Maureen Dowd: Anchors Aweigh (Brian Williams)

The New York Times ^ | February 7, 2015 | Maureen Dowd

[EveningStar]

THIS was a bomb that had been ticking for a while.

NBC executives were warned a year ago that Brian Williams was constantly inflating his biography. They were flummoxed over why the leading network anchor felt that he needed Hemingwayesque, bullets-whizzing-by flourishes to puff himself up, sometimes to the point where it was a joke in the news division.

But the caustic media big shots who once roamed the land were gone, and “there was no one around to pull his chain when he got too over-the-top,” as one NBC News reporter put it.

[jjotto]

Waiting for Mo’s Hillary expose...

[2ndDivisionVet]

So everybody knew about this but kept mum until it exploded? How typical.

[catnipman]

Rules.

[blueunicorn6]

Why, yes.....the New York Times knew he was a liar, but he was their kind of liar. He was a good Liberal. And they were too small to do anything about it.
Hahahahahahahahaha!
The New York Times.....one big comic book.

[Mears]

Well I’ll be damned.

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[Pearls Before Swine]

Brian Williams was doing OK, but after he saw The Legend of Ron Burgundy, he couldn’t help but inflate his experiences. /S

[onyx]

LOL.

Keep waiting, jjotto, although I hope Hitlery's lies come back to bring her down!

Imagine this: Brian felt "anguished," and the Facebook hammering is upsetting him.

ROTFLOL.

[sgtyork]

Ok, lets stop a moment and acknowledge what a wonderful picture that is!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Twitter has been utterly BRUTAL to him on #brianwilliamsmisremembers

[Iron Munro]

Brian Williams Learns That Words Really Can Hurt

[onyx]

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[Kickass Conservative]

Brian Williams, the Joe Isuzu of the Main Stream Media.

[onyx]

GOOD to know! Thank you very much for that information!!!

It’s my hope that he is completely and totally shamed and disgraced!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[Kickass Conservative]

Shouldn’t he be the one everyone is looking at?

[TaMoDee]

You sure know “THE RULES”!

[Celtic Conservative]

Slightly OT , but I read a book about the D- Day invasion that described Hemingway as a war correspondent. It basically said he was a gold plated, prima donna pain in the ass, and that he carried a pistol until the army took it away from him.

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[TaMoDee]

“Brian ?”

[Obadiah]

Exactly what I was thinking. They knew and they turned a blind eye. Did the same with Hillary. Can you imagine if this were Bush or Palin or any Republican? Lying deceptive hypocrites.