NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that has been repeated by the network for years.
The admission came after crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment’s Chinook that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire told Stars and Stripes that the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft or two other Chinooks flying in the formation that took fire. Williams arrived in the area about an hour later on another helicopter after the other three had made an emergency landing, the crew members said.
– From Stars and Stripes article: NBC’s Brian Williams Recants Iraq Story After Soldiers Protest
Just in case you still harbor any doubt that mainstream media is nothing but a pathetic amalgamation of useless liars and propagandists…
Enter NBC’s star reporter Brian Williams. A man apparently so vain and attention starved that he actually invented a war story from 2003 to make himself look tougher. Then he continued to tell the false narrative until U.S. soldiers called him out on it.
What an complete and total embarrassment.
From Stars and Stripes:
WASHINGTON — NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that has been repeated by the network for years.
Williams repeated the claim Friday during NBC’s coverage of a public tribute at a New York Rangers hockey game for a retired soldier that had provided ground security for the grounded helicopters, a game to which Williams accompanied him. In an interview with Stars and Stripes, he said he had misremembered the events and was sorry.
The admission came after crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment’s Chinook that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire told Stars and Stripes that the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft or two other Chinooks flying in the formation that took fire. Williams arrived in the area about an hour later on another helicopter after the other three had made an emergency landing, the crew members said.
“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams said. “I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.”
I don’t know what screwed up either, as it seems pretty hard to mistake having your helicopter hit with an RPG versus…not.
Remember, these are the people who shape the news for tens of millions of unsuspecting, ignorant Americans.
“The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG,” Williams said on the broadcast. “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry.”
Williams and his camera crew were actually aboard a Chinook in a formation that was about an hour behind the three helicopters that came under fire, according to crew member interviews.
The claim rankled Miller as well as soldiers aboard the formation of 159th Aviation Regiment Chinooks that were flying far ahead and did come under attack during the March 24, 2003 mission.
“It was something personal for us that was kind of life-changing for me. I’ve know how lucky I was to survive it,” said Lance Reynolds, who was the flight engineer. “It felt like a personal experience that someone else wanted to participate in and didn’t deserve to participate in.”
Reynolds said Williams and the NBC cameramen arrived in a helicopter 30 to 60 minutes after his damaged Chinook made a rolling landing at an Iraqi airfield and skidded off the runway into the desert.
Miller, Reynolds and Mike O’Keeffe, who was a door gunner on the damaged Chinook, said they all recall NBC reporting that Williams was aboard the aircraft that was attacked, despite it being false. The NBC online archive shows the network broadcast a news story on March 26, 2003, with the headline “Target Iraq: Helicopter NBC’s Brian Williams Was Riding In Comes Under Fire.”
O’Keeffe said the incident has bothered him since he and others first saw the original report after returning to Kuwait.
“Over the years it faded,” he said, “and then to see it last week it was — I can’t believe he is still telling this false narrative.”
Next you’re going to tell me there were no WMDs in Iraq.
The following remains one of the best videos of all time:
I mean, do these guys tell the truth about anything?
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In Liberty,
Michael Krieger
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He’s probably thinking, “What’s one more lie?” Is it any different than the nightly newscasts?
Bob.
Media whores just can’t get enough. Gore’s invention of the internet is still the gold standard.
I hate these liberal POS . He will probably get a raise and a promotion for lying.
“Don’t worry, Brian. Just suck my dick. mm-kay?”
Why all the fuss?Sociopaths lie about everything .They can’t help it.Fiction is their only real talent.
GERALDO CAUGHT IN A LIE
CBS NEWS ^
Posted on 12/18/2001 1:13:18 PM PST by Maxpowers
AP
(CBS) Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera, who couldn’t bear being away from the action in Afghanistan, was hundreds of miles from the site of a friendly fire incident he reported on, the Baltimore Sun said in a Dec. 15 report.
Rivera reported in a Dec. 6 piece that he became emotional and choked up while standing on the “hallowed ground” in Afghanistan where “friendly fire took so many of our, our men and the mujahedeen yesterday.” Rivera said he had recited the Lord’s Prayer.
But, according to a report on the Baltimore Sun’s Internet site, Rivera admitted that he was several hundred miles from the site – outside Kandahar – where three Americans were killed on Dec. 5 by an errant U.S. bomb.
