Did he really not think any one of those folks he was there with would turn up to call him on it?
I could see him thinking he'd get away with faking it if he was some no-name reporter from the "Podunk Patch Gazette" that no one knows of, but he's a national figure on a national network, his face on the screen every night.
Makes no sense at all.
Liberals lie... It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Someone speculated that he was just trying to impress Letterman during the interview and got carried away.
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.
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.