Brian Williams lied about his famous Iraq War encounter

[bagelred]

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/04/media/brian-williams-recants-iraq-story/index.html

:oldlol: What a douche.

[ace23]

Williams is blaming a foggy memory.
Damn near fell out of my chair

[KNOW1EDGE]

Hopefully he loses his job.

It's not okay to lie and make up stories, especially ones involving actual war heroes and the Iraqi war.

[KNOW1EDGE]

So what? It literally couldn't matter less.

Motherf*cker reads news from prompters.

Really?

So because of his job, he's allowed to lie and be a Valor thief? What if he had a dif job? Then it wouldn't be ok?

No, he's a piece of sh1t, anyone who lies about that type of thing is a piece of sh1t.

[Patrick Chewing]

Oh, it's NBC.

[KNOW1EDGE]

Sigh.

Ok, it doesn't bother you.

Liars in general bother me.

And when u start lie in about your experiences in war, that's like spitting in the face of anyone who has ever served in the military. And i have a lot of family members and friends who have served.

Your fine with it, most people are not.

[NoGunzJustSkillz]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9C02HDCIAA3mnH.png:large

[gts]

http://cdn2.crushable.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Allison-Williams-getting-her-butt-eaten-Girls-January-2015-GIF.gif


Brian Williams
I was there when my daughters ass was motorboated. It was quite intense, we had to spend the night there hunkered down in the kitchen

[Practice?]

What a douche.

[KevinNYC]

Well, just to distract us from that story, let's watch Brian Williams daughter get her ass eaten:

Well that took a turn.

I didn't even know that his daughter was an actress.

[Rodmantheman]

He also lied about the Hurricane Katrina coverage.

http://news.yahoo.com/brian-williams--hurricane-katrina-coverage-scrutinized-after-apology-for-iraq-war-story-141800566.html

[bagelred]

My god:


CBS News has learned that the birth name of NBC news anchor Brian Williams is in actuality Abdelkarim Hussein Mohamed Al-Nasser.

:lebronamazed:

[sweggeh]

My god:



:lebronamazed:

That would be some twist :roll:

[theballerFKA Ace]

He ain't no Tom Brokaw.

Tom is probably smoking a big fat cigar right now, knowing his legacy with NBC will never be upstaged by his successor.

[Cactus-Sack]

Hopefully he loses his job.

It's not okay to lie and make up stories, especially ones involving actual war heroes and the Iraqi war.

-War heroes
-Iraq war



HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA







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[KNOW1EDGE]

Do you hate America CactusSack?

I don't think it's very appropriate to mock our veterans.

To each his own tho

[Patrick Chewing]

I remember the time I was hit with small arms fire in Iraq as a member of Navy Seal Team 6 and the Israeli Mossad.

[Cactus-Sack]

Do you hate America CactusSack?

I don't think it's very appropriate to mock our veterans.

To each his own tho

Invading a country for no reason, in a war of outright aggression is among the least heroic things you can do.

[KevinNYC]

Invading a country for no reason, in a war of outright aggression is among the least heroic things you can do.
Yes. But the folks who made that decision almost all didn't serve.

[aj1987]

Invading a country for no reason, in a war of outright aggression is among the least heroic things you can do.
Yeah, because the soldiers were like "**** it. Lets go invade Iraq while we're here". :facepalm

Dumbass.

[embersyc]

Hey I was there.

I saw that RPG hit his helicopter.

[Cactus-Sack]

Yes. But the folks who made that decision almost all didn't serve.

Doesn't make the idiots who signed up to fight in those dumb wars any less retarded and horrible


Yeah, because the soldiers were like "**** it. Lets go invade Iraq while we're here". :facepalm

Dumbass.

Yet they still signed up for it and went over there, like bloodthirsty little unthinking automaton fgts.


Dumb fvck.

[sweggeh]

Brian Williams
I was there when my daughters ass was motorboated. It was quite intense, we had to spend the night there hunkered down in the kitchen


Omg this is so hot.

