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Should Brian Williams be fired

Should Brian be fired?

  • Yes

    Votes: 36 60.0%

  • No

    Votes: 24 40.0%
  • Total voters
    60
ironhorse said:
I say yes! What a freakin liar! How can anyone believe a word he says now? The man has lost all credibility.

NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams last night had to make the humiliating admission that he was not aboard a helicopter hit by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that he made and was repeated by the network for years.

Williams — who’d claimed he was in a chopper forced down by a rocket-propelled grenade 12 years ago — repeated the story on Friday’s newscast during a tribute for a retired sergeant major.

“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 Friday’s show. “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor-mechanized platoon from the US Army 3rd Infantry.”


He was busted when vet Lance Reynolds commented on the “Nightly News” Facebook page, where the clip was posted, “Sorry, dude, I don’t remember you being on my aircraft. I do remember you walking up about an hour after we had landed to ask me what had happened.”

Amid a vicious ratings battle with ABC’s “World News Tonight,” which has positioned anchor David Muir as an equally strong on-the-scene reporter, Williams, who has a $10 million-a-year deal with NBC, made an embarrassing apology.

He claimed on Facebook that he had confused events: “I spent much of the weekend thinking I’d gone crazy. I feel terrible about making this mistake.” Stars and Stripes, which broke the story, reported that a different Chinook was hit by rockets and “the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft . . . Williams arrived in the area about an hour later on another helicopter.”


Brian Williams admits he wasn’t on helicopter hit by RPG in Iraq | Page Six
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He reminds me of Stephen Glass. He was fired, and to this day still ridiculed. As he should be for making up LIES to sell stories.
 
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VanceMack said:
If you were the head of one of the network news agencies and your anchor was found to have been lying about being shot at it combat and had spread that lie over many years, then offered a weak ass lie to cover for the lie, would you keep him on?

Just askin....
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I wouldn't be happy with him, but no, if there was an employee that provided me decades of quality work I wouldn't fire him over that.
 
vesper said:
Not only is he the news anchor on the "Nightly News", he is also the managing editor. Wonder what other stories he has "edited"? He just renewed his contract with NBC in Dec. 2014 for 5 years with a salary of 10 million a year.
Brian Williams To Stay On As 'NBC Nightly News' Anchor 'For Years To Come'
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That's the problem with puffing one's self up on a National News program --- if he did so privately no one would care but the lie on national TV now calls into his entire career's worth of work - that may not be fair but that is how it is. Shame too.
 
LOOKS AND SOUND LIKE HE'S A WANNEBEE.:2bigcry::failpail::shoot
 
Superfly said:
You never puffed up a story to make yourself look better? Man, I had that car up to 120! or I broke up with her or My GPA was 3.7, or No, I quit that job.

Everybody lies to make themselves look better. It's human nature.
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Very few people have lied this big.
 
When you behave that dishonorably, the only decent thing to do is fall on your own sword.

He should apologize and resign. It should not require a firing, but if he's that low of a person where it is necessary, then yes, they should fire him.
 
Apparently, the story is a little less exaggerated as it first appeared. The pilot of Williams helicopter during this time was just interviewed on CNN and had the following to say:

1. Williams was in one of three helicopters on a trip to deliver bridge parts to a place in Iraq

2. The three helicopters came under small arms fire and at least one RPG.

3. The lead helicopter, not the one Willliams was in, was hit by the RPG and was forced down.

4. The helicopter that Williams was in was hit by small arms fire and returned fire before proceeding to their assigned drop site at which point they then returned to the site of the helicopter that was downed.

5. About a day and a half later, a convoy of troops came upon them.

Clearly, there was embellishment and clearly Williams tried to put himself into the more dangerous situation. However, it is true that he was in a situation that could have ended badly and even been deadly. It is troubling, to me, that he would feel the need to embellish to this extent, since I consider what actually happened to him to be equally noteworthy.

Even though it appears not to be as bad as originally believed, I still think he should do the honorable thing and resign.
 
