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LongTermGuy
02-04-2015, 09:47 PM
“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams told the military publication Stars and Stripes (http://www.stripes.com/news/us/nbc-s-brian-williams-recants-iraq-story-after-soldiers-protest-1.327792), Wednesday. “I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.”
The confession came at a New York Rangers game last week, after Williams reiterated his skewed version of events. The occasion was a tribute to retired Command Sgt. Major Tim Terpak, who’d provided security for the grounded helicopters Williams claimed to have been aboard.``
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http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-news--bria...231038729.html (http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-news--brian-williams-recants-story-iraq-helicopter-after-soldiers-protest-231038729.html)




`Why is this not a surprise?.......Well imagine that..........a leftist PoS member of the Propaganda Corps lying to the public.`

LongTermGuy
02-04-2015, 10:06 PM
`...............Battle-space prep for Hillary....so her "I was under sniper fire once" story will look normal/run-of-the-mill/everyone-does-it when her story comes up in election 2016.....`

aboutime
02-04-2015, 10:20 PM
Why is it. If Brian Williams calls it recanting, he just gets a slap on the hand?

But anyone else who isn't as Liberal as he...tells such a STORY...

They are instantly called LIARS, and FIRED for pretending to be someone they are NOT?

LongTermGuy
02-04-2015, 10:25 PM
Why is it. If Brian Williams calls it recanting, he just gets a slap on the hand?

But anyone else who isn't as Liberal as he...tells such a STORY...

They are instantly called LIARS, and FIRED for pretending to be someone they are NOT?


`Cause "Deceitful" Liberals (leftists) circle the wagons.....to defend their own and try to hide the truth.......*The agenda is number `1`...always...`

gabosaurus
02-04-2015, 10:55 PM
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8441579776/h63789858/

Jeff
02-05-2015, 07:20 AM
Why is it. If Brian Williams calls it recanting, he just gets a slap on the hand?

But anyone else who isn't as Liberal as he...tells such a STORY...

They are instantly called LIARS, and FIRED for pretending to be someone they are NOT?

That POS should be given to ISIS and let them put him to the stake, a Liberal POS !!

Perianne
02-05-2015, 08:23 AM
Here in the South, we would refer to him as a dirty rotten liar. Well, we did that even before this story broke.

Kathianne
02-05-2015, 11:41 PM
and so it goes:

http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/11526453-148/nbc-news-anchor-brian-williams


NBC News anchor Brian Williams' comments about dead bodies, Hurricane Katrina starting to gain attention, draw scrutiny
NBC News anchor Brian Williams, who apologized on the air Wednesday night for lying about an experience covering the Iraq War (http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/brian-williams-apology-helicopter-hurricane-katrina/2015/02/05/id/622858/), is now facing scrutiny over his gripping accounts of Hurricane Katrina, the disaster that burnished his nightly news bona fides almost a decade ago.


Williams’ account of seeing a body float by in the French Quarter (http://hotair.com/archives/2015/02/05/did-brian-williams-lie-about-his-katrina-experience-too/) — which remained largely dry — and even a claim of catching dysentery from drinking Katrina floodwaters have raised eyebrows among bloggers and elsewhere since he took it on the chin this week over a claim that he rode in a helicopter that was downed by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq.


“I was instead in a following aircraft. We all landed after the ground fire incident and spent two harrowing nights in a sandstorm in the Iraq desert,” Williams said Wednesday. He painted his earlier description as a “bungled attempt” to thank an Iraq War veteran.


The online feeding frenzy quickly turned to the 55-year-old anchor’s signature assignment: covering Katrina from before it made landfall, when he spent the night of the storm with refuge-seekers in the Superdome and then reported on the harrowing days that followed.


“When you look out of your hotel window in the French Quarter and watch a man float by face down, when you see bodies that you last saw in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, and swore to yourself that you would never see in your country,” Williams said in a 2006 interview.

...

Jeff
02-06-2015, 07:35 AM
You can't believe anything he has ever reported on, once a liar always a liar.

Bilgerat
02-06-2015, 09:05 AM
http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6993&stc=1

Dem Senator Richard Blumenthal said he served in Vietnam. He didn’t.

