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Brian Williams’ heroic stories include Princess Di and Hurricane Katrina
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Posted on 02/07/2015 3:27:02 PM PST by 4rcane

He lives in a vivid fantasy world that would make Walter Mitty blush — never missing a chance to shamelessly play the hero or embellish a news story. Reality-challenged NBC anchor Brian Williams once boasted about abandoning a dying buddy to cover the death of Princess Diana — but said it was worth it because it won him worldwide fame. “I lost a very good friend to Agent Orange-related cancer,” he told Alec Baldwin in a March 2013 interview on the “30 Rock” actor’s “Here’s the Thing” show on WNYC radio. “I was in the hospital room with him. It was a Saturday night, I had just done ‘Nightly News.’ My pager went off: ‘Diana, car accident, Paris.’ I called the office, and they said, ‘You better get in here,’ ” Williams recalled. “I had no idea that I’d be announcing to what was then, I mean, they plugged us into cable all over Europe. I have people wherever I go to this day who say, ‘I was with you the night Diana died,’ ” the anchor said. Williams has spun more wild story lines than his own network’s sitcoms.


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To: Secret Agent Man

He was in the trunk of the Mercedes!


21 posted on 02/07/2015 3:42:10 PM PST by clintonh8r (Death to islam.)
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To: Stentor

He got away with it for years, and might have gotten away with it forever if he wasn’t so much in the public eye.


22 posted on 02/07/2015 3:42:20 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: 4rcane

he won the Superbowl and defeated Hitler too


23 posted on 02/07/2015 3:42:25 PM PST by GeronL
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To: trisham

The authentic heros got fed up and outed him.


24 posted on 02/07/2015 3:44:56 PM PST by clintonh8r (Death to islam.)
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To: clintonh8r

he was also in OJ’s white bronco during the chase


25 posted on 02/07/2015 3:45:30 PM PST by GeronL
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To: 4rcane

Bagdad Bob would be proud!


26 posted on 02/07/2015 3:46:01 PM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: 4rcane

Mr. Smarmy self destructs

Soon to be a minor motion picture....


27 posted on 02/07/2015 3:46:31 PM PST by Regulator
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To: 4rcane

Brian Williams, “When I was stranded by the floodwaters of Katrina, I bravely held out against zombie hordes and had to eat dead bodies to survive!”


28 posted on 02/07/2015 3:49:08 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Ken H

Like a Bud Dwyer news conference?


29 posted on 02/07/2015 3:49:20 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: 4rcane
" ... I knocked Tojo out of his high chair, then Hitler smarted-off talkin' that filthy Pig latin, so I gave him an `Indian rub'!" Grandpa Simpson photo: Grandpa Simpson a Tough Ombre? Grandpa_Simpson_a_Tough_Ombre.jpg Grandpa Williams
30 posted on 02/07/2015 3:49:26 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: 4rcane

The guy is readying his bid for the white hut.


31 posted on 02/07/2015 3:49:56 PM PST by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: Farmer Dean

“Brian should just shoot himself at this point.”

No. Just reach down in your pants and scratch yourself. “I don’t know what prompted me, but it just did. Whatever.”


32 posted on 02/07/2015 3:50:13 PM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: 4rcane

And the puppies! Let’s not forget the puppies!


33 posted on 02/07/2015 3:50:23 PM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like 0bama is a POTUS.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Yes, he was in the tunnel. He pulled her to safety.


34 posted on 02/07/2015 3:51:18 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: 4rcane

Please, make it stop....


35 posted on 02/07/2015 3:52:17 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: 4rcane
I have noticed that whenever there is a big news story, our local media always manages to interject a local angle to the story. Even if they have to resort to reporting on the reaction to the story by a cousin twice removed, a former roommate, or a neighbor from the next block, they will do it. It is quite predictable and laughable. But Brian Williams manages to go even further in this attempt to personalize whatever the news story is. He interjects himself into the stories in such a way to divert attention from the real players. He is one sick man!
36 posted on 02/07/2015 3:52:54 PM PST by Nevadan
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To: 4rcane

Actually I hope NBC decides to keep Brian Williams (I have never watched the show). It would be nice to have a liberal clown sitting on a trapdoor, over the MSN dunk tank, for us to lob baseballs at.


37 posted on 02/07/2015 3:53:41 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: 4rcane

Substituting Brian Williams for Brian Boitano...

What would Brian Williams do
If he was here right now?
He’d make a plan and he’d follow through
That’s what Brian Williams do

When Brian Williams was in the Olympics
Skatin’ for the gold
He did two Salchows and a triple Lutz
While wearing a blindfold

When Brian Williams was in the Alps
Fighting grizzly bears
He used his magical fire breath
And saved the maiden’s fair

So what would Brian Williams do
If were here today?
I’m sure he’d kick an ass or two
That’s what Brian Williams do

I want this V-chip out of me
It has stunted my vocabulary
And I just want my mom to stop fighting everyone
For Wendy I’ll be an activist too
‘Cause that’s what Brian Williams do

And what would Brian Williams do?
He’d call the kids in town
And tell them to unite for truth
That’s what Brian Williams do

When Brian Williams traveled
Through time to the year 3010
He fought the evil robot king
And saved the human race again

And when Brian Williams built
The pyramids, he beat up Kubla Kahn
‘Cause Brian Williams doesn’t
Take -— from anybody

So let’s get all the kids together
And unite to stop our moms
And we’ll save Terance and Phillip too
‘Cause that’s what Brian Williams do

And we’ll save Terance and Phillip too
‘Cause that’s what Brian Williams do
‘Cause that’s what Brian Williams do


38 posted on 02/07/2015 3:54:32 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Seaplaner

Yeah, you`re right! But wasn`t that just before he blew up the Death Star and saved the rebel alliance?


39 posted on 02/07/2015 3:55:08 PM PST by nomad
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To: clintonh8r

He’s despicable.


40 posted on 02/07/2015 3:55:22 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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