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It will soon be this way if things continue. I don't know why someone would do such a dishonest and stupid thing. Ok, this is more reason for not believing anything that comes out of the mouths of the those working for NBC and MSNBC
I remember a time when war correspondents didn't need to convince the public of anything regarding their exposure to danger. All this azzhat has done is make it more difficult for a reporter to get close to the action.
Why would any military powers-that-be authorize a "ridealong" if no one is going to give what they report about the front any credence?
Hell; if I was an officer with discretionary powers, I'd simply tell the guy to "stay in the Ritz and make it up as you usually do".
I wish the ghost of Ernie Pyle would haunt Williams for the rest of his life.
An another note, I always love hearing the stories from my buddy about Richard Engel reporting in Iraq in front of Strykers and wearing body armor and kevlar helmet like he's on the front lines. Instead, he's inside the friendly Forward Operating Base, the soldiers behind the camera are in t-shirts and no helmets, just snorting.
It is pretty funny that this has been headline news on CNN, Fox, and just about every network except NBC and its affiliates, yet the media watchdog group Media Matters for America has yet to weigh in. A network anchor reporter lying to the American public, and crickets. MMFA only cares if you work for Fox, or have an (R) after your name.
In one story, he claims he saw a body float by his hotel room window in New Orleans. In another, he claims his five-star hotel was overrun with gangs while he was sick with floodwater dysentery, and was rescued from a stairwell by a police officer.
Williams recounted the first story about the floating corpse in a 2006 interview with former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, The New Orleans Advocate reported.
"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 . . ." Williams said, recounting the 2005 hurricane. "These are Americans. These are my brothers and sisters and one of them was floating by."
I hadn't heard that story before.
I can't believe he didn't get called out on that one.
The French Quarter was dry.
I absolutely love the fact people are upset because Brian Williams is perceived to be liberal, not because he violated his ethics as a news broadcaster. I'm guessing most of these folks who are happy Williams' career is toast are just fine with Fox News and the myriad of lies they've been caught in over the years.
Plus, I've noticed a bunch of posters conflating Williams' tortured account of events with Hillary Clinton's dishonest claim of narrowly avoiding gunfire in Bosnia. Again, only political bias is driving their animosity and nothing else. If these people were really objective about things, why aren't they also invoking Reagan's false claims about filming the liberation of Buchenwald to then-Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir?
Williams told a lie and needs to be relieved of his duties. It's as simple as that. It doesn't matter what party he votes for when he's away from the camera. He reported information he knew (or should have known) was false. He got caught. He shouldn't be an anchor. End of story.
If you're only glomming on to the Brian Williams' story because you believe it validates your dislike of the party you think he votes for, you must be really insecure in your own system of political beliefs.
It is pretty funny that this has been headline news on CNN, Fox, and just about every network except NBC and its affiliates, yet the media watchdog group Media Matters for America has yet to weigh in. A network anchor reporter lying to the American public, and crickets. MMFA only cares if you work for Fox, or have an (R) after your name.
Wasn't NBC the network that deliberately edited the Zimmerman 911 tapes to plant the suggestion that he used a racial epithet when describing Treyvon Martin? Straight up lying is the standard procedure of that network, they'll probably give Williams a raise when this is all over.
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