Many have been stating, for at least the last 6 years, the main stream media has been steering the stories not reporting the stories. Now there is a bombshell of proof.
Brian Williams, the nation’s top-rated news anchor, has admitted fabricating a tale of being forced down by enemy fire in a helicopter over Iraq a dozen years ago.
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| Brian Williams In Iraq During the time he said he was shot down. |
Williams apologized on the air Wednesday evening, saying: “I
made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago.”
Earlier, the NBC anchor told Stars & Stripes, which
broke the story: “I would not have chosen to make this mistake. I don’t know
what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with
another.”
Williams did not make the claim in reporting on the incident
in 2003. But he told the false story on the air in 2013, and lied about it
again last Friday.
The admission raises serious questions about his credibility
in a business that values that quality above all else. Williams is the
longest-serving network anchor, his “NBC Nightly News” has been No. 1 in the
ratings for nearly all of the last decade.
Fox News also points out that Williams penned an account of the false story on the Nightly News blog back in 2008: “We came under fire by what appeared to be Iraqi farmers with RPG’s and AK-47’s. The Chinook helicopter flying in front of ours (from the 101st Airborne) took an RPG to the rear rotor, as all four of our low-flying Chinooks took fire.”
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