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Brian Williams Has Been Lying About Supposedly Being Shot Down in a Helicopter In Iraq Since 2003; Now Says He "Misremebered" Some Details and Is "Sorry"


I don't know if I buy the claim, generally, that a large percentage of people at the top of corporate chains of commands are actually psychopaths, but I am willing to believe that as regards our corporate media.

This report is by Travis J. Tritten. I'm going to excerpt more than I usually would, because 1, this is a big story, and 2, because I think Stars and Stripes is actually funded and published by the government so I sort of paid for this article.

But I wanted to give the writer credit, and do give them a click.

BC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that has been repeated by the network for years.

Williams repeated the claim Friday during NBC's coverage of a public tribute at a New York Rangers hockey game for a retired soldier that had provided ground security for the grounded helicopters, a game to which Williams accompanied him. In an interview with Stars and Stripes, he said he had misremembered the events and was sorry.

The admission came after crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment’s Chinook that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire told Stars and Stripes that the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft or two other Chinooks flying in the formation that took fire. Williams arrived in the area about an hour later on another helicopter after the other three had made an emergency landing, the crew members said.

"I would not have chosen to make this mistake," Williams said. "I don't know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another."

Let me help you out here, Brian. You conflated one aircraft -- one you were in -- with another aircraft -- one you were not in -- not due to a "mistake" but due to an age-old reportorial practice called lying to advance an agenda.

The agenda here was dressing up a soft, delicate little boy into a the sort of iron-stubbled man who looks like he belongs on a battlefield.

So you lied. You claimed you were on one of the helicopters that took fire; no human being could ever confuse "Me" or "Not Me."

Steven Wright makes just that joke -- "The other day I was -- wait, no, that was someone else."

See, Brian, it's funny because we know that confusion about "Me" versus "Not Me" is not possible, except in the insane.

So you lied, and over the years you've lied and lied again.

Trust us, they lied.


Williams made the claim while presenting NBC coverage of the tribute to the retired command sergeant major at the Rangers game, and the fans giving the soldier a standing ovation.

"The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG," Williams said on the broadcast. "Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry."

Williams and his camera crew were actually aboard a Chinook in a formation that was about an hour behind the three helicopters that came under fire, according to crew member interviews.

...

"No, we never came under direct enemy fire to the aircraft," [a crew member] said Wednesday.


...

Miller, Reynolds and Mike O’Keeffe, who was a door gunner on the damaged Chinook, said they all recall NBC reporting that Williams was aboard the aircraft that was attacked, despite it being false. The NBC online archive shows the network broadcast a news story on March 26, 2003, with the headline "Target Iraq: Helicopter NBC’s Brian Williams Was Riding In Comes Under Fire."

I was going to write earlier: "You just know he's only admitting this because he's been confronted with proof that he's been lying."

Well, here that part is:

Williams disputed Wednesday claims the initial reports were inaccurate, saying he originally reported he was in another helicopter but later confused the events. In a 2008 NBC blog post with his byline, he wrote that the "Chinook helicopter flying in front of ours (from the 101st Airborne) took an RPG to the rear rotor.

O’Keeffe said the incident has bothered him since he and others first saw the original report after returning to Kuwait.

"Over the years it faded," he said, "and then to see it last week it was -- I can't believe he is still telling this false narrative."

I can believe it.

What else does he do but offer false narratives every single night?

"Trust Us, They Lied:" Still lying:


More: Williams to lie about this lie some more in a few minutes on NBCNightlyNews.



Posted by: Ace at 05:37 PM




Comments

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1 You know the barrel is hungry when it claims the head Ewok.

Posted by: steveegg at February 04, 2015 05:39 PM (cL79m)

2 **wild hand gestures**

Whatsa matta fo you, Ace?

Posted by: Italicans at February 04, 2015 05:39 PM (f8y+G)

3 Did the italicans shoot him down?

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 04, 2015 05:39 PM (wVWRM)

4 Brian Williams and Hillary Clinton have something in common now.

Posted by: dantesed at February 04, 2015 05:40 PM (88xKn)

5 Brian and I can trade some wicked faux war stories.

Posted by: Hiliary! at February 04, 2015 05:40 PM (cL79m)

6 Not the italicans. The Reds.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 04, 2015 05:40 PM (wVWRM)

7
But Brian does have a big, hairy, smelly vagina.

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2015 05:40 PM (wAQA5)

8 I can't wait to hear how he was in Cambodia with Kerry and his magic hat.

Posted by: pep at February 04, 2015 05:40 PM (4nR9/)

9 Brian Williams and Hillary Clinton have something in common now.

Posted by: dantesed at February 04, 2015 05:40 PM (88xKn)


You couldn't wait 5 seconds for me to sock that? I blame the walker.

Posted by: steveegg at February 04, 2015 05:41 PM (cL79m)

10 Shame and ridicule. That's what they all deserve.

Every hour.

Every day.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 04, 2015 05:41 PM (wVWRM)

11 I know I frequently confuse being shot down in a helicopter with my daily Beltway commute. Could happen to anyone.

Posted by: pep at February 04, 2015 05:41 PM (4nR9/)

12 That would be something that would be hard to misremember.

Posted by: Ronster at February 04, 2015 05:41 PM (ymjdW)

13 #IwillLieWithYou

//Hillary!

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at February 04, 2015 05:41 PM (/4AZU)

14 You can't see me but right now I've got my "shocked face" on.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 05:41 PM (LA7Cm)

15 Brian, a big chin is not a substitute for big testicles. Learn the difference.

Posted by: pep at February 04, 2015 05:42 PM (4nR9/)

16 How do you mis-remember your helicopter being shot down ?

Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at February 04, 2015 05:42 PM (dFi94)

17 What a jerk. I hope NBC fires him!

Posted by: Carol at February 04, 2015 05:42 PM (sj3Ax)

18 You can't see me but right now I've got my "shocked face" on.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 05:41 PM (LA7Cm)


I'm shocked, SHOCKED to find out that lieberals lie.

Posted by: Capt. Louis Renault at February 04, 2015 05:43 PM (cL79m)

19 When that story is broken, I'd like to be the one to break it.

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 05:43 PM (8ZskC)

20 Fake but accurate.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at February 04, 2015 05:43 PM (0RdKg)

21 BURN THE HERETIC!!!!!!

Posted by: Sir Hillary Edmund Rodham Clinton at February 04, 2015 05:43 PM (8ZskC)

22 What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Hillary "Serpentine!" Clinton at February 04, 2015 05:43 PM (f8y+G)

23 SERPENTINE!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 04, 2015 05:43 PM (XFiuW)

24 Give Brian a break. Happened to me once as well after getting my silver star for "being under fire."

We're democrats. Cowardily sulks who have to lie to achieve the greater good (and untold wealth).

Posted by: LBJ at February 04, 2015 05:43 PM (C5ssL)

25 How do you misremember being shot down ?

Posted by: Tommy Flanagan (Morgan Fairchild's husband) at February 04, 2015 05:43 PM (e8kgV)

26 Skull!!!!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 05:43 PM (FsuaD)

27 "Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by
an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry."


There I was, neck deep in the shit. When you think about it, I'm no different than a Green Beret. I should probably get a medal.

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 05:44 PM (4nR9/)

28 17 Posted by: Carol at February 04, 2015 05:42 PM (sj3Ax)

ain't gonna happen Carol...


Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at February 04, 2015 05:44 PM (/4AZU)

29 BURN THE HERETIC!!!!!!

Posted by: Sir Hillary Edmund Rodham Clinton at February 04, 2015 05:43 PM (8ZskC)


With the emphasis on "sir".

Posted by: steveegg at February 04, 2015 05:44 PM (cL79m)

30 on the other had, his daughter is arguably hot. sorta.

Posted by: hack at February 04, 2015 05:44 PM (168MX)

31 Brian Williams also dropped out of college. So I guess he'll be spearheading the Democrats' attack on Scott Walker's lack of a degree as an "obvious disqualification" from the Presidency or any other position of importance or influence.


http://www.adweek.com/fishbowldc/brian-williams-nbc-74063/75067

Posted by: BA, Magna Cum Louder, Marion Barry University at February 04, 2015 05:44 PM (7u7u7)

32 Maybe he was on that plane that took sniper fire with Hillery on it and got the two confused.

Posted by: creeky at February 04, 2015 05:44 PM (W1gN3)

33 The admission came after crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiments Chinook that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire told Stars and Stripes that the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft or two other Chinooks flying in the formation that took fire.

SWIFTBOATERS!!!!!!!

Posted by: Brian Williams, War Hero at February 04, 2015 05:44 PM (8ZskC)

34 MFM delenda est

Posted by: Matk in Sandy UT at February 04, 2015 05:44 PM (xGX1p)

35 There I was, neck deep in the shit. When you think about it, I'm no different than a Green Beret. I should probably get a medal.

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 05:44 PM (4nR9/)


I would give you one of mine, but I chucked them all.

Posted by: Jean Kerry at February 04, 2015 05:45 PM (cL79m)

36 But Brian does have is a big, hairy, smelly vagina.

FIFY

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 04, 2015 05:45 PM (UVfht)

37 So he had a Hillary moment.

Next!

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 05:45 PM (TOmAa)

38 Isn't he a pilot or something, so he would remember what aircraft he was in back then. Lying liars lie.

Posted by: dantesed at February 04, 2015 05:45 PM (88xKn)

39 They say that Bob Dole received a head wound in World War II then went into politics

Posted by: Liz Dole at February 04, 2015 05:45 PM (e8kgV)

40 I remember that one time I was in a plane crash. Boy, that was harrowing. I nearly........oh, wait, I saw that on the news this morning.

Nevermind.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 05:45 PM (LA7Cm)

41 They really should fire him, think about that for a minute, the lead anchor is basically a huge liar. You don't mix up details about getting shot down, you just lied your ass off.

You know, they shit canned Dan Rather, maybe it's not the stuff of fantasy to think Brian Williams will also.

If anything, what Brian Williams did is worse, Dan Rather just put out a flimsy story that he really wanted to get out there, Brian Williams just straight up lied and WAS the source.

Posted by: McAdams at February 04, 2015 05:45 PM (GzHez)

42
on the other had, his daughter is arguably hot. sorta.
.............
she must be so proud of her hero dad

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2015 05:46 PM (wAQA5)

43 But Brian does have a big, hairy, smelly vagina.


And so does his daughter.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 05:46 PM (FsuaD)

44 cool

Conflict News @rConflictNews 12m12 minutes ago
BREAKING: Multiple news organizations now reporting that King Abdullah personally took part in airstrikes on Mosul

https://pbs.tw___.com/media/B9CNCG4CQAEFHZn.png

Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 04, 2015 05:46 PM (ZPrif)

45 Hey guys, one time I invented penicillin.

Oh, wait. Actually I'm just allergic to penicillin.

I misremember those details all the time!

Posted by: Lauren at February 04, 2015 05:46 PM (MYCIw)

46 Someone shoots my helicopter down, that I would remember.

Never happened? Then you're just a fibber trying to cover yourself with borrowed courage.

Posted by: grammie winger, watching the fig tree at February 04, 2015 05:46 PM (dFi94)

47 Sven,
No? They ditched Dan Rather. Was that another network?
I don't watch them.

Posted by: Carol at February 04, 2015 05:46 PM (sj3Ax)

48 Blumenthal lied about serving in Vietnam and now he's a Senator, and Hillary lied about being shot at in Bosnia and she's gonna be President, so no biggie right? Vaccine. VACCINE!

Posted by: Brian Williams, College Dropout at February 04, 2015 05:46 PM (7u7u7)

49 Fire the glory-stealing fraud.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 04, 2015 05:46 PM (8ZskC)

50 " Multiple news organizations now reporting that King Abdullah personally took part in airstrikes on Mosul
"

That's so fucking awesome.

Posted by: Lauren at February 04, 2015 05:46 PM (MYCIw)

51
But his daughter rimmed another chick on television, so all is forgiven... amirite, leftists?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2015 05:47 PM (bWFHa)

52 Did I ever tell you the story about how my uncle freed the Jews from auschwitz?

Posted by: Barack obama at February 04, 2015 05:47 PM (XFiuW)

53 I remember it like it was yesterday. Will Smith and I were flying an alien spacecraft to the Mothership. There with my trusty Mac, I uploaded a virus that took down the alien shields and I nuked them.

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 05:47 PM (wa+SP)

54 Bush's lies were far worse and you people didn't care. Bush lied and soldiers died in Iraq.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien From Brattleboro, VT at February 04, 2015 05:47 PM (Sd++4)

55 What I can't understand is all these pinkos, Shrillary, Williams, Kerry, who are so anti war and anti democracy, why they all try to portray themselves as being hero's under fire in battle. These are people who would willingly live on their knees under a tyranny as long as they are members of the favored class. They have no love at all for the people that put their lives on the line. I really, really hate these people.