In an interview on Tuesday, Rivera said he had confused the Kandahar deaths with another “friendly fire” incident that cost several Afghan lives in Tora Bora. But, according to the Sun, Pentagon information shows the Tora Bora incident occurred at least three days after Rivera’s Dec. 6 report.
Rivera quit his talk show on CNBC to become a war correspondent for the Fox News Channel in November. He said at the time he couldn’t bear to stay on the sidelines during a big story.
He generated some controversy among fellow correspondents for boasting of carrying a gun while on the news beat in the war-torn country. One Associated Press correspondent said in a letter to the Poynter Institute that it was dangerous for journalists to brag about being armed in a war zone.
Three Army Green Berets were killed and 20 other Americans were wounded Wednesday, Dec. 5, when an Air Force B-52 dropped a one-ton bomb near them. The soldiers had called in the air strike to hit Taliban forces they were fighting near the militia’s southern stronghold of Kandahar. Five anti-Taliban Afghan fighters also were killed and another 18 were wounded.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ordered an investigation into the mistaken bombing. The Pentagon identified those killed as Master Sgt. Jefferson Donald Davis, 39, of Watauga, Tenn.; Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Petithory, 32, of Cheshire, Mass.; and Staff Sgt. Brian Cody Prosser, 28, of Fraizer Park, Calif. All were members of the Army’s 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group, stationed at Fort Campbell, Ky.
A forward air controller among the U.S. troops involved in the incident called for close air support and an Air Force B-52 bomber responded by launching a bomb known as a Joint Direct Attack Munition. The bomb is guided by a satellite navigation system and is considered one of the most accurate weapons in the U.S. arsenal. It was used for the first time in combat in Kosovo in 1999.
Pentagon officials said investigators will try to determine whether the bomb missed the intended target because of mechanical or human error.
Bob Steele, director of the ethics program at the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based, Poynter Institute, said: “I believe that Geraldo Rivera and Fox News owe their viewers a substantive explanation of what this means, journalistically and ethically. If he did this in a way that violates journalistic standards, he is disrespectful not only to his profession, but to the families of those Americans who died.”
Fox News has offered no explanation, the Sun reported. Fox News spokesman Rob Zimmerman said he had “no information” on whether the network was reviewing the incident. On Thursday, Zimmerman told the Sun it had a vendetta against the channel and hung up the phone.
How many other things has he lied about? This can’t be the only one.
Bravest Man in America
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) — The fact-checking department at NBC News has verified that the following anecdotes told by Brian Williams actually happened.
1. In August of 2003, I boarded a helicopter to Steven Spielberg’s house in East Hampton. Once we were up in the air, I was alarmed to discover that there was no bottled water on board. I commanded the pilot to make an emergency landing.
2. In November of 2007, I boarded a Cadillac Escalade to attend the annual gala of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Not until I arrived at my destination did I realize that the driver had closed the door on my Armani coat. I was able to have it successfully dry-cleaned, but that was a close one.
3. In March of 1998, I fell asleep on my tanning bed. I could have been burnt to a crisp. Fortunately, I woke up in the nick of time, but the people at the spa had needlessly endangered me. I started going to a new spa.
4. In May of 2011, the elevator in my building suffered an equipment malfunction en route to my penthouse. I was stuck talking to a tax attorney for seven minutes before I was rescued.
5. While in Sochi for the Olympics last year, I ordered dinner from room service. I don’t know if it was the oysters or the caviar, but something had gone bad. I was hurling all night.
6. In December of last year, I had to attend a live broadcast of “Peter Pan.” It was worse than I expected, but I was trapped for two hours with no way out.
Just saw the video of that Jordanian pilot being burned alive .Very graphic. This needs to be done to liberals in this country. Just saying. The pilot was Islamic but they burned him anyway.In one part as he is burning you can hear his murderers laughing. So much for the religion of peace.
Fucking ‘journalists”….
Not a single one has a shred of integrity… I can remember my Mamma watching “Da N00ze” and that fuckstick “Jerry Rivers” came on… he was some-fucking-where and had on a kevlar helmet and body armor… my Mamma’s reaction? “What in the hell is he supposed to be?”
Damn right, Mamma…
If NBC News has any credibility left, they’ll fire his sorry ass. Can you imagine Walter Cronkite spinning a yarn like this?
Liberal media reaction to Brian Williams being uncovered as a filthy stinking liar:
People are no different today than 700 (or 7000) years ago. What a bunch of easily conned marks.
