Posted on 02/06/2015 8:45:47 AM PST by tobyhill
NBC News anchor Brian Williams, who apologized on the air Wednesday night for lying about an experience covering the Iraq War, is now facing scrutiny over his gripping accounts of Hurricane Katrina, the disaster that burnished his nightly news bona fides almost a decade ago.
Williams’ account of seeing a body float by in the French Quarter — which remained largely dry — and even a claim of catching dysentery from drinking Katrina floodwaters have raised eyebrows among bloggers and elsewhere since he took it on the chin this week over a claim that he rode in a helicopter that was downed by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq.
“I was instead in a following aircraft. We all landed after the ground fire incident and spent two harrowing nights in a sandstorm in the Iraq desert,” Williams said Wednesday. He painted his earlier description as a “bungled attempt” to thank an Iraq War veteran.
The online feeding frenzy quickly turned to the 55-year-old anchor’s signature assignment: covering Katrina from before it made landfall, when he spent the night of the storm with refuge-seekers in the Superdome and then reported on the harrowing days that followed.
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Being a conservative means that you are forced to apologize for things you didn’t do. Being a liberal means that you are rarely forced to apologize even for things that you DID do. In this case, the half-hearted apology was only proffered ten years after the fact.
Best part of all this - He has been called out by soldiers who were actually there in Iraq. They have nailed his ass to the wall. Bravo !
Oh, and I forgot about the reporter who was in the boat reporting from New orleans and as she reported a guy comes by in trawling boots walking past the boat in about 2-3 inches of water! It was hilarious! She was being so dramatic in her boat and then that. So funny then again so pathetic.
Dan says he’s a decent honorable man.
Fake but accurate.
Courage.
When are they going to go after Geraldo? He is a ego maniac as can be seen on Celebrity Apprentice.
On the other hand, Leeza Gibbons (formerly of Entertainment Tonight) is shockingly amazing with good business sense.
Btw, the Deadliest Catch dude went down in a blaze of Hooters Glory when he got fired during a boat task featuring Hooters girls and Geraldo screaming Screw the Terrorists on a CityLine Boat Tour.
He's one suave pinche cabron.
If he is not out with this issue there will be another : three strikes is a definite out
Brokaw wants him gone because the longer he is there the more people remember he is Tommy’s golden boy. Brokaw doesn’t give a hoot about journalistic integrity.
IMO Williams was designed to be a Brokaw clone from the get go.
I got tired of watching Tom & Brian et al make a “someone farted” face every they used a Republican’s name on the air. So sickeningly obvious.
Despite the efforts of Conservative Scientists worldwide over many, many years there is yet to be discovered a cure for LIBERALISM. It remains today an incurable disease.
Dan Rather needs to be on psychotropic medication. Multiple varieties.
It must be E-Bull-A or Electronic Bull$hit Absolutely.
The next best part of this is dredging up Hillary’s “sniper fire” story.
Christmas in Cambodia.
Bush National Guard Memos.
Exploding pick up trucks.
Katrina floating dead bodies.
Iraq RPG attack on helicopter.
Swift Boat heroics.
Corkscrew landing in Bosnia.
“I did not have sexual relations with Miss Lewinsky”.
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