"Brian Williams didn’t kill anyone."
Awww, poor Brian. No one is going to bat for him because he's not opinionated enough. Excerpt:
“The problem for Brian is that unlike an opinionated cable news host who might have an army of like-minded supporters prepared to fight the social media war, a network news anchor’s support these days is inevitably going to be far less passionate, even for Brian. They may like and appreciate him but few are going to be prepared to do ‘battle’ for him and so it’s hardly surprising that he is generally being skewered by the social media masses.”
In other words, he has no real friends because he's window-dressing.
Piers Morgan offers the best defense of Brian Williams to date: "Brian Williams didn’t kill anyone."
“We surely need to get a collective grip and gain some perspective on all this. Brian Williams didn’t kill anyone. He skewed a story about his experience in Iraq which made him sound a bit closer to the action and therefore more heroic than he actually was. It was untrue, and wrong of him to do it, but why should it be terminally so?”
Yes, that's really the only way you can lose your job: commit a murder. Nobody ever lost their job over anything less. And people who lose their jobs suffer the stigma of everyone thinking they are murderers. Please.
The thing I find so fascinating about all this is that it is clear no one was paying any attention to his claims all these years.
ReplyDeleteAll of a sudden the hotel manager during Katrina and several of the soldiers involved in the RPG incident are expressing shock that Williams said any of this. I don't think they're all "suddenly remembering"...I think they're finally being made aware of the lies this lying liar has been telling.
If a news anchor tells a lie and no one pays any attention, does it matter?
Better questions: would Brian Williams be where he is now without resume enhancement? Will people trust him now after all these revelations of "truth enhancement"?
DeletePart of me hopes that NBC keeps him on longer and we get to continuously pillory him and use him as an example of how fake the TV news is.