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Brian Williams: When Smart People Do Dumb Things

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Authored by Mark St.Cyr,

The current controversy enveloping the news anchor for NBC Brian Williams is both growing in furor as well as out right shock. As many of you have probably heard he has come under direct fire that is quite real as opposed to the fictional accounts he’s been extolling about a helicopter incident he had in Iraq a few years ago.

Basically the narrative revolved around the central premise that Mr. Williams himself was aboard a military helicopter that received hostile fire and was not only hit by an RPG, but consequently put down in the desert where they then remained for days. Pretty hair-raising stuff for seasoned military personnel to be part off let alone for a civilian news anchor.

One would think the details of such an event would be chiseled in stone within one’s memory of exactly what took place and more. Especially for a person with the credentials of Mr. Williams. After all: reporting and describing the details so that an audience would (or could) imagine the incident as seen through his eyes via television is after all what he has been paid to do for most of his career.

The real issue here that has been brought forth is not that he embellished the story. For if that were what had happened many (including myself) would cut him some slack. After all, no matter how much we want as Jack Webb would state : “Please, give us the facts, and only the facts.” television news has been and always will have, an element of “embellishment” somewhere as to get you to watch. Whether it be in the title of a story, or the way a sound clip as a promo is produced, etc.

It’s part of the game and always has been. Adults with any semblance of critical thought can discern when it’s taking place. However: Outright lying or fiction made up from whole cloth is quite another. There should be no room for discussion on the consequences. Personally I believe he should resign immediately or be fired forthright. Period. Harsh? Yes, however I’m not alone.

It has just been reported that Tom Brokaw the very person Mr. Williams replaced after his retirement has publicly insinuated the same. Usually when situations like these happen to media figures (regardless of the media venue) the old guard as well as others circle the wagons first as to try to help give the beleaguered brethren a bit of breathing room to possibly recant, or in some cases, to even double down if need be as to defend themselves.

Media people understand what their own “media” can do to a person quickly. So in a show of solidarity, many will just try to help one catch some arrows till one can catch their breath. Yet, this time there is no way to defend. It’s prima facie. Mr. Williams account of the incident was a total fabrication.

Not only is that real news – is allows for one heck of a headline that can’t be embellished any other way but for what it is. “Top TV News Anchor: EXPOSED AS A LIAR!” Details at 6. The only people who still think (or believe) they can withstand the public disgust of such a revelation is Mr. Williams and the current management at NBC.

The real issue that came to light is not that this was a case where embellishment took on a life of its own. Where the subject suddenly found themselves riding a tiger and couldn’t get off. Things like that happen all the time. All of us at one time or another have had our own version of this happening to us in one form or another at some point in our lives albeit on a smaller scale. e.g., You’re mistakenly credited with doing a good deed for someone as a kid or adult when in reality it was out of happenstance and nothing more. Where you may have found it was easier to just say “It was no big thing” and shrug off any further discussion as to possibly quell the entire issue. We’ve all experienced our own version or circumstance of this in one form or another.

The difference here is: this was not an embellishment. Not a “taken out of context” styled incident. This is a case of outright lying. For it has now been both exposed as well as reported that Mr. Williams recant of him being aboard a military helicopter, taking live fire including being downed by an RPG, crashing, and being stranded in the desert for days has more in common with outright fiction and make-believe than anything resembling the truth.

What could possibly make this hoax of valor worse? It was made up, reported, and perpetually recanted on numerous other television and radio shows in greater and greater details of fiction by the one in the same top “news” anchors in all of media today. This is just astounding in both the scope as well as just how deeply Mr. Williams immersed and plunged himself within this fabrication.

When one listens to his public apology that was aired a few nights ago during his television report where he tried to explain how he bumbled his effort as to “thank” or “honor” a veteran, if that was all one had listened to, or knew about, one may think at first blush “OK, no real big deal, sh** happens.” However, it’s when you remember or listen to him recant the story as well as the details as he did when appearing with David Letterman does one fully grasp just how far down the rabbit hole he went.

There is no other way to view using just this one example of how the storyline was portrayed by Mr. Williams himself; and not come away with he was intentionally fabricating, and taking credit for surviving something that never happened. (at least to him)

In today’s world one would think the very people at the top echelon of media would not only know but understand (for it at one time was their job to know and expose) there’s no way stuff like this won’t be exposed. Yet, what’s just mind-boggling is not only was there no pretense as to squelch or tone it down, but rather he “Turned it up to 11″ This was not only stupid – it’s idiotic.

The main stream media (especially that of television) is currently in the death throes of any semblance of credibility, let alone believability. As more and more incidents resembling the likes of these continue, the quicker as well as scope of their ratings failures will persist. For this is no longer a symptom – it’s now a full-blown metastasized cancer plaguing the main stream media as a whole.

If the main stream television needs any form of second opinion to understand just how far their standards for credibility have fallen they need look no further than to who is coming out publicly swinging as to help defend Brian Williams during this controversy: Dan Rather.

Need I say more?

 

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Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:20 | 5755860 Ignatius
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Best perspective from Paul Craig Roberts:

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/02/05/cowardly-despicable-american-...

The self righteous press piles on William's obvious BS so they can imagine themselves as interested in truth.  Pathetic.

Case in point:  The "Russian invasion of Ukraine" that never happened.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:25 | 5755876 Yes We Can. But...
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'dumb' in this case being a euphemism for fabrications intended to build credibility.

But then, why would a presenter/reader for state propaganda organ even be concerned with credibility?

