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Patterico (9c670f) — 2/7/2015 @ 2:19 pmto have a lying whore with absolutely no credibility anchoring the news at NBC in an election year is a nice stroke of luck for Team R
happyfeet (831175) — 2/7/2015 @ 2:22 pmIs that 100% necessary?
I just checked, and of the last 20 comments that contained some variant of the word “whore,” you made 15 of them, happy.
I’m guessing there are people who don’t appreciate it, is all.
Patterico (9c670f) — 2/7/2015 @ 2:28 pmI guess his family has been asking for him to spend time with them.
Perfectly understandable.
Mike K (90dfdc) — 2/7/2015 @ 2:31 pmpeople with no integrity what sell themselves for money
they are what they are
it’s America
the media and the government are chock full of w-word people
a pikachu calls it like he sees it
but i can add this to the list of words that we self-censor here i guess
so now we have the r word and the t word and the w word
i’m a start a spreadsheet
happyfeet (831175) — 2/7/2015 @ 2:37 pmThere is just this one thing. BW knows where all the bodies are at NBC. He can wreck the enterprise if he doesn’t get the severance settlement/back room influence he wants.
f1guyus (9cbd15) — 2/7/2015 @ 2:52 pmOf course, I never assumed Brian Williams had any credibility to start with so I can’t say he has lost what he ever had since he had none in my view.
The really strange part is that he originally told the truth about this event just days after it happened. And then he started lying his butt off. And he continued doing so for nearly 12 years. And he knew there were people who knew the truth. What kind of person lies, knowing other people can disprove his lies by quote his own words on the matter?
What kind of person is Brian Williams? How smart does he think he is? How stupid does he think we are?
UNBELIEVABLE!!!
WarEagle82 (b18ccf) — 2/7/2015 @ 3:04 pmNBC has announced that Commander McBragg will fill in for Brian Williams while he is on hiatus.
Chuck Bartowski (3e0e89) — 2/7/2015 @ 3:06 pmThey had to do this. Multiple fabulist “rememberings” suggest a fairly serious problem with the man’s character and ethics. The Hollywood reporter says this is possibly a result of Williams chasing celebrity for years. The article points out that there is a vast difference between being famous as a news anchor, and being a celebrity news anchor.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/brian-williams-years-courting-celebrity-770876
elissa (8bdad3) — 2/7/2015 @ 3:06 pmLay off my man BriWi. Didn’t you see his game-saving pick in the Superb Owl?
dee nile (80a45f) — 2/7/2015 @ 3:15 pmMaybe he can spend some time “slow jamming” his brags now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bWfuENnxjI
Loving Chuck B’s reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4roxM8hUMk
Simon Jester (c8876d) — 2/7/2015 @ 3:19 pmReally?
Dana (8e74ce) — 2/7/2015 @ 3:20 pmhe paid someone good money for that sentence
happyfeet (831175) — 2/7/2015 @ 3:28 pmHe’s basically a teleprompter reader who sometimes reads said teleprompter from exotic locations. He is paid about $10 million per year to do this, supposedly because of all the trust we place in him and what he tells us about what happened today.
So he and NBC are sort of hoisted on their own petard of hot air. I don’t think he will enjoy his millions much in retirement though, with that nagging feeling that he wasn’t worth a nickel of it.
Patricia (5fc097) — 2/7/2015 @ 3:53 pmto have a lying whore
Is that 100% necessary?
I just checked, and of the last 20 comments that contained some variant of the word “whore,” you made 15 of them, happy.
I’m guessing there are people who don’t appreciate it, is all.
Patterico (9c670f) — 2/7/2015 @ 2:28 pm
Who are these people?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/7/2015 @ 4:08 pmIt helps i=to get a DVD or NetFlix version of Broadcast News once in a while and watch it. It brings back reality for a week or two. Then there is the “Murray Gell-Mann effect.”
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
— Michael Crichton
Works for TV news,
Mike K (90dfdc) — 2/7/2015 @ 4:09 pmWilliams has run out of tears crying all the way to the bank.
