(with special thanks to a FReeper who posted this earlier somewhere)
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.
I don’t think he will be back. The story has taken on too many legs to go away. NBC crew members and others will start coming forward and telling more stories. More leaks,
more embarrassment and ridicule not just for Williams but for NBC and its executives.
(with special thanks to a FReeper who posted this earlier somewhere)
Run Forrest run! :-)
It has gotten so bad for Williams that he now takes the NBC helicopter to get work and because he was so traumatized by his battle experiences it corkscrews down to the helipad.
I don't know. Obama got re-elected and we still laugh at the SOB.
To me, this whole Brian Williams thing is delicious. I never liked the smarmy piece of shit, and now his mouth has come home to roost.
He blew up the Death Star, but only after making a secret agreement with the surviving aliens in the Roswell crash he was reporting on. The aliens transported him to the future and back, but only after returning from the past where he explained Islam to a guy name Mohamed and gave him a special rock as a reminder of his visit.
To me, this whole Brian Williams thing is delicious. I never liked the smarmy piece of shit, and now his mouth has come home to roost.
This is the third best schadenfreude moment I can imagine. Second best would be hillary getting called out for all of her lies plus Benghazi and Vince Foster. Best? Oh, that’s easy. Proof that Obama is not just gay but has been a prostitute for money and cocaine a la with Larry Sinclair, and proof that he was never an American citizen until the government handed him a passport when he was a US Senator. Oh, will that be a happy day.
One lies and the other swears to it!
Hurricane Katrina was spun into a hit piece on GWB. Compare coverage with Hurricane Sandy. Only Republicans are responsible for natural catastrophes. No surprise he embellished the Katrina story for political reasons.
Unfortunately, 95% of Americans will never hear about this story and he and Dan Rather will be brought back in five years to do the news ala Huntley and Brinkley.
I have no experience with either man. Still, I sense a certain difference in character.
Uh, Attorney General Holder just pointed out that I was being racist and must submit to a civil forfeiture of all my assets.
My bad.
guffaw.
Does this mean NBC will give back the Peabody Award? There is as much probability in that as, Will Barack Hussein Obama give back the Nobel Peace Prize.
To Ken H and Farmer Dean.
Ammunition costs money, but in his case I am willing to donate.
(GENEROUSLY)
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