Hillary Clinton claimed she was under sniper fire in Bosnia. She wasn’t.

Now “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams said that while covering Iraq in 2003 his helicopter was “forced down after being hit by an RPG.” It wasn’t.

Williams blames his lie to an unfortunate case of “misremembering” though Williams has “misremembered” the incident several times during the past dozen years. The NBC anchor got busted because those who were there finally got tired of his BS. Williams’ Chinook landed about an hour after three other U.S. helicopters were truly under attack.

So why has the NBC crew with Williams been silent all of these years? Not surprising, this is the same network that rigged a fiery GM pickup truck crash, edited the George Zimmerman 911 call and gave race baiter and functional illiterate Al Sharpton his own show.


(Opinions here were voiced by Ms. Paula Priesse via Facebook. I could only wish I were that able a wordsmith)

Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
02-06-2015, 09:13 AM
Falsis in unum, falsis in omnibus-Tyr

Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
02-06-2015, 09:15 AM
http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6993&stc=1

Dem Senator Richard Blumenthal said he served in Vietnam. He didn’t.

Hillary Clinton claimed she was under sniper fire in Bosnia. She wasn’t.

Now “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams said that while covering Iraq in 2003 his helicopter was “forced down after being hit by an RPG.” It wasn’t.

Williams blames his lie to an unfortunate case of “misremembering” though Williams has “misremembered” the incident several times during the past dozen years. The NBC anchor got busted because those who were there finally got tired of his BS. Williams’ Chinook landed about an hour after three other U.S. helicopters were truly under attack.

So why has the NBC crew with Williams been silent all of these years? Not surprising, this is the same network that rigged a fiery GM pickup truck crash, edited the George Zimmerman 911 call and gave race baiter and functional illiterate Al Sharpton his own show.

Guy is no different than any of the other liberal/dem maggots IMHO..
All of them are walking , talking, lying pieces of shit.....
None of them have even a shred of honor, nay not one!--Tyr

sundaydriver
02-06-2015, 09:20 AM
I remember instances such as this happening before. Walter Cronkite once talked about his plane taking fire while he was reporting and..Uhh, never mind I just remembered he was reporting from a B-17 over Germany on a bombing mission. :eek:

aboutime
02-06-2015, 03:34 PM
Guy is no different than any of the other liberal/dem maggots IMHO..
All of them are walking , talking, lying pieces of shit.....
None of them have even a shred of honor, nay not one!--Tyr



And....OBAMA has convinced millions of Uneducated Americans he is their MESSIAH...but he ISN'T!

Jeff
02-06-2015, 04:01 PM
And....OBAMA has convinced millions of Uneducated Americans he is their MESSIAH...but he ISN'T!

Unfortunately I think most that believe he is the Messiah believed so as soon as he took the stage, his skin color sold that, yes he convinced some but honestly most that voted for him once and even worst twice didn't do so for any of his leadership skills, he has none. But of course he may of swayed a few liberals with his idiotic attempt as a leader, liberals that where on the fence maybe but in that case again I think they worship him because he is black, being Black has giving him all kinds of excuses and ways out of sticky ( illegal in many cases ) situations, sad isn't it.

aboutime
02-06-2015, 04:07 PM
Unfortunately I think most that believe he is the Messiah believed so as soon as he took the stage, his skin color sold that, yes he convinced some but honestly most that voted for him once and even worst twice didn't do so for any of his leadership skills, he has none. But of course he may of swayed a few liberals with his idiotic attempt as a leader, liberals that where on the fence maybe but in that case again I think they worship him because he is black, being Black has giving him all kinds of excuses and ways out of sticky ( illegal in many cases ) situations, sad isn't it.


Williams has finally shown all of America the true meaning of "STOLEN VALOR". Like all those phonies who pretend to be decorated RANGERS, GREEN BERETS, and SEALS.

It's a good thing Williams wasn't with OBAMA, and SEAL TEAM SIX when OBAMA took out OBL!!!:clap:

gabosaurus
02-06-2015, 04:58 PM
Kids are smarter than adults...once again


http://youtu.be/VzYymuslGDw

Bilgerat
02-06-2015, 05:02 PM
Kids are smarter than adults...once again

So your defense of "Lying Williams" is to attack Fox?

