Posted on 04/07/2015 1:44:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Embattled news anchor Brian Williams couldn’t bring himself to admit he lied about coming under fire on a chopper in Iraq — so he instead wondered aloud if he had a brain tumor, a new report claims.
Several NBC News insiders told Vanity Fair that the fact-challenged Williams — who was suspended without pay for six months from his “Nightly News” gig — had trouble explaining what had happened.
“(He said,) ‘Did something happen to (my) head? Maybe I had a brain tumor, or something in my head,’” a source told the magazine in its upcoming piece. “He just didn’t know. We just didn’t know. We had no clear sense what had happened. We got the best (apology) we could get.”
In the aftermath of the scandal, people at NBC News have repeatedly cited Williams’ penchant for bureaucratic infighting and his limited interest in “heavy” news, the piece says.
“Brian has very little interest in politics,” one insider told the magazine. “It’s not in his blood. What Brian cares about is logistics, the weather, and planes and trains and helicopters.”
Williams was described as very insecure because he had never been a foreign or war correspondent. The insiders said his gussied-up accounts of seeing bodies floating in post-hurricane New Orleans were his way of trying to prove his journalistic chops.
“He didn’t want to leave New York,” a onetime NBC exec told the magazine. “Getting him to war zones was real tough . . . but when he did go, he came back with these great stories that kind of put himself at the center of things.”
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Actually, there is good evidence that people’s memory of what happened evolves over time, it’s not fixed.
For many if not most people, that change tends to be in the direction of more dramatic stories.
Maybe being a lying commie is caused by brain tumors. They should cut his head open and see, it’s the only way to be sure.
**Maybe I had a brain tumor**
More than likely you are a pathological liar.
He’s got an inoperable character tumor called liberalism.
I’m gonna use that one next time I get caught....
They don’t mention whether doctors found a brain tumor. If you really thought you might have a tumor you’d have it checked out. But then he did say “had” a brain tumor so it may have been temporary.
I agree with that to a certain extent, but generally I’ve found that with me, those types of drifts in reality are mostly internal. I haven’t been in a situation where I’ve been telling others the story and outright falsehoods became part of my presentation. If it did, I knew it. I think Williams is trying to become the every-man here, and I think he fails at it. I don’t believe him.
I love how the article soft pedals the simple story that he’s a liar and self promoter in a field that is SUPPOSED to be built on trust.
He’s a complete jerk, never wanted to be in danger and then when they pushed him to go he made stuff up.
“I had a brain tumor but I removed it myself using nothing but a Cuisinart and a shoelace while flying my homemade submarine over Fantasy Island.”
“It’s naaht a too-more!”
To have a brain tumor, first you have to have a brain.
Assess Brian a two stroke penalty for improving his lie
Can’t be because Brian Williams doesn’t have a brain to begin with
More than likely you are a pathological liar.
Not commenting on whether Williams was telling the truth as he remembered it or was consciously lying. I was making a generic point.
Last week I had a perfect example of how memory is not the same thing as reality.
Ran across Fantastic Voyage on Netflix. As I was cuing it up, I commented to my wife that though I was 10 years old when I saw it, 50 years later I still distinctly remembered Raquel Welch and her yellow wet suit.
Darn if the suit wasn’t white! Not at all the way I remembered.
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