NBC anchor Brian Williams' Katrina account challenged by ex-French Quarter hotel manager

NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | 2/8/15 | Jessica Williams

[BBell]

The former general manager of the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans, where embattled "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams reportedly roomed during Hurricane Katrina, said Sunday (Feb. 8) that neither mass flooding nor floating human remains were near the hotel after the levees broke. Her statement raises questions about Williams' stated Katrina experiences and could add to a pool of public skepticism regarding his tale.

Williams recounted his time reporting on Katrina in a 2006 interview with Disney CEO Michael Eisner. "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," he said.

As critics have pointed out, much of the French Quarter stayed dry after the storm, due to its position on high ground. However, there were rising waters as far up as Bourbon and Royal shortly after Katrina, geographer Richard Campanella said Friday.

But Myra deGersdorff, the ex-manager of the Ritz-Carlton who works as a chief human resources officer in Scottsdale, Ariz., questioned the claim Sunday that such horrors occurred anywhere near her former hotel.

"There is no physical way the water was deep enough for a body to float in," she said.

[BBell]

Just keeps getting better.

[CMailBag]

Must be an Obama tale.

[Chickensoup]

I remember when this was brought up on FR years ago during Katrina. I cannot find it on the net, but there is information about how he had to be lying.

[ClearCase_guy]

News coverage is a branch of the Entertainment Business. It’s not serious in any way, except as a distracting piece of Bread and Circuses.

[Baynative]

I can't help but wonder about the strange psychosis that inhabits the minds and hearts of liberal people. I know they are not alone in prevarication and embellishment, but they seem not only prone to lying in greater numbers, their behavior is normally accepted within lib circles.

If this hadn't come fore front as it has; someday Williams would be given a retirement farewell at a fancy NY black tie gala and as he sat on the stage some mouth piece would go through his bio telling of his heroics and how he was shot down in battle.

How could he sit there and listen to that?

I guess would be with the same pride and arrogance that Obama feels when he gazes at his Nobel Peace Prize...

[CommieCutter]

Unfortunately the part that will be over looked is that this is merely a reflection of the entire MSM.

But I’ll take it.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yes, it does. Loving every minute of it.

[JohnBrowdie]

drip, drip, drip . . .

[Loyalist]

Plenty of bodies float by face down in the French Quarter, just in their own puke and piss.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I wish it could be found.

[DanielRedfoot]

In Fairness, the manager didn’t like Brian Williams and so may be lying.

It seems at that time, Brian Williams investigated and discovered that the manager was the head of an international conspiracy bent on world domination, and by using his Bas Ass Karate moves, Brian spoiled their devious plot and saved the world.

…and he got the girl. just saying...

[blackdog]

I remember a live news feed at Katrina with a national news anchor declaring the horror and flooding while they were sitting in a John Boat. They explained that the area was underwater and it was total devastation. Then on live television three men walked thru the shot in what was less than six inches of water in a Walmart parking lot. The boat wasn't even floating.

They quickly cut to another location.

[Chickensoup]

me too Lets check with Jim!

[Chickensoup]

I remember when this was brought up on FR years ago during Katrina. I cannot find it on the net, but there is information about how he had to be lying.

[blackdog]

Brian Burgundy. “Stay Classy, America”

[mountn man]

For liberals, if lying or embellishing is done following their world view, or by someone with their world view, then that is OKAY.

Tell them the TRUTH that contradicts their world view and they'll call for a jihad against you.

[Chickensoup]

I remember talking about that here.

[The Toll]

Is there ever any major Network News Ancors that don’t resign in disgrace after being caught in leftist lies?

[BBell]

I can't help but wonder about the strange psychosis that inhabits the minds and hearts of liberal people.

Simple: The end justifies the means.

[ClearCase_guy]