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.
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!
“...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.