We've all been there Bri. Jumping from chopper to chopper, passing gas, conflating.
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 ...
Did he really not think any one of those folks he was there with would turn up to call him on it?
The incident happened and he talked about it in 2003 (IIRC). It is now 2015. He got away with it for 12 years
**Yep, & read on another post that a few guys from the flight crew have called him out on it in the past. One guy even wrote him a letter & he never responded. What a POS!
Really, it makes perfect sense when you think about who these people are.
You have a person with incredible arrogance, a member of a protected class. A person who has had a career of rarely, if ever, having anything he says questioned.
He knows that his fellow liars in the media will obfuscate as much as possible to cover his butt, keep the lie from being disproved.
In the event, as here, where he is publicly caught on his lie, he can make a pathetic excuse and piss warm apology and odds are 99% that he will walk away more or less unscathed. Lying never damages a liberal's credibility. Two weeks from now, the lib media will be parroting the usual "old news, time to move on" narrative. That it was an honest mis-rememberance.
How quickly did Hillary's cock and bull story about being under fire in Bosnia evaporate?
It makes no sense to you because you are an honest and honorable person. For him it makes good sense because he is by nature a liar, a dishonest and dishonorable person with no moral core and well endowed with arrogant superiority.
Always remember, the crime is not in the doing, it is in the getting caught.
During my military training, I had to crawl through a live-fire exercise: First time, no bullets, in daylight just to learn how to keep your head and body DOWN while negotiating obstacles like barbed wire, mud, and logs. Second time, in daylight, repeat above as a few 50-Cal rounds were fired over our heads. Third time, same as second time except it was dark. The tracers added a lot to our learning curve, encouraging any “doubters” that this was serious stuff. Never heard anyone say: “Keep your helmets on!” That was in 1962. Forget it yet? Nope.
Now this is “Ned-in-the-Primer” compared to being in a helicopter under enemy fire wherein their intention is to kill those in the copter. And to “misremember” the details is beyond belief. The session Williams did with Letterman puts all his disclaimers in the garbage!
We've all been there Bri. Jumping from chopper to chopper, passing gas, conflating.
“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,”
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I guess someone else chose for him?
“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,”
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I guess someone else chose for him?
The silence of the camera man, sound crew and undoubtedly others affiliated with NBC that would have been on that Chopper is defining. They need to be exposed as well. Were they in on it, or threatened to clam up?
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.
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Bingo! And bingo!
How I loathe these jerks!
Good point.
More “fun historic moments” with Brian!
“...And it wasn’t a momentary slip, he’s been telling it for years...”
As I don’t really pay attention to this guy, this is the first I’ve heard of it.
It’s just plain stupid to lie like that. Especially when it’s so easily disproved, and one is a public figure with a nightly national spotlight.
It truly is the height of arrogance to think no one - ESPECIALLY the folks who were there - would challenge him on the veracity of his claims.
Billthedrill, you used the word “reprehensible”... it’s one of those words that just... fits perfectly.
Lyndon Johnson and his Silver Star all over again. This time the truth came out.
Do we have to make him wait another 11 years for someone to challenge on the the claim that it is a “mis-rememberance”, an innocent error? And not a calculated bald faced lie as it really is.
RE LBJ and Silver Star:
Not familiar with that one...
“...Do we have to make him wait another 11 years for someone to challenge...”
Of course.
He’s a member of the “proected class”...
Johnson’s biographer, Robert Caro says:
“The most you can say about Lyndon Johnson and his Silver Star is that it is surely one of the most undeserved Silver Stars in history, because if you accept everything that he said, he was still in action for no more than 13 minutes and only as an observer. Men who flew many missions, brave men, never got a Silver Star.”
This military forum discusses it in more detail:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?160677-Lyndon-B-Johnson-s-Silver-Star
Basically he hitched a short hop on a bomber and as a congressman pressured others to get him a silver star for it to use when he ran for the Senate after the war.
What a piece of sh*tbird garbage...
Thanks, I will do some research on it. I’d never heard it before.
Caro’s first two volumes of his five part biography of Johnson are well worth reading to understand the man and the times.
I couldn’t stand Johnson at the time, but ten years ago I picked up the first two volumes as a remainder sale at the book store just to see how Caro treats him.
The first volume details Johnsons dirt poor background from dirt poor rural Texas and how the New Deal setting was ideal for his rise in the House. It shows him with some sympathy from what he came from. However, in the second volume we get a real good start into the thousands of ways he was corrupt. Caro pulls few punches.
Roger Stone has a new book out claiming Johnson took out JFK. Stone was a Nixon aide and strategist as a young fellow. Nixon told him some things that left him convinced Johnson did it and he has put together a book that is very interesting. Roger Stone was a Republican campaign and administration insider with three Presidents — not a pundit.
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