Posted on 07/15/2016 12:28:40 PM PDT by Kaslin
MSNBC’s Brian Williams is a master of saying the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time. I mean, in general, that point is evident since he lost the anchor’s desk at Nightly News and was suspended for six months for lying about his journalistic exploits. Now, we have him saying that he’s “plowing over” his network’s original programming to bring you the latest on the Nice attack (via Curtis Houck/ Newsbusters) [emphasis mine]:
Brian Williams Tells Viewers in Nice Coverage He's ‘Plowed Over’ Chris Matthew’s ‘Hardball’
BRIAN WILLIAMS: This is Donald Trump on a phone interview from the last hour: “But I haven't made my final, final decision. I mean, I've got three people that are fantastic.” So the beat goes on there in politics. We have just plowed over the normal hour airtime of Chris Matthews tonight because of this confluence of breaking news and I wanted to go to Chris while we still can and, Chris, hear from you about just what we've been witnessing here.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Well, this is the world we live in now and for whatever reason, France has become the epicenter of all this terrorism now for months. If you include Belgium, so much of it’s been in the very important continent of Europe and it's all about that. A lot of Arab people live in that — those countries, especially in France and you see it when you visit there. Some are assimilated, some are not. There's a lot of anger against these immigrants, and anger from the immigrants. It's a cauldron and to see a beautiful city like Nice or along the Cote D'Azur like that be disturbed at a time of celebration
This isn’t the first time. During the coverage of the Orlando shooting last month, Williams was cracking jokes while interviewing former Florida Republican Sen. Mel Martinez, who is known to toe a more moderate line. During that exchange, Williams said “Senator, I'm listening to your politics and wondering what branch of the Republican Party you’re in these days and can you find it with a flashlight?”
“My goodness, Brian, I was hoping we weren't going to talk about that tonight. That's a difficult one for me,” replied Martinez.
Williams later apologized:
As we said and with apologies with the look at the inevitable politics of even a national tragedy given that we are in a political season, but the words right below us there, “deadliest mass shooting in American history.” That is the conversation tonight. That's the story we're covering tonight. The tragedy we all woke up to this morning. Our coverage will continue after a break.
Brian Williams said "we plowed over" the airtime for Chris Matthews. He had been talking about what happened in France earlier. Not good.— eric sondheimer (@latsondheimer) July 15, 2016
Now, we have his “plowed over” remark, which looks even worse when you factor in that Williams had mentioned it in reports prior to this little segment with Chris Matthews. Hence, why he began trending on Twitter, as many were floored by the lack of self-awareness with that statement. So, maybe this was a slip of the tongue. It happens. Let’s not forget this gem from CNN’s then-national correspondent Susan Candiotti during the middle of the manhunt to find Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in 2013.
CNN: "It's As Though A Bomb Had Dropped Somewhere"
Still, it doesn’t mitigate the fact that it was in bad taste.
BONUS: MSNBC called the Nice attack a "truck crash" last night.
Follow our live blog for the latest from Nice after a truck crash leaves at least 70 dead https://t.co/FdX3z4hq8V pic.twitter.com/DiPZew4yX1— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 15, 2016
Once he got rid of his conscience, the rest was easy,
Brian Williams was in Nice. He was one of the guys chasing the truck on foot.
Brian Williams....his picture can be found next to any “tool” listed in Websters.
Or maybe a passenger who escaped in act of cowardice.
It’s surprising he didn’t throw in a claim that he’s a member of the French Foreign Legion. I’d love to see him march or die.
Wasn’t Williams actually in Nice at the time of the attacks, negotiating in Arabic with the driver ?
Never mind Brian Williams.
When did trucks learn how to drive?
Was this before or after trucks learned how to recite the Quran, study the Hadith, and pray to Muhammed?
OK...this is old, but I dug it up for this occasion. (I had no idea BW was working again!)
From my archives:
“Yet more from the Definitive, Authorized, Unexpurgated, and Really Really Real Autobiography of Brian Williams:
And there we were huddled in the trenches of Pasquindale, Soviet-supplied RPGs and Katyusha rockets exploding around us, Frenchie screamin’ out for his mama as the Agent Orange seeped into our hooch, and there i was, holding back on that Neutron Bomb for dear life, trying to remember how to disarm it before the hounds of hell were let loose, when Johnny Pak, our south Korean Houseboy from the MASH unit suddenly revealed his SS tattoo and proceed to point his Luger at us! I bravely kept one hand on the Neutron Bomb and dove for the Luger, when suddenly the Japs came over the hill in a human wave attack, and a Kamikaze crashed into the trench at the same time! Wrestling the Luger from Johnny was hard, but what was harder was dealing with the profound sense of betrayal at his perfidy, which broke my heart, but I kept fighting with him until i was able to point the Luger in the direction of the approaching Tiger Tanks and pop a few of them off before the clip ran out. Bodies floated by in the Jordan River, and I swear, they all looked like Elvis. And thus, i experienced the agony of battle with my Brother-in-arms, that fateful July day on the Little Round Top, after suggesting to our commanding officer, Joshua Chamberlain, that he try a bayonet charge, since we all ran out of bullets and could no longer get them off the dead Germans.