Posted by: Old Blue at February 04, 2015 05:47 PM (vVSOO)

56 Brian 'Emily Litela' Williams, "Uh never mind...."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 05:47 PM (TOmAa)

57 Yeah, my girlfriend Morgan Fairchild, yeah that's the ticket

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 05:47 PM (znRvO)

58 Was that the mission where Hillary was pinned down by sniper fire?

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 04, 2015 05:47 PM (MMC8r)

59 "that King Abdullah personally took part in airstrikes on Mosul"


Heh!

Kids, why can't we have a Prissident like that?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 05:47 PM (LA7Cm)

60 Conflict News @rConflictNews 12m12 minutes ago

BREAKING: Multiple news organizations now reporting that King Abdullah personally took part in airstrikes on Mosul


If true, that is just 20 kinds of awesome.

Meanwhile, Barry also took part in an airstrike......on the 17th hole. Alas, Brian Williams crashed onto the green.

Posted by: pep at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (4nR9/)

61 I misremebered to do my spellin homework.

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (wAQA5)

62 Yet another reminder that the left is exactly what they claim we are.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (g1DWB)

63 "Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by
an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry."



Oh really. Ft. Stewart, home of the 3rd ID, is just down the road from us. We even know some people with the 3rd.


I wonder how they feel about Brian's lies.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (FsuaD)

64 He can join Hildebeast on the podium of fake heros.

Posted by: maddogg at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (xWW96)

65 Sniper fire is way more dangerous than an RPG

Posted by: Ready for Hillary at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (vNm4N)

66 HOW could someone lie like this to enhance their resume???

Posted by: Lieawatha Warren at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (f8y+G)

67 I'm not sure that Brian Williams being a liar will hurt their ratings much.

Who the hell watches network news anyway?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (Zu3d9)

68 BREAKING: Multiple news organizations now reporting that King Abdullah personally took part in airstrikes on Mosul

Did he push a red Reset Button?

Posted by: CM at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (0NdlF)

69 OK, OK, you got me. I wasn't on the helicopter that took fire that day. Who can keep track, when that happens so often?

I must have conflated that with my memory of running across the tarmac under sniper fire. Yeah, that's it.

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (oKE6c)

70 As crazy as the president. I am declaring liberalism to be a symptom of severe mental illness.

Posted by: Freud at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (AivPA)

71 [iHeh!

Kids, why can't we have a Prissident like that?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 05:47 PM (LA7Cm) ]

We did...once.

Posted by: steveegg at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (cL79m)

72 Fu*king douchebag.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (08Znv)

73 47 Posted by: Carol at February 04, 2015 05:46 PM (sj3Ax)

Thunder Dan worked with See Bee Ess....

thing is Dan was happily leveraged out by his underlings...

Williams now leads in ratings... b/c evidently America loves lying assholes.

Posted by: Sven S Blade a.k.a. El Assassin@sven10077 at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (/4AZU)

74 Sorry, I'm being told in my ear that I'm explaining the plot to Independence Day and that I did not live those events.

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (wa+SP)

75 -- so I shut off my targeting computer and fired the torpedoes manually! Five seconds later, the whole Death Star-- BOOM!

Posted by: Brian Skywalker at February 04, 2015 05:49 PM (MMC8r)

76 In other news, Jesse Ventura is still an asshole:

Asshole Jesse Ventura on Chris Kyle: "Do you think the Nazis have heroes?"

http://tinyurl.com/now6wwy

Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2015 05:49 PM (0Ew3K)

77 Lying hypocritical bastage, he is. If he was (R) he'd be hounded mercilessly. But, to the reasoned leftists, its a badge of honor.


Lying hypocritical bastage...

Posted by: Ibin Pharteen at February 04, 2015 05:49 PM (s3I9l)

78 Don't forget that Emocratic Senator who claimed to have flown combat missions in Vietnam. Turns out all he did was fly planes in non-combat zones.

Or the other Emocratic Senator and his magic hat in Cambodia.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 05:49 PM (TOmAa)

79 Anyone ever here this phrase...."Armor Mechanized Platoon?"

Yeah...I'm being nitpicky, but Williams is a douchebag.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2015 05:49 PM (Zu3d9)

80 Well, It's NBC. They have a history.

Posted by: Horatio Bologna at February 04, 2015 05:49 PM (wO+T3)

81 Let me tell about the time I won a Silver Star.


Oh wait...my bad...


Let me tell you about the time I found a silver dime....

Posted by: naturalfake at February 04, 2015 05:49 PM (0cMkb)

82 Hard to believe from a guy who thinks watching his daughter get her ass motorboated is high art.

Posted by: Tex at February 04, 2015 05:49 PM (iyK4L)

83 Here's video of his report on being in the Congo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syQTCtvaaTs

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 04, 2015 05:50 PM (0xTsz)

84 Heh, did the King take a back seat in an attack aircraft and pull the trigger on those assholes personally? Mancrush!!!

Posted by: maddogg at February 04, 2015 05:50 PM (xWW96)

85 Meanwhile, Barry also took part in an airstrike......on the 17th hole. Alas, Brian Williams crashed onto the green.

Posted by: pep at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (4nR9/)


Comment of the Day(TM)

Posted by: steveegg at February 04, 2015 05:50 PM (cL79m)

86 News Anchors have a tradition of being liars.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 04, 2015 05:50 PM (hlbmD)

87 I remember my first car, I remembered my first lay, I remember a lot of firsts. No way I would've forgot my first helicopter shoot down

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 05:50 PM (znRvO)

88 far more importantly, is his vagina hairy and does it smell?

man, Ace has been on a TEAR today! Epic hate-truth!

Posted by: OG CELTIC-AMERICAN at February 04, 2015 05:50 PM (nGmLd)

89 I know a guy like this, a family member. He gets caught and still won't admit it. I guess the fact that BW is admitting it is something. Still, I hate seeing him on my screen almost as much as I do POTUS.

Posted by: kahall at February 04, 2015 05:50 PM (uuhHq)

90 So there I was, screwing Catherine Bach (the hot "Dukes of Hazzard" one, not the one today) and man was I pouring the coal on.


Wait. Sorry.

That was a movie I saw. And it wasn't Catherine Bach.

Oopsies.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 05:50 PM (LA7Cm)

91 Brian Williams, Geraldo Rivera, and Jesse Ventura stagger into a bar....

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 05:50 PM (FsuaD)

92 What do you expect from a guy who watches his own daughter get her salad tossed on HBO?

Posted by: Insomniac at February 04, 2015 05:51 PM (mx5oN)

93 I'll never forget my first date with Pierce Brosnan.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 05:51 PM (FsuaD)

94
Asshole Jesse Ventura on Chris Kyle: "Do you think the Nazis have heroes?"
................
You mean like my Dad?

Posted by: Brian Williams daughter at February 04, 2015 05:52 PM (wAQA5)

95 Since I'm currently transitioning to being a woman, this controversy can only be interpreted as anti-trans HATE. You should all just shut up! Leave me be!

Posted by: Brianna Williams at February 04, 2015 05:52 PM (FCsIb)

96 I personally went all the way to Berlin and hung that paper-hanging son-of-a-bitch.

Posted by: Brian Patton at February 04, 2015 05:52 PM (MMC8r)

97 Well, why didn't NBC simply edit some 911 calls to portray the helicopter pilot as racist?

Posted by: Randy Westerfeld at February 04, 2015 05:52 PM (rJRsj)

98
In the days after 9/11, msnbc's Ashley Banfield let everyone know how shookup she was because she was there.

Banfield kept reminding her audience that she was on the street when the towers collapsed...and she coulda died that day. Yeah. And she could smell the smoke and see the debris in the air. Yeah. She coulda died. Yeah.

Except she was in no real danger. Banfield was like a full block away from the towers. But she and 8 million others coulda died in Manhattan that day. Yeah.

Posted by: Soothsayer learned psychology from Bob Newhart at February 04, 2015 05:52 PM (grMf8)

99 I guess this is the type of behavior you'd expect from a guy who doesn't mind watching his daughter get naked and have vapid fake sex with strangers on set with Lena Dunham

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at February 04, 2015 05:52 PM (d9s6A)

100 MisHum,
Williams made it up & got caught. It took 12 years but it is fiction.

Posted by: Carol at February 04, 2015 05:52 PM (sj3Ax)

101 He probably just got confused with that time he was flying a F-19 in 'Nam and got shot down after taking out damn near a whole squadron of Jap zeros.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at February 04, 2015 05:53 PM (+lsX1)

102 I shot the sheriff.

No, I didn't.

But I did not shoot the deputy.

No, I did do that.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2015 05:53 PM (g1DWB)

103 It's kind of a monumental thing to be in a helicopter when in crashes under enemy fire.

One tends to remember things like that VERY CLEARLY.

What an ass.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2015 05:53 PM (ABcz/)

104
Brian Williams, Geraldo Rivera, and Jesse Ventura stagger into a bar....
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 05:50 PM (FsuaD)
.............
Five minutes later 3 ambulances arrive.

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2015 05:53 PM (wAQA5)

105 Yet another case of "Proper Memory privilege"

Posted by: Liz Warren at February 04, 2015 05:53 PM (e8kgV)

106 A sister-fucking shit eater has to know his limitations. (Drops bombs.)

Posted by: Royal Red Leader at February 04, 2015 05:53 PM (7u7u7)

107 this controversy can only be interpreted as anti-trans HATE.

So trans fat is good now?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 04, 2015 05:53 PM (W5DcG)

108


Wait. Sorry.

That was a movie I saw. And it wasn't Catherine Bach.

Oopsies.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 05:50 PM (LA7Cm)

Not Randy Bachman I hope

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 05:53 PM (znRvO)

109 HotAir.com @hotairblog
Jeb Bush 2013: It's "ridiculous" that DREAMers don't have citizenship, impossible to completely control the border ... http://hotair.com/?p=3216932

Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 04, 2015 05:54 PM (ZPrif)

110 I certainly don't see any issues here

Posted by: Hillary! at February 04, 2015 05:54 PM (FCsIb)

111 According to faded memories, about 1,000,000 people attended Woodstock.

Posted by: SH at February 04, 2015 05:54 PM (gmeXX)

112 --so I said "One small step for me, one giant leap for Mankind!"

Posted by: Brian Armstrong at February 04, 2015 05:54 PM (MMC8r)

113 I thought I was flying a chopper but I just remembered that I was actually flying a potato peeler.

Posted by: Brian Williams, War Hero at February 04, 2015 05:54 PM (8ZskC)

114 Liberals make me sick. And people who lie about their Military record, or even their passing relations to the Military, make me sick. I hate these fucking people

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2015 05:54 PM (nzKvP)

115 RELAX! it's only a speak-o

Posted by: Gruberrrr at February 04, 2015 05:55 PM (4Qda7)

116 Reporter from NBS news lying? Surely you jest Ace.


Any bets on whether he will be fired or not? I say not.

Posted by: Vic at February 04, 2015 05:55 PM (wlDny)

117 Did I tell you about the time I saved a Green Beret?


Oh, wait...my bad....


Did I tell you about the time I saved some Green Stamps?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 04, 2015 05:55 PM (0cMkb)

118 I was embedded with the Na'vi through the use of technology called "Avatar." It was because of me that those majestic, humble creatures are able to live free on their moon.

I apologize I'm being told that's a James Cameron movie and that I did not participate in any extra-terrestrial wars of any kind. Which can't be trust because just last week I fought off a T-1000 with my bare hands.

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 05:55 PM (wa+SP)

119 One time I started a smart military blog. Oh wait...that was Ace. I just lurk and comment from time to time.

Posted by: kathysaysso at February 04, 2015 05:55 PM (fMQoG)

120
Brian Williams, Geraldo Rivera, and Jesse Ventura stagger into a bar....
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 05:50 PM (FsuaD)
....................
Bartender says "Dis ain't onea dem homo joints, see?"

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2015 05:55 PM (wAQA5)

121 I knew Vienna wouldn't hold out against the Ottomans for much longer so I had to go on the attack.

Posted by: Brian Williams, War Hero at February 04, 2015 05:55 PM (8ZskC)

122 So when the Red Green Show gets made into a movie I see Brian Williams playing Hap Shaunesey the chronic bullshiter.
His skank daughter can play Harold.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 05:55 PM (znRvO)

123 I remember the 12 weeks I went thru that grueling Seal training. Oh wait yeah it was only 2 weeks at DCO School. never mind

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2015 05:56 PM (nzKvP)

124 I saw Swiftboat Williams open for Nickelback at the Vancouver Free Clinic Arena in 2003.

Posted by: SocietyIs2Blame ere at February 04, 2015 05:56 PM (QKIQb)

125 Williams loves the smell of napalm in the morning, or so he's been told.

Posted by: Dr Spank at February 04, 2015 05:56 PM (XVNm3)

126 Sadly, there will be no repercussions for Williams. Few will know about it and even fewer will care. He's a member of the tribe, so he will be protected.

