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Brian Williams Bungles Apology Tour: ‘I Was Not Trying To Mislead People’
Breitbart - Big Journalism ^ | 6-19-2015 | John Nolte

Posted on 06/19/2015 6:54:17 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

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WE should let NBC know, Brian Williams' "apology" so far is not acceptable.
1 posted on 06/19/2015 6:54:17 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

A lie stuck with is as good as the truth nowadays.


2 posted on 06/19/2015 6:56:03 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Sir Napsalot

“I’ve also read that NBC News will not release the results of their own investigation into Williams’ serial lies. .....”

Of course. Why would liars investigate other liars?


3 posted on 06/19/2015 6:56:38 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Sir Napsalot

The very definition of an outright lie is telling something that is not true IN ORDER TO MISLEAD PEOPLE. How hard is this to understand?

The problem with liberals is that lies are okay if they can somehow justify them in their twisted little minds to mean something relevant to their own ideologies. He’s pond scum. Skim it off and throw it over into the sun on some dirt and let it bake out.


4 posted on 06/19/2015 6:57:26 AM PDT by Gaffer
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“I was not trying to mislead people,” he said.

Oh....I see. This was all one big prank, perhaps? Move over, Andy Kauffman.

5 posted on 06/19/2015 6:58:51 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: Sir Napsalot
Williams made two big mistakes here — in what was probably his last chance at a second chance. First, he refused to admit that he lied and lied and lied and lied. His claim that he didn’t try to deliberately mislead people is simply preposterous. His real-time whoppers from Katrina (witnessing suicides that didn’t happen, floating dead bodies, roving gangs) had a devastating effect on then-President Bush. There were real world consequences to Williams’ tall tales. It wasn’t all fodder for late night talk shows. Secondly, Williams refused an opportunity to correct the record on his lies. I’ve also read that NBC News will not release the results of their own investigation into Williams’ serial lies.


6 posted on 06/19/2015 7:00:17 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Sir Napsalot

Two things:

1. I guess it depends on what the meaning of “mislead” is in lib land.

2. 1st “rule of holes” is when your in one......stop digging.


7 posted on 06/19/2015 7:03:39 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Sir Napsalot
What a dip-squat! Lying is “misleading” by definition. What a dull dense perfumed dandy boy! The perfect model of the New American Male, full of self promoting fantasy and void of real courage.
8 posted on 06/19/2015 7:04:08 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Gaffer

You can tell you are older because you still use ideas from the past. In 2015, Words mean what their speaker says or better, ‘intends’ them to mean. This eliminates the possibility of lying. And since Liberals cannot lie by this standard, they are better people that stick outmoded ‘definitions’. Because people that use definitions like conservatives are bad people.

But don’t be too worried about it. If your seat in reeducation camp gets filled before your arrival, you’ll be made carbon neutral. Because liberals are good people.


9 posted on 06/19/2015 7:04:14 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Sir Napsalot

DUDE! Your nose! WTH?


10 posted on 06/19/2015 7:05:33 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Probably. I never did get that “I lied to my journal” thing.


11 posted on 06/19/2015 7:05:53 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Sir Napsalot

what a skill he has! He is such a great liar, that he does it without even trying!


12 posted on 06/19/2015 7:08:15 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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Well you have to consider that statement gained popularity before liberals refined Doublethink to the art it is today. Today that would read “I may be an unreliable narrator in by creative writing exercises.”


13 posted on 06/19/2015 7:08:57 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Sir Napsalot

Brian Williams and Hillary both ducked imaginary bullets... both liars.

I’ll bet Brian is stunned his liberal elite bosses would even care that he’s a liar. I’m stunned they care...

Wish they would care about Hillary’s tall tales...


14 posted on 06/19/2015 7:14:13 AM PDT by GOPJ
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I Was Not Trying To Mislead People

I'll respond like I did with my children when they were young.

What were you trying to do, Brian?

15 posted on 06/19/2015 7:21:36 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I am puzzled why he took a slary reduction and demotion to MSNBC. I would think that with his high priced Lawyer he would have negotiated a big buyout of his current 5 YR $10 Million per year contract and gone somewhere else like Dan Rather did.


16 posted on 06/19/2015 7:30:30 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (frequently.)
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a lie stuck with is as good as the truth nowadays

"I am a chronic liar but I identify as an honest man."

17 posted on 06/19/2015 7:36:01 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Sir Napsalot

Yep, I knew he still wasn’t admitting to lying. He worded the previous non-apology too carefully.


18 posted on 06/19/2015 7:37:49 AM PDT by Boogieman
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>>> What were you trying to do, Brian?

(In his own words) " ..... What happened is clearly part of my ego getting the better of me. To put myself in a better light, to appear better than I was, that’s the process here,” Williams said

To BW, he can justify his action, as "going through a process". Too nuanced for the likes of you and me.

19 posted on 06/19/2015 7:56:11 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Norm Lenhart
In 2015, Words mean what their speaker says or better, ‘intends’ them to mean.

It's nothing new. Here's a quote from 1871:

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'

--Lewis Carroll, "Through The Looking-Glass"
20 posted on 06/19/2015 8:02:46 AM PDT by Colinsky
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