of them every day. What is disgusting is that he goes on TV and repeats this sh1t for over a decade, completely unchallenged.
Where were the ersatz Republicans in congress that knew this was all lies? Any of them speak up? Congressional committees doing all of their feel good “investigations”? Brian, the media and the Dems were non stop hammering Bush with these stories and Bush did nothing, the Pubbies did nothing, the big donor Pubbie PACs and special interest groups did nothing.
In the end, it is really surprising that Williams *didn’t* get away with it indefinitely.
There's no dirt you can find on an MSM/Pravda type like Williams that would phaze me in the slightest.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In short, Brian Williams’ career at NBC News will soon be over.
Brian “WALTER MITTY” Williams is a delusional character in James Thurber’s short story “The Secret Life of Brian “Walter Mitty” Williams, first heard on the farcical NBC Network.
Mitty(Williams) is a meek, mild man with limited intelligence,a vivid fantasy life, and a problem telling the truth: in a few dozen broadcasts he imagines himself a wartime pilot, an emergency-room surgeon, and a devil-may-care killer. The character’s name has come into more general use to refer to an ineffectual dreamer, appearing in several NBC shows.[2] The American Heritage Dictionary defines a Mitty(Williams) as “an very ordinary, happless, often ineffectual person who indulges in fantastic daydreams of personal triumphs”.
“what next, he fought side by side with Kerry in Vietnam?”
I heard he was with that snowboarder when they were caught in that avalanche...
I think he’s a goner too. What an ahole.
Brian is the ‘Breck Girl’
How long before we hear people say Brian Williams was “swiftboated”??
Just another empty suit that is paid ridiculous amounts of money to read what someone else writes for him. When it comes to something that he he has to come up with on his own he just has to lie about something.
Remember when Brian Williams carried The One Ring to Mount Doom?
Once you lie, you’ll have to lie again in order to cover the first lie that started it all.
Take away a man’s credibility and the only thing he has left in this world is other Democrats.
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