As Brian Williams tries his best to get out from under the big lie, several commentators have said he should be a goner.
Jim Eason, the former KGO/KSFO talker sends this into 415 Media:
"Brian Williams, NBC News, has been lying for over a decade. In 2003, he went to the mideast to report from there, and after ahelicopter trip, claimed his helicopter was hit by ground fire. A chopper was hit, about a mile in front of his chopper, and he wasnever in danger, and his plane was never hit.
He was on the ground at the air base for about three days while the damaged plane was repaired.
After returning to the US, he continued to report that he was IN a helicopter that was hit by ground fire...and he repeated thatLIE for years - even on television. When the military paper, The Stars and Stripes, had the story, Williams apologized on hisnews program, and repeated a lame story that he had been confused.
That is a damned lie, not confusion, unless he was confused for more than 10 years until the lie was almost uncovered.
Remember this, every time you see Lyin' Brian Williams on the news. He should be fired!!! How many brave Americans wereshot out of the sky and died, while Lyin' Brian claimed he had survived a hit.I will never watch that liar again, and I hope you will ignore him as well...if not, just remember...he may be making up news."
I'd heard some reports concerning Brian Williams but didn't know what they were about. I don't like anyone losing their job, but if you've publicly incorporated this knowingly false sense of heroism into your resume for years, you should be fired.
ReplyDeleteGod Bless Jim Eason.
ReplyDeleteWe miss him every day when we are forced to listen to people who can't carry his microphone.
I still chuckle every time I hear someone on the news use the word "basically" to begin every sentence.
He and Lee Rodgers rocked the radio. No wonder AM radio sucks now. Full of wanna bees.
As for Lyin' Brian, I stopped listening to network news years ago. He'll never resign...that would take honor...and we know any of the network talking heads sold their honor years ago.
Eason needs to start a blog!
Maybe Brain Williams snapped after seeing his daughter in Girls, You know the scene I am talking about. Getting her behind eaten!
ReplyDeleteDoesn't surprise me a bit. I had long ago lost respect for Williams when he spent an evening driving OJ around in the white Bronco.
ReplyDeleteDon't you mean AJ Cowlings?
DeleteHow much have you been drinking?
DeleteMaybe he should simply switch jobs with his daughter, hard to imagine a more perfect Peter Pan.
ReplyDeleteEason is right on! Not surprised by lying Brian. He's one of the power structure sycophants on network news who failed to question the disastrous war in Iraq. He's one those who gets a boner when a general shows up to an interview wearing his uniform. The disaster in Iraq has now given us ISIL. Why are we surprised lying Brian tried to make himself be some sort of hero? His ass should've been fired for not questioning the war in Iraq and definitely for this lie. What a jerk. CNN played audio of him constantly changing his story over the years and soldiers who were there knew he was lying!
ReplyDeleteHe needs to find new employment. Not in journalism.
ReplyDeleteNot sure why people, such as Ronn Owens, are defending him. Check the policies at your job and you will probably find lying under gross misconduct. That alone should get him canned. The fact that he lied about something like this while people were getting injured and killed, doesn't help.
ReplyDeleteI had enjoyed watching Brian Williams until now. In journalism credibility is a value each and every journalist should strive for. However this speaks volumes about the LACK of credibility.
ReplyDeleteThe man misquoted himself.
ReplyDeleteNo big deal.
David Muir, ABC news, should grab the top spot. I have watched them all and do prefer and like Muir. I have always been leery of Williams due to his strong left leaning and gave up on Pelley when Muir took over on ABC. But, we have to watch a comedy show, Jon Stewart's daily show, to see interesting news stories that should be on the networks, but aren't..
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see if Stewart tackles this. Williams has been on the Daily Show many times.
DeleteI will be disappointed if Stewart does not discuss.
DeleteThey fired Dan Rather over at CBS for less. I agree he should go.
ReplyDeleteFuck Jim Eason
ReplyDeleteBesides being a liar, Brian Williams is a Coward.
ReplyDeleteSay Williams don't try to steal someone else's valor and glory.
Go back to your desk little boy.
