I told you nothing would happen to Brian Williams for his twelve years of lies. NBC is so beyond corrupt, they figure that the Brian Williams lie story will just pass into the night, Brian Williams will face no disciplinary action for lies and misleading viewers. Please don’t say you are surprised. NBC is of course the network that employes tax cheat, and race hustler Al Sharpton after all…
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NBC News anchor Brian Williams found himself the story Thursday, his credibility seriously threatened because he claimed — falsely — that he had been in a helicopter hit by a grenade during the Iraq war.
The network has not commented publicly, but an executive familiar with the matter said Williams will face no disciplinary action. His apology, delivered during the Wednesday edition of “NBC Nightly News” was accepted internally.
The “Nightly News” anchor for just over a decade, Williams had become an online punching bag overnight.
Tweets with the hashtag #BrianWilliamsMemories joked that he blew up the Death Star, saved someone from a polar bear and flew with Wonder Woman in her invisible helicopter. Photoshopped pictures showed Williams reporting from the moon, and riding shotgun with O.J. Simpson in his Ford Bronco.
“How could you expect anyone who served in the military to ever see this guy on-screen again and not feel contempt? How could you expect anyone to believe he or the broadcast he leads has any credibility?” wrote critic David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun.
Williams apologized Wednesday for telling the story a week earlier during a “Nightly News” tribute to a veteran he had befriended during a 2003 reporting trip to Iraq.
Before expressing his regrets on the air, Williams did so online and in an interview with the newspaper Stars & Stripes.
He speculated online that constant viewing of video showing him inspecting the damaged helicopter “and the fog of memory over 12 years, made me conflate the two, and I apologize.”
His story had morphed through the years.