[aj1987]

Doesn't make the idiots who signed up to fight in those dumb wars any less retarded and horrible

Yet they still signed up for it and went over there, like bloodthirsty little unthinking automaton fgts.


Dumb fvck.
They didn't sign up to fight in a specific war, ****tard. They don't get to chose their battles.

[Lakers Legend#32]

Forget about Brian Williams, I waiting for Dick Cheney's Iraq War apology.

[bigkingsfan]

He also lied about playing for the Bulls.

[gts]

Brian Williams leaving NBC for some time off....

[Cactus-Sack]

They didn't sign up to fight in a specific war, ****tard. They don't get to chose their battles.

You choose whether or not to be in the military you dumb fvck. Ain't no draft in 03 you fvcking dullard.

[SexSymbol]

Well, most of war stories and timelines and "facts" are made up, so what?

[KevinNYC]

These people are perpetual liars... every other report by MSM is pretty much concocted bullshit. Been saying this for quite some time on here.. not surprised one bit.

They participated in the war propaganda, 9/11 coverup, demonization of Ahmadinejad/Iran etc etc.. it's not just Brian ****ing Williams.. it's all of the major news networks. Every single one of them.. well maybe not all.. there are a few truth tellers.. but by in large they're all a bunch of KevinNYC ******s.Good lord, you're a 9/11 truther AND an Ahmadinejad fan?

[aj1987]

You choose whether or not to be in the military you dumb fvck. Ain't no draft in 03 you fvcking dullard.
Good god, you're an idiot. :facepalm

[dude77]

nbc president, a female brit(didn't know that one) is talking about letting him go .. 13m/yr salary down the drain .. he probably thought no one would question his story(s) or make a big deal about it

[dude77]

You choose whether or not to be in the military you dumb fvck. Ain't no draft in 03 you fvcking dullard.


Good god, you're an idiot. :facepalm


:oldlol:

[Cactus-Sack]

Good god, you're an idiot. :facepalm

Awesome, well thought out argument sir. I certainly respect you as an intellectual equal.

[Eric Cartman]

Forget about Brian Williams, I waiting for Dick Cheney's Iraq War apology.

I'd put my eggs in some other basket...

[KNOW1EDGE]

Cactus, we get it, you are a liberal v@g1na who hates America and all the people who defend your freedom to be an idiot.

Stick to posting in the BTE

[ROCSteady]

Fck this guy.


When I get my Master's in Journalism I will cook ppl like him.


Bess beleee dat

[Cactus-Sack]

Cactus, we get it, you are a liberal v@g1na who hates America and all the people who defend your freedom to be an idiot.

Stick to posting in the BTE

Not American, not a lefty and invading Iraq has what to do with defending freedom? Really, I'd like to know what in what way idiots like you think Iraq was threatening American freedom.

You have a president who has assumed unilateral control over who is and is not allowed to live (see Abdulrahman al-awlaki), but Iraq is an existential threat to American freedom...







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[bagelred]

Cactus, we get it, you are a liberal v@g1na who hates America and all the people who defend your freedom to be an idiot.


"Defend your freedom" :oldlol: you are like a conservatives wet dream. No one is taking away our "freedom". The only ones who can do that is the government...which they've become great at. Patriot Act ring a bell?

[GimmeThat]

We do live in a world where apparently people can be liable to pay for child support to a kid that isnt even theirs.


As for "defending the freedom"....


Might as well tell me that embassies are made out of tits, and not refined agreements.

[aj1987]

Awesome, well thought out argument sir. I certainly respect you as an intellectual equal.
Don't need one, when you're calling out soldiers the way you did/do. Must be nice hating on troops from your fat-boy chair. Stay salty, kid.

[KNOW1EDGE]

If you guys are curious as to how the military protects our freedoms I suggest you use Google

I'm not gonna write a novel on here. And it's pretty straight forward and not a very tough concept to grasp, for most.

