Posted on 02/06/2015 5:46:25 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Next to the Iranian nuclear program or Putin's neo-Soviet expansionism, the question of whether NBC News "managing editor" Brian Williams is a self-aggrandizing liar or a mentally ill fantasist is a relatively minor matter, notwithstanding that he is the very embodiment of the strange antiquated assumptions of network news - that because a chap looks like a 1950s department-store mannequin he's your go-to guy for economic analysis and foreign policy.
As to the subject at issue, my general view of "personal stories" (including my own) was summed up by Mel Brooks on stage a few decades back reminiscing about his life. After one especially uproarious anecdote, he said, "I swear every word is true. Well, no. The mildly funny stuff is true. The mezzo-mezzo stuff is mostly true. But the really funny stuff is entirely invented." That formula applies to the dramatic stuff, too. As you tell a story over the years, as Brian Williams did with his RPG-hit-chopper shtick, it gets too honed, too sharp.
Then too there is the phenomenon that creeps with age - when anecdotes you once told about other people mutate into anecdotes you tell about yourself. The first example of this I encountered, back when I was very young, was the great Royal Ballet choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, who regaled me with a string of fascinating personal stories, all of which I discovered, upon returning home, had happened to Diaghilev or Massine or Ninette de Valois. . .
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Brian Williams is either mentally deranged or extremely stupid. He’s the news anchor of a major network and anything he says in public is going to be picked up on some website. So stupid. His reputation is gone and I think he doesn’t last another week. NBC is going to have the pull the plug on him.
Heard earlier that even ole Tom Brokaw (or however you spell it) called for him to quit.
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“Gunga Brian” just doesn’t roll of the tongue like “Gunga Dan”.
TV everywhere is in the middle of their important February Sweeps period when the stations vie for top ratings so they can brag and garner higher ad rates. It’s the time of year much like September Sweeps when they roll out their much ballyhooed investigative reports like “Why red cars no longer sell” or “Citrus mold, the next big thing!” So to pull your national anchor in the middle of a sweeps period would be a disaster for the network and many of the NBC affiliates too.
Too juicy a dilemma to dismiss.
He admitted, or accidentally let it out, that he doesn’t have one college credit. I’d like to see what resume he passed around over the years.
Stewie Griffin would call him “B to the ryan.”
He has Clintonosis - they can’y tell the truth about corkscrew landings, snipper fire, airframe bullet damage, or sex with that woman
I'll never forget visiting a house about ten years ago in which I watched an old couple settle in to watch the MSM Nightly News together. Conscientous American citizens, keeping themselves informed! What a sad ritual. It felt to me like I had time-traveled back to the late 1950s.
From the headline and knowing the column was by Steyn....let’s just say I expected a whopper of an article and as usual, Steyn does not disappoint!
I was absolutely astounded to read that Williams has about 9m viewers each night.
He makes about $1.10 PER AVERAGE VIEWER EACH YEAR. tHAT IS AROUND $40,000 PER DAY FOR A 260 DAY YEAR AT $10,000,000 PER YEAR TO READ THE NEWS,
You’ve reminded me about the time I pulled out a calculator in class and figured out the number of women John Holmes averaged per day.
Don’t forget the men.
I hope that a few of them will somehow learn that Williams is a liar, and will care.
That's the very picture of my dad, who's now 84. He still trusts the Big Three and the major dailies to give him the absolute straight dope about what's going on in the world.
No matter how many times I've pointed out to him the inconsistencies in their reporting, and the extreme (and transparent) liberal bias, he just waves me off and keeps mainlining that Kool-Aid.
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