NBC News anchor Brian Williams' comments about dead bodies, Hurricane Katrina

The New Orleans Advocate ^ | 2/6/2015 | JOHN SIMERMAN

[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.

[WayneS]

So the French Quarter was not just “largely dry” - it was dry.

[gundog]

There IS a pathology going on in Brian’s head.

It could be as simple as sleep deprivation. It's been my experience that people who exhibit this kind of behavior also do considerable amounts of amphetamine and/or cocaine.

[WayneS]

Did any dead bodies float by your place?

[SaveFerris]

keeper

[SaveFerris]

Gee, that description reminds me of someone else. Now, who is that?

[SaveFerris]

I have always thought of that. Good song and great advice.

[onedoug]

And at the end of each whopper he always has a military or police “friend”.

[gibsosa]

now that is funny!!!

[xp38]

The trouble is he will be replaced with someone equivalent. There are a multitude of them waiting in the wings.

[jimwatx]

He continues to lie but nothing will happen unless his ratings drop precipitously. We can only hope that is the case, though he will most likely be replaced by another lib journalist, so what difference would it make anyhow? They are never held accountable for their lies.

[hummingbird]

I bet "looter guy" recalls the storm better than Brian Williams.

At any rate, I don't think "looter guy" would "conflagate" (sic?).

Watergate...led the way for every other "gate" - conflagate-gate.

[lonestar]

punny

LOL!

[hummingbird]

"Tom Brokaw wants him gone ... Dan Rather says Williams is an honest and decent man. Well isn’t that special?"

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Embarrassing to have Dan Rather stand up for you.

[hummingbird]

"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."

"Canoe girl!"

Expression on her face as the guys walked by her, and the little canoe that could, was precious!

[hummingbird]

"Courage."

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Ha, ha, ha...."courage" - those were the days, my FRiend!

Brian Williams - take a hike.

[hummingbird]

"I got tired of watching Tom & Brian et al make a “someone farted” face every they used a Republican’s name on the air."

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*guffaw*

[hummingbird]

*snicker* and *snort*

Gotta love Baghdad Bob!

[hummingbird]

Ha, ha, ha!

"Looter Guy" had the foresight to stash a bottle in his back pocket!

[hummingbird]

"Genghis Khan..."

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Yes, we need Kerry's side of the story re: Katrina.

Maybe in was someone reminiscent of Genghis Khan who was floating by in the (mostly dry) French Quarter.

[hummingbird]

"Williams got just too big for his pants and now he’s being exposed in the end."

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*snicker*

He certainly is an a**!