Posted by: Old Blue at February 04, 2015 05:56 PM (vVSOO)

127 Did Williams also receive a hat from a sooper-sekrit CIA dude they were transporting into Cambodia?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2015 05:56 PM (ABcz/)

128
You know who else coulda died on 9/11?

That douche bag Seth McFarlane. Yeah. We almost lost Seth on 9/11.

McFarlane was supposedly supposed to be on Flt 11 to Los Angeles but canceled. Yeah. Seth almost died on 9/11...except for the tiny fact that he was in no danger whatsoever of dying on 9/11.

But don't let something so trivial as the above prevent it from being part of Seth McFarlane's legacy. Really, it is; it's on his frikkin wiki page that he almost died on 9/11.

Posted by: Soothsayer learned psychology from Bob Newhart at February 04, 2015 05:57 PM (grMf8)

129 I'm shocked by this.


No, wait, I remembered that wrong. I'm not actually shocked.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at February 04, 2015 05:57 PM (tu3iY)

130 116 Reporter from NBS news lying? Surely you jest Ace.


Any bets on whether he will be fired or not? I say not.
Posted by: Vic at February 04, 2015 05:55 PM

Safe bet Vic. Real safe

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 05:57 PM (znRvO)

131 He's a member of the tribe, so he will be protected.
Posted by: Old Blue at February 04, 2015 05:56 PM (vVSOO)

He is NO MOT

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2015 05:57 PM (nzKvP)

132 I remember that one night with Katie, oh wait, that wasn't me, that was Justin Verlander. Nevermind.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at February 04, 2015 05:57 PM (0HooB)

133
Here's the thing - you don't "misremember" something like coming under fire and getting shot down.

Either it happened or it didn't, and if it didn't and yet you continue to say it did, then you are an out-and-out bald-faced liar.

Were you an honorable person, you'd resign. But I'm not holding my breath...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2015 05:57 PM (bWFHa)

134 Meanwhile in world news other than Jordan, they have recovered the FDC and CVR from the crashed ATR72-600.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 05:57 PM (TOmAa)

135 ...<snif> where have all our heroes gone.... Next thing you'll be telling is is the GOP has no interest in its base...


Lying hypocritical bastage(s)...

Posted by: Ibin Pharteen at February 04, 2015 05:57 PM (s3I9l)

136 There we were, about to enter Mobile Harbor, guns a blazing, bullets flying, men dropping to my left, to my right. I stared ahead and noticed the torpedoes the Rebs had placed at the harbor entrance. "Damn them!, Damn them" I screamed.

Turning to the Captain, who looked shaken, I yelled out "Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!!!!"


Oh, wait, I think I read that in a book somewhere.

Posted by: Brian (Farragut) Williams at February 04, 2015 05:57 PM (LA7Cm)

137 ...but were any Swift Boats involved? That would discredit everything, if there were Swift Boats.

Posted by: Horatio Bologna at February 04, 2015 05:57 PM (wO+T3)

138 No horns.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 04, 2015 05:57 PM (hlbmD)

139 35
There I was, neck deep in the shit. When you think about it, I'm no different than a Green Beret. I should probably get a medal.



Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 05:44 PM (4nR9/)


You haven't been in the shit. You haven't got the 1000 yard stare you puke.

Posted by: Rapterman at February 04, 2015 05:58 PM (wlDny)

140 ' "I would not have chosen to make this mistake," Williams said. "I don't know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another." '

Bullshit. You knew exactly what you were doing. You're a lying bastard and using those silly phrase just shows that you have no integrity at all. Even your average criminal will often, admit that he did it. Not you though, you have to come up with some half-assed crap about "conflating". Glad the copter crew spoke up.

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 04, 2015 05:58 PM (TWZh8)

141 I have not begun to fight!

Posted by: brian paul jones at February 04, 2015 05:58 PM (88xKn)

142 if I recall correctly jordan's king is an honor graduate from Gunsite. Also a fully qualified wide body pilot.

I'll say this, of all the Middle East countries I've been in Jordan was far and away my favorite I would go back there in a heartbeat. Nice people interesting country great climate tremendous history and unlike most Arab countries it's clean. It may not be perfect but it definitely sets the standard for a quote modern Arab country unquote.

also the hotties come out at night during Ramadan and they are ready to party! Good times, good times.

Posted by: OG CELTIC-AMERICAN at February 04, 2015 05:58 PM (nGmLd)

143
Are y'all starting to see why every day I come here and say It's All Bullshit?



Posted by: Soothsayer learned psychology from Bob Newhart at February 04, 2015 05:58 PM (grMf8)

144 Hey, Brian "Swifty" Williams!

F_CK.

YOU.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 04, 2015 05:58 PM (wtvvX)

145 Pep, are you at the ONR show bragging about your stuff?

Posted by: Jean at February 04, 2015 05:58 PM (ztOda)

146

"Courage."

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 04, 2015 05:58 PM (kdS6q)

147 I remember fast-roping into bin Laden's compound and double-tapping him.

For realz!

Posted by: Joey Biden at February 04, 2015 05:58 PM (FsuaD)

148 Breaking News: Brian Williams, anchor of NBC's Nightly News, has been awarded the LIB* with Oak Leaf Cluster for telling amazing stories about being in harms way while in combat.

When asked why he received the honor with cluster, a knowledgeable source said it was so he could wipe the shit off his face.

*Lying Idiot Badge

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at February 04, 2015 05:58 PM (zpZLP)

149 Pretty sure that Brian Williams was embedded with Chris Kyle when he made that 9000 meter head shot that killed Hitler.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at February 04, 2015 05:58 PM (+lsX1)

150 That horrible night on the Chinook is seared, SEARED into my memory.

Or was that last night's seared scallops I'm thinking about?

Posted by: Brian Williams, War Hero at February 04, 2015 05:59 PM (8ZskC)

151 I remember the 12 weeks I went thru that grueling Seal training.


oh, wait....my bad...


I remember the time I went to an hour and a half Seal concert.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 04, 2015 05:59 PM (0cMkb)

152 Isn't this the guy whose daughter engaged in faux analingus on HBO? What a family!

Posted by: Fritz at February 04, 2015 05:59 PM (dVmLD)

153 I'm sure I read somewhere that BW (butt-wipe) was the sole survivor in the Seal Team Six helicopter crash and was aboard Black Hawk Down. BW is teh awesome!

derp

Posted by: twolaneflash at February 04, 2015 05:59 PM (Dm2Mx)

154 I'm glad he is caught in his lie, but I had actually never heard him tell this story - didn't know it was a story. But awful. You don't misremember being shot down in a helicopter.

Posted by: SH at February 04, 2015 05:59 PM (gmeXX)

155 "Not Randy Bachman I hope "


Heh, no......

Posted by: Brian (Farragut) Williams at February 04, 2015 05:59 PM (LA7Cm)

156 In all my time aboard Fast Attack Subs.....well I did have lunch in the Officers Mess once

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2015 05:59 PM (nzKvP)

157
Brian Williams, Geraldo Rivera, and Jesse Ventura stagger into a bar....
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 05:50 PM (FsuaD)
..................
Bartender yells: "Hey everbody! It's Brian "Hero" Williams, Gerdildo Retardo, and the smart one!"

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2015 05:59 PM (wAQA5)

158 >>I would not have chosen to make this mistake

What kind of passive statement is that?
Like his brain is making decisions that he doesn't like?
I would not have chosen to lie...but it just sorta came out of my mouth, uncontested, since 2003.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2015 05:59 PM (ABcz/)

159 137 ...but were any Swift Boats involved? That would discredit everything, if there were Swift Boats.
Posted by: Horatio Bologna at February 04, 2015 05

Swift Helicopters

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 05:59 PM (znRvO)

160 "I would not have chosen to make this mistake," Williams said. "I don't know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another."




Drugs.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2015 06:00 PM (i+drs)

161
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien From Brattleboro, VT at February 04, 2015 05:47 PM (Sd++4)

FYNF

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2015 06:00 PM (bWFHa)

162 After that chopper was hit, I barely made it across the Atlantic to Bourget Field in Paris!

Posted by: Brian Lindbergh at February 04, 2015 06:01 PM (MMC8r)

163 Hillary repeatedly told a tale about being under sniper fire in Bosnia. John Kerry in Vietnam, YKWIM. Michelle Obama at Target. Tom Harkin was never in combat but Joni Ernst has his seat now and no one cares about that self serving white lie anymore if they ever did. That's just off the top of my head.

I think it has something to do with their pacifistic tendencies. They know that they're only against war when it serves their own political careers. They're seemingly at peace with telling lies that enhance their resumes. But subconsciously it bothers them that at certain times it would have simply been the right thing to support war.

Also, the self righteous indignation they can project at anyone who calls them out for what they are-cowards and frauds. Because they've been under fire. They've been in the shit. And it changed them, deeply. So deeply that they have to vehemently speak out against WAR! Oh, the humanity!

Posted by: CozMark at February 04, 2015 06:01 PM (P0AbR)

164 Even your average criminal will often, admit that he did it. Not you though, you have to come up with some half-assed crap about "conflating". Glad the copter crew spoke up.


Interesting how it took exposure by real heroes who knew the truth to make Williams suddenly realize that he was doing a shitload of "conflating", isn't it?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 04, 2015 06:01 PM (8ZskC)

165 Brian Williams, Geraldo Rivera, and Jesse Ventura stagger into a bar....
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 05:50 PM (FsuaD)


Mos Eisley bartender, "Hey we don't serve their kind here! Only real scum and thugs allowed."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 06:01 PM (TOmAa)

166 "I remember the time I went to an hour and a half Seal concert."

I seen a seal at the zoo - can I get deh kewl trident pin? You can keep that crappy zoo-keeper white suit...

Posted by: Ibin Pharteen at February 04, 2015 06:01 PM (s3I9l)

167 Well I just mis-remembered when I told you I was the Queen of England..

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at February 04, 2015 06:01 PM (Bn6aD)

168 I never could stand that smarmy fuck.

I'm pretty sure my son will never forget the mortar round that blew him sky high. Or being under fire. Or any of the shit.

Cowardly, prog bastards. The whole MFM.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 06:01 PM (FsuaD)

169
150 That horrible night on the Chinook is seared, SEARED into my memory.

Or was that last night's seared scallops I'm thinking about?
Posted by: Brian Williams, War Hero at February

Seared undapantz
You forgot to take them off the ironing board

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 06:01 PM (znRvO)

170
Alternate post title:

Brian Williams: I Made A Mental Typo; A Thought-o

Posted by: Soothsayer learned psychology from Bob Newhart at February 04, 2015 06:02 PM (grMf8)

171
a memory-o

Posted by: Soothsayer learned psychology from Bob Newhart at February 04, 2015 06:02 PM (grMf8)

172 Interesting how it took exposure by real heroes who knew the truth to make Williams suddenly realize that he was doing a shitload of "conflating", isn't it?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 04, 2015 06:01 PM (8ZskC)

Conflating?
Misremembering?

I'm sorry I coflated in your mouth

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 06:03 PM (znRvO)

173 Geraldo is almost as bad. He was going on and on one time about being in a firefight, etc. etc. etc. He's a real tough guy.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 06:03 PM (FsuaD)

174 Well He said he was sorry...

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at February 04, 2015 06:03 PM (Bn6aD)

175 I don't buy this crap from my eight-year-old, and I don't buy it from this dickhead.

What am I saying? A guy needs a dick to have a dickhead.

I don't buy it from this pantywaist asshat.

Better?

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 04, 2015 06:03 PM (+YMhA)

176 But don't let something so trivial as the above prevent it from being part of Seth McFarlane's legacy. Really, it is; it's on his frikkin wiki page that he almost died on 9/11.
Posted by: Soothsayer learned psychology from Bob Newhart at February 04, 2015 05:57 PM (grMf


Yeah I was flying UA flight 93 semi-regularly before 9/11 but that doesn't mean I 'almost died' on 9/11. McFarlane has a stronger case though in that the plane he was scheduled to be on did in fact fly into one of the World Trade Towers.

Posted by: Maetenloch at February 04, 2015 06:04 PM (pAlYe)

177 Maybe we could let the guys who were actually there have a party with BW. Sock, bar of soap, blanket, some assembly required.

Posted by: Old Blue at February 04, 2015 06:04 PM (vVSOO)

178 The real question is...

Was it a NdT style "explicit memory"?

