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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.
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brianwilliams; brianwilliamslies; dowd; maureendowd; modo; nbc; nobrainscollectively
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To: EveningStar
Waiting for Mo’s Hillary expose...
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posted on
02/07/2015 7:27:24 PM PST
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: EveningStar
So everybody knew about this but kept mum until it exploded? How typical.
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posted on
02/07/2015 7:30:47 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: EveningStar
Rules.
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posted on
02/07/2015 7:30:51 PM PST
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: EveningStar
Why, yes.....the New York Times knew he was a liar, but he was their kind of liar. He was a good Liberal. And they were too small to do anything about it.
Hahahahahahahahaha!
The New York Times.....one big comic book.
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posted on
02/07/2015 7:32:21 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: EveningStar
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posted on
02/07/2015 7:32:29 PM PST
by
Mears
(there wasn't much conversation about it.)
To: EveningStar
Brian Williams was doing OK, but after he saw The Legend of Ron Burgundy, he couldn’t help but inflate his experiences. /S
To: jjotto; RedMDer; The Cajun
LOL.
Keep waiting, jjotto, although I hope Hitlery's lies come back to bring her down!
Imagine this: Brian felt "anguished," and the Facebook hammering is upsetting him.
ROTFLOL.
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02/07/2015 7:35:25 PM PST
by
onyx
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To: catnipman
Ok, lets stop a moment and acknowledge what a wonderful picture that is!
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posted on
02/07/2015 7:38:05 PM PST
by
sgtyork
(Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy)
To: onyx
Twitter has been utterly BRUTAL to him on #brianwilliamsmisremembers
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posted on
02/07/2015 7:38:06 PM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
To: EveningStar
Brian Williams Learns That Words Really Can Hurt
To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends
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02/07/2015 7:38:16 PM PST
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onyx
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Brian Williams, the Joe Isuzu of the Main Stream Media.
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posted on
02/07/2015 7:39:20 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(If you think the Mulatto Marxist is bad, just wait until the Menopausal Marxist shows up.)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
GOOD to know! Thank you very much for that information!!!
It’s my hope that he is completely and totally shamed and disgraced!
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02/07/2015 7:39:28 PM PST
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onyx
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To: EveningStar
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posted on
02/07/2015 7:39:52 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
To: onyx
Shouldn’t he be the one everyone is looking at?
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posted on
02/07/2015 7:40:36 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(If you think the Mulatto Marxist is bad, just wait until the Menopausal Marxist shows up.)
To: catnipman
You sure know “THE RULES”!
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posted on
02/07/2015 7:40:44 PM PST
by
TaMoDee
(Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2015!)
To: EveningStar
Slightly OT , but I read a book about the D- Day invasion that described Hemingway as a war correspondent. It basically said he was a gold plated, prima donna pain in the ass, and that he carried a pistol until the army took it away from him.
CC
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posted on
02/07/2015 7:41:33 PM PST
by
Celtic Conservative
(Cogito ergo non liberalo: I think, therefore I'm not a Democrat)
To: Iron Munro
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posted on
02/07/2015 7:41:37 PM PST
by
TaMoDee
(Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2015!)
To: blueunicorn6
Exactly what I was thinking. They knew and they turned a blind eye. Did the same with Hillary. Can you imagine if this were Bush or Palin or any Republican? Lying deceptive hypocrites.
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posted on
02/07/2015 7:42:03 PM PST
by
Obadiah
(Wind turbines, aka: bird choppers, cause earthquakes due to their harmonic frequencies.)
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