I've never heard this story, but it doesn't surprise me. Brian holds himself in high esteem. He use to appear a lot on Letterman's show and really fancies himself as a comic. For quite sometime he reveled in telling a story about, and impersonating, Regis Philbin. Perhaps he coveted Letterman's job? Don't know, but I don't feel any appreciation for him.
ReplyDeleteIt's network news. Anchors are there to read. They are talking heads - nothing more. When they inject personal observations - beware. Newsreaders are not smart. They are only there because they look good on camera. In search of real news? Check multiple sources and stay away from the networks. They are there only for ratings.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly. On the local level Frank Sommerville has daily posts on Facebook which for the most part are "feel good" stories; however recently he posted more political stuff regarding ISIS and stated something along the lines of: "we need to do something".
DeleteI thought it was very inappropriate. He's a news reader not an advocate. A line should be drawn!
Excellent point 1:49.
DeleteThe networks and news papers were at one time held in high esteem, back in the 60s and 70s. But time has marched on they could not keep up.
The way we receive news has changed dramatically for the better.
Nothing will happen to him. He is a liberal, after all. Maybe Pelosi and Reed can put him up for the CMO.
ReplyDeleteHe should have written a book about it, full of exaggerations and lies then had Clint Eastwood make a movie about it. People have little problem with that.
ReplyDeleteRight wingers with penile dysfunction would've been cured momentarily by such a movie as the Sniper has proven...you're so correct!
DeleteAmerican sniper is a movie not a documentary. Williams is expected to be a source of honest, impartial facts. You're grasping at straws.
DeleteI like Jim Eason, but Jim is incorrect. I'm not fan of Brian Williams; in fact, as a news person myself, I'm very unimpressed with TV "talent" generally. lt's my bias after working side-by-side with 'em for years. The helicopter Mr. Williams was riding in was hit by small-arms fire from the ground. It did not penetrate the copter. If you don't believe me, check out Jake Tapper's interview with the copter pilot named Rich Krell. In fact, Mr. Eason, whom I liked but don't know personally, gunners on the the ship returned fire. Mr. Williams was under fire, but he did embellish and I think there are some other inconsistencies. I don't ever watch the standard alphabet channels and usually don't watch the Circus News Network, but today I did and caught the Tapper interview. I don't think Faux News even caught up with it because it was still repeating erroneous information. Credibility is everything in journalism. If you lose it, you are gone. But, Mr. Williams and his network lost all credibility years ago. Why the shock now? Also, if memory serves me correctly, two copters went on to deliver their loads and then had to land due to a sand storm. A patrol or other unit saw them and rescued Williams. They were on a defensive battle siege footing until the rescue, landing their copters in a defensive posture. Fact: his life was in danger. Fact: he was rescued. Fact: his copter was hit by small-arms fire. Fact: gunners on his ship returned fire. Fact: rocket-propelled grenade hit copter in front. Fact: my facts are from the pilot who flew the plane. Fact: Jim Eason should know better, but I agree with Mr. Eason that Mr. Williams' employment should be terminated. However, isn't this the same network that puts Al Sharpton on as a "spokesman" for the African-American community? Check out Black Agenda Report and see what some African-Americans think of Sharpton. NBC is a joke. MSNBC is a joke. Comcast service sucks.
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting this. The only reason I pulled up the comments section was to make a similar comment. By the way, I can't stand Brian Williams either.
DeleteApparently Krell's story is falling apart. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/02/06/nyt-blasts-brian-williams-apology-cnn-pilot-narrative-challenged/
DeleteI don't care either way about Brian Williams - he's OK - I think he's unfairly become the focus of right-wing rage over so-called Liberal Media. That aside, I, Sam Van Zandt, read the first bulletin about Jonestown when I hosted an entertainment show on KRON - I stupidly ad-libbed that Guyana was in South Africa. I never heard the end of it. I never should have been reading the bulletin but the news people were on dinner break, and you know how unions are. Should I have been fired? Maybe - I WAS mocked and made fun of by management. Perhaps I deserved it. Williams is just a human being who embellished a bit. Anyone remember our beloved GREAT COMUNICATOR Ronald Reagan, as President in 1983, telling the prime minister of Israel that he’d filmed the Nazi death camp as a U.S. Army photographer. Reagan also shared a version of his death camp story with Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. But, as Lou Cannon’s March 5, 1984, Washington Post article demonstrated, Reagan couldn’t have possibly filmed the death camp because, by his own admission, he never left the country during World War II. I say we should just move on. And as for Jim Eason, I remember him as a nice guy when he was in the Bay Area. I don't know why, but he's not the nice guy I remember any more.