How very sad :lame2:

LongTermGuy
02-06-2015, 05:06 PM
`The Psychology of the Self-Hating Liberal`


http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/01/post_1.html

jimnyc
02-06-2015, 05:17 PM
So your defense of "Lying Williams" is to attack Fox?

How very sad :lame2:

Get used to it, that's her MO. She's incapable of looking at the facts when it's a shithead liberal doing this shit, all she can do is try to find something to toss back at you, as if it somehow makes the initial actions disappear.

jimnyc
02-06-2015, 05:19 PM
I read a fair amount this afternoon about his time in New Orleans, his reporting and stories ever since, and it seems he was completely full of shit there too. This one is snowballing and hopefully this liar will be looking for a new job soon.

aboutime
02-06-2015, 05:22 PM
I read a fair amount this afternoon about his time in New Orleans, his reporting and stories ever since, and it seems he was completely full of shit there too. This one is snowballing and hopefully this liar will be looking for a new job soon.

Hate to say this jim but...if NBC lets Williams go. Watch for him to suddenly appear in the White House Press Room, where he and his new boss have made an ART FORM out of LIES, and LYING.

Bilgerat
02-06-2015, 05:35 PM
It's a good thing Williams wasn't with OBAMA, and SEAL TEAM SIX when OBAMA took out OBL!!!:clap:


But he was, he was covering it from Golf Cart 1



https://danmillerinpanama.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/obama-killed-osama.jpg

gabosaurus
02-06-2015, 07:58 PM
No one is defending Williams. He did not speak the truth and is suffering the consequences.
My point is that no one is similarly attacking other spoken mistruths.

revelarts
02-06-2015, 08:05 PM
a mainstream reporter not telling the truth?!
say it ain't so.



how far down the rabbit hole we willing to go here in our outrage?
i suspect not that far.

gabosaurus
02-06-2015, 08:51 PM
TV people, left or right wing, don't get a break when they screw up. The Internet will be all over them. :cool:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/brianwilliamsmisremembers

Jeff
02-07-2015, 07:55 AM
So your defense of "Lying Williams" is to attack Fox?

How very sad :lame2:

Gabby's favorite defense, well CW did it so nanna nanna bobo , same ol same ol .

And no GW was nowhere near the lying POS in office now but even if so when does 2 wrongs make it OK.:dunno:


The liberal way I guess, if ya can't win with facts make sheot up.

aboutime
02-07-2015, 04:50 PM
No one is defending Williams. He did not speak the truth and is suffering the consequences.
My point is that no one is similarly attacking other spoken mistruths.



Okay gabby. How bout this? List, or show those OTHER SPOKEN MISTRUTHS. Then we'll all know, and probably agree with you. But...they must be factual. Not fabricated, hearsay, rumor, or spoken by anonymous sources like PMSNBC, NBC, or Democrats in Congress accuse without proof?

DLT
02-07-2015, 08:24 PM
“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams told the military publication Stars and Stripes (http://www.stripes.com/news/us/nbc-s-brian-williams-recants-iraq-story-after-soldiers-protest-1.327792), Wednesday. “I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.”
The confession came at a New York Rangers game last week, after Williams reiterated his skewed version of events. The occasion was a tribute to retired Command Sgt. Major Tim Terpak, who’d provided security for the grounded helicopters Williams claimed to have been aboard.``
http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/vXp8ysJ4UvKDVzAmakjK.A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NQ--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2015-02-04/7fa7ac20-acc4-11e4-8ec1-9d585b7a1102_williams_sq.jpg



http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-news--bria...231038729.html (http://news.yahoo.com/nbc-news--brian-williams-recants-story-iraq-helicopter-after-soldiers-protest-231038729.html)




`Why is this not a surprise?.......Well imagine that..........a leftist PoS member of the Propaganda Corps lying to the public.`

No surprise. He's just doing what he's been taught to do by his Democrat masters. You know, the ones like Bubba Clinton that taught us that character really doesn't count.

