Posted on 02/08/2015 5:40:16 PM PST by 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.
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Peasant 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us.
Sir Williams: Tell me. What do you do with witches?
Peasant 1: Burn them.
Sir Williams: And what do you burn, apart from witches?
Peasant 1: More witches.
Peasant 2: Faulty Fuel Tanks?.
Sir Williams: Good. Now, why do witches burn?
Peasant 3: ...because they're made of... wood?
Sir Williams: Good. So how do you tell whether she is made of wood?
Peasant 1: Build a bridge out of her.
Sir Williams: But can you not also build bridges out of stone?
Peasant 1: Oh yeah.
Sir Williams: Does wood sink in water?
Peasant 1: No, no, it floats!... It floats! Throw her into the pond!
Sir Williams: No, no. What else floats in water?
Peasant 1: Bread.
Peasant 2: Puppies.
Peasant 3: Very small rocks.
Peasant 1: Cider.
Peasant 2: Gravy.
Peasant 3: Cherries.
Peasant 1: Mud.
Peasant 2: Churches.
Peasant 3: Lead! Lead!
King Obama: A Duck.
Sir Williams: ...Exactly. So, logically...
Peasant 1: If she weighed the same as a duck... she's made of wood.
Sir Williams: And therefore...
Peasant 2: ...A witch!
Sir Williams: What makes you think she's a witch?
Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt gingrich!
Sir Williams: A newt?
Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better.
Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway!
This was part of the hit job on Bush. It worked. The 2006 mid-terms were devastating for the GOP. It set the stage for 2008’s wipe-out and Obama’s election.
What could Brian do? He was terrified of the gangs running the hotel... lucky he got out with his life...
Not the same thing, but kind of questionable opinion:
BRIAN WILLIAMS: That’s when human life started to degrade. That’s when people ran out of of bathroom facilities and started having to use the entire [Superdome]: no power, no circulating air, and worse, no information from the outside world. Somebody said “they [the victims] just weren’t worth it.”
A bit later, Williams offered up this defense of armed looting.
WILLIAMS: The looting we witnessed downtown, you could hear gunfire in the streets of the 25th-largest city in the United States. We keep saying human behavior degraded that week. There was a desperation that you can only get when you’re the head of a family. You don’t know where a meal is going to come from, you can’t find bottled water. You don’t know how you’re going to get your family to high ground.
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1888188/posts
The pile on Bush moment. Worse than his stupid chopper story.
I think Williams Not having graduated college gave him an inferiority complex, where he felt he had to make it up with heroics.
I think he also kissed Obamas ass.
I could never watch the guy. He made me sick from the start.
But the worst part had to be when Brian put on the long blonde wig and waded up and down Bourbon Street with a ghetto-blaster on his shoulder, lip-synching Zepplin’s “When The Levee Breaks”.
probably wasn’t getting room service in a timely fashion
you had good guys then to though. I remember Frank Reynolds and a few others.....
It is not the profession..... it is the people getting into it.. Thank GOD for the internet and FR!
Bazinga
If I worked at NBC for minimum wage and knew about Williams’ lies he would have been paying me half of his ten million bucks a year to keep quiet. Not blackmail. Just because he liked me.
Is this a TV network?
If so, who carries it?
CA....
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...stole extra shampoos, batteries from TV remote control and MINIBAR REFRIGERATOR!
He left the liquor though, because he wanted to report with a clear head.
He also took a hotel robe.
Will go down in hurricane history with "Looter Guy"!
Oh, those were the days, my FRiend!
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HA, HA, HA!
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