Posted on 02/08/2015 5:40:16 PM PST by BBell
The former general manager of the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans, where embattled "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams reportedly roomed during Hurricane Katrina, said Sunday (Feb. 8) that neither mass flooding nor floating human remains were near the hotel after the levees broke. Her statement raises questions about Williams' stated Katrina experiences and could add to a pool of public skepticism regarding his tale.
Williams recounted his time reporting on Katrina in a 2006 interview with Disney CEO Michael Eisner. "When you look out of your hotel room window in the French Quarter and watch a man float by face down, when you see bodies that you last saw in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, and swore to yourself that you would never see in your country," he said.
As critics have pointed out, much of the French Quarter stayed dry after the storm, due to its position on high ground. However, there were rising waters as far up as Bourbon and Royal shortly after Katrina, geographer Richard Campanella said Friday.
But Myra deGersdorff, the ex-manager of the Ritz-Carlton who works as a chief human resources officer in Scottsdale, Ariz., questioned the claim Sunday that such horrors occurred anywhere near her former hotel.
"There is no physical way the water was deep enough for a body to float in," she said.
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HA, HA, HA - good use of “Nelson”!
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Thanks for the tip.
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Not likely. He has fully stepped in "it".
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"Looter Guy" at least thought things out - he had a beer in a back pocket.
Hope Williams saw "Canoe Girl", too!
*snicker*
*snort laugh*
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Williams - the Forrest Gump of newsguys - always in the middle of the action.
With a news narrative at the ready.
“If it bleeds, it leads.” That could be a news editor’s criteria.
“Swedish crime” genre has at least two lead characters that were news writers.
“Annika Bengtzon, Crime reporter.” by Liza Marklund
“Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” triology, by Stieg Larsson
The lead characters are news writers, vying for front page placements of their stories, as they personally get involved with solving the crimes.
The “House of Cards” programs, on British and American television, use a lead character who is a news writer, and gets involved with the unfolding drama, often creating some of it.
Williams is a smart operator, run amuck by careless and unprincipled managers and editors.
He probably sees himself as a modern day Clark Kent, mild mannered news reporter.
Busted, but is that enough to kill him?
The line between fiction and reality is not clearly understood, by yute growing up with video game battles, movies full of Computer Graphics, etc.
thx... 8^)
Run, Brian, run!
OK, not the same hotel I stayed in in The Quarter (his was fancier.)
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