Valin Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Hot Air: Noah Rothman February 5, 2015 NBC News anchor Brian Williams is in quite a bit of trouble over his admission that his decade-long claim to have endured heavy fire while flying in a military helicopter over Baghdad in 2003 was a fabrication. Accordingly, journalists are beginning to review other extraordinary claims Williams made over the course of his career, and they are not short on material to parse. The team over at Ace of Spades flagged an interesting moment from a 2006 interview in which Williams waxed regretful about the devastating flooding in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. (Snip) Reporting from The Times-Picayune, Fox News, and The New York Times all state clearly that the French Quarter was not flooded in the same way that other areas of the city, like the Lower Ninth Ward, were inundated. Even during the height of the crisis, The Times described the French Quarter as an “oasis of wary calm” amid an escalating crisis. “Outside, the Quarter’s elegant 150-year-old buildings look relatively unruffled, except for some loosened bricks, having been spared the worst of Hurricane Katrina’s winds and sitting high enough to have avoided the flooding,” the report read. (Snip) ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ http://youtu.be/cOkjjGYKKgI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 Dan Rather backs Brian Williams DYLAN BYERS |2/5/15 Brian Williams is "an honest, decent man, an excellent reporter and anchor--and a brave one," veteran newsman Dan Rather told POLITICO on Thursday. (Snip) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Well if Dan Rather vouches for you...That's Different! I mean we're talkin unimpeachable source here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casino67 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Dissident @HankusMackimus #BrianWilliamsMisremembers being the first person to order a pizza over the telephone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 Even DU isn't buying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 NEW VIDEO of Brian Williams shootdown! Via Borepatch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozartlover Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 David Burge @iowahawkblog 1h1 hour ago There comes a time when the mockery of a public figure becomes a gratuitous pile-on and needs to stop. This is not that time. #BrianWilliams 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Even DU isn't buying it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 6, 2015 Author Share Posted February 6, 2015 If you are a big time public figure you just can't do this! I mean there is a real difference between what Brian Williams did and a bunch of old vets sitting around the VFW hall swappin War Stories..."There I Was!!" The question is, why did it take so long? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 6, 2015 Author Share Posted February 6, 2015 NBC launches investigation of Brian WilliamsRoger Yu, USA TODAY 4:27 p.m. EST February 6, 2015 NBC News confirmed Friday that it's investigating chief anchor Brian Williams over his now-retracted statement that he was in a helicopter in Iraq that was hit by enemy fire and forced to land. "This has been a difficult few days for all of us at NBC News," NBC News President Deborah Turness said in a staff memo circulated Friday. "Yesterday, Brian and I spoke to the Nightly News team. And this morning at the Editorial Exchange, we both addressed the wider group. Brian apologized once again, and specifically expressed how sorry he is for the impact this has had on all of you and on this proud organization. "As you would expect, we have a team dedicated to gathering the facts to help us make sense of all that has transpired. We're working on what the best next steps are – and when we have something to communicate we will of course share it with you," she said. The internal probe is being led by Richard Esposito, who heads the network's investigative unit and was formerly an editor at The Daily News of New York, according to The Daily News.The Daily News was the first news outlet to disclose the NBC investigation. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Via TheFeralIrishman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Brian Williams Vindicated.....Katrina "dead-body" pic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 Brian’s big fog Scott Johnson February 7, 2015 On FNC’s Kelly File last night Megyn Kelly interviewed Stars and Stripes reporter Travis Tritten about NBC News anchor Brian Williams’s tall tales (video below). The interview proceeds methodically to trace Williams’s adornments and refinements to a tall tale he has been telling for more than ten years, capped off by a mendacious apology attributing his fabrications to the “fog of memory.” Kelly pierces the fog with this lucid interview. http://youtu.be/CtN9-A0R7_0 Among those familiar with the story Williams has become a laughingstock. Creative types on Twitter have disseminated a multitude of images depicting previously overlooked episodes in Williams’s heroic career. The Los Angeles Times’s Ryan Parker collects several here. There are so many good ones out there it’s hard to pick a favorite....(Snip) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Oh what a tangled web we weave. When first we practice to deceive. Walter Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 NBC's Brian Williams takes himself off air amid Iraq and Katrina controversy NBC news anchor Brian Williams will step off air while the network continues its investigation into inaccuracies in his reporting, he announced on Saturday. Williams has come under pressure after veterans questioned his account of an incident involving two US helicopters that came under fire in Iraq in 2003. His reporting from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was subsequently called into question. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestVirginiaRebel Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 NY Times: Brian Williams, acknowledging that the scrutiny and criticism he was attracting was becoming a distraction for his network, said on Saturday that he was stepping aside as anchor of NBC’s “Nightly News” for the next several days. In a memo to the NBC News staff, Mr. Williams said that Lester Holt, the anchor for “Dateline,” would step in as the network dealt with the crisis caused by Mr. Williams’s admission that he had misled the public with an account of a helicopter incident in Iraq. “In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news, it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions,” Mr. Williams said in the two-paragraph memo. Mr. Williams is both anchor and managing editor for “NBC Nightly News.” ________ Maybe not for much longer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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clearvision Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 He gets a 6 month suspension.. NBC suspends Brian Williams for 6 months Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News," has been suspended without pay for six months following his continued misrepresentation of events surrounding his coverage of the Iraq War, NBC said Tuesday night. "We have decided today to suspend Brian Williams as managing editor and anchor of NBC Nightly News for six months," NBC News president Deborah Turness said in a memo to staff sent to FoxNews.com. "The suspension will be without pay and is effective immediately. We let Brian know of our decision earlier today. Lester Holt will continue to substitute anchor the NBC Nightly News." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 He gets a 6 month suspension.. NBC suspends Brian Williams for 6 months Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News," has been suspended without pay for six months following his continued misrepresentation of events surrounding his coverage of the Iraq War, NBC said Tuesday night. "We have decided today to suspend Brian Williams as managing editor and anchor of NBC Nightly News for six months," NBC News president Deborah Turness said in a memo to staff sent to FoxNews.com. "The suspension will be without pay and is effective immediately. We let Brian know of our decision earlier today. Lester Holt will continue to substitute anchor the NBC Nightly News." Oh The Pain! I see a book deal and many speaking tours....for large bag-o-money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 He gets a 6 month suspension.. NBC suspends Brian Williams for 6 months Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News," has been suspended without pay for six months following his continued misrepresentation of events surrounding his coverage of the Iraq War, NBC said Tuesday night. "We have decided today to suspend Brian Williams as managing editor and anchor of NBC Nightly News for six months," NBC News president Deborah Turness said in a memo to staff sent to FoxNews.com. "The suspension will be without pay and is effective immediately. We let Brian know of our decision earlier today. Lester Holt will continue to substitute anchor the NBC Nightly News." Oh The Pain! I see a book deal and many speaking tours....for large bag-o-money. I see him going on a Himalayan expedition and discovering Yeti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 He gets a 6 month suspension.. NBC suspends Brian Williams for 6 months Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News," has been suspended without pay for six months following his continued misrepresentation of events surrounding his coverage of the Iraq War, NBC said Tuesday night. "We have decided today to suspend Brian Williams as managing editor and anchor of NBC Nightly News for six months," NBC News president Deborah Turness said in a memo to staff sent to FoxNews.com. "The suspension will be without pay and is effective immediately. We let Brian know of our decision earlier today. Lester Holt will continue to substitute anchor the NBC Nightly News." Oh The Pain! I see a book deal and many speaking tours....for large bag-o-money. I see him going on a Himalayan expedition and discovering Yeti.....again There, fixed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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