NBC News anchor Brian Williams' comments about dead bodies, Hurricane Katrina

The New Orleans Advocate ^ | 2/6/2015 | JOHN SIMERMAN

[tobyhill]

NBC News anchor Brian Williams, who apologized on the air Wednesday night for lying about an experience covering the Iraq War, is now facing scrutiny over his gripping accounts of Hurricane Katrina, the disaster that burnished his nightly news bona fides almost a decade ago.

Williams’ account of seeing a body float by in the French Quarter — which remained largely dry — and even a claim of catching dysentery from drinking Katrina floodwaters have raised eyebrows among bloggers and elsewhere since he took it on the chin this week over a claim that he rode in a helicopter that was downed by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq.

“I was instead in a following aircraft. We all landed after the ground fire incident and spent two harrowing nights in a sandstorm in the Iraq desert,” Williams said Wednesday. He painted his earlier description as a “bungled attempt” to thank an Iraq War veteran.

The online feeding frenzy quickly turned to the 55-year-old anchor’s signature assignment: covering Katrina from before it made landfall, when he spent the night of the storm with refuge-seekers in the Superdome and then reported on the harrowing days that followed.

[hummingbird]

"BROKAW: “Last month we reported on Forest Service employees in Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest who felt the forest was overcut, causing fouled streams and endangering fish. At one brief point, we inadvertently used footage of dead fish from another forest farther south, not from Clearwater. We also showed workers conducting tests on water in the Clearwater where fish appeared to be dead. In fact, they were not; they had been stunned for testing purposes. And finally, we showed a large area of land that the timber industry claims was burned and not cut. Our information remains that the video accurately portrayed the clearcuts, although some portions may have been cut after a fire. We regret the inappropriate video to illustrate that was otherwise an accurate report.”

Well, did you get anything right, Tom Brokaw?!

[hummingbird]

HA, HA, HA!!

If there is another report from the French Quarter after a storm, I'll go to NOLA.COM and look at WEBCAMS instead.

[hummingbird]

"PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW AND STOP BEING DISTRACTED."

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Good point.

On even number days, let's humiliate Williams (BIG TIME-WHAT A CLYMER!) along with daily reports of the lies that are making the rounds now.

[hummingbird]

"And at the end of each whopper he always has a military or police “friend”."

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Does he rely on "anonymous sources", too?

"Journalists" have a butt load of "anonymous sources".

[SunkenCiv]

• Brian Williams' heroic stories include Princess Di and Hurricane Katrina [2015]
• Brian Williams Stepping Away From NBC Nightly News Amid Scandal [2015]
• Another Williams Chopper Tale! [2015]
• Only CBS Covers Latest on Brian Williams Lie, Downplays 'Helicopter Ride' [2015]
• Brian Williams also told iffy tales of rescuing puppies from fires [2015]
• Gov. Palin: Serious Problem With The Media's Herd Mentality [2015]
• The Life of Brian [2015]
• VIDEO: Brian Williams Lied... ABOUT HIS LIE! Even NEWER lies [2015]
• Flashback: Brian Williams Pushed Iraq Lie To David Letterman In 2013 [2015]
• Lecture: Brian Williams [touts his strong BS meter] [2015]
• NBC'S BRIAN WILLIAMS' APOLOGY CHOCK FULL OF LIES [2015]
• Chopper Whopper: Brian Williams Told Eerily Similar Katrina Story [2015]
• Brian Williams Told David Letterman His False Helicopter Story In Vivid Detail [VIDEO] [2015]
• NBC's [Brian] Williams Pushes White House Narrative on Obama Vacation: 'It's A Working Vacation' [2014]
• NBC Paid Chelsea Clinton $600,000 to Do Nothing, Basically [2014]

[doug from upland]

It is important. The big picture here is that someone trusted by the public to bring the truth into their living rooms has been outed as a fraud in this and perhaps other stories. Any time we can hurt the credibility of those on the left, it is a good thing.

[doug from upland]

Nail all of these people who have been propagandizing for the RATS for decades.