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:27 | 5755883 Ignatius
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For those not paying attention - most - Williams is their vision of believable.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:46 | 5755929 BaBaBouy
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TMZ And ET Are Becoming MORE Beleivable Than The Mainstream Media Mouthpieces...

REMEMBER What Happened To DAN RATHER... He Tried To Tell The TRUTH.............

SHAME ON US Major Networks Media...

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:51 | 5755949 SafelyGraze
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it's misleading and just plain wrong to suggest that MSM does not go after B Williams with hard-hitting questions

example here of CBS journalist conducting on-air investigation and basically interrogating Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs3hy9Xiyhk

don't underestimate the ability of MSM to get to the heart of the story

 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:57 | 5755969 cossack55
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Surely they can find him a spot on CNBS. All in the family and shit.  He still has more cred than Liesmann.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:11 | 5756015 COSMOS
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Just look at whom this POS Williams serves, the Khazar Robertson family, owners of Comcast and NBC.  Shit and Shit go together.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 19:12 | 5756809 Pairadimes
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"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good." - Ayn Rand

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:07 | 5755997 Stuck on Zero
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The MSM only goes after people who fall out of favor with TPTB.  All other sins are washed away.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 16:45 | 5756304 MontgomeryScott
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I disagree. The MSM are like Pirahnas. it matters NOT whom they devour, once the scent of blood is in the water.

GOOD news is 'no news', but BAD news is 'great news'. It has to be FRESH, and NEW ('NEWs'), and gory and titillating as well, to attract a Madison Avenue 'market share'. Bernays taught them well (appeal to the baser instincts of the human animal; and maximize 'viewer shares' and advertising revenues).

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 17:07 | 5756380 nmewn
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And its bigger than just Brian Williams, his entire NBC crew was in on it. They knew what the truth is, they were there with him, he wasn't out there alone.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:21 | 5756056 PoliticalRefuge...
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@ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs3hy9Xiyhk

..glad to see that someone else still recognizes a penetrating, hard hitting, old school line of questioning when they see it, I thought I was the only one.

good catch SG.. nothing cleanses like a good old fashioned dose of sunshine eh?

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 16:18 | 5756224 onthesquare
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Brian will be making a trip to never never land soon or was he already their?

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:07 | 5755975 El Oregonian
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The joke is that Williams was so delusional with the tons and tons of BS propaganda the MSM/himself pukes out, that he thought he was immune with the PTB psychosis and thought everyone was engaged in it.

It's funny/sad that when you live in a lie, that reality itself seems to be so foreign that actually the truth becomes so unbelievable to them...

 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:19 | 5756035 Paveway IV
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So he diverged from the truth - it's no big deal to the network execs.

They're selling the package called 'Brian Williams' produced by decades of marketing. He's bulletproof.

Do you really think the drooling masses care about the truth any more? If it's coming from William's flapping gums, then it's golden. They wouldn't know the truth if it snuck up behind them and kicked them in the ass.

At least he didn't make an anti-Semitic remark. NBC corporate security would have tazed him and dragged him off the set in the middle of his broadcast if something like that happened. There are just some things that are not so easily forgiven among the Jewish media oligarchs. I think they're safe with Brian on this one, though.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 17:06 | 5756376 Fun Facts
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“Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.”- Richard Salent, Former President CBS News. 12,700,000 Google References

“News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising” – former NBC news President Rubin Frank 147,000 Google References

“For better or worse, my company is a reflection of my character, my thinking, my values” – Rupert Murdoch 297,000,000 Google References

“We are here to serve advertisers. That is our raison d’etre” – CBS C.E.O. Michael Jordan 308,000 Google References

“We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective” – Michael Eisner, CEO, The Walt Disney Co 364,000 Google References

“We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.” – Richard M. Cohen, Senior Producer of CBS political news. 1,360 Google references

“We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.” – Katherine Meyer Graham, Washington Post publisher 41,500 Google References

“People shouldn’t expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the ‘fringe’ media.” – Ted Koppel – (American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline) 2770 Google References

“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”–William Colby, former CIA Director, quoted by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy 167,000 Google References

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:44 | 5755931 Headbanger
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Dan Rather is still alive!?

How can we tell?

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:48 | 5755940 Bollixed
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Just ask Lyin Williams.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:50 | 5755947 angel_of_joy
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Am I supposed, reading this title, to believe that Brian Williams is some sort of "smart" character ?? LOL ! The guy is dumber that a bag of hammers... the only thing that makes him remakable is his cow-licked style haircut. Anyway, if these are the "smart people" I would hate to see the morons...

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:52 | 5755951 Skateboarder
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You don't want to see the morons. They'll hook up AC power to DC inputs.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:15 | 5756032 Fun Facts
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Brian Williams and every other MSM talking head are soul less ZWO pawns who read teleprompter scripts.

They tell whatever lies they're told to tell. That's their job.

None of them have had an original thought. Ever. They are good at regurgitating ZWO propaganda to the donkeys.

If they go off the rails....

Who is Rick Sanchez for 1000 ?

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:27 | 5756076 Paveway IV
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Rick Sanchez was that madman that tortured and killed several hundred Jewish babies, and then ATE them with a smile on his face - LIVE - on CNN.

Still in journalism. Here's some of his recent work: http://www.wiod.com/onair/rick-sanchez-50183/video-did-brian-williams-li...

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:31 | 5755894 Buckaroo Banzai
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The guy is paid to lie every night on television. When you lie all the time for a living, should we be surprised when your personal life becomes a big lie as well?

The only outrage is that anybody actually watches this clown.

If you pay for cable tv or a satellite dish, you are helping to pay this assholes salary, and the salaries of all the assholes who write the lies for this guy to read off a TelePrompTer at you.