DLT
02-07-2015, 08:26 PM
`...............Battle-space prep for Hillary....so her "I was under sniper fire once" story will look normal/run-of-the-mill/everyone-does-it when her story comes up in election 2016.....`

Lying is second nature to leftists/Democrats. They have that in common with radical muslims.

DLT
02-07-2015, 08:29 PM
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/8441579776/h63789858/

Typical leftie response to leftie lying. Yet another leftie lie.

LongTermGuy
02-07-2015, 08:56 PM
http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/files/2015/02/brian-williams-sad-AP-640x480-495x371.jpg




`Brian Williams Stepping Away From 'NBC Nightly News' Amid Scandal`


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...way-nbc-771102 (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/brian-williams-stepping-away-nbc-771102)


`Too bad we couldn't get Obama to step away because of all of his scandals.`

Bilgerat
02-07-2015, 09:06 PM
http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=6995&stc=1

aboutime
02-07-2015, 10:07 PM
It was only a matter of time, and predictability as to when some liberal, democrat would attempt to take the attention from Williams, and drag Rush into the story.

I'm just surprised the routine, liberal, talking points about this NBC Liar, didn't also find some way to blame BUSH again??

Whenever liberals, democrats, progressives, and leftists are confronted with FACTS they cannot dispute. Their first DNC Talking Point tactic is to change the subject, or context, and BLAME someone they feel so hateful about, all the time.
Which; in reality. Helps to make the Liberal, Democrat, Progressive, Leftist look like the jackass they hope to disguise.

LongTermGuy
02-07-2015, 10:11 PM
It was only a matter of time, and predictability as to when some liberal, democrat would attempt to take the attention from Williams, and drag Rush into the story.

I'm just surprised the routine, liberal, talking points about this NBC Liar, didn't also find some way to blame BUSH again??

Whenever liberals, democrats, progressives, and leftists are confronted with FACTS they cannot dispute. Their first DNC Talking Point tactic is to change the subject, or context, and BLAME someone they feel so hateful about, all the time.
Which; in reality. Helps to make the Liberal, Democrat, Progressive, Leftist look like the jackass they hope to disguise.


:clap::clap::clap:.....

LongTermGuy
02-07-2015, 10:16 PM
`Brian Williams is not alone: Hillary Clinton, Stephen Glass and other famous fabrications`....

http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/338094/u-s-secretary-state-hillary-clinton-sits-down-washington-testify-september-attack.jpg?w=720&h=491&l=50&t=50


~ “I remember landing under sniper fire,” Clinton had said of the Bosnia trip during a campaign speech in Washington. “There was supposed to be some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.” ~

​https://news.yahoo.com/brian-williams-is-not-alone--hillary-clinton--stephen-glass-and-other-famous-fabrications-200635601.html

tailfins
02-07-2015, 10:49 PM
`Brian Williams is not alone: Hillary Clinton, Stephen Glass and other famous fabrications`....

http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/338094/u-s-secretary-state-hillary-clinton-sits-down-washington-testify-september-attack.jpg?w=720&h=491&l=50&t=50


~ “I remember landing under sniper fire,” Clinton had said of the Bosnia trip during a campaign speech in Washington. “There was supposed to be some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.” ~

​https://news.yahoo.com/brian-williams-is-not-alone--hillary-clinton--stephen-glass-and-other-famous-fabrications-200635601.html

Let us not forget Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton


And who can forget Hillary telling the press that she was named after famed New Zealand climber Sir Edmund Hillary. Never mind (http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/hillary.asp) that Clinton was born in 1947 and Sir Edmund didn’t make the climb to Mount Everest until 1953.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns-blogs/sherman-frederick/hillary-woman-way-out-touch

LongTermGuy
02-07-2015, 11:01 PM
http://i60.tinypic.com/10mkdx1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/2rZzVfG.jpg


http://i2.wp.com/okmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/brian-williams-misremembers-memes-021.jpg?resize=632%2C502

http://i0.wp.com/okmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/brian-williams-misremembers-memes-061.jpg?resize=634%2C401

