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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
Should Brian Williams be fired
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i'm a bit biased on this one because i like nightly news better than the others, but man, did he step in it. i'd like to know the backstory here. did he make that up on his own? was he advised to make the story more dramatic by superiors? that would be important to know. he could be screwed, though.

if you want to see something funny, check out #BrianWilliamsMisremebers on twitter. example :

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Helix said:
i'm a bit biased on this one because i like nightly news better than the others, but man, did he step in it. i'd like to know the backstory here. did he make that up on his own? was he advised to make the story more dramatic by superiors? that would be important to know. he could be screwed, though.

if you want to see something funny, check out #BrianWilliamsMisremebers on twitter. example :

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OMG I just spit water all over my keyboard. :lamo
 
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.”


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If the stories about this are correct he should be out the door.
 
tres borrachos said:
OMG I just spit water all over my keyboard. :lamo
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oh, you should check the twitter feed out. it's a full blown meme now. some of them are downright hilarious. :lol:
 
It's obviously the RW meme-of-the-moment. There'll be another one along in a minute or two.......
 
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.”


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I'm a free market guy all the way figure that if someone decides he's worth hanging on to then let them hang on to him. The way I see it is if you're on a ship that's sinking and choose to hang on to the anchor instead of the life boat then more power to you.
 
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.”


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maybe..

But it is not your call. It is the call of his employer....not someone who wants him censored because he disagrees.

If this is correct, he has committed what this journalist considers a heinous crime, he has damaged the reputation of his employer, the media and the profession. As a journalist I would pursue this story to the deepest depths, a full throttle investigation over every story he has ever covered. But then I operate on rules we have here....

From what I have seen of the US media, this is no big thing. Fox, MSNBC, CNN all have so-called reporters and commentators lying through their teeth, so why should he be singled out?
 
No he shouldn't be fired in my opinion. He will need the rest of his career to make up for such a blatant lie.... everyone makes mistakes - even conscious mistakes like lying about an RPG :shock:. However, one would think that Brian would have had Hillary's 1996 lie about being in sniper fire in Bosnia to learn from. Perhaps he was on drugs at the time. :shrug:
 
Helix said:
oh, you should check the twitter feed out. it's a full blown meme now. some of them are downright hilarious. :lol:
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My ****ing sides ache from laughing.


#BrianWilliamsMisremembers If it were me, I'd start with something catchy like Four score and seven years ago ...



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this dude is funny.

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tres borrachos said:
My ****ing sides ache from laughing.


#BrianWilliamsMisremembers If it were me, I'd start with something catchy like Four score and seven years ago ...



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lol, i just posted that one, too. :lol:
 
Oh ****.


#BrianWilliamsMisremembers #BrianWilliamsWarStories I told Doug, you do what you want, but I will return. He agreed.



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Zyphlin said:
Ridiculous lie and low class to try and capitalize on a harrowing event of soldiers to puff up your own credentials. And the excuse for what happened is laughably dumb.

But I can't really care less if he gets fired or not. I don't watch the NBC nightly news and I have no clue how good he is or isn't as an anchor. Does it bring his credability into question with his reporting? Absolutely. Does that mean he should be fired? Not my call really. I'm not really into the whole "social justice warrior" thing and being a social media activist screaming that this person or that person or group should be boycotted or fired or whatever.

Does it make me less likely to listen to him? Yeah, though that's not saying much since I've never really watched his show in the first place. So I'm really sure how my feelings on it somehow are an indication he should be fired.
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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...linton/video-shows-tarmac-welcome-no-snipers/

And then we have Obama....."I killed Osama"
 
Meh, I like Brian Williams, and will continue to watch him as long as he anchors.

I'd like everyone who has never told a lie, ever in their lives, to raise their hand.

Yup. That's what I thought.
 
I remember when a journalist (Walter Cronkhite) was considered 'the most trusted man in America'. Something happened to the profession along the road since.
 
Superfly said:
Meh, I like Brian Williams, and will continue to watch him as long as he anchors.

I'd like everyone who has never told a lie, ever in their lives, to raise their hand.

Yup. That's what I thought.
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I don't think he should be fired, but this is no ordinary lie.
 
Superfly said:
Meh, I like Brian Williams, and will continue to watch him as long as he anchors.

I'd like everyone who has never told a lie, ever in their lives, to raise their hand.

Yup. That's what I thought.
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I watch Williams on occasion.
He seems okay.
I'm not sure why Williams would dredge up his fake story again.
Maybe to re-establish his gravitas?
Weird.
 
mpg said:
I don't think he should be fired, but this is no ordinary lie.
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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.
 
iliveonramen said:
I don't think he should get fired. It's dumb, he's rightfully humiliated, but that's more than enough. Unless he was profiting off the lie or the lie hurt someone else I don't think it crosses over to the firing threshold.
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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....
 
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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I agree. But doing it on the NBC Nightly News is whole new level....
 
Manc Skipper said:
It's obviously the RW meme-of-the-moment. There'll be another one along in a minute or two.......
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:lamo

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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