Perhaps Williams bought a bunch a stories from Kramer, a la J. Peterman?
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.
He hasn’t been fired yet. He just took a few days break to avoid the media attention. He’ll be back
Hehe. *evil grin*
Perhaps Williams bought a bunch a stories from Kramer, a la J. Peterman?
dying friend < world wide fame
Sick.
I know “South park is on a break” I just hope Matt and Trey take this issue to woodshed if they do future episode
MY HEE-ROE!
It would be very hard to imagine that liberals could admit telling whoppers disqualified one from being a news anchor, but did not disqualify one from being Secretary of State or President.
WWJD is being replaced with WWBWD...
I hear he is the only Survivor from Little Big Horn. He was rescued by an Indian Squaw, Lieawatha Warren.
Brian should star in the updated version of Little Big Man.
LOL! Advice from Dan Rather. Again lol.
Williams is merely practicing narrative journalism? -- like the "journalists" reporting that Tea Party demonstrators shouted "n*****s" at members of the House of Representatives. It gave the story more oomph and gave the reader the "correct" message. That was especially true in the modified recording of Zimmerman and the 911 agent.
Narrative Writing Toolbox Stories need narrative engines to drive them
I'm just thinking about the possible role that the Society of Professional "Journalists" has in all this. Narrative journalism.
The Society of Professional "Journalists" initiated the "don't you dare mention Muslims and terrorism together" standard -- and that started in October of 2001. If the two must be used together then the "journalist" must cite domestic terrorist groups like the anti-abortion people.
I cannot prove that the SP"J" advocates lying but covering up for Islamists is pretty damn close to proof IMO.
Just read comments from a NYT article that 20 years ago, Maureen Dowd said Brian Williams was better suited replacing Jay Leno—but not Tom Brokaw. Har!
Unfortnately Brian Mitty is typical of many in our society. People claim to be war heroes with varying degrees of spin. Could I claim that I fought in Viet Nam? I was there in uniform under LBJ/McNamara. But I was a personnel clerk. I never touched a bullet, magazine or loaded weapon in all my time in ROTC and then active duty, let alone fire one.
This spin is true, not only of the hosts, but of the heart tugging human interest stories (or gang shooting stories) they present as fact. Their goal is to present the larger truth about poverty, or guns. Their goal is not to present the exact truth of the facts.
>>>And the puppies! Let’s not forget the puppies!<<<
Those weren’t just any Puppies, they were RPP’S, Rocket Propelled Puppies.
Brian is so used to lying on his news shows about everything going on the in the world, it’s no wonder he’s lost touch with reality and can no longer tell the difference between what’s real and what’s fantasy.
You are spot on.
The director of the Jackson Lab in Bar Harbor, Maine embellished (lied) on his resume and his biography.
He said he earned a master’s degree-he did not
He said he earned a Navy Cross, then said he was nominated for one-not true in either case.
He said he was on an Olympic team-he was not.
The Lab had a zero tolerance policy on embellishing one’s resume to the point of fabrication. Low level employees have been fired for less.
His downfall-he had to reduce staff but apparently did it unfairly. So someone check up on him and went public.
He left the Lab (fired or resigned before being fired, I don’t recall).
What’s the frequency, Brian?
I am glad at least one of these phonies is being exposed as a propaganda B.S. artist, not a journalist. But think of all the harm some of his fabricated stories did, on Katrina, for example. That was purely politically motivated, to get people emotionally upset with Bush and distracted from the real bad actors, Nagin and Blanco.
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