Brian Williams Lied About Being Shot Down in Iraq?

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Williams blew of vets (Congressional Medal of Honor) to go on SNL

But when he arrived on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006, Williams told committee members Tom Lyons and Neal Santangelo that a “pressing engagement” back in New York prevented him from doing much more than greeting the audience of more than 1,000 guests … and leaving.

As disappointed as Lyons and Santangelo were, they still arranged for a police escort to rush Williams through the tunnel to catch his plane back to NYC.

After the banquet, as Santangelo, Lyons and other committee members relaxed in a lounge at the Colonnade Hotel, Neal Santangelo’s wife phoned from their room to say she knew why Brian Williams had to bail out of a Medal of Honor banquet.

She was watching the chiseled face of “NBC Nightly News” ham it up with Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler in a Weekend Update sketch on “Saturday Night Live.”

WAY more at the link.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_op...zinis_brian_williams_snub_of_vets_no_laughing
 
It sure looks like everyone is out for blood Re BW.....I think ny daily news had like 7 different BW stories on their website this am. From the looks of it he apparently isn't very well liked. Jmo
 
I think that his explanation of trying to honour a soldier is even more pathetic and offensive then his initial lies. He needs to stop trying to make himself look better and needs to have the moral courage to admit that what he did was wrong and for attention.
 
NBC crisis talks to decide the fate of Brian Williams: CEO and execs hold summit over lying anchor

Nightly News anchor Brian Williams is engulfed in a growing scandal after he admitted to lying about a 2003 Iraq war story

NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke held a meeting with NBC News executives on Sunday to discuss what to do next

The network has so far refused to comment on when or whether Williams will return and who will decide his future

The embattled anchor has backed out of an appearance on David Letterman's Late Show scheduled for Thursday

Over the weekend a series of examples emerged which appear to show a pattern of Williams embellishing and exaggerating old stories

Former Today show host Katie Couric tweeted on Monday that she had no interest in replacing Williams - despite rumors linking her with his job

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ing-Brian-Williams-scandal.html#ixzz3RH33heSJ
 
I had no idea how sick he said he was during Katrina:

The newsman made it back to the Ritz. Sickness was coming on strong. He was “fading in and out,” he said. “Somebody left me on the stairway of the Ritz-Carlton in the dark on a mattress.” Williams said he was delirious with fever and unable to eat.

But dangers beyond dysentery stalked the hotel. That same day, Brinkley wrote, “armed gangs had broken into the 527-room hotel, brandishing guns and terrorizing guests.” Williams said he lay “eight or ten steps from the exit door. They were going to lock in or down the Ritz, shut it to keep the gangs out. Nobody was allowed out. No exceptions.”

Somebody tried to push an IV on him, which Brinkley said Williams was “desperately in need of” but nobly declined. “There were so many ill people in line who needed it more than me,” Williams said. “My conscience wouldn’t have felt right if I had tried to pull rank. But I was in pure hell. I had no medicine, nothing.”

He eventually made a break for it, “wading” out into what is described as “two feet of floodwater, barely able to stand.” In front of the hotel, a violent confrontation loomed. “A gang was waiting on the streetcar tracks in front of the Ritz, ready to ‘smash and grab,’ as Williams put it, to take the vehicle.” Some Louisiana National Guardsmen then materialized to confront the marauders and ensure the “NBC trio didn’t get their escape vehicle hijacked. ‘They aimed weapons at the men on the street,’ Williams recalled. ‘Then we were on our own.’” Somehow, Williams said, he soldiered on, making all of his broadcasts.

much more at the link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-williams-said-terrorized-him-during-katrina/
 
^^I'm thinking his next career could be.... Hollywood Screenwriter!
 
mister happy said:
^^I'm thinking his next career could be.... Hollywood Screenwriter!
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Yes, telling tales!

He won't recover enough to salvage his job as managing editor and news anchor. I liked the guy's sense of humor...he's wickedly witty when he's on Letterman. But making up stories, like saying he saw a body float by his French Quarter hotel after Katrina? Uncool and kinda pathological. He has lost his cred.
 
Oh, my.... I need to go back and listen to these audios again but BW really seems to backtrack when his Iraq story was questioned by this interviewer:

"Brian Williams struggles to explain Iraq helicopter lie in newly released audio"

"The veteran news reader stammered and rambled when he found himself the subject of an interview about his chopper ride tall tale, newly release audio reveals."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...explain-lies-interview-tape-article-1.2108834
 
NBC News Execs Divided on Brian Williams’s Fate

http://www.nationalreview.com/corne...s-divided-brian-williamss-fate-eliana-johnson

The members of this camp have drawn out two potential succession plans, one in which Lester Holt steps into the anchor spot full-time — Holt is subbing for Williams while the latter is on leave — and the other in which Williams’s predecessor, Tom Brokaw, steps in on an interim basis until Today show host Matt Lauer can assume the position. Both pose risks: the former because Holt rates poorly and there is little hope that he could put up the ratings numbers that have made NBC’s Nightly News the top-rated newscast, the latter because yanking Lauer from the Today show, a big money maker for the network, threatens its success at a time when it has already faced enormous challenges after falling behind Good Morning America in the wake of Ann Curry’s controversial departure.
 
NBC will resolve Brian Williams controversy ‘today or tomorrow’: sources

Brian Williams could lose his job, be slapped with a lengthy suspension or even return to the broadcast with a more heartfelt, honest — and specific — apology than the one he offered last week, according to sources. They say the issue of Williams’ tall tale about riding in a helicopter attacked in Iraq remains the top concern among NBC brass.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...haha-today-tomorrow-sources-article-1.2109987
 
Well, if he survived a hit from an RPG, he can survive this. :)
 
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