No, Brian Williams is simply living The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The difference is that, unlike Walter Mitty, he is dishing out what is and what is not “the news” to still too many millions nightly in the US and many of the stories he tells have the same quantity of truth as these fabulist tales.
Perhaps he’s confusing John Kerry’s daughter’s story about JF’nK’s mouth to mouth on her hamster or similar rodent?
More like Baron Von Munchhausen’s syndrome