It was at that moment i made the connection! Those enigmatic discs held the secret to the code that the patriots under my direction at Blechly Park had struggled for MONTHS to decipher! And here i was, holding the secret to Atilla’s next maneuvers across the steppes of Central Asia! naturally I reported my find directly to my commanding officer, Charles Martel, who hammered home the importance of my discovery...hence his moniker. As we peered over the top we saw them...the army of the Mahdi, in their Medieval battle Array, silhouetted across the desert sunrise, and I managed to pick off a dozen of them with my 1911, but they kept coming, wave upon wave of the Sons of the Prophet, brandishing their katanas and doing the rebel yell, their matted hair flying in the frigid arctic wind as they thundered across the tundra. One of my companions took a swig of moonshine from a flask in his pocket and offered me some. Then i strapped on my war kilt and painted my face blue and plunged into the fray, knowing that, if captured, i would be hanged, drawn, and quartered. Thanks to the little spider that kept persisting in building his web in spite of the radiation from the tactical nukes, I was inspired to lead the entire regiment to victory. It was Christmas. I’ll never forget it. it is seared, seared into my memory!
Thank God i was able to break that code, or many more lives would have been lost. Col. Tibbets confided in me that it changed the course of the war.
Was it Sir Winston? I remember him! I helped him write all his speeches.
General Gordon was the one who presented me with my medals though. He was very grateful to me that I let him take the credit for my discovery of Calvary.
Ah then, we both have fond memories of General Gordon. Then that somewhat frail gentleman from England showed up and started dressing like a Bedouin. I took him aside and told him that if he really wanted credibility with these people, he should learn to ride a motorcycle. I also taught him camel-riding as an afterthought. ONE dollar to get ON the Camel, FIVE dollars to get OFF. American Dollars. I had not yet invented bitcoin at this moment in time.
Nevertheless, he learned both, survived the camel, but not the bike. He should have listened to me and gotten a Harley.
I was living in London at the time, as a special adviser to Queen Victoria. She had become so sad after Albert’s death that she needed some cheering up. So I took her on some horseback rides and some picnics, and her spirits were lifted. I also advised her servant, John Brown, on the right way to treat a lady. He was forever grateful.
Did you realize that, back in the day, when I was embedded with the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan, I was able to single-handedly turn back the depredations of a little blond Greek guy who then burst into tears because he had no more worlds to conquer. Thanks to me and my stalwart companions, we crossed the Rubicon and kicked his azz back to Macedonia!
But I needed to find that element! After trying thousands of experiments, working deep into the night, I finally settled on Radium, but I think it made me sick, so I traveled to the Congo and founded a hospital for the natives, and worked tirelessly among them, overcoming my illness with good-deed-doing..
Now I need to get back up onto my High Horse and do so inquisitioning.
(Bet you didn’t expect the Inquisition!)
We were surrounded. The Japs had created a sort of “Bulge” around us, which gives me a great idea for the name of the coming epic battle, which I will unveil in my next report from the Front. In the meantime, it is bitterly cold, and as I sit here in my foxhole, I can see ice floating, along with the bodies of Oppressed African-Americans, down the flooded Yalu River as it snakes into oblivion on this Godforsaken Island! A Peaceful-Muslim approached me with a surrender demand, but I bravely repulsed him with an epithet appropriate to his culture.
“Tell your Sheik that I have One Word for him... PISTACHIOS!”
I am sure that he got the message! This will go down in History!”
Well, Williams served in both the Army Rangers and the SAS. So it only makes sense that he would have served in the Foreign Legion, probably as an officer.
MSNBC—hiring this ridiculous fool is further evidence they’re completely irrelevant.
Brian Williams: “After I tried to chase down the truck, I ran back to the studio so I could report what happened. I didn’t mis-remember this.”
“Once he got rid of his conscience, the rest was easy,”
Sincerity is the key to success in life. Once you can fake that, you have it made!
Brain Williams: “We just plowed over the time allotted to Matthews’s show. I regret that, but this story just mowed us all down with its tragedy, and we did feel we needed to zig zag through and hit everybody we could with the breaking information. We apologize for the graphic pictures which affected me like being hit by a truck. It is hard to know how to respond to this story; the whole news department just ran right off the rails, and left us all just lying in the gutter devastated.”
Nicely done.
Political Correctness in a nutshell.
Well done! That's a keeper.
Normally when your breaking news coverage continues into the next segment, the programming is said to have “run over,” Williams always tries to find a more colorful term, so he says “plowed over” instead, indicating he used up Chris Matthews’ entire hour but failing to realize that the term also described the cause of the terrible carnage he was covering.
As usual, Brian tries and comes up short.
Thank you, FRiend.
Maybe I should write Hillary’s memoirs! :-)
Good one!!
Williams is really getting old looking (in addition to looking chronically constipated).
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