Ockham said:
That's the problem with puffing one's self up on a National News program --- if he did so privately no one would care but the lie on national TV now calls into his entire career's worth of work - that may not be fair but that is how it is. Shame too.
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It's a shame in the sense that someone would be so stupid do such a thing. This didn't just involve Brian Williams but the entire news crew traveling with him that knew it was a lie.
 
VanceMack said:
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How the **** are you going top make the fact that this guy bald face LIED about being with the troops and being shot at and even being hit by rockets and small arms fire during a harrowing combat engagement be about the 'RW'?????

Oh...wait...forgot who I was responding to. Carry on....
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Best not go to a No-Go zone then.... Carry on.
 
iliveonramen said:
I wouldn't be happy with him, but no, if there was an employee that provided me decades of quality work I wouldn't fire him over that.
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OK then....
 
That's between him and is employers, I have no say in it, nor should I. Nor should you.
 
Williams discredited himself. I'm more than willing to let him live with that, but for this exception. There were soldiers who actually died fighting in just that manner. He owes their families an apology, and possibly a whole lot more. What happens with him beyond that is not my concern.
 
I don't get NBC here... but he should resign. I would simply out of embarrassment.
 
Another "journalist" from this same news agency-Al Sharpton was openly saying no justice no peace during the Michael Brown grand jury. He's a much smaller fish than Williams and he was not fired.

Williams isn't going anywhere, though I'd love to see it.
 
So what?

Anyone who gets their primary news from an American, mainstream source - let alone the dinosaur that is the nightly, national newscast - is a very uninformed person.

As for him lying? Again, so what? I assume the U.S. major media lies on a nightly basis (or deliberately distorts the truth). This guy just got caught.

The only thing he should be fired for is being so stupid as to come up with a lie that would be potentially so easy to refute. Why someone did not come forward sooner to set the record straight is interesting.

But those of you that think he should resign because of a lack of integrity? LOLOLOL...EVERY major U.S. news source has virtually no integrity. If that was the basis for his resignation, then there would be so many resignations thatall the major network newscasts would have to shut down.
 
So what if the presidential candidate from the democratic party in 2016 lied about coming under fire.......

I mean...whats the big deal with people claiming to have taken the same risk as soldiers actually in harms way...
 
Bodhisattva said:
I don't get NBC here... but he should resign. I would simply out of embarrassment.
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No one is going to push for it. The woman they plan on voting for in 2016 is guilty of the same thing.
 
ironhorse said:
I say yes! What a freakin liar! How can anyone believe a word he says now? The man has lost all credibility.

NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams last night had to make the humiliating admission that he was not aboard a helicopter hit by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that he made and was repeated by the network for years.

Williams — who’d claimed he was in a chopper forced down by a rocket-propelled grenade 12 years ago — repeated the story on Friday’s newscast during a tribute for a retired sergeant major.

“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 Friday’s show. “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor-mechanized platoon from the US Army 3rd Infantry.”


He was busted when vet Lance Reynolds commented on the “Nightly News” Facebook page, where the clip was posted, “Sorry, dude, I don’t remember you being on my aircraft. I do remember you walking up about an hour after we had landed to ask me what had happened.”

Amid a vicious ratings battle with ABC’s “World News Tonight,” which has positioned anchor David Muir as an equally strong on-the-scene reporter, Williams, who has a $10 million-a-year deal with NBC, made an embarrassing apology.

He claimed on Facebook that he had confused events: “I spent much of the weekend thinking I’d gone crazy. I feel terrible about making this mistake.” Stars and Stripes, which broke the story, reported that a different Chinook was hit by rockets and “the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft . . . Williams arrived in the area about an hour later on another helicopter.”


Brian Williams admits he wasn’t on helicopter hit by RPG in Iraq | Page Six
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His "misremembering" is a trivial issue, let it go.
 
I have always thought he had an undeserved smugness about him...Fire him

Mike Wallace I couldn't stand either for that same thing, but at least he had a reason...
 
VanceMack said:
No one is going to push for it. The woman they plan on voting for in 2016 is guilty of the same thing.
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Ain't it sick how the people who turn their nose down at the military are the one's always caught up in this?
 
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