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Serial Fibber Brian Williams: JFK Served Under General Eisenhower in WWII
Newsbusters ^ | October 15, 2018 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 10/15/2018 12:55:14 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Serial fibber Brian Williams told yet another whopper on Friday night from his home in MSNBC exile known as The 11th Hour with Brian Williams. So what else is new? What makes his latest historical untruth ironically special is it came as Williams along with historian Michael Beschloss were fact checking President Donald Trump for a supposed error he made during his speech at a rally in Lebanon, Ohio on Friday.

For years following the Civil War, many historians as well as much of the public in general discounted the military abilities of General Ulysses S. Grant by claiming he was able to accomplish his victories primarily due to the overwhelming men and material of the North as well as being willing to expend both in a more than necessary manner on the battlefield. So when Trump mentioned in his speech that Grant is finally being respected as a great general as has happened, this set both Brian Williams and Beschloss off in snark mode.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: brianwilliams; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; dwighteisenhower; fakenews; fibber; jfk; lebanon; mediawingofthednc; michaelbeschloss; msnbc; ohio; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; ulyssessgrant; worldwareleven; wwii
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To: RinaseaofDs

Yes but I my point was that Williams was saying he served under Ike because Ike was over everyone (in his theater) so the equivalent would have been Macarthur or Nimitz in the Pacific. His specific boss was probably a Lieutenant or at most an LCDR, someone that the general public has never heard of.


61 posted on 10/15/2018 1:39:09 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: 43north

One of the crew was Jack Soo.


62 posted on 10/15/2018 1:39:44 PM PDT by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Wasn’t he overdone?


63 posted on 10/15/2018 1:39:50 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Hatteras

I heard a rumor that JFK and McHale had several run in’s.


64 posted on 10/15/2018 1:39:57 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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To: PAR35

The Solomon Islands were split between Nimitz and MacArthur.

PT-109 was last based on Rendova which may have been in MacArthur’s area,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Torpedo_Boat_PT-109


65 posted on 10/15/2018 1:40:45 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: NonValueAdded

McHale, in my office! Now!


66 posted on 10/15/2018 1:41:26 PM PDT by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: PJ-Comix

One of JFK’s seniors was John Mitchell, later better known as Nixon’s Attorney General.


67 posted on 10/15/2018 1:41:58 PM PDT by Cincinnatus
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To: Palio di Siena

Sgt. O’Roarke really ran things at Fort Courage.

Now at Fort Laramie, Lee Quince would have him and Agarn in the stockade in mere minutes.


68 posted on 10/15/2018 1:43:05 PM PDT by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: OldCorps

Yes, see my post:

As part of the bicentennial celebration, George Washington was, 177 years after his death, permanently made senior to all other US generals/admirals, with the title general of the armies, effective on 4 July 1976. The appointment stated he was to have “rank and precedence over all other grades of the Army, past or present.”


69 posted on 10/15/2018 1:43:27 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: PJ-Comix

Uhmmm..

Kennedy, Navy.

Ike, Army.

Brian Williams, Imbecile.


70 posted on 10/15/2018 1:44:03 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: PJ-Comix
If one has read history:
JFK "VOLUNTEERED" to go to the Pacific theater,

because J Edger Hoover caught JFK sleeping with a Nazi spy in DC


71 posted on 10/15/2018 1:44:15 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Maybe Fibber thinks the Pacific is somewhere in the Mediterranean.

And they were searching for Amelia Earhart in the islands somewhere around Italy.

In parts of the south they would say that he’s “eaten up with the dumbass”.


72 posted on 10/15/2018 1:47:57 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Voted Republican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall !")
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To: pepsi_junkie

Wrong, MacArthur was not superior to Admiral Nimitz. The theater was divided between the two.


73 posted on 10/15/2018 1:48:45 PM PDT by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

JFK was going to be Court Marshaled for the loss of PT-109 as he was idling when the PT-109 was ran over, Joe Kennedy had to go all the way to FDR to get the Navy to drop charges..


74 posted on 10/15/2018 1:49:09 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: nomorelurker
"PT Boats were used to clear mines and other obstacles at Utah Beach on D Day. I believe John Buckley, who commanded PT 41 when it took MacArthur off Corregidor, was at Utah Beach."

Yep, you are correct...

OTOH, PT-109 was destroyed about a year prior to D-Day...

75 posted on 10/15/2018 1:49:57 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: 43north

[ What a dummy. JFK was under Gen. George Washington when he served on PT boats in the Pacific during WW2.]

Be careful what you say 43, Representative Hank Johnson from Georgia might pick up the information and run with it.

Congressman Hank Johnson fears Guam will tip over, March ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7XXVLKWd3Q


76 posted on 10/15/2018 1:49:58 PM PDT by Islander2 (Some of us are here because we are not all there.)
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To: Hatteras
Captain Binghamton?

"I could just scream."

77 posted on 10/15/2018 1:53:25 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

So where does Sen. Blumenthal fit into the picture?

Maybe John (Horseface) Kerry?


78 posted on 10/15/2018 1:53:26 PM PDT by encm(ss) (Diesel Boats Forever!)
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To: Tennessee Nana

That would ultimately be Admiral Nimitz.


79 posted on 10/15/2018 1:53:48 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: 43north

The painting of Washington crossing the Delaware in PT 109 is seared in my memory.


80 posted on 10/15/2018 1:55:18 PM PDT by Enterprise
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