Thursday, February 5, 2015

War Story

NBC News anchor Brian Williams apologizes for remembering something that didn’t happen to him.

I yield the floor to those who were there and who know all too well how combat — or even just the proximity of it — can alter the perceptions.

I find this to be a pretty big nothing-burger. He wasn’t trying to personally profit from the situation, he was just trying to do something nice for the CSM. He even initially accurately reported what happened, and only now seems to have screwed up the narrative. And he immediately apologized when he realized he was wrong, on facebook in the thread where he was confronted, and again on tv…

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And no, liberals, this is not the same as Hillary’s sniper fire bullshit, in which she completely made up stuff to embellish herself. Here, Williams just misspoke (misremembered/whatever blows your trumpet) in a tribute to an American soldier.

I don’t watch his network news program enough to care about Brian Williams, but, like John Cole, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and hope that this is end of it, although I have my doubts.  This is just the sort of shiny-object thing that fills the vast void of what passes for public discourse today.

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  1. The pilot of the helicopter in which he was actually riding, the second in the “parade”, had to wake him up at the end of the flight. No wonder Brian was confused. Let’s all give him a pass on this. Yes, I’m so old I still watch the news on teevee.

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