Posted by: Lauren at February 04, 2015 06:04 PM (MYCIw)

179 I wonder what else he lied about over the years? Besides NBC leftist news.

Posted by: Carol at February 04, 2015 06:04 PM (sj3Ax)

180 Geraldo got his ass beat by some skinny fake nazi once.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 04, 2015 06:04 PM (hlbmD)

181 He's a member of the tribe, so he will be protected.

Posted by: Old Blue at February 04, 2015 05:56 PM (vVSOO)

Excuse me?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (member of the original tribe) at February 04, 2015 06:04 PM (Zu3d9)

182 But hey! we totally believe every line you utter on the Nightly News, 'cause you wouldn't misremember that, right?

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 04, 2015 06:04 PM (+YMhA)

183 173 Geraldo is almost as bad. He was going on and on one time about being in a firefight, etc. etc. etc. He's a real tough guy.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 06:03

Yeah, him & his sib probably played with their Ho moms lighter

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 06:04 PM (znRvO)

184 I remember that day at Omaha Beach. What a bloodbath. Men and body parts all over the beach. Blood. Everywhere you looked there was blood. I rallied them mean for another assault. I was scared, real scared.....



Oh wait, my bad, that was just a convention in Omaha, Nebraska.

Posted by: Brian "GI" Williams at February 04, 2015 06:04 PM (LA7Cm)

185 I am a little conflicted about this, sure he lied but I am trying not to go medieval on him because I do not want to examine my memories of a long weekend drinking 100 year old scotch off of kate upton while she was sprawled across of the hood of my lamborghini screaming "oh yankee!"




naturally my memory could be quickly restored to 100 percent accuracy if my wife required clarification.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 04, 2015 06:04 PM (gsfK5)

186 Who the hell watches network news anyway?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2015 05:48 PM (Zu3d9)

My mom, sadly. Watches it every night and on Saturday even with the B team. I'll have to drop this tidbit her way.

Chances are that he mentions this on his show tonight and apologizes? Zilch, but is nice to pretend.

Posted by: LizLem at February 04, 2015 06:04 PM (yRwC8)

187 . McFarlane has a stronger case though in that the plane he was
scheduled to be on did in fact fly into one of the World Trade Towers.




*types*


*deletes*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 06:05 PM (FsuaD)

188 Wonder if he's friends with NDT?

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 04, 2015 06:05 PM (+YMhA)

189 "I would not have chosen to make this mistake," Williams said. "I don't know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another."




Drugs.



I'ma going with "lying to my audience everyday for a living."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at February 04, 2015 06:05 PM (0HooB)

190 I once walked 100 yards through a minefield.

Well, it was a field. They weren't exactly mines, so much as cow droppings, but the memory, it slips, donchaknow.

Posted by: AmishDude at February 04, 2015 06:05 PM (L2xDv)

191 ...and, after they shot down my helicopter, they took me prisoner and forced me to build weapons for them! But I fooled them by building the Iron Man armor!

Posted by: Brian Stark at February 04, 2015 06:05 PM (MMC8r)

192 173 Geraldo is almost as bad. He was going on and on one time about being in a firefight, etc. etc. etc. He's a real tough guy.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 06:03

Yeah, him & his sib probably played with their Ho moms lighter
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 06:04 PM (znRvO)



actually he got in a slap fight with a drag queen and came out second.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 04, 2015 06:06 PM (gsfK5)

193 McFarlane has a stronger case though in that the plane he was
scheduled to be on did in fact fly into one of the World Trade Towers.



*types*


*deletes*


I agree.

Posted by: AmishDude at February 04, 2015 06:06 PM (L2xDv)

194 I am shocked, shocked to discover that my lips have been telling a tale that is not actually supported by the facts.
I would not have chosen to do this, but the mouth says what that mouth wants to say, so what are ya gonna do about it, eh?

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 06:06 PM (ABcz/)

195 190 I once walked 100 yards through a minefield.

Well, it was a field. They weren't exactly mines, so much as cow droppings, but the memory, it slips, donchaknow.
Posted by: AmishDude at February 04, 2015 06:05 PM (L2xDv)

Well, if you've ever encountered a fresh one, then yes, those were mines.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 04, 2015 06:06 PM (+YMhA)

196 Brian Williams is a trusted journalist because he has a very detailed map of the world (scale: 1 inch = 1 inch).

Posted by: FireHorse at February 04, 2015 06:06 PM (ldFt4)

197 Brian Lyin Wiliams once took a bullet for Hillary! When under sniper fire on orgy island during Hurricane Typhus...

Posted by: OG CELTIC-AMERICAN at February 04, 2015 06:06 PM (nGmLd)

198 Can we trade the prissy douche for the poor young female hostage ISSI has?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 06:07 PM (FsuaD)

199 Not that tribe, CBD. That tribe is the good tribe, The lying shitheeled propagandists for the DNC tribe. The anti-tribe, so to speak.

Posted by: Old Blue at February 04, 2015 06:07 PM (vVSOO)

200 Funny, I can't find this story anywhere in the "news."

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at February 04, 2015 06:07 PM (Bn6aD)

201 Lied about his college degree? It's the American way. The president of Abbvie pharmaceuticals lied about having a B.S. and M.S. in biochemistry, along with having had extensive research experience. The lie was exposed after he had been with Abbott Labs for over 30 years, worked his way up to being an executive on the BOD of Abbott, and retired. After the public revelation, Abbott Labs rehired him to be CEO and COB of Abbvie. I sold every share I owned of both stocks and am still wondering where the class-action lawsuits are.

Posted by: twolaneflash at February 04, 2015 06:07 PM (Dm2Mx)

202 Damn. Did I get fucking willowed. All of you left me alone with MUMR. Do y'all know what that's like. It's like being shot down in a helicopter. Assholes.

Posted by: Soona at February 04, 2015 06:07 PM (/HX7u)

203 WH On Obama Dealing With Terror Threat He Wants To Have Broad Conversation With Muslim Leaders About Middle Class Economics And Obamacare

God help us

Weasel Zippers

Unfortunetaly THIS is true.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2015 06:07 PM (nzKvP)

204 Far too many Socialists seem to have Walter Mitty issues...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 06:07 PM (TOmAa)

205 That kind of reminds me when I was hit by Confederate musket fire at Little Round Top.

Posted by: RD Walker at February 04, 2015 06:07 PM (ImpgP)

206 Brian Williams is not in the news industry - he is in the entertainment industry. Have you seen how many times he shows up on NBC entertainment shows. Like 30 Rock, which he loved to be on, he has fabricated a story for ratings. Like 30 Rock, those ratings are not materializing. Brian Williams is not a news anchor - he just plays one on TV.

Posted by: SH at February 04, 2015 06:07 PM (gmeXX)

207 Ummm. I was attached to 7/101 at the time, which was the 101st's Chinook battalion then, and I don't recall one of our birds eating an RPG. Might have been someone else's Nook. Unless you were close enough to read the VERY subdued tail numbers, they all looked the same.

Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at February 04, 2015 06:07 PM (XhS3T)

208 It was a speak-o.

Posted by: Brian Gruber at February 04, 2015 06:07 PM (MMC8r)

209 You don't misremember being shot down in a helicopter.

Posted by: SH at February 04, 2015 05:59 PM (gmeXX)


This.

You misremember which row you parked in at the supermarket. Getting shot down, not so much.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at February 04, 2015 06:08 PM (tu3iY)

210 I misremembered being a Cherokee Indian.

Posted by: Liawatha at February 04, 2015 06:08 PM (FsuaD)

211 Posted by: Maetenloch at February 04, 2015 06:04 PM (pAlYe)

Heh....me too. Red-eye out of SFO on Friday night then Monday morning on 93 and back to work.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (member of the original tribe) at February 04, 2015 06:08 PM (Zu3d9)

212 This will get him promoted, doubtless.

Posted by: navybrat at February 04, 2015 06:08 PM (JgC5a)

213 >>> I would not have chosen to make this mistake," Williams said. "I don't know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another."

Ego tripping and alcoholism is no way to go through life.

Posted by: LizLem at February 04, 2015 06:08 PM (yRwC8)

214 That kind of reminds me when I was hit by Confederate musket fire at Little Round Top.
Posted by: RD Walker at February 04, 2015 06:07 PM (ImpgP)

Was that YOU?

Sorry

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2015 06:08 PM (nzKvP)

215 He's being swift-helicoptered!

Posted by: begerbilder at February 04, 2015 06:09 PM (2o6Wj)

216 Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Mrs. Clinton had this same type of memory.

Delusions of Grandeur is an outward sign of their mental disorder.

Posted by: kzintius at February 04, 2015 06:09 PM (ZfKzG)

217 >>WH On Obama Dealing With Terror Threat He Wants To Have Broad
Conversation With Muslim Leaders About Middle Class Economics And
Obamacare


Wait --- I thought the terrorists weren't true muslims????
So what are muslim leaders going to do about this if its not their flock terrorizing us?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2015 06:09 PM (ABcz/)

218 Posted by: RD Walker at February 04, 2015 06:07 PM (ImpgP)

That was Vic shooting at you.....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2015 06:09 PM (Zu3d9)

219
Geraldo got his ass beat by some skinny fake nazi once.
...............
Same guy that did Harry Reid?

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2015 06:09 PM (wAQA5)

220 Seared-- SEARED!-- in my memory.

Posted by: Brian Kerry at February 04, 2015 06:09 PM (MMC8r)

221 Lie about something for long enough (and he's apparently been lying about this for over a decade now), and your mind will sometimes actually rewrite your memories to match your lies. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what happened in this case.

Otherwise, repeating the shot down claim over a decade later, at an event in which there's no real point in bringing it up, has to be the height of stupidity.

Of course, I can't rule out the idea that he was just plain being stupid, either...

Posted by: junior at February 04, 2015 06:09 PM (UWFpX)

222 Is this what makes this a smart military blog?

Posted by: gm at February 04, 2015 06:09 PM (/kBoL)

223 Brian Williams was raped by a helicopter in Iraq. That's a stone cold fact.

Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2015 06:09 PM (fWLrt)

224 Don't forget that Brian is also a badass NASCAR wheelman. He said so in the 4-hour run-up to the Supper Bowl.

Posted by: Fritz at February 04, 2015 06:09 PM (dVmLD)

225 Here's video of his report on being in the Congo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syQTCtvaaTs
Posted by: Mama AJ at February 04, 2015



OMG that's exactly what it reminded me of, and I couldn't remember what commercial it was! I even said it out loud!

Posted by: Oedipus at February 04, 2015 06:10 PM (5kNXS)

226 203 WH On Obama Dealing With Terror Threat He Wants To Have Broad Conversation With Muslim Leaders About Middle Class Economics And Obamacare

God help us

Weasel Zippers

Unfortunetaly THIS is true.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2015

Truth. Stranger. Than. Fiction.

Palm slap

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 06:10 PM (HHawz)

227 my official position is that as is islam is not really a religion.




Posted by: yankeefifth at February 04, 2015 06:10 PM (gsfK5)

228 >>Delusions of Grandeur is an outward sign of their mental disorder.

Did I ever tell you about the time Tipper and I inspired "Love Story" or when I invented the internet? I'll get to that after I explain how I'm going to save the world from Global Warming....

Posted by: Al Gore at February 04, 2015 06:10 PM (ABcz/)

229 I'm pretty certain that Miss Remembered is Lizzie Warren's Cherokee name.

Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2015 06:11 PM (fWLrt)

230 Williams' daughter Jackie is attending UVA, right?

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 04, 2015 06:11 PM (MMC8r)

231 You know, folks, some people will look you RIGHT IN THE EYE and lie their asses off. These people, well; these people disgust me.

How can they live with themselves? Especially if you're someone that people count on to be square with them?

I'm just flummoxed by this.

Posted by: Barack Obama at February 04, 2015 06:11 PM (DLu2s)

232 Brian Williams sneaked through Checkpoint Charlie on a super secret mission. He came back with a dog. It was an East German Shepherd. Very disciplined.

Posted by: FireHorse at February 04, 2015 06:11 PM (ldFt4)

233 How do you "misremember" being in a helicopter that was forced down after being hit by RPG fire?

I was doused in gasoline and set on fire in a cage yesterday. Oh no wait, I'm misremembering that story. It wasn't me, it was some other guy.

Oopsie.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 04, 2015 06:11 PM (Fnyc2)

234 I was severely wounded in the Vagina Wars and received a purple pussy. That's the award designed by George Washington.

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 06:12 PM (wlDny)

235 Damn. Did I get fucking willowed. All of you left me alone with MUMR.



I nooded.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2015 06:12 PM (0QJlW)

236
>>WH On Obama Dealing With Terror Threat He Wants To Have Broad Conversation With Muslim Leaders About Middle Class Economics And Obamacare


Because there is no problem that Marxism can't resolve.

Posted by: Soothsayer learned psychology from Bob Newhart at February 04, 2015 06:12 PM (grMf8)

237 Too bad Sinbad the comic wasn't on that helicopter with Brian Williams to set everybody else straight on who got hit and who got played.

Posted by: Boots at February 04, 2015 06:12 PM (l9mF2)

238 I actually was in a helicopter accident - a military helicopter. It crashed into another helicopter. Wait, it could have been toy helicopters, and I said crash when my son hit it with his helicopter. I think it may have actually been the helicopters from Planes 2. It isn't how I would have actually remembered it. Either way, it was a nasty crash, and I was there, so I must have been involved.

