"...???..he must have caught one ellova right cross when he was younger. His beak is a half inch starboard....ever notice he never looks at the cam straight on?"
Posted on 02/05/2015 9:00:05 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
NBC News anchor Brian Williams is taking heat after admitting Wednesday that a rocket-propelled grenade did not bring down a helicopter he had been aboard while reporting in Iraq, despite having told the story repeatedly since 2003.
“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams told Stars and Stripes in a statement. “I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.”
Despite a subsequent on-air apology during last night’s broadcast of NBC Nightly News, many viewers took to the web to voice their skepticism at Williams’ claim that he “misremembered” the event, blaming his tall tale on “the fog of memory over 12 years.”
Within hours of the revelation, #BrianWilliamsMisremembers — a Twitter hashtag poking fun at the newsman for his memory lapse — began trending and has remained a top topic some 12 hours later.
Below are a few of the trend’s most creative entries:
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I don’t know what it more disturbing. The original lie. The new lie to coverup for the old lie. Or, that this sort of reality-free mindset may be typical for today’s narrative-based reporters. It’s not about objective reporting; it’s about the story, the narrative; in short, the pure fiction.
I remember this car accident where my car was totaled. Oh wait I misremembered. It was the car in front of me.
Doubling down on Stupid... would seem to make one TWICE as Stupid.
I think he’s shooting for temporary insanity.
LOL!!! Did you come up with that, or steal it from Twitter?!!
I talked to my nephew, a Marine Scout Sniper, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He saw plenty of action and can recount it in excruciatingly accurate detail 5 to 7 years later.
The chances that Brian WIlliams, who dares to use the phrase “fog” of war!, would mistake being in a helicopter that received RPG and AK47 fire even after 12 years is ZERO.
There is NO CHANCE he didn’t know what he was saying was a lie. He is beneath contempt.
My thought as well. And it wasn't a momentary slip, he's been telling it for years. I'm tempted to state the he's nihilistic enough to think that truth is whatever media celebrities say it is, but he isn't acting now as if that's what he believes. Perhaps it's just that media celebrities aren't usually held accountable for the veracity of their statements, which they aren't, much to the detriment of their industry and the country it supposedly serves. He never thought he'd be called on it and he thought it was only a little, self-aggrandizing lie so it was OK.
That behavior, of course, is rather more worrisome coming from someone whose job it is to call other people on their own veracity that it is coming from a drunk thumping his chest at a VFW bar. Both are reprehensible, but only one has the power and the responsibility to apply standards of truth that he does not himself follow, to those in political power. Only one has a well-paid public career based on uncovering the truth. Williams has a real problem here.
The best thing about this is that it has brought Hillary’s combat fabrication back into the public eye at a time where it can be another shovelful of dirt on her campaign’s coffin.
"...???..he must have caught one ellova right cross when he was younger. His beak is a half inch starboard....ever notice he never looks at the cam straight on?"
Stolen Valor. Simple as that.
I’d like to know two things:
1. Did Stars and Stripes tell him to voluntarily confess, otherwise they would run a story?
2. Did he actually think that no one would ever question his tale?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BfNqhV5hg4
My how far journalism has fallen. In my earlier days as a newspaper reporter, a reporter found to have made an error in fact—let alone having floated an entirely fabricated story— would have been fired on the spot.
Ahem——errr Brian-—did you mean flying in a helicopter or ‘lying’ on a helicopter?
NBC——Nipping Brian’s Credibility.
Keep it up... keep up the pressure....
Now Brian Williams can interview Hillary and they can share their military aircraft adventures of airborne ammunitions. You listening SNL? Oh I feel a skit coming on strong in the creative juices dept., eheheheheh.
Such a target rich enviroment my Freep’s
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