If you read Zerohedge, and pay for cable TV, you need to change one of those behaviors immediately.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:46 | 5755937 Moe Howard
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Here, here.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 20:36 | 5757015 StychoKiller
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There, there!

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:03 | 5755986 noben
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Hear, hear.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:23 | 5756064 PoliticalRefuge...
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Hear, here!

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 17:06 | 5756377 Ass Burger
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I, for one, would pay Tylers to run my credit report to prove I have no cable subscription. Could I get some flair for that?

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:19 | 5756033 sgt_doom
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Thank you and exactly!

A professional teleprompter reader isn't stupid?

WTF?????????????

Williams, Brokaw and Dan Rather, that idiot from Texas, all super-liars, which was why there were employed in the first place!

For crissakes, I just saw Rather and a bunch of other douchetards on a PBS documentary (PBS being financed and controlled by the Koch brothers through WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston) where Rather and the others portrayed themselves as experts on the thought processes of the reported assassin of Rev. Martin Luther King, (James Earl Ray, if I recall his name correctly).

Yet none of those douchetard reporters could explain how the bloody hell Ray got all his money from to exist all those years, to travel all over North America (America, Mexico and Canada, and later the UK), buy a new car for cash, take courses, etc., etc., etc????

And Rather was that idiot who was scammed with made-to-look phony documents about Bush actually missing his ANG meetings, when the real story, which Rather could never figure out as he can't even locate his own vagina, was that George W. Bush never, ever attended OTS (Officers Training School) nor flight school; he was never qualified to be an officer and was never a pilot!

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 23:53 | 5757508 Oh regional Indian
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Interesting sgt..., links to the George junior never piloting/officering story?

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:01 | 5755918 junction
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Compared to the British press cover-up of high-placed pedophile rings operating everywhere, from the BBC to the House of Lords, Williams' bloviating about his Potemkin tours of Iraq and New Orleans post - Katrina pales into insignificance.  Imagine a country like the UK, where while Home Secretary in 1983, pedophile Lord Brittan was on site at the Dolphin Square flats when another member of his ring murdered a young boy.  The same Lord Brittan who 30 years ago got a dossier listing high level pedophiles operating with impunity, a dossier he said he "lost."  For 15 years, Bitish muckraker David Icke has been accusing the leaders of Britain of pedophile crimes and satanism, going as far as accusing former UK Prime Minister "Ted" Heath of being a child murderer. The Bristish press ignored Icke until now.  www.davidicke.com

A few exaggerations by Brian Williams pales into insignificance compared to the degenerate cesspool that is British high society. If Williams wants to show he has nerve, why not do a series of stories on who told New York City firefighters to shut up about the explosions they heard on 9/11 within the World Trade Center.  Williams could even interview Alex Jones.  Nah, forget about it, Williams would rather resign than really put his life at risk.

http://www.tribunemagazine.org/2015/02/ex-spook-admits-giving-big-big-na...

 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:09 | 5756002 oudinot
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Ignatius: Exactly.

Little lies are ferreted out exhaustingly  out but the big ones: WMD in Iraq, The Spanish blew up the Maine, a lone nut assassinated Kennedy, the twin towers wern't taken down by thermite, Jesus resurrected in threee days:  the  big Lies are never explored.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 17:07 | 5756354 Bob
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Perhaps that is dependent upon guys in positions like poor little Brian here. 

Hey, I'd fire him and move on.

But this from our author (?):

What could possibly make this hoax of valor worse?

Guess I missed the "valor" part.  WTF has valor to do with getting shot the fuck down?  By everyones' accounts, his "bird" came in a few hours later.  Could have even been him. 

But very few Americans are over there in service of anything that qualifies one for valor.  No soldiers qualify, sadly.  And neither did that asshole . . . even by his own "on the front in witness of our miltary heroes" lie. 

Some reporters qualify, maybe.  But not him. 

Corporate media mouthpiece. 

Funny, his explanation of confabulation was, I believe, the truth.  Goes to show how weak peoples' grips on reality really are. 

But people like him work that weakness like crack dealers ride ho's. 

Too bad he was so much fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vMIazx2yWo

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:11 | 5756013 Dick Buttkiss
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"Whenever Washington and its whore media speak, they lie." — Paul Craig Roberts

"Everything the state says is a lie, and everthing it has it has stolen." — Frederich Nietszche

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:30 | 5756083 NunNun
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Check The Guardian story about New Orleans.  BW reported a dead body floating where there was no flooding, and also became sick with dysentery even though there were no other reported cases.

NYT is claiming this is a common "false memory" occurance and not blatant lying!

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 17:11 | 5756393 Bob
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Confabulation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation

We all really do do it, to some extent.  But it is fair to say some are more prone than others.  Not something properly excused on a Network Anchorman's resume, imo. 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:40 | 5756116 Bloppy
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When there's a furor over Jim Cramer's nonstop bad advice, then I'll be impressed.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 16:08 | 5756195 glenlloyd
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Are we absolutely sure he wasn't with Hillarity Clinton when she landed amidst sniper fire several years ago?

These events smell a lot alike...

