...and I looked over and there was a body floating by. And then we were attacked by...CROCODILES! Yeah, that's the ticket! A whole pack of crocs! Yeah!
Posted on 02/05/2015 11:32:49 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
NBC News anchor Brian Williams' 2006 claim that he saw a dead body float past his hotel window during Hurricane Katrina is drawing fresh skepticism in the wake of his own admission on Wednesday that he lied about being aboard a helicopter that was hit by enemy fire during the Iraq war.
Despite a swift apology on his Nightly News program, Williams is at the center of a media firestorm after it emerged that his old war story that he has retold numerous times over the past 12 years has become increasingly exaggerated.
Williams was forced to apologize this week after claiming in a report on Friday that the chinook he was aboard in Iraq had been hit by enemy fire.....
.....In the wake of the scandal over William's war story apology, attention is now turning to comments he made about what exactly he witnessed in New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina.
'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...I beat that storm. I was there before it arrived.
'I rode it out with people who later died in the Superdome,' he said in an interview in 2006, just a year after the hurricane.
According to the New Orleans Advocate, Williams claim isn't accurate as the French Quarter of the city – one of the highest parts of the city – was never flooded.
The Advocate has also taken Williams to task over another Katrina-related claim that he made in an interview last year with her (sic) predecessor Brokaw.....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Hey - at least he makes 5 to 10 thousand dollars an hour...
I remember all the stories Whoraldo was breathlessly reporting of rapes and people jumping to their death from the nosebleed seats in the Superdome. I can’t believe these liars still have broadcast careers.
Doesn’t someone like him only travel to sites for establishment shots and then a team of writers create scripts that sounds interesting?
...and I looked over and there was a body floating by. And then we were attacked by...CROCODILES! Yeah, that's the ticket! A whole pack of crocs! Yeah!
The evening national news is going the way of the Edsel. It simply doesn’t work any longer.
"....To make matters worse there are also now reports that senior executives at NBC News, including legendary anchor Tom Brokaw who Williams replaced in 2004, knew the story was false.
‘Tom Brokaw and [former NBC News President] Steve Capus knew this was a false story for a long time and have been extremely uncomfortable with it,’ an insider told the New York Post.
Now Brokaw, 74, has had it and wants Williams fired, the Post claims.
Senior executives had in the past asked Williams to stop telling the story in public, reports Variety.
Despite his credibility being called into question, Williams still took the anchor’s seat for his Nightly News broadcast on Thursday evening but unlike on Wednesday he didn't address the issue during the broadcast.
'Brokaw wants Williams’ head on a platter. He is making a lot of noise at NBC that a lesser journalist or producer would have been immediately fired or suspended for a false report,' said the source......"
Unless you're a REALLY SKILLED peasant. Then it takes him a week to make more than you do.
Does worshipping at the altar of Obama's Sphincter increase one's salary?
Sounds like a good option for Project Veratis to start investigating these left wing so called objective news anchors. What was found on Dan Rather probably just scratched the surface of this entire band of pukes.
Brian Williams speaks with crooked face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8slEPV9LyS0
Let us sit in this canoe for our flood report, even though the water is only 5 inches deep...
As long as the lies can be blamed on Bush, all is career advancement.
By that standard, 3/4ths of MSNBC ought to be fired.
Will his viewers ever hear about any of this?
You wonder if some of these people have ever told the truth...
#BrianWilliamsMisremembers “So, I said to anyone who would listem ‘Look at the sixth floor window of the School Book Depository! It looks like Richard Nixon with a rifle.’”
Serial lier time to go. He should look at the bright side of retirement, more time to go watch his daughter film porn scenes.
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