Jack (a742cc) — 2/7/2015 @ 4:16 pm==Williams has run out of tears crying all the way to the bank.==
You are correct that with his multi million dollar contracts he is a very wealthy man assuming he invested wisely. From a financial perspective and at his age he probably does not need to ever worry about working another day in his life. But I get the feeling it’s the fame, and being “important”, and being seen that means more to Mr. Williams than the money.
elissa (8bdad3) — 2/7/2015 @ 4:37 pmthere’s no end of pickles in the media explaining how it’s really not so bad, what Brian Williams done
happyfeet (831175) — 2/7/2015 @ 4:46 pmMandela? Perhaps not earth shattering inconsistencies, but still telling of Williams’ weird penchant for embellishment via not very carefully chosen words over a period of years about the same event.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/07/brian-williams-told-two-different-stories-about-his-1994-interview-with-nelson-mandela-video/
elissa (8bdad3) — 2/7/2015 @ 4:55 pmMaybe just use it a little less?
Patterico (9c670f) — 2/7/2015 @ 5:02 pmok i will henceforth endeavor to be judicious
happyfeet (831175) — 2/7/2015 @ 5:03 pmBrian Williams from a purely superficial standpoint would never have struck me as the type who’d be such a con artist, as perhaps even worse than the proverbial used-car salesman or a male version of Hillary Clinton. The only thing now that would be truly startling about him to me is if he revealed he’s a rightwing Republican. But that he and his type are almost always of the left is one reason why liberal societies tend to end up so corrupt, in various shapes and forms.
Mark (c160ec) — 2/7/2015 @ 5:11 pmI think Lester Holt will tell us the truth and if you don’t believe him you most certainly are racist.
mg (31009b) — 2/7/2015 @ 5:12 pm23. Mark (c160ec) — 2/7/2015 @ 5:11 pm
As happyfeet said about his written statement today, he probably paid someone good money….to give him the advice to lie like this.
Maybe the first one, in March 2003, which was limited at first, was almost accidental, cased by a misunderstanding by other people at NBC, or spur of the moment. I am not sure he would have had a paid consultant at the time, although I’m sure he did have an agent to negotiate contracts, and anyway, that couldn’t have been planned. There had to be a real helicopter forced down.
But from 2005 on, I get the feeling someone was giving him advice, and maybe even coming up with the lies.
Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 2/7/2015 @ 5:23 pmWarEagle82 (b18ccf) — 2/7/2015 @ 3:04 pm
No, he didn’t. He hsad no connection with the other helicopter, except that on the way back they saw a helicopter that had landed and went down next to it. I think they may have taken off again soon, but had to land again because of a sandstorm. He may have been out of touch with NBC, or at least unable to file arport, for nearly two days. He also may have lied aboutthe crew of the downed helicopter not being wiling to be interviewed.
What NBC is probably investigating, is not the truth of statements he made on other networks, on radio, in interviews, or even on other NBC nonfiction programs (we’re not talking about 30 Tock) , but whether any lies, attributable to him, got onto an NBC news program – and it probably did, even though they are probably smaller, which would mean he is out.
There is also another problem. Stars and Stripes reported:
That’s not actually what the video says – it does NOT say his helicopter came under fire – but somebody must have labeled the archive that way.
Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 2/7/2015 @ 5:38 pm7. WarEagle82 (b18ccf) — 2/7/2015 @ 3:04 pm
A. Bill or Hillary Clinton.
That’s why I would say he was probably paying somebody good money to advise him to do this.
An interesting question would be who is this person, and what else does he do, or who does he know?
Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 2/7/2015 @ 5:43 pmWhore?
I think not.
Williams gets paid to tell a story that fits the narrative, so he is kinda like that guy Epsteins
spokeshole.
So when you say whore maybe you mean sell out instead of whore? Whore is a harsh word, the Mexican people use vendido which means “sell out” but with the connotation of he or she sold it all. All. Whatever you want the whore sells it. The “vendido” may sell body or soul, so the only thing in this whoreish scandal that needs attention is “who is the whore trying to please”
The Mexican people use vendido before they’d use puta or whore, so puta is harsher than sell out, but calling someone “whore” is OK as long as you are willing to exchange gunfire.
So lets agree not to say whore, because whore is so direct and harsh of a word that many people cannot read the word whore without freaking out.
So lets not say whore and use instead use “sellout” instead of whore. That way whore is less prevalent of a word here in case some juveniles enter the conversation and run into the word whore and the answer becomes “whore did this and whore and that” along with too much talk about “whore behavior”. Besides, everyone knows that in DC and Sacramento, whores are called escorts.
