Brian Williams Fabricates Story about Iraq Experience

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No doubt and now some military members are saying that his apology and new story about what happened is full of holes.....it seems that most news agencies like to (embellish) their stories and add little tidbits to make them more appealing to society....at the end of the day....RATINGS and I must say RATINGS!
 
The guy can't even apologize without lying.Not surprised in the least.
 
Ya. In his apology he said he got it mixed up and was in a following helo. He just forgot to mention "following" by more than an hour. I wonder if nbc will fire him.
 
When a pair of RPGs hit your bird, there is no mistaking the fact that it was your bird, not one in the same formation. That experience is going to be burned into your memory for the rest of your life. And he "misremembered"?

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Fire his sorry butt!
 
When a pair of RPGs hit your bird, there is no mistaking the fact that it was your bird, not one in the same formation. That experience is going to be burned into your memory for the rest of your life. And he "misremembered"?

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Fire his sorry butt!

What I don't understand is the brain fart it takes to be a public figure and lie knowing that the people really involved will hear about it. I mean I understand Joe Blow exaggerating conquests to his buddies at the bar about stuff..... but this is just dumb.
 
It gets worse for Williams. They need to put him out on the sidewalk before "Nightly News" hits the air this evening.

Williams left out key facts in war story apology, report says

Army flight crews said Thursday that NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, in his apology over a false Iraq War story he had told for more than a decade, left out key facts in his admission, the latest development in an embarrassing episode for the face of the news network.

... Thursday, Stars and Stripes, the armed forces newspaper that first broke Williams' admission, reported that Williams was flying with a different helicopter company altogether, in a different direction, and linked to the attacked unit only by radio.
First, he "misremembered" that it wasn't his bird, but one in the same company with the bird that was hit. Now, he "misremembered" that he just heard about the RPG attack on the radio??

Pack it up, Williams. You're done.

 
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It gets worse for Williams. They need to put him out on the sidewalk before "Nightly News" hits the air this evening.

First, he's in a helicopter in the same company with the bird that was hit that he "misremembered." Now, he "misremembered" that he just heard about on the radio??

Pack it up, Williams. You're done.
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i believe there were 63 correspondents killed in the Vietnam conflict. The plastic people on tv today have no honor.
 
i believe there were 63 correspondents killed in the Vietnam conflict. The plastic people on tv today have no honor.
August 11, 1972: Last U.S. ground combat soldiers leave Vietnam.

August 12, 1972: CBS correspondent who shall remain nameless to protect the stupid asks if he can go out with me "to see what has changed with combat operations ceased." I asked him what the h*** he thought we were going to be doing, snapping photos for the Army's war album? He said, "Well, I just thought we'd give Mom and Pop back home a view of the new look of the war." I told him it was going to look the same as it did yesterday, last month, last year, but he was welcome to come aboard. And oh, "By the way, where's your helmet and flak jacket?"

"Oh," he says, "There'll still be shooting?"

That's when I told him to get outta my sight and never darken by door of my bird again.
 
August 11, 1972: Last U.S. ground combat soldiers leave Vietnam.

August 12, 1972: CBS correspondent who shall remain nameless to protect the stupid asks if he can go out with me "to see what has changed with combat operations ceased." I asked him what the h*** he thought we were going to be doing, snapping photos for the Army's war album? He said, "Well, I just thought we'd give Mom and Pop back home a view of the new look of the war." I told him it was going to look the same as it did yesterday, last month, last year, but he was welcome to come aboard. And oh, "By the way, where's your helmet and flak jacket?"

"Oh," he says, "There'll still be shooting?"

That's when I told him to get outta my sight and never darken by door of my bird again.

You have my respect sir.

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Ya. In his apology he said he got it mixed up and was in a following helo. He just forgot to mention "following" by more than an hour. I wonder if nbc will fire him.
Only if people stop watching him.

Are we past the point of anyone expecting someone else to be truthful in what they say?

For the cause of Christ
Roger
 
Only if people stop watching him.

Are we past the point of anyone expecting someone else to be truthful in what they say?

For the cause of Christ
Roger

I haven't watched the nightly news since Tom Brokaw and there isn't a single network channel on my tv
 
Only if people stop watching him.

Are we past the point of anyone expecting someone else to be truthful in what they say?

For the cause of Christ
Roger

Only about half of what is said on these Forums is true, what should TV be any different, or held to a higher standard?
 
We are led to believe that we can trust the MSM and people do. I have never been one of those people.
 
Give the guy a break. Fog of war + good intentions to praise the troops = give him the benefit of the doubt.

His intent was to praise the troops' bravery. Ignoring his good intent occurs because everyone wants to frame him as "the liberal media".

I'm sure if I were doing a job in a war zone, in a helicopter, and heard radio traffic of a helicopter being shot, I might be fuzzy minded on the details too. He was trying to be a good guy and bring some praise to the brave soldiers.

Now for some Zzzzs.
 
Give the guy a break. Fog of war + good intentions to praise the troops = give him the benefit of the doubt.

His intent was to praise the troops' bravery. Ignoring his good intent occurs because everyone wants to frame him as "the liberal media".

I'm sure if I were doing a job in a war zone, in a helicopter, and heard radio traffic of a helicopter being shot, I might be fuzzy minded on the details too. He was trying to be a good guy and bring some praise to the brave soldiers.

Now for some Zzzzs.

It was the soldiers who were actually on that mission that brought this to light........as for foggy memory, one has to wonder how that can be claimed given the interview he did on Letterman years ago. Fairly detailed memories given in that interview. And, again, it is the soldiers who were actually on that mission that are disputing him. Their memory seems to be ok.

food for thought: If this were one of the FNC News Anchors, or Radio Hosts.........how much of a break would they be given?

(visions of tar and feathers creeping into mind........)

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We are led to believe that we can trust the MSM and people do. I have never been one of those people.

I don't have much more trust in the non-Main Stream Media either.........just saying.