LongTermGuy
02-07-2015, 11:03 PM
http://i.imgur.com/yrOAxRq.jpg

revelarts
02-08-2015, 02:35 AM
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r124/Loralei_01/BrianWilliamsFrodo_zpswlr9upfl.jpg

Elessar
02-08-2015, 09:43 AM
Unfortunately I think most that believe he is the Messiah believed so as soon as he took the stage, his skin color sold that, yes he convinced some but honestly most that voted for him once and even worst twice didn't do so for any of his leadership skills, he has none. But of course he may of swayed a few liberals with his idiotic attempt as a leader, liberals that where on the fence maybe but in that case again I think they worship him because he is black, being Black has giving him all kinds of excuses and ways out of sticky ( illegal in many cases ) situations, sad isn't it.

1/4 Black is no reason to worship him. Why are so many people so blind and brain-dead?

Elessar
02-08-2015, 09:44 AM
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r124/Loralei_01/BrianWilliamsFrodo_zpswlr9upfl.jpg

That's funny Rev! I'm a Tolkien "FAN"!

Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
02-08-2015, 12:52 PM
1/4 Black is no reason to worship him. Why are so many people so blind and brain-dead?
dat de power of de awesome black blood.
I don't get it , he has more white blood than black since his mother was white. The mother carries the baby and thus more genetic coding is in her egg.
Yet in this guilt ridden ,ff'ed up nation the damn libs have so schooled and ff'ed up the kids for 50+ years , the whites guilt voted in the fing lying scum--not once mind you but insanely-TWICE!!!
Looking at it from the outside in, one would have to say we deserve exactly what we are getting!
Very sad to say but tis' true.. -Tyr

Jeff
02-08-2015, 01:19 PM
1/4 Black is no reason to worship him. Why are so many people so blind and brain-dead?

Great question, one I can't answer. I listened to them and decided to vote for the other guy.

Anton Chigurh
02-09-2015, 06:48 PM
Brian Williams misremembers memes - Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/brian-williams-misremembers-memes-2015-2)


The on-camera talent of America's highest-rated network evening news broadcast and "the 23rd-most-trusted person in the country" is now the face of viral internet memes.

Brian Williams, who has anchored "NBC Nightly News" for more than a decade, was forced to take a temporary leave of absence over "the next several days" amid the growing scandal of false claims he made regarding his reporting in Iraq.

Williams, who earns $13 million annually (making him America's fourth-highest-paid news broadcaster), admitted to confusing parts of a story he shared on air about riding in a helicopter shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade in 2003. On Wednesday, after multiple military members questioned Williams' personal account, which he had repeated on numerous occasions, he apologized on camera to his audience.

Since then, Williams' coverage of Hurricane Katrina and other notable accounts are under internal investigation.Many hilarious memes of Lyin' Brian at the link.

Personally, I vividly remember this scene though. No, I swear.

http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7002&stc=1

Elessar
02-09-2015, 07:17 PM
Brian Williams misremembers memes - Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/brian-williams-misremembers-memes-2015-2)

Many hilarious memes of Lyin' Brian at the link.

Personally, I vividly remember this scene though. No, I swear.

http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7002&stc=1

I do not watch NBC any more....for over 15 years.

This clown supposedly had integrity?

Sheesh...

gabosaurus
02-09-2015, 07:25 PM
This couldn't fit in the other Brian Williams thread...which also contained many of same memes... why?

Anton Chigurh
02-09-2015, 08:34 PM
This couldn't fit in the other Brian Williams thread...which also contained many of same memes... why?That's strictly my bad, I didn't look to see if there was already a thread on Lyin' Brian.

DP staff, please merge.

NightTrain
02-09-2015, 11:25 PM
Threads merged.