So stop saying whore and please use blandeshmint and euphanism in place of whore.
We will all be less offended,
Steve
steveg (794291) — 2/7/2015 @ 5:44 pmok fine Mr. steve I’m a steal your favorite word and ride it like a two dollar pickle
see how you like it
happyfeet (831175) — 2/7/2015 @ 5:57 pmThe knives are out. In her column for tomorrow Maureen Dowd claims that BW’s tendency to embellish is well known and has been joked about in the news division for some time. She uses the word “pathological”. She also said people think he wants to appear “Hemingwayesque”, hence the bullets- whizzing- by flourishes to his stories.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-anchors-aweigh.html?_r=0
elissa (8bdad3) — 2/7/2015 @ 6:05 pmin his whole life Brian Williams has never been in danger of
happyfeet (831175) — 2/7/2015 @ 6:09 pmbeing hit by an rpgappearing Hemingwayesquenot even if that puppy had six toes
happyfeet (831175) — 2/7/2015 @ 6:11 pmThe closest he will ever get to Hemmingway is if someone would show him how to use a sewing machine properly.
Gazzer (e441dc) — 2/7/2015 @ 6:13 pm“Because if I don’t “self Impose” this Hiatus, they’ll break my arms and kick
me out anyway.”
I’m imagining the voice in his head saying something like that.
It’s like when they talk about “voluntary compliance” on paying your taxes.
jakee308 (f0aa61) — 2/7/2015 @ 6:28 pmThe root of the problem is partial disassociation from reality, where confabulated fear suppresses or replaces actual memory.
htom (4ca1fa) — 2/7/2015 @ 6:30 pmWhen you’ve lost Maureen Dowd … you ought to send her a box of chocolates. The two-pound size.
nk (dbc370) — 2/7/2015 @ 6:35 pmOr when they get caught playing away from home and “self impose” treatment for sex addiction. Funny, it’s never before they get caught.
Gazzer (e441dc) — 2/7/2015 @ 6:35 pmIf by “several days” you mean forever.
Gazzer (e441dc) — 2/7/2015 @ 6:45 pmSince his peers, the MSM who read the DNC talking points daily to the masses, never honestly called out William Jefferson Clinton concerning his perjury while President why is anyone surprised this POS is lair
highpockets (cac6a4) — 2/7/2015 @ 6:48 pmlair= liar
highpockets (cac6a4) — 2/7/2015 @ 6:48 pmI just saw some wag refer to it as “Chopperquiddick.”
Gazzer (e441dc) — 2/7/2015 @ 6:52 pmFifty Shades of Grey – Sneak Peaks
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2015/02/fifty-shades-of-grey-sneak-peaks.html
Steve (80dc64) — 2/7/2015 @ 7:13 pmPuppygate
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/7/2015 @ 7:13 pmpolitician = whore = media elite = slut = talking head = strawberry = politician = prostitute = tramp = reporter = sex w*rker = civil servant = round heels =…
later, rinse, repeat.
when you are offended by what you see, sometimes, when all other civil discourse and other less contentious options have failed, the only thing left is “offensive” language, since polite, rational discourse has been ineffective.
no offense to our host, since it IS your house, but frankly, from my POV, calling the slime we have today by the most offensive, pejorative but accurate term we can come up with is a civic duty… if they are offended, so much the better, but i have little to no sympathy with those who aren’t already offended by anything other than my language.
YMMV.
redc1c4 (dab236) — 2/7/2015 @ 7:19 pmNixon’s resignation was self-imposed.
Beldar (fa637a) — 2/7/2015 @ 7:27 pmNext week on MSNBC: “Truthiness, starring Dan Rather and Brian Williams! All the news that ought to be!”
Beldar (fa637a) — 2/7/2015 @ 7:28 pmBrian Williams, if that’s his real name…
Gazzer (e441dc) — 2/7/2015 @ 7:42 pmi think Letterman is being left off the hook way to readily. seems that his staffers and he should have known the true story as BW first told it.
Never saw him do the news or the other shows, do remember his reporting days.
seeRpea (8193fc) — 2/7/2015 @ 7:42 pmand yeah, when it was announced that he was taking over for Brokaw , the
movie Broadcast News came to mind.