[aj1987]

It's 2015, why the fvck are you still defending the pieces of shit who chose to invade another country and murder innocent people (yes that includes soldiers) ~Guess who

I defend them because they give you the right to call them "pieces of shit". Try living in any middle east country and please try calling out the leaders.... Dat freedom of speech though! They're known for that, right?

[Cactus-Sack]

Don't need one, when you're calling out soldiers the way you did/do. Must be nice hating on troops from your fat-boy chair. Stay salty, kid.


I defend them because they give you the right to call them "pieces of shit". Try living in any middle east country and please try calling out the leaders.... Dat freedom of speech though! They're known for that, right?

Sorry buddy, I'm not a burgerclap. However I tend to agree with the US constitution, whose opening salvo is:


We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Rights do not come from soldiers, they are inherent. It is only possible for soldiers to defend life or when those things are actually threatened, which is not remotely true about the Iraq war.

However, during the Iraq war 134,000-152,000 Iraqi civilians died (https://www.iraqbodycount.org/) as a result of the US led invasion.

[JohnFreeman]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/05/255E88C500000578-0-image-a-36_1423160262496.jpg

[aj1987]

Sorry buddy, I'm not a burgerclap. However I tend to agree with the US constitution, whose opening salvo is:



Rights do not come from soldiers, they are inherent. It is only possible for soldiers to defend life or when those things are actually threatened, which is not remotely true about the Iraq war.

However, during the Iraq war 134,000-152,000 Iraqi civilians died (https://www.iraqbodycount.org/) as a result of the US led invasion.
And how many soldiers voted to expand the war into Iraq? As I said, you can't blame soldiers for a war which politicians decided to fight.

Those numbers are pretty conservative, BTW.

[MavsSuperFan]

Invading a country for no reason, in a war of outright aggression is among the least heroic things you can do.
really unfair of you to put that on the common soldier though. Soldiers dont decide when to go to war.

also it wasnt for no reason, Iraq has a lot of oil, and is very strategically located, was a threat to both israel and saudi arabia and other gulf allies and wasnt our ally anymore. I mean its not like america invaded peru.

[MavsSuperFan]

Sorry buddy, I'm not a burgerclap. However I tend to agree with the US constitution, whose opening salvo is:



Rights do not come from soldiers, they are inherent. It is only possible for soldiers to defend life or when those things are actually threatened, which is not remotely true about the Iraq war.

However, during the Iraq war 134,000-152,000 Iraqi civilians died (https://www.iraqbodycount.org/) as a result of the US led invasion.
its a little unfair to put the blame shia deaths squads killing sunnis and sunnis killing shia on the US.

Its even somewhat unfair to blame the actions of maliki on the US IMO

[MavsSuperFan]

You choose whether or not to be in the military you dumb fvck. Ain't no draft in 03 you fvcking dullard.
Still have zero control over what wars are fought. American civilians have full control over the military. Even the generals dont get to make decisions about whether to fight a war or not or who our allies are.


Not American, not a lefty and invading Iraq has what to do with defending freedom? Really, I'd like to know what in what way idiots like you think Iraq was threatening American freedom.

You have a president who has assumed unilateral control over who is and is not allowed to live (see Abdulrahman al-awlaki), but Iraq is an existential threat to American freedom...

Not american freedom or sovereignty, but certainly a threat to american interests in the region.

America has fought every few defensive wars.

[MavsSuperFan]

If you guys are curious as to how the military protects our freedoms I suggest you use Google

I'm not gonna write a novel on here. And it's pretty straight forward and not a very tough concept to grasp, for most.
there point is at this point the US is too powerful a nation that other countries are a serious threat to our continuity.

Of course in weaker nations their freedom/sovereignty can be infringed upon, but no one is in a position to do that to america.

Eg. Ukraine's sovereignty is being violated by russia.

[Cactus-Sack]

And how many soldiers voted to expand the war into Iraq? As I said, you can't blame soldiers for a war which politicians decided to fight.