We’re so rich today that just getting a small percentage of the dolts among us to pony up a few dollars yields vast riches. The TeeVee is wall-to-wall with such crap, starting with the Nooze and ending with all the Cultural Marxism from Holly-wierd(er, the better.)
We’re told that Boogey Men are all over the world trying to “get” us.
We’re told that it’s perfectly normal for males to think their actually females (and vice-versa) and for both men and women to use the end of their excretory canal for receptive intercourse. We’re told that stupid people and smart people are all the same, and that everyone aspires to be vaguely Asian and light brown in skin color (which is what a perfect multiracial, multicultural populace looks like.) We’re told we’re heating (or cooling) the entire planet, and must make sacrifices to Gaia, the heathen god of Earth, to atone, by ending the use of hydrocarbon-based fuels (except, of course, for those attending Davos and other Very Important Convocations of the Very Important People who RULE us.)
People are more stupid than a bag of sand. At least the bag of sand can’t be convinced of all sorts of distortions, fantasies and myths.
@ westcoaster
Naw, Cronkite spread his own lies, different ones, in the service of his masters.
As with the myths surrounding the founding of the USA, it is a myth that “The News” (papers or TV) ever reported the truth except by accident.
Everything you think you know is a lie, spun by those who controlled the narrative at the time. We have a hard time determining what actually happened yesterday. Funny how so many people are so sure what they read about Jefferson, Washington, Cronkite or anyone else is true.
An adroit enough liar can make you doubt your own eyes. Been there, done that, and now for me to be table-pounding certain about something I’d need video from three angles, the recordings of which never left my control, in addition to my own eyes witnessing it.
I can’t wait for the movie.
T4C ,because I like watching our enemies burn.It gives me a sadistic joy.You Will say I’m sick. I will say as the joker said ….I’m just ahead of the curve….
bb, I hear though though the ass-rape vine that Lyin’ Brian being such a great and accomplished prevaricator is being consider to replace the other serial liar at Fux US newz , Geraldo Rivera in an effort to make the other two corporate shills , Shitshine Hannity and Bellowbull O’ Reilly look almost honest..Tune in for later development.
bb says:
Just saw the video of that Jordanian pilot being burned alive .Very graphic. This needs to be done to liberals in this country. Just saying. The pilot was Islamic but they burned him anyway.In one part as he is burning you can hear his murderers laughing. So much for the religion of peace.
You aren’t a bible reading Christian are you?
don’t burn others lest you in turn be burned.
Luke 6:31
31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.
King Abdullah’s Crocodile Tears Over Burned Pilot
Yes, Abdullah had long been an ally of sorts to the kinds of radicals responsible for burning alive Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh. He provided space and cooperation to US and NATO’s rebel training programs on Jordanian soil, with many “graduates” of the program later joining ISIS and al-Qaeda.
In 2013, Syrian president Assad warned Jordan’s Abdullah that he was “playing with fire” by supporting the rebels fighting to overthrow the Syrian government. How right he was. Literally.
Burning prisoners alive is breathtakingly barbaric. Providing aid and comfort to the kinds of people would do such things is, in many respects, even worse.
Save the tears, Abdullah, you helped create this mess.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2015/february/04/king-abdullahs-crocodile-tears-over-burned-pilot/
This is so pathetic! A grown ass man making up bullshit stories to make himself look tough. WTF… You are a reporter, not a soldier or wannabe hero. Just accept who the fuck you are. Why make up shit? Get a good shrink. Unless he was told by his bosses to make up shit to get some fake cred so they could then sell more bullshit stories to the people watching da news.
Isn’t most of his show a pure-fantasy propaganda program?
Dutchman says:
“How many other things has he lied about? This can’t be the only one.”
Bingo, Dutchman:
Brian Williams’ Katrina Tales Under Scrutiny After Helicopter Lie
http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/brian-williams-apology-helicopter-hurricane-katrina/2015/02/05/id/622858/
Subsequent unabashed, disgraceful behavior – yucking it up w/ fellow libtard, Tom Hanks, at a Ranger’s game in MSG; “lying” to these psychopaths is as natural as breathing; maybe the propagandist-extraordinaire-Hollywood-cultural-debasers can create a movie about Williams’ near-death experience/heroics featuring his bud, Tom:
On Wednesday, Williams apologized during his NBC Nightly News bulletin and said that he was ‘mistaken’. Later that evening he didn’t seem too worried about the furor as he enjoyed a New York Rangers game with his good friend Tom Hanks.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2940276/Brian-Williams-forced-admit-NOT-shot-Iraq-War-NBC-anchor-apologizes-angry-soldiers-protest.html#ixzz3QvBg9eBa
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Not sure why men, in or out of the military service, have to make war stories up. It is really quite sad.