Posted by: SH at February 04, 2015 06:13 PM (gmeXX)

239 my official position is that hussein is not really a human being

Posted by: wth at February 04, 2015 06:13 PM (wAQA5)

240 In the upcoming film, Brian Williams will be played by Jon Lovitz.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 04, 2015 06:13 PM (MMC8r)

241 Leave the gun, take the vagina

Posted by: Clemensa Williams at February 04, 2015 06:13 PM (wlDny)

242 Which one was I a part of? Pork Chop Hill or pork chop special?


I never can remember.

Posted by: Brian "Conflator" Williams at February 04, 2015 06:14 PM (LA7Cm)

243 And last weekend, I stepped right in front of that Seahawk receiver and intercepted the pass that won the Super Bowl for us.

Oh, wait, that was that Butler guy. Nevermind.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at February 04, 2015 06:14 PM (0HooB)

244 It's not a lie if you believe it!!!

Posted by: Brian Williams, MSM Kingpin at February 04, 2015 06:14 PM (MMC8r)

245 Because there is no problem that Marxism can't resolve.



Except actually working.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2015 06:14 PM (0QJlW)

246 Only way you could find it believable that he "misremembered" the events is - possibly - if he actually was shot down during a separate incident.

Posted by: gm at February 04, 2015 06:14 PM (/kBoL)

247 How the fucking hell do you "misremember" being shot at by rockets? That's something that tends to be rather memorable.

I assume. What with never having been shot at by rockets.

Fuck that guy in particular.

Posted by: alexthechick - Oh save us mighty SMOD at February 04, 2015 06:15 PM (IrByp)

248
Brian Williams sneaked through Checkpoint Charlie on a super secret mission. He came back with a dog. It was an East German Shepherd. Very disciplined.
.........
But a little tough and stringy.

Posted by: Hussein, Brian's true love at February 04, 2015 06:15 PM (wAQA5)

249 Auto-cucumber, "Can't blame this one on me."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 06:15 PM (TOmAa)

250 The UN Security Council released on Wednesday night a statement condemning the death of a Spanish peacekeeper for UNIFIL who had been killed in last week's antitank attack by Hezbollah - but did not mention, once, the deaths of two IDF soldiers.


I guess they just misremembered?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2015 06:15 PM (nzKvP)

251 I almost died in 911.


oh wait....my bad....


I almost bought a Size 11 shoe.

Normally, I take a twelve.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 04, 2015 06:15 PM (0cMkb)

252 @232 Brian Williams sneaked through Checkpoint Charlie on a super secret mission. He came back with a dog. It was an East German Shepherd. Very disciplined.
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Does he still have the dog?


Posted by: junior at February 04, 2015 06:16 PM (UWFpX)

253 FRREEEEEEEEDOMMMMMMM!!!!!

Posted by: Brian Williams Wallace at February 04, 2015 06:16 PM (8ZskC)

254 How the fucking hell do you "misremember" being shot at by rockets?

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Alcohol has usually been involved in my misrememberings.

Posted by: SH at February 04, 2015 06:16 PM (gmeXX)

255 There are a group of vets (real vets) that have started going around shaming jerks that a running around saying that they are something that they really are not. Saw a video of one of them recently confronting some stupid schlub in a mall that was wearing cammo fatigues complete with unit patches. The real vet destroyed this idiot. Maybe these guys can go pay a visit to BW. On camera. And post it to youtube.

Posted by: Old Blue at February 04, 2015 06:16 PM (vVSOO)

256 " I'm pretty certain that Miss Remembered is Lizzie Warren's Cherokee name."


Talks-With-Poison-Tongue...?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 06:16 PM (LA7Cm)

257 I'm the first President to make booze in the White House since George Washington, fags.

Posted by: King Barry of the Gilded Putter at February 04, 2015 06:16 PM (dVmLD)

258 Contrast Stephen Ward of Profumo infamy, from Mark Steyn:

"There was no comeback, and no attempt at one. Not long afterwards, he contacted... a charitable mission in the East End of London... He started washing dishes and helping with the children's playgroup and he stayed for 40 years. He disappeared...and did good works till he died."

Posted by: SocietyIs2Blame ere at February 04, 2015 06:16 PM (QKIQb)

259 There we were at the Alamo! Me an Davy Crockett. Shoulder to shoulder and backs to the wall. Cannon balls to left of us! Cannon balls to the right of us!!


Posted by: Private Duffy Williams at February 04, 2015 06:17 PM (U7H1n)

260 Amnesty International Condemns Jordan for Executing Terrorists


I wished I remembered they never existed

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2015 06:17 PM (nzKvP)

261 Brian Williams is desperate to hip and funny and relevant, which is why he loves to do cameos on NBC shows and cannot gush enough about how proud he is of his daughter on "Girls" blah, blah, blah.

Brian "Walter Mitty" William is *not* just some stiff, boring news anchor, you guys!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2015 06:17 PM (ABcz/)

262 @246 Only way you could find it believable that he "misremembered" the events is - possibly - if he actually was shot down during a separate incident.
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Pretty sure that never happened, or he would have mentioned the other incident in his apology.

Posted by: junior at February 04, 2015 06:17 PM (UWFpX)

263 Maybe Brian Williams was telling the truth.

Did he say "rocket-propelled grenade" or just "RPG" which could also mean role-playing game? It's possible that the aircraft he was on was hit by a deck of Magic: The Gathering cards.

Posted by: FireHorse at February 04, 2015 06:17 PM (ldFt4)

264 I had a cousin who flew fighters in the Pacific during WWII. He was shot down three times, and he remembered every single detail....down to flap position and other arcane pilot stuff.

There is simply no possible way to explain this other than as a lie.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2015 06:17 PM (Zu3d9)

265 It occurs to me that we no very little about this man Barack, er, Brian Williams.

Posted by: Tom Brokaw at February 04, 2015 06:17 PM (l3vZN)

266 I see shep smith is in jordan, maybe ailes can send him to raqqqa to do some terrorist on the street interviews?

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 04, 2015 06:18 PM (gsfK5)

267 " Amnesty International Condemns Jordan for Executing Terrorists "



Fcuk. Them.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 04, 2015 06:18 PM (LA7Cm)

268
Reality:

Williams and his camera crew were actually aboard a Chinook in a formation that was about an hour behind the three helicopters that came under fire, according to crew member interviews.

As Reported at the time:

The first chopper was hit and forced to land. Then the one carrying Williams and Dowling landed. The incident occurred near a U.S. tank division, which quickly surrounded the helicopters and held off Iraqi forces throughout the night. Then sandstorms hit, keeping Williams Co. grounded for days.

"Life in this patch of Iraqi desert without a name became all about survival inside a hollow, grounded Chinook helicopter as a colossal sandstorm arrived like an orange wall in the sky," Williams said last night on NBC's "Nightly News."Richard Huff
New York Daily News [New York, N.Y] 27 Mar 2003

MSNBC's Brian Williams was forced to land after the helicopter next to his was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. Williams told viewers he has been asked, " 'As a journalist, how are you going to remain impartial covering this, now that you have spent two nights being protected by an armored platoon of the U.S. Army?' And the answer is, I will try, but I can report about what I have seen."

The Washington Post [Washington, D.C] 31 Mar 2003



Next to, as in an hours behind sort of way.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 04, 2015 06:18 PM (kdS6q)

269 This is on Drudge. I guess he's embarrassed about yesterday's lack of news on site.

Posted by: Carol at February 04, 2015 06:18 PM (sj3Ax)

270 I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me.

Posted by: Brian Williams Kurtz at February 04, 2015 06:18 PM (8ZskC)

271 I see shep smith is in jordan, maybe ailes can send him to raqqqa to do some terrorist on the street interviews?
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 04, 2015 06:18 PM (gsfK5)

Oh G-D, I think I just came in my pants

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2015 06:18 PM (nzKvP)

272 >>Amnesty International Condemns Jordan for Executing Terrorists

....and Israel sends a not to King Abdallah saying "How does it feel to be Israel?"

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2015 06:18 PM (ABcz/)

273 Flaming Skull > Red Skull

Posted by: Red Skull Guy Sets Himself On Fire at February 04, 2015 06:19 PM (nbGZj)

274 Only way you could find it believable that he "misremembered" the events is - possibly - if he actually was shot down during a separate incident.
Posted by: gm at February 04, 2015 06:14 PM (/kBoL)


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Maybe he was shot down in a tittie bar.

Posted by: Soona at February 04, 2015 06:19 PM (/HX7u)

275 And you must be Williams. Look, darling, Brian Williams. The bravest news anchor since Wild Cronkite, they say. What do you think, darling? Should I
hate him?

Posted by: Doc Rather at February 04, 2015 06:19 PM (wlDny)

276 The Tehran born actress who will play Esther in the Ben-Hur remake due in 2016 is a spokes-person for Amnesty.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 06:19 PM (TOmAa)

277 there I was, pinned down in a hchapof Jap fire, and what happens to ask? My daughter pops up out of nowhere and starts rimming the Japs! They were so taken by surprise I was able to sneak up on them and strangle them with a cord made of used condoms...

Posted by: B Williams, Vet at February 04, 2015 06:19 PM (nGmLd)

278 Real veterans will have that 1,000 meter stare.
Guys like Williams will run around asking "How much is that in yards?"

Posted by: Diogenes at February 04, 2015 06:19 PM (08Znv)

279 Want to hear about the time I took down Auric Goldfinger?

Posted by: Williams, Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 06:20 PM (MMC8r)

280 What do you expect from a man whose face goes in three different directions?

Posted by: wisenheimer at February 04, 2015 06:20 PM (qnhj2)

281 Hate it when I "misremember" which chick is my wife and which is my daughter.

Posted by: Woody Allen at February 04, 2015 06:20 PM (/kBoL)

282 I would love to see a slew of articles claiming that he is mentally unfit to serve in any capacity with the media due to his "misremembering" things that happened to someone else. Call him on his bullshit. Get a psychologist to analyze his mental state, claiming that it is early onset Alzheimer's or a sign of a dangerous mental break. Make him admit he just made it up or else send him to the looney bin.

But then again, he is with the media, so yeah right.

Posted by: A-Hole at February 04, 2015 06:20 PM (L/jHz)

283 Lying comes so easily to these skidmarks

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at February 04, 2015 06:20 PM (7RXcs)

284 Brian Williams is desperate to hip and funny and relevant, which is why he loves to do cameos on NBC shows and cannot gush enough about how proud he is of his daughter on "Girls" blah, blah, blah.

Brian "Walter Mitty" William is *not* just some stiff, boring news anchor, you guys!

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Exactly. Long ago, I realized that the news industry was nothing more than the entertainment industry. Everything is about ratings. And judging from NBC's, it isn't really working.

Posted by: SH at February 04, 2015 06:20 PM (gmeXX)

285 He is a damn manly studd all around and moreover, a man's man man.

Friggin guy is a crazy cool stud.

Posted by: rev dr e bunnies bunny at February 04, 2015 06:20 PM (nkLIP)

286 Did he say "rocket-propelled grenade" or just "RPG" which could also mean role-playing game? It's possible that the aircraft he was on was hit by a deck of Magic: The Gathering cards.



1D6 17?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2015 06:20 PM (0QJlW)

287 Shot down in a helicopter? That's nothing! I pretended to be in Afghanistan for one of my newscasts.

Posted by: Dan Rather at February 04, 2015 06:20 PM (l3vZN)

288 Anyone else remember Joe Biden's claims that the helicopter he had been flying aboard in Afghanistan had been "forced down" and had to land "on the superhighway of terror"?

The pilots had chosen deliberately to land because it was starting to snow and visibility was diminishing. They landed in a safe area not known for any terror activity, and in fact no activity of any kind: a totally empty wasteland with no one in it. Those aboard the helicopter experienced nothing other than a few hours of boredom.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 04, 2015 06:20 PM (noWW6)

289 jordan should send its recently ended jihadis to amnesty international, cod.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 04, 2015 06:21 PM (gsfK5)

290 Hey, anyone wanna see my colon?

Posted by: Katie Couric at February 04, 2015 06:21 PM (8ZskC)

291 An example must be made. Even more than the lying shitstains of the GOP, the professional liars in the media must face justice for their misdeeds.

I do not advocate use of violence; however, I have absolutely no problem with Mr. Williams' career being brought to an ignominious end, with no chance of a comeback.

And the same unto the rest of the praetorian media. It's time they learned the penalty for betraying the trust America placed in them.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, by the Pale Moon light at February 04, 2015 06:21 PM (m9V0o)

292 I put on NBC news to see if he admits it on the air. I doubt it.

Posted by: Carol at February 04, 2015 06:22 PM (sj3Ax)

293 >>OMG that's exactly what it reminded me of, and I couldn't remember what commercial it was! I even said it out loud!

