{"id":58140,"date":"2015-02-08T08:01:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T13:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58140"},"modified":"2015-02-07T20:36:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T01:36:30","slug":"brian-williams-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58140","title":{"rendered":"Brian Williams and vets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, Brian Williams is taking himself off the air<\/a> because he’s taking so much heat from his little tale about being the victim of Iraqi RPG fire. <\/p>\n

In a memo Saturday to NBC News staff that was released by the network, the anchorman said that as managing editor of “NBC Nightly News” he is taking himself off the broadcast for several days. Weekend anchor Lester Holt will fill in, Williams said.<\/p>\n

NBC News refused to comment Saturday on when or whether Williams would return and who would decide his future.<\/p>\n

Williams, however, said he would be back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yahoo News<\/a> writes that Williams isn’t alone in his story-stretching, ticking off a list of fabricators like Hillary Clinton and Tom Harkin. They forget about Scott Beauchamp who the media defended for his flights of fancy about his time in Iraq. Jesse MacBeth also comes to mind, although not a journalist, he was quoted throughout the media until military folks policed up his BS. And who could forget Dan Rather – the fellow who coined the phrase “fake but accurate” and who is now supporting Williams.<\/p>\n

There are calls for folks to leave Williams alone – they even call it “false memories” like it was his brain’s fault – even though the reportage that went out right after incident was titled “Target Iraq: Helicopter NBC’s Brian Williams Was Riding In Comes Under Fire<\/a>“. So he must’ve misremembered it moments after it happened. Of course, the troops aren’t going to leave Williams alone. <\/p>\n

Why? Well, Williams is taking this hit for more than a decade of their treatment by the media. Look at how the media wouldn’t let go of issues like weeks, months, years, of Abu Ghraib, the urination videos, Haditha, those pictures in the LA Times of troops posing with the bodies of suicide bombers, SSG Robert Bales. How many other stories about the troops that media used to make them look sub-human even though most of them had nothing to with these big media events.<\/p>\n

How about the New York Times releasing classified information that may or may not have resulted in deaths on the battlefield? How about the media running with the so-called “Collateral Murder” video without a bit of context from the people who were there.<\/p>\n

How about the countless articles about veterans being bad and the media always linking it to battlefield stress, whether or not the veteran involved had ever been near combat.<\/p>\n

It’s probably unfair that Williams is taking all of this heat from veterans, but then it was unfair the way that the media has treated the troops and veterans as long as they’re fighting a war that the media opposed on political grounds.<\/p>\n

So, media, here you go – your own Abu Ghraib. All journalists lie – always. Just like all soldiers torture prisoners with naked pyramids, and urinate on their dead bodies. Live with it.<\/p>\n

By the way, I hope Williams doesn’t resign and I hope he keeps on doing whatever he does at NBC – that makes me better than the journalists who called for General McCrystal to resign.<\/p>\n

Next!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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