It is not fun being shot at. It fucks with your mind when done repeatedly. I’ve been there, done that and join millions of my comrades who have done so in the past.
I repeat. It is not fun. You don’t want to join the club.
Hold. The . Phone.
Are you inferring that one of the premiere American journalists has been saying something he knows is to be false in order to further his own aims?
That’s just wild conjecture.
I heard a psychologist on NPR today explain how this was normal behavior and that there’s no way he could have known that he wasn’t telling the truth as he knew it. The interviewer asked if it was possible that he had “made it up” and the psychologist said without missing a beat- “That’s highly unlikely.”
I haven’t LOL’ed in a while, but that one got me.
For the first time I see unanimous agreement that the news is brought to us by a bunch of sleazy slimy cocksuckers.
+ 1000 on this thread .
T4C asks:
“Why would ANYONE WANT TO watch a human being burned alive?”
To NEVER forget! To NEVER forget who the enemy is. To NEVER forget what they will are capable of. To NEVER forget that the MSM Liberal Scumbags in my own culture are lying to me. To NEVER forget that when the day comes, I will NOT fucking hesitate to pull the trigger.
It has nothing to do with wanting to see a human burned alive.
Reason #47,502 as for why I no longer watch TV of any kind.
Flash , it hard following and obeying Christian principles in this world. Sometimes I can’t believe the things I say and write sometimes. My heart seems to get colder day by day.
IS ,I hate to admit it but you’re right. We need to remind ourselves who we are fighting and what they will do .
Steve , I think you need to watch some TV.It would do you good not to think for a little while.
T4C, I can certainly understand why women, mothers and nurses in particular would be so put off by seeing such a sight. Really, I understand. For me, (and this is hard to explain) part of it is that if my fellow citizens can endure such brutality then surely I can endure seeing it. It really does turn my stomach though. I’ll admit that morbid curiosity does play a small part in it as well. For instance, I’ve seen actual footage of the kind of torture McCain endured in Vietnam. Although I can’t stand him as a politician, I’m fascinated that he and others can endure such things and come out the other side as functioning and productive human beings. In a sick way I’m envious because I cannot imagine myself being human again after experiencing such things.
Among my other failings in life I happen to believe that a good, healthy, visceral hate is just as important to life as a deep passionate love or overwhelming joy.
Seeing and experiencing the bad things are extremely powerful which is why I am of the opinion that every coffin of every dead US serviceman should be shown on every newscast each night. Our masters and owners know how powerful it is too and that is why the won’t let you see it. The producers of those abused animal “infomercials” know the power as well which is why they last 15 fucking minutes!
T4C says: I’ve just noticed over the past year that I have become less tolerant of seeing violence.
I’ve been there for the last 10. I didn’t watch the hip vid, I certainly wouldn’t watch a torture vid. good on those who have a strong stomach, though.
Brian Williams’ Katrina Tales Under Scrutiny After Helicopter Lie
Thursday, 05 Feb 2015 08:32 AM
By Nick Sanchez
NBC anchor Brian Williams apologized on Wednesday for falsely claiming his helicopter was downed by an RPG during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and now many are actively fact-checking his other extraordinary claims from over the years.
On Wednesday’s “Nightly News,” Williams publicly apologized for his “bungled attempt” at thanking soldiers for protecting him in Iraq.
“I made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago,” he said. “I want to apologize.”
Under heavy scrutiny less than 24 hours after Williams’ admission are his tales from Hurricane Katrina.
In one story, he claims he saw a body float by his hotel room window in New Orleans. In another, he claims his five-star hotel was overrun with gangs while he was sick with floodwater dysentery, and was rescued from a stairwell by a police officer.
Williams recounted the first story about the floating corpse in a 2006 interview with former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, blogger Charles C. Johnson reported Thursday.
“When you look out of your hotel room window in the French Quarter, and watch a man float by face-down, when you see bodies that you last saw in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, and swore to yourself that you would never see in your country . . .” Williams said, recounting the 2005 hurricane. “These are Americans. These are my brothers and sisters and one of them was floating by.”