I just started typing "there I was in" and Google knew what I meant.

Scary. But very convenient sometimes!

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 04, 2015 06:22 PM (0xTsz)

294 Brian Williams needs to grab a cold one in a SEAL bar.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 06:22 PM (FsuaD)

295 >>Long ago, I realized that the news industry was nothing more than the entertainment industry.

Which is why they all adore and envy Jon Stewart. He found a way to be mr. jokeypants life of the party while delivering the (fake, totally biased) nightly news.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2015 06:22 PM (ABcz/)

296 I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream; that's my nightmare.

Posted by: Brian Williams Kurtz at February 04, 2015 06:22 PM (8ZskC)

297 Hoo boy. Fox reporting on Al Sharpton. Scathing.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 06:23 PM (FsuaD)

298 Maybe Brian Williams can bring a gun and a loaded magazine onto a News Show in Washington DC and the DC Police can misremember he did it?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2015 06:23 PM (nzKvP)

299 "Long ago, I realized that the news industry was nothing more than the entertainment industry."

Again hearkening back to how NBC's news division executives were trying to hire Jon Stewart to host _Meet The Press_.

Un-flipping-believable.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 04, 2015 06:23 PM (noWW6)

300 what the heck. everything is a false narrative these days.

being on unemployment is Great!

i was raped! or i might have been raped. ok well i had sex.

hillary they shot at me.

i did not have sex with that lady.

you will save 2,500 with Obamacare while keeping your doctor.

no shovel ready jobs!

i was born in Kenya, well ok only write that in the forward of my book.

For the Children!

Posted by: comrade willow at February 04, 2015 06:23 PM (nqBYe)

301 I do not advocate use of violence; however, I have absolutely no problem with Mr. Williams' career being brought to an ignominious end, with no chance of a comeback.



Rather just finish him.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2015 06:24 PM (0QJlW)

302 My rage meter doesn't even ping anymore. It just hangs limply from my shoulders.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 06:24 PM (FsuaD)

303 I did not toss the salad, - with a champagne chaser, - of a black woman dressed like Laura Bush. I just misremembered.

Posted by: Steve Croft at February 04, 2015 06:24 PM (dVmLD)

304 One day, headed to a Kiwanis meeting, misremembered where I was going and ended up at a Klan rally. Honest mistake.

Posted by: Steve Scalise at February 04, 2015 06:24 PM (/kBoL)

305 OT:

Senator Reid's brother accused of DUI, battery on an officer

http://bit.ly/1zN6IMZ

Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2015 06:25 PM (0Ew3K)

306 Oh, well. NBC/MSNBC seems to have a problem with misremembering stuff, or altering 911 calls to cover their misremembering, or selectively reporting stuff to hide their misremembering or not reporting things that are important for people to know to cover up their misremembering. Maybe that's what the MS in MSNBC stands for. Misremembering Stuff.

Posted by: Old Blue at February 04, 2015 06:25 PM (vVSOO)

307 The trauma of misremembering a terrifying event like not really getting shot down in a helicopter can cause severe PTSD. He should definitely see a psychiatrist if he develops any fake symptoms.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at February 04, 2015 06:25 PM (+lsX1)

308 Hey, did I tell you about the time I saved Colin Powell?


Oops. Sorry...


I confused that with the time I shoved a bottle of Powell Irish Whiskey up my colon.





....still want me to tell you about it?

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 06:25 PM (0cMkb)

309 So do any of you think anything will happen to Him?

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at February 04, 2015 06:26 PM (Bn6aD)

310 my guess is Brian secretly admires and envies our military men and is too much of a pussy to admit it publicly, so he lied to "be" one of them

douche

and his daughter is of marginal quality

Posted by: Feh at February 04, 2015 06:26 PM (g/zj9)

311 The real question is:

Is Brian Williams too old to jack off?

(That's a Steve Kroft reference -- one of his tweets to his sex-mistress said he was too old to jack off anymore, and would she send him some sexed up Negro Nudity to arouse his pallid noodle?)

Ah, hypocritical lying lefties -- is there no gloomy day they can't brighten with their rapscallion antics?

Posted by: zombie at February 04, 2015 06:26 PM (K4YiS)

312 So what. Bush joined the Air National Guard to avoid the draft!!!! At least Presdent Obama is trying to save lives through dialog and killing with Napalm and stuff like Bush ordered on the children of Iraq, Iran and Quwait.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien From Brattleboro, VT at February 04, 2015 06:26 PM (Sd++4)

313 Conflate this, you lying scumbag!

Posted by: mikeyslaw at February 04, 2015 06:27 PM (Wkdli)

314
Senator Reid's brother accused of DUI, battery on an officer



http://bit.ly/1zN6IMZ

Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2015 06:25 PM (0Ew3K)


He's as handsome and dapper as his brother, the pederast.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 06:27 PM (FsuaD)

315 Rather just finish him.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2015 06:24 PM (0QJlW)

ISWYDT

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2015 06:27 PM (Zu3d9)

316 >>Brian, a big chin is not a substitute for big testicles. Learn the difference.


Posted by: pep

When it comes to big testicles a big chin can be a substitute for a taint though.

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 06:27 PM (3rrMW)

317 he wrote that the "Chinook helicopter flying in front of ours

An hour in front is still In Front.

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 06:27 PM (rwI+c)

318 Brian Williams' closest brush with danger was the time he parked in a tow-away zone. When he went back outside his car was still there but the whole block was gone.

(Close one.)

Posted by: FireHorse at February 04, 2015 06:28 PM (ldFt4)

319 Ace is getting some love in the NRO twitter feed. Which reminds me, part of the news now is reading tweets from random people. The state of the news right now is ... well this is all great. I'm hopeful people are realizing that there is no such thing as the news. There is only an agenda. That agenda may be to advance an ideology or simply to make money (or both - or boredom).

Posted by: SH at February 04, 2015 06:28 PM (gmeXX)

320
...his pallid noodle...

/nods approvingly at this phrase

Posted by: Soothsayer learned psychology from Bob Newhart at February 04, 2015 06:28 PM (grMf8)

321 and his daughter is of marginal quality
Posted by: Feh


Wait -- Brian Williams daughter is friends with lena Dunham and is a co-star on Dunham's repulsive HBO series?

Yep.

It's all coming together now.

Posted by: zombie at February 04, 2015 06:28 PM (K4YiS)

322 He's suffering from Pretended Trauma Stress Disorder.

Posted by: toby928(C) at February 04, 2015 06:28 PM (rwI+c)

323 I have seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die

Posted by: Brian Baty Williams at February 04, 2015 06:28 PM (g1DWB)

324 "So do any of you think anything will happen to Him?"

Promotion, raise in pay.

Posted by: navybrat at February 04, 2015 06:29 PM (JgC5a)

325 N.B.C.

Nothing But Crap

Posted by: Onlooker at February 04, 2015 06:29 PM (+f7nz)

326 ok, listen you retards, you are missing the point, williams' memories were FAKE BUT ACCURATE. morons.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 04, 2015 06:29 PM (gsfK5)

327 while we condemn them for having a fallback position set to 'lie' it in fact is so common I'm not sure it isnt the actually default from truth to lie.

it appears to be reversed. They in fact automatically lie and only fall back to truth when forced to do so. Any single thing that comes across their desk will be massaged altered or confabulated into a complete lie. automatically.anything. Everything. The truth in no way fits their narrative and so it will be automatically corrected.

Posted by: OG CELTIC-AMERICAN at February 04, 2015 06:29 PM (nGmLd)

328 If things get too hot and NBC have to get rid of Williams over this, they can always replace him with their top-flight girl reporter Savannah Guthrie.

She's already demonstrated she's up to the job and can uphold the highest standards of NBC journalism, with her tough, unflinching interview of President Obama for the Super Bowl pre-game broadcast.

"Mr President: wings, or chips and guac?"

Posted by: torquewrench at February 04, 2015 06:29 PM (noWW6)

329 All of us down at the Brattleboro Women's Reproductive Health Choice Clinic think that naming all helicopters (Weapons of Killing) after Native Americans is discusting Presdent Obama should do something about this .

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien From Brattleboro, VT at February 04, 2015 06:29 PM (Sd++4)

330 Posted by: zombie at February 04, 2015 06:28 PM (K4YiS)

She may have vile friends, and is undoubtedly vile in her own right, but she is an attractive woman.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2015 06:30 PM (Zu3d9)

331 Williams was "in" the helicopter. Well that depends on what your definition of "In" "Is". Got it?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2015 06:30 PM (nzKvP)

332 Joe Biden has been telling a lie for decades that is absolutely devastating to the victim's family.

In 1972 a truck driver killed Biden's wife and daughter. It's a terrible, horrible thing. Condolences for that, sincerely.

However, and here's the terrible part: Biden likes to claim the truck driver was drunk. He was not. The truck driver was stone-cold sober. The poor driver's family has to listen to Biden lie about their father/husband whenever Biden feels the need for some sympathy.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2015 06:30 PM (jhqr1)

333 Other day, I was working out and accidentally hit myself in the eye with an exercise band. No, wait. I misremembered. Actually, I was trying to lure kids into my van with candy and an angry mob jumped me.

Posted by: Harry Reid at February 04, 2015 06:30 PM (/kBoL)

334 So do any of you think anything will happen to Him?
Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at February 04, 2015 06:26 PM (Bn6aD)


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No. And if it's brought up, everyone will just yuck it up and move on.

What a scamp.

Posted by: Soona at February 04, 2015 06:31 PM (/HX7u)

335
Allison Williams looks like the back of my ballbag.

Posted by: Soothsayer learned psychology from Bob Newhart at February 04, 2015 06:31 PM (grMf8)

336 In case you missed it AlextheChick, think this costume ensemble would be smashing

http://photo.donburiroom.com/cos/wf07w_04c.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 06:31 PM (TOmAa)

337
Which means that you're attracted to the back of my ballbag, in case that wasn't clear.

Posted by: Soothsayer learned psychology from Bob Newhart at February 04, 2015 06:32 PM (grMf8)

338 332 Joe Biden has been telling a lie for decades that is absolutely devastating to the victim's family.
In 1972 a truck driver killed Biden's wife and daughter. It's a terrible, horrible thing. Condolences for that, sincerely.
However, and here's the terrible part: Biden likes to claim the truck driver was drunk. He was not. The truck driver was stone-cold sober. The poor driver's family has to listen to Biden lie about their father/husband whenever Biden feels the need for some sympathy.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2015 06:30 PM (jhqr1)


Biden routinely lies about things and has for decades but never gets called out on it. One of the reasons I've loathed him since the 80s.

Posted by: Maetenloch at February 04, 2015 06:32 PM (pAlYe)

339 In fairness, no one listens to Joe Biden.

Posted by: SH at February 04, 2015 06:32 PM (gmeXX)

340 Nobody was shooting as far as I could see.

Posted by: Sinbad at February 04, 2015 06:32 PM (ZWRoJ)

341 Redshirt, are you still here?

I was googling to get you some good info, not just something from a for-profit center.

I can talk. Either down in the thread below, or we can figure something else out.

Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at February 04, 2015 06:33 PM (D/mKE)

342 allison williams has man jaw

Posted by: Feh at February 04, 2015 06:33 PM (g/zj9)

343 @332 Joe Biden has been telling a lie for decades that is absolutely devastating to the victim's family.

In 1972 a truck driver killed Biden's wife and daughter. It's a terrible, horrible thing. Condolences for that, sincerely.
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Edwards apparently likes to use a dead family member to engender sympathy as well. Supposedly after Kerry picked him for the Veep slot in 2004, Edwards told Kerry a personal story about an incident shortly after the death of his child, and explained that he'd never before told the story to anyone. Problem was, Kerry had heard that exact same story several years prior.

Posted by: junior at February 04, 2015 06:33 PM (UWFpX)

344 MSNBC's Brian Williams was forced to land after the helicopter next to his was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. Williams told viewers he has been asked, " 'As a journalist, how are you going to remain impartial covering this, now that you have spent two nights being protected by an armored platoon of the U.S. Army?' And the answer is, I will try, but I can report about what I have seen."

The Washington Post [Washington, D.C] 31 Mar 2003
________________________________

"I can report about what I have seen . . . and I can make up shit.

But mostly I can make up shit."

Posted by: Brian Williams, Super Brave War Correspondent at February 04, 2015 06:33 PM (Fnyc2)

345 >>It's all coming together now.

Yep, and Dunham writes all sorts of wacky sex scenes for her friend to act out on screen, such as having her salad tossed. When the entertainment press asks Williams about it he says creepy stuff like that he was there while one of these sex scenes was being filmed (such a proud papa!) and his wife helped come up w/ a strategy for protecting her daughter's naughty bits from the actor's mouth on her ass.
Family values, yo!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2015 06:33 PM (ABcz/)

346 see update, Williams is going to lie some more on NBC nightly news in a few minutes

Posted by: ace at February 04, 2015 06:33 PM (E+pqw)

347 I remeber a blast that almost broke my eardrums. The pilot yelled "We're hit! Assume crash positions!" Then I felt us gyrating wildly around as the hull began to fill with acrid, sufurous smoke. I began say to the Act of Contrition but sound of a separated rotor whizzing around my head caught my absolute attention as the copter crashed into the desertfloor and filled haf my lung with sand.