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:19 | 5755861 buzzsaw99
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i always just assume everything the msm says is a lie

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:22 | 5755872 Ignatius
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So you've been to the Rock of Gilbralter.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:28 | 5755886 Doubleguns
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It appears he was lying about Katrina coverage too. He reported seeing a man's body floating in the French quarter however the French quarter did not flood. 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:30 | 5755892 Ignatius
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I floated once in the French Quarter, but I was high at the time.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:46 | 5755935 Doubleguns
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Are you trying to give him an out. He will be claiming it was you he saw. 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:49 | 5755941 Ignatius
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Might have been, though the year was '88, so I doubt it.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:26 | 5755880 daveO
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Live by the lie, die by the lie. I'm interested to see if NBC's propaganda show, Saturday Night Live, touches this story. If they give him the Sarah Palin treatment, it means the execs want him out for some reason. Maybe too expensive;

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/15/brian-williams-contract-renews-...

Love this quote, from the article above;

 

"It's probably time I admit that I am a one-trick pony," Williams said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "I am, I think, designed and put on this Earth to do what I'm doing now -- and that is to eat, sleep and breathe nonfiction and the news going on in the world."

If they're silent, then they're circling the wagons. 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:47 | 5755938 VWAndy
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I dont assume. I know.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:19 | 5755863 elephant
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and I should give a sh!t about this because...

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:26 | 5755878 Usurious
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because the cia/tribe/Mic media wants you to support endless wars aganist non-existant enemies....

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:00 | 5755968 sessinpo
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And wars before the cia/tribe/mic media?

Man's nature is of war, not peace. That is the biological state of all species, to grow and expand unto other territories. That is where the peaceniks always get it wrong.

Let's take away the military and the police state. I'm all for reducing it. But tomorrow you'll be whining that someone has invaded you home and kicked your ass. But YOU didn't do anything to provoke it. Get real.

If there is a reason to care, it is to tear down the biased media on both sides. But there will be war. That has not changed in thousands of years - way before Williams.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:20 | 5755864 stant
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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:20 | 5755865 NOTW777
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"For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open." Jesus Luke 8:17

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:28 | 5755888 daveO
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Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.

Nearly the same quote, John 3:20
Sat, 02/07/2015 - 18:47 | 5756737 progro
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"I remember him as a very gracious host and humble man.  He even passed the bread to me".

Brian Williams recalling The Last Supper with Jesus Christ  

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:22 | 5755867 skbull44
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Just another lesson that any news, regardless of the source, should be considered a narrative-in-the-making, reflective of the biases and prejudices of one's sociocultural milieu. The 'news' can never be an 'objective' accounting of reality.
http://olduvai.ca

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:21 | 5755868 salvadordaly
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11 is one more higher than 10!

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:54 | 5755959 angel_of_joy
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Dude, "more higher" is an English language atrocity. ESL much ?

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 16:10 | 5756198 glenlloyd
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I think he meant 'moar higher'

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:21 | 5755870 Nafets93
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I thought lying was the new truth...?!

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:22 | 5755874 Parafuso
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Oh, you mean television news really is bullshit? Why I never.....

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:23 | 5755875 Captain Willard
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Williams will be sacrificed because his usefulness to the Regime as a propaganda tool is now very minimal.

There are 10 telegenic drones lined up behind Williams ready to serve the Regime loyally and self-effacingly.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:32 | 5755899 daveO
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The odds are 90% he will be replaced with a democrat minority 'symbol'. Maybe a slightly albino African transgender. That ought to boost their dying ratings. 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:46 | 5755936 Headbanger
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No no no..

Moar like Bruce Jenner

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:35 | 5756104 Richard Chesler
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"slightly albino African transgender"

Already done. It's name is Obama.


Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:52 | 5755952 Ward cleaver
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Perfect candidate: black female handicapped lesbian

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:56 | 5755962 Headbanger
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You forgot to add obese former drug addict porn star single mother of two with  AIDS

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:04 | 5755988 Winston Churchill
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Only if she limbo dances on one leg, and is a midget(vertically challenged)..

No half measures.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 16:10 | 5756201 Renfield
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...Also, dude, 'midget' is not the preferred nomenclature. 'Little Person', please.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:34 | 5755906 Buckaroo Banzai
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I disagree. He will be left where he is, as a mockery and insult to all the idiots who watch him.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:53 | 5755953 Skateboarder
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Goldfish memory says people will fuggetallaboutit in a couple of weeks and his reputation will be good as new.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:00 | 5755978 Headbanger
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And he'll be considered a hero for standing up to the haters.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:26 | 5755877 overmedicatedun...
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if it comes from the corp MSM- you can be assured it is part of disinformation and or supporting propaganda..truth is a word that does not exsist in our world so few of us rely on the MSM..but it is effective in supporting pre planned public poll results- ever been polled even once ?no me either.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:26 | 5755879 cherry picker
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The bottom line is this, if he lied about events in his life without batting an eyelash, until he got outed, what about the stuff he 'reports' on?

As a human being he can be forgiven, as a news anchor?

No

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:28 | 5755885 DirkDiggler11
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Say Good-Bye to the pompous ass from NBC .... See Ya Motherfucker !

( Maybe he can apply for that open spot at RT - ha ha ha )

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:28 | 5755887 Son of Captain Nemo
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When Smart People Do Dumb Things

Please don't call this overpaid whore of  glorified teleprompt reader "smart"!

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:31 | 5755890 golden raccoon
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The same phenomenon can be witnessed everywhere today ... in banking, in health care, in education, and in athletics.  The people at the top of the pyramid are not content with what they have achieved and their position in life, and feel compelled to lie and cheat to obtain even more monetary and psychic rewards (i.e. awards and "status").

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:54 | 5755958 Amish Hacker
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Williams' fabulism is a sign of low self-esteem, brought on by years of profitably repeating lies for a living. Imagine the blow to your ego if you had to report the heroic deeds of others night after night, while reflecting on the fact that you're just an over-paid hack reading a teleprompter. cf Baron von Munchausen Syndrome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Münchhausen

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:03 | 5755966 Son of Captain Nemo
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The same phenomenon can be witnessed everywhere today ...

