Posted on 02/05/2015 3:46:29 AM PST by tobyhill
NBC News anchor Brian Williams faced swift, and often harsh and sarcastic, reaction Wednesday after he recanted a story that he was aboard an Army helicopter that was hit with enemy fire in Iraq and forced to land.
The longtime NBC News journalist apologized in an interview with Stars & Stripes, saying he had “misremembered” what happened. He was actually in another nearby helicopter.
“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams told the newspaper. “I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.”
The story drew immediate scorn online, where critics — including veterans and retired baseball star Curt Schilling — questioned how it would have been possible to make that mistake.
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This won’t go away until he either resigns/retires or he recants his recant. He didn’t misremember. It is patently absurd to believe it was his memory playing tricks on him.
He outright lied. He lied because he and others like him lie regularly to the population at large in their so-called trusted stewardship of the “truth.” That perhaps is the biggest lie of all.
I’ve detested this POS since he apologized for the obvious grimace when announcing W had won in 2000.
These commissars aren’t even hiding their contempt for us anymore.
As well he should! Whatever little credibility NBC News had, this blows it out of the water. No way he survives in his current position.
Huh?
“Fake but accurate” - didn’t Dan Rather get into some pretty deep waters with this approach to the news?
And what about Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless, ducking “enemy fire” upon her arrival in Bosnia in 1996.
Just trying to give snipers a bad name. Herself was NEVER in any danger.
These clowns stopped being ‘journalists’ LOOOOOOONG ago.
The viewers are the dupes in all this, because all THEY have to do is tune them out!
I wonder if anyone ever made a good gif of that grimace?
-PJ
Musta been the same guys who were shooting at Brian Williams who shot at Hillary as she stood on the tarmac in a receiving line in Bosnia.
Liberals lie. All the time.
They’ve largely gotten away with these constant lies before because they controlled the bulk of what Americans see on TV and read in print (when they read).
With the spread of the internet and decline of MSM’s influence, these lies aren’t as easy to hide any more.
Whenever his name is mentioned, wherever, it should be appended with Proven Liar.
All served in the Stolen Valor division.
It is fascinating to see the double standard at work. Williams is liberal, so this will be swept under the rug. If a conservative commentator did it, it would be a topic 24/7 until the person resigned or offed themselves.
I’ve seen it on this site, especially soon after it happened; it was strange, as though someone in the studio had to point out to him how obvious his bias was. When they cut back to him after a break, he apologized for it.
How do you “misremember” a lie?
Ask the Ferguson witnesses (who got away with outright falsifying reports); some even admitted later that they weren’t even present (after swearing to Brown’s coldblooded execution by Officer Wilson)...
Bullcrap.
Undeniably true.
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