The likelihood that a body would be “floating by” in the French Quarter neighborhood is highly unlikely, as several news outlets noted that there was no flooding there — it sits at one of the highest elevations in the city. The New York Times reported just days after the storm that, “the Quarter’s elegant 150-year-old buildings look relatively unruffled, except for some loosened bricks, having been spared the worst of Hurricane Katrina’s winds and sitting high enough to have avoided the flooding.”
Another blogger noticed a story Williams told not long after the storm.
“My week — two weeks there — was not helped by the fact that I accidentally ingested some of the floodwater. I became very sick with dysentery. Our hotel was overrun with gangs,” Williams said in an interview with Tom Brokaw. “I was rescued from the stairwell of a five-star hotel in New Orleans by a young police officer. We are friends to this day.”
The blogger noted that Williams doesn’t appear to have told the story ever again, but did say in a subsequent Dateline special that the police in New Orleans used the Sheraton hotel as a staging ground for their operations, and that they allowed his film crew to film outside.
Commentary by Paul Craig Roberts
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A journalist told a harmless story and has been roasted alive and forced to apologize to the troops for lying. In the middle of this brouhaha, the US Secretary of State, the President of the United States, innumerable senators, executive branch officials, and presstitutes have repeatedly reported month after month Russian tank columns and troops entering Ukraine. Yet, despite all these Russian forces, the civilians in the break-away provinces of eastern and southern Ukraine are still being slaughtered by Washington’s puppet state in Kiev.
If Russian tanks and troops are this ineffective, why are NATO commanders and neoconservative warmongers warning of the dire danger that Russia poses to the Baltics, Poland, and Eastern Europe?
It doesn’t make any sense, does it?
So the question is: Why are the presstitutes all over some hapless journalist rather than holding accountable the Great Liars, John Kerry and Barak Obama?
The answer is: It is costless to the presstitutes to try to destroy, for totally insignificant reasons — perhaps just for the pleasure of it, like “American Sniper” killing people for fun — one of their own, but they would be fired if they hold Kerry and Obama accountable, and they know it. But they have to get someone, so they eat their own.
A democracy without an honest media cannot exist. In America democracy is a facade behind which operates every evil inclination of mankind. During the past 14 years the American people have supported governments that have invaded, bombed, or droned seven countries, killing, maiming, and displacing millions of people for no reason other than profit and hegemonic power. There is scant sign that this has caused very many
Walter Cronkite was a luciferian nwo tool. an unapologetic liar/propaganda mouthpiece. he openly admitted it. look it up. HE WAS PROUD OF IT!
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My thoughts:
1) Why are the Long Knives coming out now? This has been known for a decade.
It is because and/or:
a) NBCs ratings are total Shiite and they need to fire Williams “for cause” and avoid a big payout on his contract (ain’t it great when the Left eats their own), OR
b) this is an indirect attack on Shillary, as she is on the hook for her “landing in Bosnia under sniper fire” gaffe (remember that NBC is basically an extension of the Obama WH and Obama HATES Old Lady Clinton Cankles).
It could be just that Liars ALWAYS out themselves, eventually. No matter how smart you are, you just can’t keep track of your lies, not in the gold fish bowl that is the modern electronic age.
Regardless, if I was a GUY, I would be having a schadenboner. (That is an, ahem, well, you know, a swelling of a body part at the misfortunate of others, I stole that from nicedoggie.net).
FLASHBACK: Brian Williams Mocks Bloggers for Lack of Credibility
In a 2007 lecture at New York University’s journalism school, NBC News host Brian Williams touted his “BS meter” when it came to credible news and mocked the credibility of bloggers, pitting himself—a man “developing credentials to cover my field of work”—against lowly bloggers who can’t always be trusted… …Saying he had developed a “strong BS meter” himself, Williams went on to complain about the problem of unqualified bloggers, who, unlike himself, have not spent their lives “developing credentials” [sic]…
“You’re going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe,” Williams told the audience. “All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now I’m up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasn’t left the efficiency apartment in two years… On the Internet, no one knows if you’ve been to Ramadi or you’ve just been to Brooklyn and have an opinion about Ramadi.”
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CNN has been faking news reports with green (or blue) screen technique for decades. All of the news networks fake the news, or just downright manufacture said news. So why are you surprised about this???
I would go so far as to say that CNN does most of their LIVE war reporting from their Atlanta studio. Take a few minutes to research this, go on you tube and watch CNN fake news. Mostly read the volumes out there about how news is manufactured. This is the MATRIX, deal with it.