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The only thing I would add to the Tweet that army pilot made that got this whole shit storm flowing?...  Why the fuck didn't he and other members of the Army that were involved in that incident and had the "facts" all this time didn't just come out with the truth after the lie took place???... In all honesty?  Shame on both of them!

Seriously gr

When you consider this Country rewarded a sitting President that not only didn't keep his promise to close Guantanamo, by giving himself unlimited authority as the judge, jury and executioner with the NDAA...Lied about his intentions to pull our troops completely out of Iraq and Afghanistan...  And in turn  started major conflicts through "black ops" in Libya, Syria and now the Ukraine that have probably killed well over 1 million people and displaced 6 to 8 million more just within the six years of his tenure.... How bad can a Brian Williams lie actually be???...

You watch.  He will issue additional apologies to the viewers and this will all blow over...

As much as I can't stand pretty boy for the lies he's told about his escapades in the ultimate "house of shame" he works for that is the MSM, nothing will ever compare to Dan Rather's bought and paid for silence with the story of all stories that he avoided when it wasn't officially entered into the public record of the 9/11 Commission Report and has kept and will continue to keep his silence after everything his government has done in it's wake!

Guess this is what being a Zionist prostitute serving the "4th Estate" is all about!

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 23:50 | 5757501 Dakota Kid
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They double-tapped Pat Tillman.

"Tillman had naively made contact with the CIA’s Noam Chomsky to discuss his plans to reveal what he knew about the lies of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in the War on Terror."

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/04/22/jb-campbell-killing-pat-tillman/

Speaking the truth too early can get you killed.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:31 | 5755896 WillyGroper
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OT folks, but if you have a kid in skool you cannot afford to not listen to this. If you thought common core was bad, see how SandyHoax, medicaid, data accumulation & what appears to be the potential drugging of your kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLEU1l_juKA

Bammy, Saul, Hitlary...need I say more?

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:40 | 5755917 Buckaroo Banzai
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Any parent who allows their kid to attend public schools is a borderline irresponsible parent.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:03 | 5755983 Jack Burton
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My four year old grandson will not attend public shcools. My Daughter and I decided that to save his mind and soul we have to seek alternative to state education. People who dump their kids on this state system are going to regret it.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 21:56 | 5757207 WillyGroper
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Jack,

This is a complete takeover, private & home skool. Property seizure is the end result, then agenda 21.

There is no bill # ESAE, everyone should heads up.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 16:56 | 5756339 WillyGroper
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Look a bit further b4 you condemn in your judgement Bucko. Better yet listen to it.

They're going after home skoolers, community colleges & universities too.

In other words then entire educational system in this country.

Gee, wonder why the brou ha ha about free CC?

Kommunist manifesto.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 20:46 | 5757038 StychoKiller
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In the first grade, Comrade teacher announces the day's lesson in School Number One:  Marxist criticism and self-criticism.

"Ivan, please stand up and tell us what Marxist criticism and self-criticism
means,” she instructs.

The little boy stands up.  “Comrade teacher, Marxist criticism is how we must
view my parents, who joined the reactionary counter-revolutionary forces who
sought to destroy our heroic workers' and peasants' state, and then fled to
the imperialist, capitalist west, to continue their intrigues against the
Socialist regime.”

“Excellent, Ivan.  And what is your Marxist self-criticism?”

“I didn't go with them.”

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:32 | 5755900 IridiumRebel
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I get my news from Zerohedge and even that I take with a grain of salt. 

Look at this from Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2941216/Extraordinary-images-Vla...

Obviously done to show hatred of Russia. Ok, fine. But if Europe is so kickass comparatively....why not show this?
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2014/aug/13/abandoned-athens-ol...

It's hate Russia time, that's why.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:55 | 5755961 cossack55
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They both still look better than Detroit, at what, 1/10th the cost.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:42 | 5755903 williambanzai7
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Who gives a flying fuck about this full time MSM shill?

Lying? That's his profession.

Anyone on this website knows this.

Addendum:

Really what needs to be written is the only reason this guy is under the microscoop is he got caught red handed. Otherwise he was just doing what MSM shills do, lying.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:09 | 5755964 Captain Willard
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William: you of all people know a "false flag" when you see one.

CNBC has this asshole under a $200mm long-term contract. How else to get rid of him and increase profits?

Like Howard Beale, he will be killed for losing market share. Someone at NBC has brought Williams' lies to public light for the usual reasons.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:35 | 5755907 29.5 hours
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Really, When Dumb MSM Liars Do Dumb Things...

 

 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:36 | 5755908 Sizzurp
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These guys lie all the time anyway, so what's the surprise?  Maybe the public will start to question the propaganda they are constantly fed by these readers, but I doubt it.  The sad thing is that the folks who watch these silly evening news shows believe they are "informed".  Herein lies the real problem.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:37 | 5755911 dot_bust
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All the mainstream news media do is fabricate news. They do so at the behest of the bankers. That is how wars are started and how public support is garnered for bank bailouts.

Most of the video footage seen on TV news stations is from video news releases created by PR agencies, the very agencies representing big corporations. How else could poor villagers in some far away country suddenly be equipped with small American flags to wave at the cameras?

And we all know that the White House press corp acts as a group of stenographers for the President. They simply repeat what he says without questioning his actions.