DeleteWilliams was the first nightly anchor of a so-called "Big Three" network newscast that did not spend a long time as a correspondent, as did Cronkite, Rather, Jennings, Brokaw, et al. Williams was just an anchor who made his way up the market ladder. He is essentially a host, not a news reporter. That doesn't mean he has less credibility automatically, but I don't think his predecessors would have stooped to such a thing.
ReplyDeleteI've always thought of him as kind of like the William Hurt character in Broadcast News, good looking, personable, but not a lot of substance.
DeleteGood point 6:48pm. The film Broadcast News is recommend viewing.
DeleteAs with Dan Rather....it's time for him to go.
ReplyDeleteJust like when Hillary Clinton said that the flight she was on in the middle east a few years back was under fire and they "did a spiral decent into the airport to avoid getting hit by aa fire". The military folks went nuts and said that first lady was never in danger or anywhere near any firefight...or aa fire. Then she stated that she was mistaken...nice.
ReplyDeleteIt was only a matter of time before a right wing hack would make this into a political issue. By tomorrow you'll blame Obama and somehow connect Williams' lies to Benghazi and fast and furious....oy vey!
DeleteI agree with 4:45PM. Just stating the FACTS. No politics there, just the FACTS. Similar claims by Brian Williams.
DeleteFace the FACTS, 5:42PM. You're the person who brought in politics and resorted to name-calling ("right wing hack"). It was only a matter of time before a left wing hack would try to make a defense along party lines rather than acknowledge the FACTS.
The issue is Brian Williams not Hillary nor Nixon nor J. Edgar Hoover nor the Bush family nor Reagan. I know it's hard for right wingers to stay on topic. Everything is the fault of Hillary and Obama in your small brains.
DeleteThe thought that my example of Hillary was either right or left wing never entered my mind...I was actually intending to point out that folks get into the predicaments on their own...whomever the culprit is...typically they invent some embellished self congratulating story to show that they are (fill in the blank...tough, great, proven...whatever) so that they can IMPRESS somebody they don't even know. These are insecure people...they feel the need to lie to make others think they are better than, well, maybe they are. This only demonstrates their narcissism...as in Brian, Hillary...whomever. The notion of politics or a right wing shot being taken...is only because you are insecure (I assume) with your particular political affiliation.
DeleteThis is bad. Bad. He didn't misspeak, or embellish. He created a story, and kept repeating it to larger and larger audiences. Puzzling, because he was getting quite a bit of attention on the national scene as it was, without inventing the drama. Anyway, for your enjoyment, here are some Williams memes..http://pagesix.com/2015/02/05/brian-williams-gets-the-meme-treatment/?_ga=1.139903603.1920088086.1410558964
ReplyDeleteI have no problem with Brian getting the axe but Jim Eason's assertion that
ReplyDeleteBrian may be "making up the news" is ridiculous.
Don't be ridiculous Jim.
Didn't Brian Williams learn about ethics in one of those communications courses he took in college?
ReplyDeleteWilliams is only a high school graduate. He never attended college.
DeleteSorry, my mistake...he attended college but didn't graduate.
DeleteCheck out several stories published in Stars & Stripes. Williams' chopper was hundreds of miles away and only set down to avoid a dust storm. Though in enemy territory, the only danger they faced was weather. http://www.stripes.com/news/us/brian-williams-apology-draws-mixed-reviews-from-mission-vets-1.327935
ReplyDeleteDon't get bogged down in the details. "What does it matter now?" As Dave Letterman said when Brian was a guest of his a few years back, "Brian is a combat correspondent hero". Clap. Clap. Clearly Williams has no shame.
DeleteIf we fired every news media personality who resorted to hyperbole and outright lies... we wouldn't have television news. (a certain network more so than others)
ReplyDeleteYes, NBC would be out.
DeleteMatt Lauer and Tom Brokaw have had their differences in the past, but they seem to be united in their opinion that Williams needs to go.
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