Those numbers are pretty conservative, BTW.


really unfair of you to put that on the common soldier though. Soldiers dont decide when to go to war.

also it wasnt for no reason, Iraq has a lot of oil, and is very strategically located, was a threat to both israel and saudi arabia and other gulf allies and wasnt our ally anymore. I mean its not like america invaded peru.


Still have zero control over what wars are fought. American civilians have full control over the military. Even the generals dont get to make decisions about whether to fight a war or not or who our allies are.


Not american freedom or sovereignty, but certainly a threat to american interests in the region.

America has fought every few defensive wars.


I didn't say that soldiers declared the war, the point is that they made the personal decision to fight in an unjust immoral war, and that makes them pieces of shit.

[KevinNYC]

So what? It literally couldn't matter less.

Motherf*cker reads news from prompters.


You completely misunderstand what job is and that his job relies on credibility.

Yes, we live in a more cynical age, but you're also coming at the tail end of a sustained 40 year old political campaign against the media. Hating on the "mainstream media" is the most mainstream thing I can think of these days. It's probably got like a 60% share.

It was started in the Nixon White House. One of the architects of it went on to work as columnist for the New York Times. Here's him saying Saddam and Bin Laden were in cahoots. (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/27/opinion/27SAFI.html) It wasn't a campaign to legitimately criticize the news industry and hold it to a higher standard. It was a campaign to discredit the news industry. They didn't want an objective media, because an objective media could still serve as a referee, they wanted a weakened media. To make it simply one voice among many.

A mother****er who read off a teleprompter was once the most respected man in the country. (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/walter-cronkite/about-walter-cronkite/561/) And he earned through his integrity. Yes, we live in a more debased age, but don't act like it can't be better because it has been.

So Brian Williams ****up matters.

[KevinNYC]

He just got suspended for 6 months without pay. In NYC, they have these little TVs in cabs and they show a news package edited just for cabs. Sometimes you get in an ABC cab and sometimes you get in an NBC cab. I was in on the other day after this broke and they were still running this Brian Williams promo "He's been there.....He'll be there."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KC4MO09GuM

[KevinNYC]

Sorry buddy, I'm not a burgerclap. However I tend to agree with the US constitution, whose opening salvo is:


We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Holy shit.
:facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm
:facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm

[The Iron Sheik]

You completely misunderstand what job is and that his job relies on credibility.

Yes, we live in a more cynical age, but you're also coming at the tail end of a sustained 40 year old political campaign against the media. Hating on the "mainstream media" is the most mainstream thing I can think of these days. It's probably got like a 60% share.

It was started in the Nixon White House. One of the architects of it went on to work as columnist for the New York Times. Here's him saying Saddam and Bin Laden were in cahoots. (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/27/opinion/27SAFI.html) It wasn't a campaign to legitimately criticize the news industry and hold it to a higher standard. It was a campaign to discredit the news industry. They didn't want an objective media, because an objective media could still serve as a referee, they wanted a weakened media. To make it simply one voice among many.

A mother****er who read off a teleprompter was once the most respected man in the country. (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/walter-cronkite/about-walter-cronkite/561/) And he earned through his integrity. Yes, we live in a more debased age, but don't act like it can't be better because it has been.

So Brian Williams ****up matters.

unless people go and research themselves, they're always going to have to just trust what the other person telling them is true. (not just with media). media is a business. information is currency. whatever information is most profitable is what will be given.

professor's points is that brian williams is just an anchor. he (and other major news anchors) aren't out here digging up shit themselves. they have sources relaying shit to them. if a source tells a producer some bullshit, and brian then reads it off of his screen, he's just doing his job

[KevinNYC]

unless people go and research themselves, they're always going to have to just trust what the other person telling them is true. (not just with media). media is a business. information is currency. whatever information is most profitable is what will be given.

professor's points is that brian williams is just an anchor. he (and other major news anchors) aren't out here digging up shit themselves. they have sources relaying shit to them. if a source tells a producer some bullshit, and brian then reads it off of his screen, he's just doing his job
A producer's job isn't just to go with any bullshit given by source.
If they can't confirm the information that detail needs to be part of the story.