Ladies of negotiable affection works for me; courtesan is nice; and sweet cream ladies is a sentimental favorite from my youth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IuDbrjSH1g
nk (dbc370) — 2/7/2015 @ 7:50 pmI think what NBC was really afraid of was this metastasizing into a look at other whoopers he told his viewers. Like the Katrina lies.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/7/2015 @ 8:08 pmHe’s basically a teleprompter reader who sometimes reads said teleprompter from exotic locations. He is paid about $10 million per year to do this, supposedly because of all the trust we place in him and what he tells us about what happened today.
So he and NBC are sort of hoisted on their own petard of hot air. I don’t think he will enjoy his millions much in retirement though, with that nagging feeling that he wasn’t worth a nickel of it.
Patricia (5fc097) — 2/7/2015 @ 3:53 pm
He’s got low self esteem.
AZ Bob (34bb80) — 2/7/2015 @ 8:16 pmPraps he’ll give it back then?
Gazzer (e441dc) — 2/7/2015 @ 8:30 pmKevin M (25bbee) — 2/7/2015 @ 8:08 pm
There are about half a dozen of them.
1. The floating dead body where there probably wasn’t any flooding.
2. Contracting dysentry from accidently ingested floodwater.
3. The gangs at the hotel.
4. Being rescued in a stairwell by a policeman, with whom he’s friends with to this day.
5. The suicide at the superdome that he witnessed, and later told a version in which he didn’t witness it.
6. People being shot. (maybe that’s the same as #3)
There are also maybe supposed to be problems with what he said about the Haiti earthquake in 2010, although maybe just the claims of what he was reminded of.
Then there is the puppy he rescued froma fire as a teenager in New Jersey, and the man who later died of the agent-Orange related cancer he had, whom he was visiting in a hospital when he got paged by NBC and told to come in because of the Princess Diana car crash in Paris. Not necessarily false, but people want proof, now.
Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 2/7/2015 @ 9:56 pmSo he’s a teleprompter reader who can lie through his teeth repeatedly without batting an eye. He should run for president.
edoc118 (f28ec0) — 2/7/2015 @ 11:06 pm“COURAGE” and I have “Papers” regarging W.
Gus (7cc192) — 2/7/2015 @ 11:18 pmEdoc118. He reads the “NEWS” that HE, DECIDES, is OR is NOT …..”NEWS”. Orwell has already SHAT his pants.
Gus (7cc192) — 2/7/2015 @ 11:20 pmJohn Kerry. John Kerry is OBVIOUSLY a FRAUD. It does not take a GENIUS nor A PULITZER PRIZE winning LIBTARD reporter to understand this. JOHN KERRY is a LYING…FRAUD. Yet, the LEFT and the MSM will not acknowledge this FACT. John Kerry has LIED all of his life. Hillary Rodham has LIED all of HER LIFE. OBJECTIVELY, any person who wasn’t a CLOWN and FOOL would realize this.
Gus (7cc192) — 2/7/2015 @ 11:27 pmWe are dealing with IDEOLOGICAL LEFTISTS and COMMUNISTS, who would not recognize THE TRUTH, if the TRUTH was their only link to survival.
Here’s hoping that they replace him with a credible reporter, like Dan Rather.
Ipso Fatso (10964d) — 2/8/2015 @ 12:54 amkatie Courics still circling the waters hoping for bite.
jakee308 (f0aa61) — 2/8/2015 @ 5:22 amRosie O’Donnell is available.
ropelight (b4bdff) — 2/8/2015 @ 5:51 amHere’s hoping that they replace him with a credible reporter, like Dan Rather.
What’s truly pathetic is there are people out there (just about all of the left) who’d consider your statement as being serious and non-sarcastic, and would nod heartily with approval. I say that based on some opinions I’ve seen voiced recently about an even bigger swindler, Hillary Clinton, much less the guy she’s married to.
Mark (c160ec) — 2/8/2015 @ 6:04 amthe life of brian so they say
scott (c53a5d) — 2/8/2015 @ 7:30 amis one of thorns and nettles along the way
when one sees too many bodies bobbing
and rpg’s flyin’
then lefty delusions become truth for
lyin’ brian
Questions about another Williams’ story, this one from when he was a teenager.
DRJ (e80d46) — 2/8/2015 @ 8:06 amPerhaps Williams can clear the air with his upcoming appearance on Lettermen?
