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Major General: ‘Be Gone, Brian Williams, From Our TV Screens’
mrc tv ^ | 8 hours ago 2015-02-06 | Craig Bannister

Posted on 02/06/2015 6:29:21 PM PST by WhiskeyX

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To: WhiskeyX

Sorry. Brian Williams is an Obama minion. He’s not going anywhere.


21 posted on 02/06/2015 8:31:17 PM PST by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: WhiskeyX

I think he is gone. It is just not official yet.
Corporate speak below from NBC.

All,
This has been a difficult few days for all of us at NBC News.
Yesterday, Brian and I spoke to the Nightly News team. And this morning at the Editorial Exchange, we both addressed the wider group. Brian apologized once again, and specifically expressed how sorry he is for the impact this has had on all of you and on this proud organization.
As you would expect, we have a team dedicated to gathering the facts to help us make sense of all that has transpired. We’re working on what the best next steps are – and when we have something to communicate we will of course share it with you.
Since joining NBC News, I’ve seen great strength and resilience. We are a close-knit family, and your response this week has made that even clearer.
As a relentless news agenda marches on, thank you again for continuing to do what we do best – bring the most important stories of the day to our audience.


22 posted on 02/06/2015 8:39:19 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: WhiskeyX

It’s not because he fabricated a story. This is NBC, after all. Remember the Zimmerman tape. It’s not because keeping him would mean they approve of what he did. They do.

It’s because Williams has accidentally shown the nation and the world the true face of the so-called “mainstream” media. He has shown that they really do operate on the principle Dan Rather enunciated to Bill O’Reilly on May 15, 2001: “I believe you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.”

They cannot allow people to see their true face. So Williams will have to go before people figure out the con that the liberal media has been perpetrating for 60 years or more.

Williams hasn’t done anything that Dan Rather or Walter Cronkite or any of the others didn’t do. It’s just that he (and Rather) did it sloppily and got caught.


23 posted on 02/06/2015 9:02:41 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Arlis

I started by boycott years ago.


24 posted on 02/06/2015 10:07:44 PM PST by aquila48
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To: aquila48

by = my


25 posted on 02/06/2015 10:11:22 PM PST by aquila48
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To: WhiskeyX

i’m no big fan of this williams person but what is the genesis of the revelation of williams’ dishonesty?

i think there is something i missed here- if I can find this out because I’m fairly certain this did not happen by accident it could be tied into something else

any one here to help me out on this else?

The source of this story has never been clear to me.


26 posted on 02/06/2015 10:56:12 PM PST by thesligoduffyflynns (sligo surf club)
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To: minnesota_bound

NBC stands for NOTHING BUT CRAP.


27 posted on 02/06/2015 11:51:45 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: WhiskeyX

No one has to watch him. I know no Freeper has watched network news for other than entertainment value in decades. If NBC wants to be fronted by a fabulist, they can do so.


28 posted on 02/07/2015 1:57:52 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: thesligoduffyflynns

“The source of this story has never been clear to me.”

It is unclear what you mean by “source of this story,” because Brian Williams brought himself to the attention of viewers again with his recent news story in which he embellished his fictional tale while lauding one of the Army veterans who defended the helicopters in 1991 Iraq. The story took off when one of the Army veterans aboard the Chinook helicopter that was hit by the Iraqi RPG and forced to land remaked on Twitter that Brian Williams was not aboard his helicopter as Brian Williams had just once again claimed on the recent news broadcast.

Over the many years since 1991 a number of the Army veterans have remarked how Brian Williams has been lying ion television in his fictional tales, but this time the Twitter feed was picked up by the media critics and given the wide publication not seen before.


29 posted on 02/07/2015 3:44:36 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: Chode

“Who wants chowder?”


30 posted on 02/07/2015 3:44:42 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator
i'll pass... 8^)
31 posted on 02/07/2015 7:47:43 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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To: WhiskeyX

Of course Brian Williams brought himself to attention! but i did a bit more digging found out something else.

As Williams has been repeating his military mis-adventures
someone in the military contacted a person by the name of Travis Tritten who writes for Stars & Stripes along with other journalistic endeavours . here’s a link to S’s&S’s

http://www.stripes.com/news/us/soldiers-offer-eyewitness-accounts-of-the-brian-williams-chinook-story-1.328256


32 posted on 02/08/2015 1:16:36 AM PST by thesligoduffyflynns (sligo surf club)
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