That's journalism 101. By doing this your information gains more currency. Credibility helps your brand.

[The Iron Sheik]

A producer's job isn't just to go with any bullshit given by source.
If they can't confirm the information that detail needs to be part of the story.

That's journalism 101. By doing this your information gains more currency. Credibility helps your brand.

maybe it's the modern cynicism towards the media you alluded to earlier but i doubt every major news network does that, particularly when it comes to politically driven information. they all have audiences (more like fanbases) they want to cater to.

again, in politically driven news, there's many times an agenda, and people will simply cherry-pick what they want to believe or just blindly accept what someone reading a teleprompter tells them because they trust them. in the end that's what it always boils down to. there's no way to be certain. anyone is capable of lying

[Cactus-Sack]

Holy shit.
:facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm
:facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm

Shouldn't you be at the whitehouse defending president Soetero, Josh?

[nathanjizzle]

Awesome, well thought out argument sir. I certainly respect you as an intellectual equal.

You are intellectually equal to a potato.

[Patrick Chewing]

NBC is a disaster. With their 100 viewers on MSNBC to their Golden Boy lying about news reports. Yet they continue to stay the course and probably can't fathom why the public can't stand them.

[KevinNYC]

Shouldn't you be at the whitehouse defending president Soetero, Josh?
Shouldn't you be back in grade school learning what the consitutition says?

[longtime lurker]

So will the rest of the mainstream media suspend themselves for 6 months for lying during the lead up to the war?

[Demon Lizard]

Am I the only one who never heard about that story before he got caught lying about it?

[KevinNYC]

Am I the only one who never heard about that story before he got caught lying about it?
I hadn't heard it. I don't watch Brian Williams

[Andrew Wiggins]

So someone from half way around the world is first going to misunderstand American history and now you want to argue about American idioms all while using idiotic right-wing American tropes? Your country doesn't generate enough shitty right-wing talking points, you want to borrow ours?
Whoops there goes your anarchist posturing. Look whose the nationalist now.

So where are you from?


:lol

[KevinNYC]

This. Don't act like Williams is personally investigating every story he reports. He's an anchor, not a hard hitting journalist. You think Al Sharpton is doing any legwork for stories in his show?

You're basically saying that you can an anchor or a journalist and you can't be both. That's simply not true. Yes, just as print writers work with their editors, news anchors work with producers and editors as well. What gets on screen on on the page is not the work of one person. Network news departments have Editors just like a newspaper. Anchors often write or edit the stories. It's not like Ron Burgundy.

In fact, the managing editor of NBC News was Brian Williams just as Tom Brokaw was before him.


Also, Al Sharpton's show is editorial/opinion show. It's not a newscast. Like most shows like that, it's mainly commentary on what has been reported elsewhere.

[Stempel, HERB]

So someone from half way around the world is first going to misunderstand American history and now you want to argue about American idioms all while using idiotic right-wing American tropes? Your country doesn't generate enough shitty right-wing talking points, you want to borrow ours?
Whoops there goes your anarchist posturing. Look whose the nationalist now.

So where are you from?

:oldlol:

[aj1987]

I didn't say that soldiers declared the war, the point is that they made the personal decision to fight in an unjust immoral war, and that makes them pieces of shit.
How many individuals signed up after the declaration of war on Iraq? Compare those numbers to the number of individuals who were already enlisted prior to the declaration of war on Iraq.

FACT is, people sign up to serve in the military for a shit ton of reasons. A lot do it for money, education grants, and as a regular job. JOB. J.O.B...

I'm just gonna assume that you're either a troll or a tree hugging ****** who needs to put down more than the idiots from ISIS.


So someone from half way around the world is first going to misunderstand American history and now you want to argue about American idioms all while using idiotic right-wing American tropes? Your country doesn't generate enough shitty right-wing talking points, you want to borrow ours?
Whoops there goes your anarchist posturing. Look who's the nationalist now.