When I finally woke, a soft, gentle voice reassured me, "That wasn't your helicopter that got hit."

Posted by: Brian at February 04, 2015 06:34 PM (2o6Wj)

348 OT: racist asshole on ESPN. (Spike Lee). Switched over to NHL Rivals. They're doing Boston/NYR.

Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 04, 2015 06:34 PM (20X6f)

349 Biden is a clown.

Posted by: Feh at February 04, 2015 06:34 PM (g/zj9)

350 Hoo boy. Fox reporting on Al Sharpton. Scathing.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 06:23 PM (FsuaD)


Geraldo will probably go on O'Reilly again to praise Sharpton as the preeminent civil rights leader of the 21st century.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 04, 2015 06:34 PM (W5DcG)

351 DRUDGE REPORT @DRUDGE_REPORT 8m
MSNBC RATINGS HIT LOWEST... http://drudge.tw/1zBr36h

Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 04, 2015 06:34 PM (ZPrif)

352 This is one of those threads that would have had Andrew Breitbart laughing so hard he was crying! Heh.

Posted by: Vince at February 04, 2015 06:34 PM (ThgIr)

353 he should be featured on Don Shipley's website


'stolen valor' is getting to be a plague

Posted by: Aldo Moro at February 04, 2015 06:35 PM (8CdUx)

354 346 see update, Williams is going to lie some more on NBC nightly news in a few minutes
Posted by: ace


Any statement other than "I am the living prototype of leftist 'agenda journalism' which is based entirely on falsehoods" would be a lie.

So - I suspect your predict will be correct.

Posted by: zombie at February 04, 2015 06:35 PM (K4YiS)

355 @338 Biden routinely lies about things and has for decades but never gets called out on it. One of the reasons I've loathed him since the 80s.
-------------------

With one exception. When he got nailed for plagiarism in the late '80s, it was also noted that he was lying his college (or possibly law school) grades in ads that he was running at the time.

Posted by: junior at February 04, 2015 06:35 PM (UWFpX)

356 As if I need another reason to dislike the SOB. The fact that he takes joy in watching his daughter act out sex scenes is repugnant enough.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 04, 2015 06:35 PM (rH4AJ)

357 DRUDGE REPORT @DRUDGE_REPORT 8m
MSNBC RATINGS HIT LOWEST... http://drudge.tw/1zBr36h

MSNBC registered its lowest full-day rating in nearly a decade on Tuesday, a devastatingly low benchmark that shows just how severe the network's decline has become.

The liberal cable news network drew an average of 55,000 viewers in the all-important 25-to-54 year-old demo on Tuesday, its lowest full-day rating since July 2005, according to Nielsen ratings provided by an industry source. CNN had nearly three times as many viewers in the demo; Fox News nearly five times as many.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 04, 2015 06:35 PM (ZPrif)

358
he wrote that the "Chinook helicopter flying in front of ours

An hour in front is still In Front.
Posted by: Brian Williams



At flight speed, that ends up being - what -- a hundred miles away from the attack?

A mere hairs breath from death.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 04, 2015 06:35 PM (kdS6q)

359 Take it easy on Brian Williams!

2003 was around the time he lost his dog. Mr. Williams accidentally poured spot remover on him.

Posted by: FireHorse at February 04, 2015 06:35 PM (ldFt4)

360 My kids are learning how to debate. I say just teach them to use nonstop mockery and strawmen and they'll do great - only skills you need to become President, evidently. Society is a fickle, illogical beast today, with no accountability. I expect absolutely no ramifications for Brian Williams.

Posted by: gm at February 04, 2015 06:35 PM (/kBoL)

361 Williams is going to lie some more on NBC nightly news in a few minutes
Posted by: ace at February 04, 2015 06:33 PM (E+pqw)

Well that is how the MSM rolls: Hide one lie amongst all usual lies they tell every night

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 04, 2015 06:36 PM (nzKvP)

362 Why is Geraldo working? He has no credibility and nothing of value to say. All he has is a mustache and some sort of war correspondent past. Fake.

Oh!

(gets it now)

Posted by: Feh at February 04, 2015 06:36 PM (g/zj9)

363 So He's gonna go out and say He mis-remembered? .... That's good enough for Me....

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at February 04, 2015 06:36 PM (Bn6aD)

364 MSNBC RATINGS HIT LOWEST

MSNBC's business model doesn't depend on ratings, it depends on payoffs.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 04, 2015 06:36 PM (MMC8r)

365 336
In case you missed it AlextheChick, think this costume ensemble would be smashing

http://photo.donburiroom.com/cos/wf07w_04c.jpg


Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 06:31 PM (TOmAa)
---------Oh please! Please AtC! Please please please!

Posted by: Old Blue at February 04, 2015 06:36 PM (vVSOO)

366 Bomhomme,
I believed it. Thanks.
I hope someone stands up & calls out Biden publicly.

Posted by: Carol at February 04, 2015 06:37 PM (sj3Ax)

367 348 OT: racist asshole on ESPN. (Spike Lee). Switched over to NHL Rivals. They're doing Boston/NYR.
Posted by: puddleglum@work at February 04

That was good. Watched it last night after Wild shut out Blackhawks

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 06:37 PM (W6Tct)

368 In case you missed it AlextheChick, think this costume ensemble would be smashinghttp://photo.donburiroom.com/cos/wf07w_04c.jpg
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 06:31 PM (TOmAa)


----------------------------------------------------


Hey! That's my daughter.

Oh. Wait. No it's not. I just remembered. I don't have a daughter.

Posted by: Soona at February 04, 2015 06:37 PM (/HX7u)

369 332 Joe Biden has been telling a lie for decades that is absolutely devastating to the victim's family.
_______________________

Yep, it was Biden's wife who caused the accident, IIRC. She ran a stop sign or red light. The speculation was that one of the kids may have distracted her. But Biden has been lying about the other driver having been drunk (which he was not) for years now.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 04, 2015 06:37 PM (Fnyc2)

370 Let us speak of things that matter
With words that must be said

Posted by: simon and garfunkle at February 04, 2015 06:38 PM (zxQ4h)

371 NBC NOTHING BUT C*NTS

Posted by: OG CELTIC-AMERICAN at February 04, 2015 06:38 PM (nGmLd)

372 "Long ago, I realized that the news industry was nothing more than the entertainment industry."

And I long ago ceased to regard it as entertaining.

Posted by: rickl at February 04, 2015 06:39 PM (sdi6R)

373 With one exception. When he got nailed for plagiarism in the late '80s, it was also noted that he was lying his college (or possibly law school) grades in ads that he was running at the time.
Posted by: junior at February 04, 2015 06:35 PM (UWFpX)


Yep that was the one time he got nailed for it. Since then he's learned to play the I must have 'misspoke' or 'misremembered' game and the press just accept it.

Posted by: Maetenloch at February 04, 2015 06:39 PM (pAlYe)

374 >>My kids are learning how to debate.

Do they have to compete against the incoherent, fast-rambling, whooping types who won last year's college debate competition?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2015 06:39 PM (ABcz/)

375 She may have vile friends, and is undoubtedly vile in her own right, but she is an attractive woman.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2015 06:30 PM (Zu3d9)

David Mamet's daughter is one of the actresses on Girls. I like to think that maybe he is having a positive effect on keeping her from completely assimilating into the Borg of liberal thought, but I have a feeling she's probably as bubbleheaded as the rest of them. Too bad.

Would love to hear a convo betwixt Mamet and teh Dunham, hah!

Posted by: LizLem at February 04, 2015 06:39 PM (yRwC8)

376 Take it easy on Brian Williams!


2003 was around the time he lost his dog. Mr. Williams accidentally poured spot remover on him.

I take it you folks have never been "in country" like me. You make jokes about me back in the world, but when I put my hand onto a pile of goo that a minute before was my best friend's face, I knew what to do!

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 06:39 PM (ZWRoJ)

377 369 The media protecs Biden because Democrat.He can say any retarded thing that pops into his addled brain (and does).

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2015 06:40 PM (v5UtH)

378 Go read Stars & Stripes account & go to bottom & see how often he or NBC used it.
It's shameful!
Stranded for 3 days?

Posted by: Carol at February 04, 2015 06:40 PM (sj3Ax)

379 The liberal cable news network drew an average of 55,000 viewers in the all-important 25-to-54 year-old demo on Tuesday

Sheesh....in Seattle there are more people getting stoned on a Tuesday than that.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 04, 2015 06:41 PM (08Znv)

380 OT:

J-Lo movie includes scene with "First Edition" book of the Illiad...

http://tinyurl.com/kvnnbaw

Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2015 06:41 PM (0Ew3K)

381 OT:

J-Lo movie includes scene with "First Edition" book of the Illiad...

http://tinyurl.com/kvnnbaw

Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2015 06:41 PM (0Ew3K)

382 >>Geraldo is almost as bad.

Oh, he's worse. He gave away troops' positions.

http://tinyurl.com/8k33

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 04, 2015 06:41 PM (0xTsz)

383 Can analysis be worthwhile?
Is the theater really dead?

Posted by: Garfunkel and Simon at February 04, 2015 06:42 PM (2o6Wj)

384
371 NBC NOTHING BUT C*NTS
Posted by: OG CELTIC-AMERICAN at February

Big stinky hairy ones

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 06:42 PM (W6Tct)

385 williams replaced brokaw

i thought, who is this kid? what's his experience?

he was prettier

that was probably all there was to it

still is, evidently

Posted by: Feh at February 04, 2015 06:42 PM (g/zj9)

386 >>>Do they have to compete against the incoherent, fast-rambling, whooping types who won last year's college debate competition?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2015 06:39 PM (ABcz/)>>>

Unfortunately, they are learning real debate, with points and counterpoints. Worthless, I say. They need to learn to liberally employ mockery and fallacy in a loud and obnoxious manner.

Posted by: gm at February 04, 2015 06:43 PM (/kBoL)

387 Yep, it was Biden's wife who caused the accident, IIRC.

Okay, that makes the "victims' family" bit more sensible.

The earlier summary makes it sound like the truck driver killed her on accident, making Biden and her the victim.

This is Biden's wife getting herself killed, making the truck driver a victim of the accident, and Biden lying about the accident to get sympathy.

Posted by: CM at February 04, 2015 06:43 PM (0NdlF)

388 Here it comes. Bullshit.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 04, 2015 06:43 PM (wVWRM)

389 My younger brother was an embedded journalist for Bloomberg Business Week during the 2003 Iraq war. He accompanied NBC reporter David Bloom's body on a helicopter after Bloom keeled over. What my brother saw was absolute hell but he mostly still won't talk about it to this day. He most certainly has PTSD

For Williams to pump himself up with false experiences is disgusting.. I sent this link to my brother and am waiting to hear his response. Those who truly experienced horror are loathe to talk about it.

Shame on Williams for cheapening the experience of other more honest Iraq war reporters.

Posted by: Jane at February 04, 2015 06:44 PM (rDidp)

390 geraldo is a preening scumbag

Posted by: Feh at February 04, 2015 06:44 PM (g/zj9)

391 378 Go read Stars & Stripes account & go to bottom & see how often he or NBC used it.
It's shameful!
Stranded for 3 days?
Posted by: Carol at February 04, 2015 06:40 PM (sj3Ax)

Yeah, I was stranded with both Mary Ann & Ginger for 3 days.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 06:44 PM (W6Tct)

392 There he goes!! He spent "two harrowing nights" in a sandstorm. Harrowing.

And he just goes on blithely with his blathering.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 06:44 PM (FsuaD)

393 J-Lo movie includes scene with "First Edition" book of the Illiad...


I was there when Homer wrote it, no lie...right before witnessing the battle of Troy and warrior making out on the battlefield before they died. Oh wait no that was a dream I had whiile high on cough medicine...

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 06:44 PM (yRwC8)

394 Sorry Carol. Two days in a sandstorm.

Tried to give props to a veterans who helped.

He BUNGLED.

Posted by: Golfman in NC at February 04, 2015 06:45 PM (wVWRM)

395 camera -lights -Action!

ok Brian the scene is over could you grab the chic in the bikini we're late.

Posted by: comrade willow at February 04, 2015 06:45 PM (nqBYe)

396 Yet again I report to y'all that Ace is getting mildly perturbed on Twitter.

>>you lying, cowardly psychopath mortherfucker

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 04, 2015 06:45 PM (0xTsz)

397 Mama AJ,
I forgot about that effer Geraldo!
Thank you.

Posted by: Carol at February 04, 2015 06:45 PM (sj3Ax)

398 Nothing here to see.


Oh, and Capone's safe?


