Posted on 02/05/2015 11:32:49 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
NBC News anchor Brian Williams' 2006 claim that he saw a dead body float past his hotel window during Hurricane Katrina is drawing fresh skepticism in the wake of his own admission on Wednesday that he lied about being aboard a helicopter that was hit by enemy fire during the Iraq war.
Despite a swift apology on his Nightly News program, Williams is at the center of a media firestorm after it emerged that his old war story that he has retold numerous times over the past 12 years has become increasingly exaggerated.
Williams was forced to apologize this week after claiming in a report on Friday that the chinook he was aboard in Iraq had been hit by enemy fire.....
.....In the wake of the scandal over William's war story apology, attention is now turning to comments he made about what exactly he witnessed in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina.
'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...I beat that storm. I was there before it arrived.
'I rode it out with people who later died in the Superdome,' he said in an interview in 2006, just a year after the hurricane.
According to the New Orleans Advocate, Williams claim isn't accurate as the French Quarter of the city – one of the highest parts of the city – was never flooded.
The Advocate has also taken Williams to task over another Katrina-related claim that he made in an interview last year with her (sic) predecessor Brokaw.....
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So it IS Lyin’ Brian’s daughter and NOT Matt Lauer’s daughter doing PORN?? PORN?? REALLY??? And the parents WATCH it?? OMG!!
Lauer’s daughter was born in 2003.
Really he must be a proud dad
Yes Brokaw wants NBC to get back to the long-accepted practice of shading the truth and burying completely unacceptable (to the Hard Left) truths, rather (so to speak) than crossing over to lying outright at will.
While the brunette beauty and her dad seem to be A-OK with jaw-dropping scenes, her co-star Jemima Kirke doesn’t quite feel the same way.
“I sat behind Allison and her dad in the first season (premiere) and I was going to puke,” Kirke recalled.
“I was so nervous. I don’t even know him, but can you imagine (with this)?! Watching a kissing scene with my dad next to me is awful, let alone with you getting — whatever that’s called — motorboated in your a—.”
Joe told me it was Lauer’s daughter.
Yep, Brian Williams is the last of the well known evening news anchors. Otherwise that vehicle has been pretty much smashed up by the internet and cable.
While Williams was never a spouting marxist like Dan Rather, the fact Williams was an intern for Jimmy Carter always told me all I needed to know.
Maybe better they keep Williams onboard, since with his credibility shot, even fewer people will take NBC seriously.
My GF insists on watching the national and local news.
I can’t stand it and keep telling her it is just a rotten mix of leftist propaganda and entertainment/puff pieces. Real, unbiased, “just the facts” new stories are few and far between.
#brianwilliamsmisremembers “So, I told Dan ‘Go ahead and run with the story. Nobody will know those documents were faked.’”
So in other words, the brass at NBC *knew* Brian Williams was lying and didn’t fire him THEN?!
NBC, owned by Comcast, is fraudulent. I hope their ratings PLUMMET.
So in other words, the brass at NBC *knew* Brian Williams was lying and didn’t fire him THEN?!
NBC, owned by Comcast, is fraudulent. I hope their ratings PLUMMET.
That will always be a classic.
Wait, I seem to also recall some reporters at NBC or something do “live” remotes from in front of the White House who were actually in studio in front of a blue screen...
I stand corrected. Mea culpa
#42 as close as she could and he WATCHED his daughter in person on the set the 1st time. The 2nd time he and his wife and daughter were watching the show she is on called Girls where she had sex again.
His comment was “No animals were harmed in the making...”
He is one sick perverted man.
$50m it was Brian Williams who loves watching his daughter having sex.
I think it was Andrea Mitchell.
Oh, I never believed Williams would return the Peabody on his own.
My issue is with our worthless GOP leadership.
In 2005, the MSM instantly politicized (and lied about) the Katrina tragedy.
They beat the GOP to a political pulp with that story all the way through the catastrophic 2006 and 2008 elections.
Almost every major story the MSM pushed in those years was exaggerated, deceitful, or unverified.
So, when Brian Williams hands the GOP a golden opportunity to fight back and to reveal MSM bias, the GOP leadership does exactly what we expect...
Nothing!
The MSM is nothing but a gang of leftist liars and Obama enablers.
They, along with the Dems, are America’s biggest enemy.
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