Posted on 02/08/2015 4:17:19 PM PST by servo1969
Back in the fall of 2006, long before Brian Williams confessed to “conflating” his helicopter adventures over Iraq, Neal Santangelo knew the NBC news anchor was a fraud.
Santangelo, a Boston firefighter, former president of Local 718 and a proud veteran of the Navy submarine service, served on a committee that brought the Congressional Medal of Honor Society to Boston that year for its national convention.
About six months before the society’s gala banquet at the Convention Center, Williams agreed to serve as master of ceremonies.
But when he arrived on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006, Williams told committee members Tom Lyons and Neal Santangelo that a “pressing engagement” back in New York prevented him from doing much more than greeting the audience of more than 1,000 guests … and leaving.
As disappointed as Lyons and Santangelo were, they still arranged for a police escort to rush Williams through the tunnel to catch his plane back to NYC.
After the banquet, as Santangelo, Lyons and other committee members relaxed in a lounge at the Colonnade Hotel, Neal Santangelo’s wife phoned from their room to say she knew why Brian Williams had to bail out of a Medal of Honor banquet.
She was watching the chiseled face of “NBC Nightly News” ham it up with Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler in a Weekend Update sketch on “Saturday Night Live.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
NBC’s Brian Williams Drops Claims To Have Been Personally Beheaded by Al Qaeda
NEW YORK – NBC news anchor Brian Williams has publicly dropped his claim that he was personally beheaded by al Qaeda in Iraq, saying he had misremembered the event.
Williams, known as ‘The Most Trusted NBC Nightly News Anchor in America’ has admitted, “I was never captured by al Qaeda in Iraq in May 2004, nor murdered by AQI leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi” in a notorious propaganda video.
Read more: http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/02/brian-williams-drops-claim-beheaded-by-al-qaeda/#ixzz3RCdX2sUu
Read more: http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/02/brian-williams-drops-claim-beheaded-by-al-qaeda/#ixzz3RCdPl92q
http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/02/brian-williams-drops-claim-beheaded-by-al-qaeda/
Is he relatedto “Dan Blater”?
This leads to the next question - what else has Brian Williams been reading to us as “news” that is just not so?
Can we believe ANYBODY working for NBC News?
Brian’s been lying long before anybody paid him to. He diden’t do it to be cool, he just did it because he liked it.
WRONGO....Brian Williams was the EDITOR of the Teleprompter.....he OK’d EVERY LIE on it!!! Pretty sure Lester Holt won’t have that power......however Lyin’ Brian may STILL be WRITIng THE Script that goes on the teleprompter.
NBC - Nothing But Conmen
Williams Grubered “stupid Americans”. Period.
Well, the correct answer is still...no.
But wasn’t Brian Williams there on the moon to welcome Neil Armstrong as he walked down the ladder? Gotta get that scoop y’know.
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