Of course, the way in which the mainstream news media covered up government involvement in the Kennedy assassination is the most blatant example of criminal collusion.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 18:29 | 5756672 ebear
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"And we all know that the White House press corp acts as a group of stenographers for the President. They simply repeat what he says without questioning his actions."

Well, yes, but you know you've arrived when you get to go first and ask the "tough" question.

Or don't they do that anymore?

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:42 | 5755923 Joebloinvestor
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Brian should go on SNL and humiliate himself, including taking a few pies to the face.

He had no problem going on there before and make fun out of the press being "in the tank" for Barry.

 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:03 | 5755925 JustObserving
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The media in the land of the free has been owned by the CIA since the 1950s with its Operation Mockingbird:

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former CIA Director, cited by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy

"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post

If you are not a natural-born liar, you have no future in Western media. Pulitzer-prize winner Seymour Hersh had to publish his expose about Obama's lies on sarin and Syria in the London Review of Books (circulation below 60,000) since no media in the land of the free would publish them.

Truth is treason in a fascist, police state. 

 

 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:43 | 5755927 VWAndy
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See scumbaggery pays well. They are looking for 15000 scumbags to lie full time in the UK. Its the new growth industry.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:44 | 5755933 wmbz
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Williams like all of is ilk are pathological liars.

That is who they are and who the writers are, that "news" readers like Brian get their script from. Brian's problem is he went off script, in his sick mind he most likely believes the bilge he spews. He is nothing more than a common liar, however he thinks he is anything but common. Nothing much will come of this, he'll most likely get an award of some type like the POS Dan Rather did for his years of lying.

The herd beleives their crap though, especially the Letterman crowd who fawn all over Williams.

Symptoms of a sick society!

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:46 | 5756131 tip e. canoe
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the irony of this being such a scandal is rich considering that a movie about a proven serial "embellisher" is #1 at the box office.

"Honesty is always the best policy, when there's money in it." - mark twain

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:49 | 5755943 neuronius
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Getting upset at Williams for lying is like getting mad at your dog for barking.

I'm glad that he, along with his colleagues, are being exposed for what they are.  This is not the last time we'll see something like this.  

Straws in the wind...  

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:51 | 5755944 hotrod
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Lack of Trust and Truth is plaguing the entire country and world.  Nobody trusts anyone.  Even my college enrolled son said the other day, "Dad everyone is cheating".  We were talking about world events and deflate gate.

Obama/Hillary,Reid, Holder,Pelosi have not helped with all thier lies  We find out NO WMD,imminent threat etc. with Bush.  The media is out of control with all their bias reporting.  It all feels like Sodom and Ghommara, Gay everything, Porn everywhere, financial corruption, Bruce Jenner, our Wheaties hero hates his dick.

Their is an absolute crisis of trust and confidence everywhere. 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:10 | 5756010 Volkodav
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fish rots from the head...

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 17:09 | 5756382 TalkToLind
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I think your son has come up with the perfect modern day slogan for this country.  I'm picturing a yellow flag with a snake on it (but this snake doesn't symbolize American resolve, in reality it is a serpent that spews lies).  And printed under the serpent is the slogan:


'Murica, Everyone Is Cheating.  Fuck Yeah!

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:50 | 5755946 Inthemix96
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Once again the mix is proved right.

This piece of shit demeans and reduces the sheer value of the other shit you read, watch or hear through the MSM, does he fucking not?

Proving once again, everything you ever knew was just what this cunt said, a mother fucking lie.

And I dont say that lightly, the whole fucking shebang is a man made fuck up of a lie.

Cunts

;-)

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:54 | 5755956 whatthecurtains
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Look we already have a habitual liar in our VP.  Biden claimed his first wife was killed by a man who was known to "drink his lunch" when in fact the truck driver was sober and it was not his fault.  When he complained Biden apologized but then went out and SAID IT AGAIN.

These people have no shame because they know they will get away with it.  

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:54 | 5755957 red1chief
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I don't understand all the furor. Mr. Williams is a propagandist, so nobody with a brain should be surprised about this. In the scheme of things given the media/military/industrial complex, a phoney war story is small potatoes.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:58 | 5755967 pine_marten
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Non television watcher here.  Could care less about the banal asswipes.  They gall the psyche. 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:09 | 5756006 Volkodav
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that was interesting

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 14:59 | 5755976 Moe Howard
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Has anyone considered this may all be about deflecting attention from his daughter, Allison Williams, being in a scene in Girls where she has her butt hole eaten out by a "co-star"?

Here is what the liar Brian Williams had to say about it:

 

"She's always been an actress. For us, watching her is the family occupation and everybody has to remember it's acting, no animals were harmed during the filming, and ideally nobody gets hurt," Williams told New York magazine in an interview about the 26-year-old "Peter Pan Live" star.

What people do in the privacy of their bedrooms is one thing, but to have your daughter on HBO having her salad tossed, and you are there, watching the premier of the episode with a bunch of strangers, well, I'm thinking I would have a problem with that.

While the brunette beauty and her dad seem to be A-OK with jaw-dropping scenes, her co-star Jemima Kirke doesn't quite feel the same way.

"I sat behind Allison and her dad in the first season (premiere) and I was going to puke," Kirke recalled.

"I was so nervous. I don't even know him, but can you imagine (with this)?! Watching a kissing scene with my dad next to me is awful, let alone with you getting whatever that's called motorboated in your a--."

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:20 | 5755977 kchrisc
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"Brian Williams: When Smart People Do Dumb Things"

He's a propagandist, and shill, for Zion, and their wardog, the DC US.

He had the temerity to question one of Zion's "made-men," Hayden(CIA?), and is being taken down because of it--"Thou shall not depart from the script."

