Discussion for article #232903
Fire him, now.
Even his apology is bogus, as it implies he was in harms way:
âI want to apologize,â he said. âI said I was traveling in an aircraft that was hit by RPG fire. I was instead in a following aircraft.â
In a following helicopter an hour later.
Fire him.
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Harrowing sandstorm? He was ONLY trying to acknowledge someone else s heroism, and got confused about HIS non-heroism.
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Our liberal media.
Grrrrrrr.
He was trying to emulate Robert Capa the great WWII wartime photographer who landed with the troops at Normandy. This is the manicured, hair styled version of that, in a helicopter talking the talk.
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Mistake, my arse. He âembellishedâ it to make himself look like he belongs in the elite company of Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, etc. Sorry, Brianâthose men were actual war correspondents. Youâre what the Brits accurately call a ânews reader.â
Y U mad, bro?
Itâs entirely up to you to choose whether you will gather your news from a corporate media source; but if you do, itâs important that you remember that source is in the entertainment business, not the accuracy business.
Itâs then up to you to choose which corporation will be favored with your patronage; you could choose a source that has a strongly implied promise to lie about anything it chooses without warning you, and I guarantee you that the white folksâ Fox News Channel in particular will live up to that promise. Or you could choose to watch another source that claims to be âtruthfulâ in what it produces as ânewsâ, and I guarantee you that if you trust in that claim, you will be let down.
Even once you have chosen a given corporate media newsertainment, itâs up to you whether you choose to go with belief or disbelief or indifference over what your favored corporate media sourceâs chosen newsertainer maitre dâ says.
On top of that, now you know some actual ânewsâ: that NBCâs star newsertainer will lie to suck up to the US military, AND his employer is fine with that.
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Thanks, Brian! The fact that you werenât actually in a helicopter fired upon is GOOD NEWS FOR YOU!
Your apology does not mitigate the goddamn damage you syncophants in the media did to hundreds of thousands dead civilians in Iraq.
Nor does it mitigate the damage done to many thousand soldiers who were sent to Iraq.
But gosh! Good for you for admitting that the story you told, repeatedly, was patently false.
NBC will renew your contract, and youâll get kudos from the other syncophants in the media for being âbrutally honestâ. GOOD FOR YOU.
You banal asshole, living a very protected life. How very special this all is for you.
If you actually thought of yourself as a journalist, youâd resign, immediately, you fear-mongering asshole.
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itâs important that you remember that source is in the entertainment business, not the accuracy business.
If you call it news then thatâs what it should be.
Fox News Channel
I disregard FOX as a news source. They are in the business of propaganda.
If NBC wants to be in FOXâs camp, so be it. If they want to peddle news then theyâll fire this liar.
Fire him?
Not happening.
Watch Brian Williams get love for being âbrutally honestâ about his âtotally understandable mistakeââ
Watch for it.
Man, we are fcked.
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Flubber!
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So why hasnât he been fired?
Gee BrianâŚthat is call lying and that is The Capital Sin of journalism. Itâs not a flubâŚitâs a lie. You are a liar. Do the right thing and retire. ButâŚAmericans donât seem to care if they are being told the truth or listening to Brian make up shit to become heroic.
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This guy is so corrupt on so many levels. Throw him out of a NBC helicopter without a golden parachute.
2003âŚWasnât that about the same time Brian was also telling the world that he was such an avid NASCAR fan? Maybe around the time NASCAR was quite popular within the George W reelection campaign culture during a presidential election year? And didnât that dick head Curt Schilling ruin the historic 2004 World Series Win by the Boston Red Sox with his shout out to George W just days before the election?
Good times those early aughtsâŚâŚ
/snark
Another flub? How many more will be unearthed? Access to Cheneyâs Bunker or a Jimmy Fallon skit is more important than doing his job? This guy is so star struck on himself and the rest of the Washington/Hollywood Insider culture Iâm surprised he has enough time to even consider the real news.
Heâs obviously been hanging around with Chris Matthews and Joe Scarborough too long. No worry. Trump will always have a place for him on the Celebrity Apprentice along with other has beens.
They wonât be firing him, or, AFAIK, any person employed by NBC who was associated with his lie.
Which isnât to say Iâm ignoring your standards - but I do wonder what led to you to think that the same network that has employed access-kissers Chuck Todd, David Gregory and Tim Russertt in its top weekly political news show had any meaningful âtruth in newsâ standards.
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Y? R his ratings down? Is he stinking up the brand? A Kardashian would do better? CBS already nabbed Colbert?
âflubâ is not the word i would use to describe brian williamsâ lie.
Hey @MartinHeldt ⌠Posted for the recordâŚ
After reading this crap from Brian, I see it better served for Williams to resign his position and move to the Disney Channel where fiction is served in heaping spoonfulsâŚ
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153110016813689&fref=nf
~OGD~
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