Empty.

Posted by: Nip Sip at February 04, 2015 06:45 PM (0FSuD)

399 390 geraldo is a preening scumbag
Posted by: Feh at February 04, 2015 06:44 PM (g/zj9)

Give us a little credit for having the discernment of who we let into the club...

Posted by: Scumbags of America at February 04, 2015 06:46 PM (4OZqu)

400 This is Biden's wife getting herself killed, making the truck driver a victim of the accident, and Biden lying about the accident to get sympathy.
Posted by: CM at February 04, 2015

Suicide? If you were married to Biden wouldn't you off yourself?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 06:46 PM (W6Tct)

401 @382 Oh, he's worse. He gave away troops' positions.

http://tinyurl.com/8k33
--------------------

Reminds me of an SNL skit during the First Gulf War. The military's holding a press conference, and the press keep asking questions along the lines of, "General, which one piece of information, if revealed, would be most likely to completely destroy the morale of the troops?"

Posted by: junior at February 04, 2015 06:46 PM (UWFpX)

402 Didn't sound like an apology to me. He claims to have misremembered to give credit to the military or something.

I really don't know what the hell he was talking about.

But SANDSTORM!1111!!!!!! Harrowing!!!11111!!!!!!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 06:46 PM (FsuaD)

403 So 2 days in a sandstorm makes you mis-remember that you weren't shot at in a helicopter? Okay...

Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at February 04, 2015 06:46 PM (Bn6aD)

404 Biden is the hero of any story he tells.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 04, 2015 06:46 PM (MMC8r)

405
Bush
Drudge

whatever, man. Whatever.

Posted by: Horatio Bologna at February 04, 2015 06:46 PM (wO+T3)

406

"Today is a good day to die!", I called defiantly towards the advancing Iraqi host, as I unsheathed my Bat'leth and made ready for their final charge.

Posted by: Brian Williams

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 04, 2015 06:47 PM (kdS6q)

407 Fake but not accurate.

Posted by: Mary Mapes at February 04, 2015 06:47 PM (kFxpe)

408 everyone remember that newswoman speaking of the devastation of some storm. in a canoe?
and people behind her walk through the water ?

i still chuckle at that bit of global warming

Posted by: comrade willow at February 04, 2015 06:47 PM (nqBYe)

409 "you lying, cowardly psychopath mortherfucker"


Come on...don't mince words...talk to us...work with us...tell us how you really feel.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 04, 2015 06:47 PM (08Znv)

410 So Brian Dennehy has been in everything. And Brian Williams thinks he's done everything.

Got it.

Posted by: junior at February 04, 2015 06:48 PM (UWFpX)

411 Brian Williams continues to be a preening, lying douchebag. And a coward.

"I lied to give props to some vets."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2015 06:48 PM (FsuaD)

412 Old slow Joe used to claim he played football at University of Delaware.Well sorta,he played intramurals.

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2015 06:48 PM (v5UtH)

413 403 So 2 days in a sandstorm makes you mis-remember that you weren't shot at in a helicopter? Okay...
Posted by: hello, it's Me Donna ....again at February 04, 2015 06:46 PM (Bn6aD)

Well, if the sand is able to blow in one ear and out the other... it would disrupt the neural synapses.

Posted by: MikeH at February 04, 2015 06:49 PM (4OZqu)

414 "Getting shot down in a helicopter" = "The Swiss Air stewardess didn't bring me a moist towlette following my coq au vin."

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 04, 2015 06:49 PM (MMC8r)

415 Wasn't the movie True Grit based on Williams' life?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 04, 2015 06:49 PM (W6Tct)

416 TPH, The Iliad first edition thing is a Trojan Horse. It depends upon which translation of which era if something is a first edition of that era.

My 1942 printing of the Samuel Butler translation only cost $1 at a used book store.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 06:49 PM (TOmAa)

417
"I lied to give props to some vets."

By claiming their story was mine.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 04, 2015 06:49 PM (MMC8r)

418 410 Funny yoy mention Dennehy.Iirc he lied about serving in Vietnam,he was a Marine but was never in Vietnam.

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2015 06:49 PM (v5UtH)

419 >>everyone remember that newswoman speaking of the devastation of some storm. in a canoe?
and people behind her walk through the water ?

Why, Willow, that was NBC, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm3_jzcNm4

What. A. Coincidence.

And my conincidence, I mean what I quoted Ace saying in #396.

Posted by: Mama AJ at February 04, 2015 06:50 PM (0xTsz)

420 418 410 Funny yoy mention Dennehy.Iirc he lied about serving in Vietnam,he was a Marine but was never in Vietnam.
Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2015 06:49 PM (v5UtH)

But he was awesome as the iceberg in "Titanic"

Posted by: MikeH at February 04, 2015 06:51 PM (4OZqu)

421 I found this quote from Dennehy at IMDB.

"I lied about serving in Vietnam and I'm sorry. I did not mean to take away from the actions and the sacrifices of the ones who did really serve there...I did steal valor. That was very wrong of me. There is no real excuse for that. I was a peace-time Marine, and I got out in 1963 without ever serving in Vietnam... I started the story that I had been in 'Nam, and I got stuck with it. Then I didn't know how to set the record straight."

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2015 06:51 PM (v5UtH)

422 MisHum,
If you spent three days with Mary Ann & Ginger, I hope you were discrete at the time.

Did you spend any time with Elly May?

Posted by: Carol at February 04, 2015 06:52 PM (sj3Ax)

423 everyone remember that newswoman speaking of the devastation of some storm. in a canoe? and people behind her walk through the water ? i still chuckle at that bit of global warming
Posted by: comrade willow at February 04, 2015 06:47 PM (nqBYe)


--------------------------------------------


Yes. I saw that. And it was funny. I don't know if it was the same woman, but a newswomen wanted to show substantial flooding by having the camera pan a ten foot wide, probably no more than a quarter inch deep puddle on the sidewalk.

Posted by: Soona at February 04, 2015 06:53 PM (/HX7u)

424 There was shooting everywhere. I barely escaped!

Posted by: The Hillabeast, duck they are shooting at us at February 04, 2015 06:53 PM (0FSuD)

425 I remembered dropping 40 points on the Nets when I played for the Celtics in the Eighties.
Turned out that was Larry Byrd and I was just drunk and in the stands.
Could happen to anyone, really.

Posted by: Typo dynamofo at February 04, 2015 06:53 PM (FEDXI)

426 Mama AJ it's like ,'they just make shit up"

trying to remember who said that.

Posted by: comrade willow at February 04, 2015 06:54 PM (nqBYe)

427 The earlier summary makes it sound like the truck driver killed her on accident, making Biden and her the victim.

Apologies, yes, I meant the victims of the lie.

The driver is dead, which is why I mentioned the family, who are the current victims.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2015 06:54 PM (jhqr1)

428 So, where is Gabe hiding his magical Sphinx?

http://bit.ly/1zNheUw

Posted by: The Political Hat at February 04, 2015 06:55 PM (0Ew3K)

429 Here is something to spin your wheels on TPH - http://tinyurl.com/ot3zcq6

Can you spot Brian Williams?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 06:56 PM (TOmAa)

430 >>everyone remember that newswoman speaking of the devastation of some storm. in a canoe? and people behind her walk through the water ? i still chuckle at that bit of global warming

Yep. I think that was in New Jersey. Funny as hell.

Posted by: Brian Baty Williams at February 04, 2015 06:57 PM (g1DWB)

431 Golfman,
He more than BUNGLED.

Posted by: Carol at February 04, 2015 06:57 PM (sj3Ax)

432 On Fox news, mysterious Canadian women well connected to ISIS. Experts mystified.
http://tinyurl.com/k7bhq7u

Caution here be kook theories.
Obviously said person is somehow connected to Code Pink who serve as Obama's back channel lines of communication to various power brokers in the middle east.

Meanwhile, on Brietbart US (Obama) prepared to give middle east to Iran in order for Obama to earn his place in the history books as the President who made peace with Iran, and normalized diplomatic relations with both Iran and Cuba.

http://tinyurl.com/pqwounm
Whatever, dude.

Posted by: Horatio Bologna at February 04, 2015 06:57 PM (wO+T3)

433 Here is something to spin your wheels on TPH - http://tinyurl.com/ot3zcq6

Can you spot Brian Williams?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 06:56 PM (TOmAa)


Yiff in hell Brian Williams!!1!

Posted by: Fursecution now! at February 04, 2015 06:58 PM (0Ew3K)

434 Here is something to spin your wheels on TPH - http://tinyurl.com/ot3zcq6Can you spot Brian Williams?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 06:56 PM (TOmAa)


----------------------------------------


Can't miss him. His military bearing is unquestionable.

Posted by: Soona at February 04, 2015 06:58 PM (/HX7u)

435 I've taken a lot of flights. I can't remember every little detail about them, like whether one was shot down or not. What's next, asking me to list all the in-flight snacks?

Posted by: Brian Williams at February 04, 2015 07:01 PM (qyomX)

436 >>... to earn his place in the history books as the President who made peace with Iran, and normalized diplomatic relations with both Iran and Cuba.


Or: as *the* president who enabled Iran to wipe Israel off the map.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 04, 2015 07:01 PM (ABcz/)

437
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 06:56 PM (TOmAa)


Burn it with fire.

Posted by: CM at February 04, 2015 07:02 PM (0NdlF)

438 Yeah, I really can't remember a major (or minor!) news story in the last few years where we weren't being lied to when I stop to think about it.

Wow.

Through the looking glass !
Yay !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez found the Rebel Yell ! at February 04, 2015 07:02 PM (OCcU9)

439 Corgis

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 07:02 PM (TOmAa)

440 416 TPH, The Iliad first edition thing is a Trojan Horse.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 04, 2015 06:49 PM (TOmAa)


ISWYDT.

Posted by: rickl at February 04, 2015 07:02 PM (sdi6R)

441 "BREAKING: Multiple news organizations now reporting that King Abdullah personally took part in airstrikes on Mosul"

Brian Williams was there too!!

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at February 04, 2015 07:07 PM (+XMAD)

442 And an NBC reporter lying about his "military experience" surprises exactly who? I mean, other then the five left-wing "progressives" that still watch NBC, the neighbor's chihuahua, and the Skid Row drunk that thought NBC stood for Need Bourbon Connection....

Posted by: Rolf at February 04, 2015 07:09 PM (H+WqQ)

443 Did I ever tell you about the time Tipper and I
inspired "Love Story" or when I invented the internet? I'll get to that
after I explain how I'm going to save the world from Global Warming....


Posted by: Al Gore at February 04, 2015 06:10 PM (ABcz/)

To his credit, he did slay Manbearpig.

Posted by: Josef K. at February 04, 2015 07:11 PM (RcpcZ)

444 whatever happened to stone phillips? he was nbc.

Posted by: north and judd at February 04, 2015 07:15 PM (otw/s)

445 Brian Williams should be fired, but he won't. He'll probably be promoted.

We'll get books and movies about how he was telling a "fake but accurate" story and the mean Tea Party got to him because he "accurately" reported that the Tea Party shot up the Batman theatre in Colorado. We'll hear for years about how "terrible" it was that he was so criticized.

I cannot imagine how one could confuse "in a vehicle that was shot down" with "in a vehicle that was not shot down."

Anyone who watches NBC, at all, for any reason, should be ashamed.


Posted by: Null at February 04, 2015 07:20 PM (xjpRj)

446 It always leads me back to the question: What else is he lying about? Primetime news achors pride themselves on being trustworthy. Like one should be trusted more to read the teleprompter correctly.

If he is willing to repeat a lie multiple times over 12 years, then how many others lies has he told?

Posted by: Scott at February 04, 2015 07:32 PM (8YE33)

447 I remember very well surfing off the coast of Da Nang with Brian Williams. Or it could have been playing golf with my brother in Georgia. One or the other.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 04, 2015 07:41 PM (KFdZd)

448 Williams a "stolen valor thief"?
How about just a lying douchebag?

Posted by: snake plissken at February 04, 2015 09:05 PM (gV04q)

449
I don't watch television. I haven't inflicted television "news" on myself in decades. So, up until today, I had no idea who Brian Williams is.

Oh, how I wish that were still the case.

Posted by: Brown Line at February 04, 2015 09:13 PM (a5bF3)

450 Reminds me of when Bill Richardson got caught talking about how he'd been drafted to play major league baseball, and later "admitting he was mistaken" about having been drafted. Williams' unceasing smirk and smugness makes this bringdown sweet as Tupelo honey...

Posted by: Tory at February 05, 2015 03:06 AM (400bg)

451 "...not due to a "mistake" but due to an age-old reportorial practice called lying to advance an agenda."

This is known as Journalism, you can get a certificate for it.

Posted by: iowaan at February 05, 2015 09:30 AM (hXclJ)

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