Either that, or one has to believe that those making the claims only learned of his lying now, and not 12+ years ago. LOL

The banksters need to repay us.

 

Note: Brian Williams' background is interesting, as he was plucked out of George Washington U. before graduation and placed as an intern at the Carter White House. Looks to me he may be either a Pentagon, or CIA stooge.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:01 | 5755979 sessinpo
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And someone thinks Williams is smart?

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:03 | 5755985 Volkodav
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Not that smart...there are far more capable intelligent if it was about real journalism, but they are not most attractive

These are picked for look good on camera and follow the agenda...

This was no "embelish" but outrite lying

 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:06 | 5755995 Seasmoke
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It's Baghdad Brian. 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:07 | 5755998 roadhazard
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Williams ain't done shit compared to the banksters. Colon Powell's picture is in the dictionary under, Liar.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:24 | 5756063 kchrisc
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"Williams ain't done shit compared to the banksters. Colon Powell's picture is in the dictionary under, Liar."

Don't waste time sorting them out. Guillotine them all, and let God, or who/whatever sort them out.

The banksters need to repay us. hujel

 

"Set your guillotines on slow."

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:08 | 5756003 Korea98
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Not sure why all the fuss over his personal tales.  I mean sure in a viable world this would be a big deal but we no longer live in that world.  

Journalists lie/extreme spin all the time over real stories to "pursuade" us.  They don't lose their job.

Scientists lie and fudge numbers from the raw data to keep their global warming grants and don't lose their job.

Heck Clinton lied in a grand jury and he kept his job.  

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:08 | 5756004 Gusher
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Williams may be guilty of ebellshment, maybe even telling a fairly harmless lie, but he certainly doesn't have the balls to tell the country that you can keep your doctor and your insurance if you want to. Nope, that super big lie can only be told by a complete sociopath.  And so far that sociopath has gotten away with it. Sad.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:09 | 5756008 Frank N. Beans
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these news anchors feel they have to do more than just report the news, they want to be PART of the news, I guess to make them feel more important and put a personal feel to the story. 

Brian Williams, among other news people, has made cameos on TV shows or in movies for crying out loud.  They want to be personalities, more important than they really are.  That seems to be a national pastime, a la Kardashian, Hilton, etc.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:20 | 5756053 overmedicatedun...
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well mr williams you keep real news otta the public eye that is your main job..hide the facts and hide the stories that shine light on real events ..2008 would be a nice place to shine some light on, but then evil fucks like c cox and h paulson would look bad..the msm news is to distract from what is real..and this fuck knows his job.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:12 | 5756017 MickV
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Crooked face Williams has had his nose so far up the Usurper's ass... of course he is a liar! What is the penalty for treason?

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:17 | 5756037 NoWayJose
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This happens when you stop doing your job of reporting the news and instead think that you ARE the news.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:17 | 5756041 Lmo Mutton
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Chopper crashes are for pussies.  One time, when Superman was down with a cold, I had to.....

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:18 | 5756043 AgShaman
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hahaha

Only the dumbest of sheep have yet to catch on to the incest going on with the MSM and the shadow govt.

How smart could these MSM mouthpieces be....when they are given the who, what, where, when, and why of the propaganda that is to be force fed upon the soylents.

Lying must begin to become second nature to these scumbags when they are paid to do it full time for the criminals they serve.

This dolt didn't "go rogue" with his colorful remembrances....he was just doing what comes natural to people in the "bizness"

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:36 | 5756105 Emergency Ward
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I did a search on him and what came up first was "We Found Brian Williams -- Search Arrests, Address, Phone..."

Then I found out he makes $13 million a year for spewing this bullshit.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:22 | 5756058 cigarEngineer
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That we are worried about some news anchor's totally irrelevant private experiences, and not the lying, manipulation, and omission on important issues like drone strikes, war, irrepayable debt, et cetera, is a testament to how fvcked in the head the average person is.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:25 | 5756071 Dr. Gonzo
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This is nothing. He's been a pompous doushe bag sell-out harlot from day one...enjoying every second of his high class presstitution job. Just listening to him you knew that he understood his only job was to jerk us off every night and he was happy to do it but you could also tell he didn't believe in any of his B.S. but at the same time you could tell he didn't care. He was a happy hooker.  He pissed some head Jews off and they snapped their fingers and destroyed him. Everyone that works in the industy is by nature compromised and can be taken out with ease. It took them less than a week to destroy Petraus. Who cares? They started that entire fucking war with lies.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:33 | 5756093 Fix It Again Timmy
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As a grunt in Vietnam, i vividly recall the first time I came under fire well over 40 years ago, there's nothing "conflated" about that....Sorry, Lying Brian....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVHhg67RVd4

 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:39 | 5756111 Gold Eyed Cat
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Brian Williams safely landed Flight 1549 in the Hudson River, saving 155 people.  While swimming to shore, towing the Airbus behind him on a rope he made from braided pantyhose that he acquired from the cabin crew, he also managed to rescue a drowning puppy.  However, he did accidentally drink some of the river water and later got dysentery, but it was ok because Brian Williams doesn't give a shit.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:40 | 5756113 I Write Code
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The main stream media (especially that of television) is currently in the death throes of any semblance of credibility, let alone believability.

No kidding.  Out of boredom I turned on PBS Washington Week in Review, and heard a long and serious discussion of our wonderful, strong economy and how we should invest all that surplus in Obama's great new budget.  Sponge Bob is more realistic.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:48 | 5756119 zebrasquid
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Bubba got the ball rolling on the lying is spinning is expedient is savvy is no big deal is cool..
That's Clinton's legacy.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:46 | 5756133 Roger Knights
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"Mr. Williams account of the incident was a total fabrication."

