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NBC News anchor Brian Williams' comments about dead bodies, Hurricane Katrina
The New Orleans Advocate ^ | 2/6/2015 | JOHN SIMERMAN

Posted on 02/06/2015 8:45:47 AM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brianwilliamskatrina; brianwilliamslies; liarnbc; liarwilliams; media; msm; nbc; nohonor; nointegrity; nomoretrust4nbc; norealjournalism; notruth
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To: tobyhill

Being a conservative means that you are forced to apologize for things you didn’t do. Being a liberal means that you are rarely forced to apologize even for things that you DID do. In this case, the half-hearted apology was only proffered ten years after the fact.


21 posted on 02/06/2015 9:05:34 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Best part of all this - He has been called out by soldiers who were actually there in Iraq. They have nailed his ass to the wall. Bravo !


22 posted on 02/06/2015 9:06:07 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Bitsy

Oh, and I forgot about the reporter who was in the boat reporting from New orleans and as she reported a guy comes by in trawling boots walking past the boat in about 2-3 inches of water! It was hilarious! She was being so dramatic in her boat and then that. So funny then again so pathetic.


23 posted on 02/06/2015 9:07:36 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: nikos1121
He’s a hack that has the same “look” all the rest of them do these days.

Based on most of the news anchors I see, all you need these days are a full head of hair, a weak, insincere smile, and liberal beliefs up the yin-yang.
24 posted on 02/06/2015 9:07:53 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: tobyhill
W-Wait a minute...So when Obama was running for POTUS and Brian said Obama was a Christian that may not be true as well?? You mean we've been lied to? Noooo!


25 posted on 02/06/2015 9:08:16 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 11 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Dan says he’s a decent honorable man.

Fake but accurate.

Courage.


26 posted on 02/06/2015 9:08:21 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: tobyhill

When are they going to go after Geraldo? He is a ego maniac as can be seen on Celebrity Apprentice.

On the other hand, Leeza Gibbons (formerly of Entertainment Tonight) is shockingly amazing with good business sense.

Btw, the Deadliest Catch dude went down in a blaze of Hooters Glory when he got fired during a boat task featuring Hooters girls and Geraldo screaming Screw the Terrorists on a CityLine Boat Tour.


27 posted on 02/06/2015 9:09:31 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: SMARTY
No! Brian Williams is suave. Blue Velvet photo: Blue Velvet BlueVelvet.gif He's one suave pinche cabron.
28 posted on 02/06/2015 9:11:03 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Cry if I Wanna

If he is not out with this issue there will be another : three strikes is a definite out


29 posted on 02/06/2015 9:11:08 AM PST by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now)
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To: SkyDancer

Brokaw wants him gone because the longer he is there the more people remember he is Tommy’s golden boy. Brokaw doesn’t give a hoot about journalistic integrity.

IMO Williams was designed to be a Brokaw clone from the get go.

I got tired of watching Tom & Brian et al make a “someone farted” face every they used a Republican’s name on the air. So sickeningly obvious.


30 posted on 02/06/2015 9:12:23 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: SMARTY
He needs to get help!

Despite the efforts of Conservative Scientists worldwide over many, many years there is yet to be discovered a cure for LIBERALISM. It remains today an incurable disease.

31 posted on 02/06/2015 9:12:27 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Dan Rather needs to be on psychotropic medication. Multiple varieties.


32 posted on 02/06/2015 9:14:17 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: InterceptPoint
Despite the efforts of Conservative Scientists worldwide over many, many years there is yet to be discovered a cure for LIBERALISM. It remains today an incurable disease.

It must be E-Bull-A or Electronic Bull$hit Absolutely.

33 posted on 02/06/2015 9:14:57 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: tobyhill

34 posted on 02/06/2015 9:15:08 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: ChildOfThe60s

35 posted on 02/06/2015 9:15:15 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: tobyhill


36 posted on 02/06/2015 9:15:59 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Col Frank Slade

The next best part of this is dredging up Hillary’s “sniper fire” story.


37 posted on 02/06/2015 9:17:37 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: tobyhill

38 posted on 02/06/2015 9:18:58 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: hoosiermama

Christmas in Cambodia.
Bush National Guard Memos.
Exploding pick up trucks.
Katrina floating dead bodies.
Iraq RPG attack on helicopter.
Swift Boat heroics.
Corkscrew landing in Bosnia.
“I did not have sexual relations with Miss Lewinsky”.


39 posted on 02/06/2015 9:19:14 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Doogle

40 posted on 02/06/2015 9:20:11 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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