No. That show needs a Glade bomb even without his presence.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/8/2015 @ 8:17 amAs we’ve come to discover, NBC knew for years about Williams’ embellishments. He was not reigned in, suspended for his fabrications, nor disciplined (as far as we’ve been informed). And why would they? NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams has been a ratings bonanza. Making money was the priority, not honest journalism.
Dana (8e74ce) — 2/8/2015 @ 8:27 amAs to Brian being the face of NBC News, I think (in the immortal words of baseball sportscaster Hawk Harrelson), “He gone!”
elissa (1aeb58) — 2/8/2015 @ 8:39 amBW would make a great press secretary for the liar in chief.
mg (31009b) — 2/8/2015 @ 8:49 am61… Bingo! That they could further the Liberal narrative was a bonus, for them.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/8/2015 @ 9:06 am61. 64., His huge new multi- year contract signed just in Dec. 2014 says it all with respect to NBC. I still don’t think he’s going to survive this though. In a few days he’s going to “resign” to “do the right thing for his profession” so he can convince himself he’s a stand up guy, not just a habitual fabulist.
elissa (b3f012) — 2/8/2015 @ 9:44 amNBC needs a personality to head the evening news. else they won’t draw the advertising revenue.
seeRpea (8193fc) — 2/8/2015 @ 9:52 amBW wasn’t paid 10mil due to his journalistic chops but because they could bill out the time on his broadcasts for 200mil.
Sorry for the post with the w word.
steveg (794291) — 2/8/2015 @ 10:18 amLapse in character, judgement.
Please do it.
mg (31009b) — 2/8/2015 @ 10:36 amhttp://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/02/08/no-joke-brian-williams-strongly-considering-clearing-up-scandal-on-comedy-show/
I blame William Shakespeare. Specifically the St. Crispin’s Day speech: from Henry V by William Shakespeare.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/8/2015 @ 11:39 amAnd those egotists who hold their manhood cheap.
Elissa (#65),
THe resignation will be about “perceptions” and “attacks” not about what Williams did.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/8/2015 @ 12:40 pmWilliams is a symptom:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/02/cognitive_dissidents.html
narciso (ee1f88) — 2/8/2015 @ 1:49 pmQuestions about another Williams’ story, this one from when he was a teenager.
It’s not being glib to now consider Williams’ dishonesty as reaching the level of pathological.
Mark (c160ec) — 2/8/2015 @ 2:00 pmIn case anyone is still interested in Brian Williams’ problems, Business Insider staff has noticed that the internet is having great deal of fun with him, and has compiled some of the best efforts they’ve seen mocking him. Brian’s apparently been a busy boy. There is substantial “photographic” documentation of Brian participating in a number of the events of history.
http://www.businessinsider.com/brian-williams-misremembers-memes-2015-2
elissa (8789dc) — 2/8/2015 @ 4:56 pm77. But BrianWilliamsMisrembers gets it all wrong. It wasn’t that Brian Williams put himself in places where he wasn’t – it is that he made up stories about things that happened where he indeed was.
There was a very good cartoon on “Page 6” of the New York Post (it’s gotten deeper into the paper since it started in 1976 – it was all the way down to page 18) on Friday.
At the moment, it’s the second cartoon from the top on this page:
http://bokbluster.com/
This is not a permalink.
It shows a man in a helicopter flying over a 2-lane road, with grass growing on the edges of the road. The only thing on the road is a horse and carriage. Maybe it’s Amish country in Pennsylvania, or maybe the idea is only slow traffic. The helicopter has the NBC logo toward the back.
And the man in the helicopter is saying:
Sammy Finkelman (e806a6) — 2/8/2015 @ 6:06 pmOh good grief. Now it is being reported that he blew off hosting a Medal of Honor dinner in order to do a cameo on SNL. He was actually scheduled to do it but he showed up and said he had a pressing engagement and left them in the lurch. On the day of the event.
Gazzer (e441dc) — 2/8/2015 @ 6:13 pmhttps://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/564182357653987328
narciso (ee1f88) — 2/8/2015 @ 8:01 pmI’m going on a self-imposed haiku…
lying talking head
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/8/2015 @ 8:58 pmyou can run but you can’t hide
Rather you shut up
Reading what he actually wrote, I don’t think Brian Williams went on hiatus.
He just removed himself from the air.
He continued as “managing editor”
I don’t know who misled the press.
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 2/9/2015 @ 1:49 pm