I read that his helicopter got hit by a couple of rifle rounds. So his story was only a 95% fabrication.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 15:56 | 5756154 mendolover
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Was wondering whether Tyler was going to enter the fray.  Thought maybe if they didn't it might have something to do with BW's CIA connection.  Also wonder what is going through Mrs. William's head about now.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 17:35 | 5756477 Bollixed
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I doubt it's long enough to go through her head. Probably just barely past her lips.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 16:00 | 5756164 TalkToLind
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WAKE UP SHEEP, the MSM's purpose IS to LIE to you. They program you with lies and half-truths using slick graphics and robotic script reading presstitutes;  behavior modification is the name of the game.   So PLEASE...stop acting so surprised when one particular lie is exposed!!!

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 16:02 | 5756183 Hungarian Pengos
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Just Google the video clip of this guy's daughter, Allison Williams, in her appearance on the show "Girls".   My god.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 16:10 | 5756199 arby63
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QUESTION: Are we finally nearing the end of "anchors" (who are ignorant pretty boys and girls) and MSM crap? I turned it all off 20 years ago but it still creeps in now and again. 

What a joke they have all become. Idiots. All of them. They survive only because of major advertisers who are also too stupid to stop and smell the roses of reality.

Truth is: No one cares!

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 16:20 | 5756232 Peter K
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The sooner Stewart and Colbert get the head anchor jobs at NBC and CBS, the better!

Winning!

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 19:16 | 5756820 mendolover
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You remind me of the very high probability that Charlie Sheen is more credible than Williams who was actually bragging about this story as recently as this last holiday season in his home town.  If you watch Charlie's famous interview with Andrea Canning, as hard as she tries she can't put him on the spot.  It was a very entertaining interview.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 21:53 | 5757203 Blood Spattered...
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Are you really that gullible to think that Stewart and Colbert wouldn't whore themselves out like Williams?

Come on mang...

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 16:22 | 5756240 Heavy
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I was watching some history documentary that he was offering comentary on a while back, it showed Williams is an absolute ass-hat.  Made me feel dumber for having watched it.  TV clowns are meant to be deceptive liars, even the ones you think you like for some reason or another, surprise bitchez.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 16:27 | 5756253 Bagbalm
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It was a good story. You shouldn't expect anything more from TV news. It's entertainment at best and emotion rousing propaganda at worst. If you watch it for entertainment just like Survivor or pro wrestling it won't do any harm. It used to be if you saw something on the news you could figure SOMETHING happened but maybe not what their narative claimed. Now it's not even safe to assume something happened. It may just be fiction.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 16:40 | 5756290 luna_man
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Go ahead Brian, lay it on the line, the devil (Letterman) made you do it!

 

hope he has plenty saved...sounds like, he's on his way out

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 17:00 | 5756355 Who was that ma...
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Oh wow.  And I thought my family was fucked up.  Between Brian and daughter Allison - just OMFG.  I wonder what Mrs. Williams can add to the mix.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 17:23 | 5756435 Joe Tierney
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Glad to finally see this smug S.O.B. get his long overdue, much deserved comeupance!

 

Who's next?

 

Love that old proverb that says, "You will reap what you sow."

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 17:39 | 5756498 davidnv
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Is it just me, or is anyone else feeling sort of excited (in a good way) about this? I mean, unless the msm makes a full recovery from this, which it won't, we are witnessing history in the making: the accelerated crumbling of one of the Elites' most powerful tools in advancing its agenda and crushing the truth.

Anyone else smilin'?

 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 17:59 | 5756573 TalkToLind
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I'm with you.  I'm calling this the MSM News Bubble and it is officially pricked.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 18:18 | 5756511 juujuuuujj
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Why should being part of the military, or taking part in a gunfight, be regarded as valorous at all? So much so that people stoop to making up stories in order to raise their authority, or build a career. Ok, you've participated in, or stood near a big human tragedy... Great...

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 17:47 | 5756528 geno-econ
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Brian's behavior stems from network News  competition for audience ratings in a declining industry. Chances are he was encouraged to create a persona to retain popularity and therefore the investigation should include his producer, director, cameramen and other NBC staff who must have known and were  complicit in hiding facts.  As a person, Brian is well liked in his local community  and participates in civic affairs and charitable efforts including Memorial Day parades etc.  As we are all prone to exaggerate for purposes of ego satisfaction, it is sad to see this turn of events for Brian as an individual. However, it is also a serious breach of trust as a journalist and therefore should involve some sort of penalty depending on facts revealed by the investigation.  Lastly, networks should concentrate on reporting basic jn depth world and US " news"  rather than "stories"   that appeal to the lowest audience denominator for TV ratings.  That alone would reduce the need for TV News Personalities 

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 20:11 | 5756965 withglee
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I think we'll be getting an ever increasing and more appalling dose of this until the reset, when they return to "honest and credible news" which will be of the quality we are experiencing right now. Climbing out of the sewer they create will make it look refreshing and clean.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 20:15 | 5756977 Umh
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When connected people get caught.

Sat, 02/07/2015 - 20:16 | 5756980 patb
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No S&*t, There we were....

 

5 words that would have saved Brian Williams a week of misery...

 

If he had added in,  the crew dodging Supersonic Mig-25s, and the crew chief strapping on a M-60

and hanging out the back engaging the jets while the pilots rolled the CH-47 through an immelman turn with one rotor out,  now,  that would be a war story....

 

 

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