So where are you from?
:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

[travelingman]

president Soetero
:facepalm

Do you believe everything you read on the internet?

[Cactus-Sack]

So someone from half way around the world is first going to misunderstand American history and now you want to argue about American idioms all while using idiotic right-wing American tropes? Your country doesn't generate enough shitty right-wing talking points, you want to borrow ours?
Whoops there goes your anarchist posturing. Look who's the nationalist now.

So where are you from?

What American history did I misunderstand? I didn't, I conflated the two, kind of like your conflating anarchism and not liking murderous tyrants like soetoro.

I'm calling the Iraq wars stupid, and I'm spouting "right wing talking points"..... :rolleyes:


I'm from your mothers house, fgt.

[Cactus-Sack]

:facepalm

Do you believe everything you read on the internet?

Do you believe I actually believe that shit?

[Cactus-Sack]

How many individuals signed up after the declaration of war on Iraq? Compare those numbers to the number of individuals who were already enlisted prior to the declaration of war on Iraq.

FACT is, people sign up to serve in the military for a shit ton of reasons. A lot do it for money, education grants, and as a regular job. JOB. J.O.B...

I'm just gonna assume that you're either a troll or a tree hugging ****** who needs to put down more than the idiots from ISIS.



So motherfvckers who sign up for a job, knowing it's likely they'll get sent to invade a country (the US does this ever decade or so) to kill people for no good reason should be excused because they are doing it for money?

Great logic, dick.

[NoGunzJustSkillz]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9xh7XsIEAAZHCv.jpg:large

[KevinNYC]

I'm from your mothers house, fgt.

Oh no. I was called ****** by someone on the internet. Whatever shall I do?


What American history did I misunderstand? I didn't, I conflated the two, kind of like your conflating anarchism and not liking murderous tyrants like soetoro.
What part did you misunderstand? From this quote it seems like pretty much all of it.

Don't want to say where you're posting from? Whatsamatta? Little anarchist boy doesn't want to reveal he has the privilege afforded to him by a well-functioning state?

[falc39]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/13/politics/u-s-press-freedom-ranking-obama-administration-leaks/

US continues to fall with the annual Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Ranking. We are now ranked at #49 and from the report it looks like the rankings drop is directly from Obama's policies of aggressively pursuing whistle blowers and his war on the press. You guys keep talking about integrity with journalists, but it wont even matter if this keeps deteriorating.

http://index.rsf.org/#!/
http://en.rsf.org/united-states.html

[Cactus-Sack]

Oh no. I was called ****** by someone on the internet. Whatever shall I do?


What part did you misunderstand? From this quote it seems like pretty much all of it.

Don't want to say where you're posting from? Whatsamatta? Little anarchist boy doesn't want to reveal he has the privilege afforded to him by a well-functioning state?

Yup, the innernet was invented by the state. :applause:
We owe the state everything, all hail the state.

Suck a dick Josh.

[KevinNYC]

Yup, the innernet was invented by the state. :applause:
We owe the state everything, all hail the state.

Suck a dick Josh.

Dunno about "the state."

But the first decentralized network to use packet switching and tcp/ip was invented the Defense Department of my state. It used ideas sponsored by the French state. In fact tcp/ip now known at the Internet model "was originally also known as the DoD model, because the development of the networking model was funded by DARPA, an agency of the United States Department of Defense." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite#Early_research) Maintenance of this protocol is done by the Internet Engineering Task Force which is now private but was originally US government funded.

When the first world wide packet switching network using tcp/ip was created aka "the internet" it was mainly government computers and computers from universities that got government funding.

My first name begins with a J, but it is not Josh

[Cactus-Sack]

Your name is Josh Earnest, fgt.

[KevinNYC]

Your name is Josh Earnest, fgt.
Oh right, another one of your idiot delusions.

[Cactus-Sack]

:rolleyes:

It's a joke you white house press secretary fgt.

How does it feel to support so vehemently a murderer like Barry Dunham?