NightTrain
02-09-2015, 11:31 PM
http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7003&stc=1

NightTrain
02-09-2015, 11:32 PM
http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7004&stc=1

NightTrain
02-09-2015, 11:32 PM
http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7005&stc=1

NightTrain
02-09-2015, 11:41 PM
http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7006&stc=1

Bilgerat
02-10-2015, 08:12 AM
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10347241_412780845513623_1854166451545329019_n.jpg ?oh=6b39cdbf88c0660868a0626d77d17840&oe=554A1A12&__gda__=1431802011_0fa592ee65203f7f5b07c9cc244d918 c

Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
02-10-2015, 10:55 AM
Williams engaged in Stolen Valor. The lie he told was to embellish the dangers that he faced and the supposed great courage he had in facing that danger!
Like every damn lib he is a lying piece of shat, he just got caught and that snowball rolled downhill!
Which is worse the lie and /or lies he has told are the lies the bamscum tells and are told about him praising his greatness and attributing that he is a genius?
Answer= Both . As each one needs to be fired from their position..--Tyr

Anton Chigurh
02-10-2015, 08:28 PM
They just announced they are giving this puke a six month suspension without pay. Apparently the plan is to bring him right back though, after the six months. At least, that is what I glean from this part of their statement:



“This has been a painful period for all concerned and we appreciate your patience while we gathered the available facts. By his actions, Brian has jeopardized the trust millions of Americans place in NBC News. His actions are inexcusable and this suspension is severe and appropriate. Brian’s life’s work is delivering the news. I know Brian loves his country, NBC News and his colleagues. He deserves a second chance and we are rooting for him. Brian has shared his deep remorse with me and he is committed to winning back everyone’s trust.”Let the heat die down, the stupid public is not only stupid it has a short memory....

LongTermGuy
02-10-2015, 08:33 PM
They just announced they are giving this puke a six month suspension without pay. Apparently the plan is to bring him right back though, after the six months. At least, that is what I glean from this part of their statement:


Let the heat die down, the stupid public is not only stupid it has a short memory....

`......What a mess.... but it couldn't happen to a better group than this bunch of Obama's Kool-Aid drinkers..heres a link...


http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...-for-6-months/ (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2015/02/10/nbc-suspends-brian-williams-for-6-months/)

NightTrain
02-12-2015, 12:15 AM
They just announced they are giving this puke a six month suspension without pay. Apparently the plan is to bring him right back though, after the six months. At least, that is what I glean from this part of their statement:


Let the heat die down, the stupid public is not only stupid it has a short memory....


No way. He might have been able to weather this, but not after he became an internet meme.

He's found infamy, and a News anchor's most precious commodity is credibility.

Brian Williams is now literally the poster boy for liars.

Anton Chigurh
02-12-2015, 12:19 AM
No way. He might have been able to weather this, but not after he became an internet meme.

He's found infamy, and a News anchor's most precious commodity is credibility.

Brian Williams is now literally the poster boy for liars.It might actually be, Lester Holt. IF he does really poorly I bet they still will have a hard time replacing him with Whitey, any Whitey. But if he does respectable ratings wise, I think they keep him. Even if the ratings are lower. If they didn't, the optics would be really bad.

NBC doesn't care about integrity or if Williams lied - if they did they would have listened years ago when these veterans first tried to tell them. But they DO care about political correctness and Lester IS a black man.

Something to think about.

NightTrain
02-12-2015, 12:24 AM
Lester Holt seems to do a good job - the few times I watch NBC, that is.

Usually that's in a bar when I'm out of town and can't get my hands on the remote.

I wouldn't think there would be a problem with him replacing Williams unless there's a few skeletons waiting to jump out of his closet.

Anton Chigurh
02-12-2015, 12:31 AM
Lester Holt seems to do a good job - the few times I watch NBC, that is.

Usually that's in a bar when I'm out of town and can't get my hands on the remote.

I wouldn't think there would be a problem with him replacing Williams unless there's a few skeletons waiting to jump out of his closet.I actually think he's got a huge advantage.

Kathianne
02-12-2015, 12:41 AM
Lester Holt seems to do a good job - the few times I watch NBC, that is.

Usually that's in a bar when I'm out of town and can't get my hands on the remote.

I wouldn't think there would be a problem with him replacing Williams unless there's a few skeletons waiting to jump out of his closet.

I remember him fondly with Chicago CBS station. I was disappointed when he left to go national. He seemed to be what Brian Williams was faking to be. Never saw bluster about how 'cute, brave, and daring' am I.