After apologizing for saying he'd been aboard a helicopter that was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in 2003, Brian Williams announced this weekend that he is taking himself off the NBC Nightly News for several days because "it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions." Yes, maybe just a little. Our favorite part of the whole brouhaha is seeing Williams called an outrageous liar by rightwing blogs that have spent years insisting Barack Obama is a probably-Muslim illegal alien who instituted a socialist government takeover of health care that includes death panels. The real question, of course, is whether it was Brian Williams who gave the stand-down order in Benghazi.
<i>&ldquo;I find it hard to believe anyone was held up in this area in the &rsquo;70s. It was very safe,&rdquo; Danny Murphy, former owner of Danny&rsquo;s restaurant, told Pagesix.com.</i>
I&#039;ve been lying since 1981 about having been robbed at gunpoint in the upper-middle-class community of Oak Park, Illinois. Rubes fall for the story because they actually buy my bullshit that miscreants use things I call &#039;cars&#039; (what a stupid word is that?) to travel from one place to another to commit crime.
Look, I have nothing against Williams, but the fact is that this &quot;memory creep&quot; is the sort of red meat we&#039;d be tearing into if it happened to Rush, Bill O or Fuckabee. In the meantime, Colin Jost is sucking away on the Weakened Update on SNL. There&#039;s an obvious solution here-- Put Williams on SNL. He&#039;s done it once before, and he could certainly add gravitas and humor to the show.
<em>&quot;David Folkenflik&rsquo;s piece notes a 2011 Harvard study that argues memory is &ldquo;prone to distortions that can have serious consequences in everyday life.&rdquo;</em>
...I don&#039;t think you need a Harvard study to prove this hypothesis. Just look at pretty much every argument from conservatives that Reaganomics worked, racism doesn&#039;t exist, the Iraq War was going perfect until Obama came into office, etc. etc. etc
Let me say this, with no snark: I love Brian Williams. I think he has gravitas, but he&#039;s also got a sense of humor. If he&#039;s got enough ego to be on TV, he&#039;s probably got enough ego to puff himself up with heroic stories. I&#039;m inclined to forgive him for that. But seriously, Brian - your stories are interesting enough, considering the people you meet in your day job.
<i>&ldquo;I find it hard to believe anyone was held up in this area in the &rsquo;70s. It was very safe,&rdquo; Danny Murphy, former owner of Danny&rsquo;s restaurant, told Pagesix.com.</i>
I&#039;ve been lying since 1981 about having been robbed at gunpoint in the upper-middle-class community of Oak Park, Illinois. Rubes fall for the story because they actually buy my bullshit that miscreants use things I call &#039;cars&#039; (what a stupid word is that?) to travel from one place to another to commit crime.
I&#039;ve been thinking of that very <i>This American Life</i> segment over the last few days.
That&#039;s why journalists are supposed take... and refer to... notes.
Ask him in year or two.
&quot;Misty Watercolored Memories Of The Way We War&quot; I just noticed this. Today, you win the internet, Dok.
Look, I have nothing against Williams, but the fact is that this &quot;memory creep&quot; is the sort of red meat we&#039;d be tearing into if it happened to Rush, Bill O or Fuckabee. In the meantime, Colin Jost is sucking away on the Weakened Update on SNL. There&#039;s an obvious solution here-- Put Williams on SNL. He&#039;s done it once before, and he could certainly add gravitas and humor to the show.
I wish people would get this bent out of shape about lying when it involves politicians.
That&#039;s different, this is someone we TRUSTED.
...I heard that Brian Williams single handedly lied us into the Iraq, Afghanistan and Peloponnesian wars!!!
<em>&quot;David Folkenflik&rsquo;s piece notes a 2011 Harvard study that argues memory is &ldquo;prone to distortions that can have serious consequences in everyday life.&rdquo;</em>
...I don&#039;t think you need a Harvard study to prove this hypothesis. Just look at pretty much every argument from conservatives that Reaganomics worked, racism doesn&#039;t exist, the Iraq War was going perfect until Obama came into office, etc. etc. etc
He stuck around St. Petersburg When he saw it was a time for a change
Too bad people don&#039;t give a fuck when newscasters lie about important stuff...
Let me say this, with no snark: I love Brian Williams. I think he has gravitas, but he&#039;s also got a sense of humor. If he&#039;s got enough ego to be on TV, he&#039;s probably got enough ego to puff himself up with heroic stories. I&#039;m inclined to forgive him for that. But seriously, Brian - your stories are interesting enough, considering the people you meet in your day job.
Funny, I think &quot;Huffington Post&quot;...
or that when he <i>does</i> drink beer, it&#039;s not Dos Equis.
Just wait till he realizes that that time he came under fire it was on a tarmac in Bosnia and he was Hillary Clinton.