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Maureen Dowd: Anchors Aweigh (Brian Williams)
The New York Times ^ | February 7, 2015 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 02/07/2015 7:25:42 PM PST by EveningStar

THIS was a bomb that had been ticking for a while.

NBC executives were warned a year ago that Brian Williams was constantly inflating his biography. They were flummoxed over why the leading network anchor felt that he needed Hemingwayesque, bullets-whizzing-by flourishes to puff himself up, sometimes to the point where it was a joke in the news division.

But the caustic media big shots who once roamed the land were gone, and “there was no one around to pull his chain when he got too over-the-top,” as one NBC News reporter put it.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brianwilliams; brianwilliamslies; dowd; maureendowd; modo; nbc; nobrainscollectively
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To: Kickass Conservative

ROTFLOL.
Why of course, you’re right!!!


21 posted on 02/07/2015 7:42:43 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: EveningStar
Frothy morning shows long ago became the more important anchoring real estate, garnering more revenue and subsidizing the news division. One anchor exerted moral authority once and that was Walter Cronkite, because he risked his career to go on TV and tell the truth about the fact that we were losing the Vietnam War.

This cannot be allowed to stand. We weren't losing the war until Uncle Walt took the Tet Offensive for a 'spin'.
22 posted on 02/07/2015 7:43:16 PM PST by BraveMan
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To: Iron Munro; onyx

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!


23 posted on 02/07/2015 7:47:56 PM PST by RedMDer (I don't listen to Liars but when I do I know it's Barack Obama.)
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To: EveningStar

Nobody is even mentioning how Dan Rather once claimed he was a US Marine.

I don’t get it.


24 posted on 02/07/2015 7:49:52 PM PST by gaijin
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To: RedMDer; Iron Munro

YES, LOLOLOL.


25 posted on 02/07/2015 7:49:57 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx; jjotto; The Cajun
The New York Times!



26 posted on 02/07/2015 7:50:51 PM PST by RedMDer (I don't listen to Liars but when I do I know it's Barack Obama.)
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27 posted on 02/07/2015 7:52:15 PM PST by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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28 posted on 02/07/2015 7:53:03 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: RedMDer

LOL.
Indeed.
Mo-Do


29 posted on 02/07/2015 7:53:12 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: BraveMan

At one time there were actually journalists working on tv. Then they became celebrities. Walter Frogbite among them.


30 posted on 02/07/2015 7:55:28 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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31 posted on 02/07/2015 7:58:10 PM PST by RedMDer (I don't listen to Liars but when I do I know it's Barack Obama.)
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To: EveningStar
I know why! He had a liaison with John F'in Kerry!

Seared, I say, seared in his memory!

"I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces which guard my country and our way of life.
I am prepared to give my life in their defense."

32 posted on 02/07/2015 8:05:40 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
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To: EveningStar
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33 posted on 02/07/2015 8:08:12 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: EveningStar
Oh my God! This celebrated, cosetted, privileged, keyboard pusher is shamefully ignorant of the proper use of the English language. In the fourth paragraph, she writes When Williams was declared the [sic] hair apparent to Tom Brokaw....

Hair Apparent??HAIR APPARENT??

It's heir apparent you dumb horse's rear end.

But of course she relies on her computer's spell checker to catch any such mistakes, notorious for failing to catch spellings in which a homonym throws in a monkey's wrench into her reputation as that of no being an ignoramus.

34 posted on 02/07/2015 8:09:15 PM PST by lbryce (Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Offspring of Satan and Medusa.)
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To: lbryce

That was intentional.


35 posted on 02/07/2015 8:15:11 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: BraveMan

I agree with you. The worship of Uncle Walter Cronkite is pathological.


36 posted on 02/07/2015 8:17:58 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

How’s that? What does she attain by spelling it as Hair Apparent?


37 posted on 02/07/2015 8:20:41 PM PST by lbryce (Obama:Misbegotten, Godforsaken Offspring of Satan and Medusa.)
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To: EveningStar

Let me guess... You and most other Media folks already knew about this problem but decided to stay quiet...right?

So, does that make all of you complacent in this deception?

I say YES!


38 posted on 02/07/2015 8:24:27 PM PST by Deagle (gardless of)
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To: EveningStar

Yea, requisite #1 for a news anchor - good hair.


39 posted on 02/07/2015 8:24:54 PM PST by Henry Hnyellar
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To: lbryce

See post #39.


40 posted on 02/07/2015 8:26:36 PM PST by EveningStar
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