Random Politics & Religion #00

NBC News’ Brian Williams was not, as he has previously claimed, aboard a U.S. Air Force helicopter that was hit by two rockets and grounded during the 2003 Iraq invasion.

In what was surely a moment of vindication for those who were actually aboard the grounded aircraft, the Nightly News anchor admitted Wednesday that the harrowing story he and NBC had been perpetuating since 2003 was false.

“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams told the military publication Stars and Stripes, 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.

In a comment on NBC Nightly News' Facebook page, under the video of Williams’ coverage of the tribute, Flight Engineer Lance Reynolds wrote “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. Then I remember you guys taking back off in a different flight of Chinooks from another unit and heading to Kuwait to report your 'war story' to the Nightly News. The whole time we were still stuck in Iraq trying to repair the aircraft and pulling our own Security.”

Reynolds told Stars and Stripes, “It was something personal for us that was kind of life-changing for me. I’ve know how lucky I was to survive it. It felt like a personal experience that someone else wanted to participate in and didn’t deserve to participate in.”

Its disappointing only because he is the anchor of a primetime news telecast but it doesn't have an impact on anything. matter until it's a Fox News broadcaster or reporter that does it, then we must all get up in arms and protest about it.

The last journalist I knew with integrity was Murphy Brown, and that was a fictional character.

I was going to say Arianna Huffington...

Its disappointing only because he is the anchor of a primetime news telecast but it doesn't have an impact on anything.

Fox News at least has more attractive anchors and isn't that what journalism is all about ?

What else has he so easily lied about?

They want a puppet so they can put there words in its mouth to sway the American peoples mind to support illegal government sanctioned actions like the Iraq invasion violating international sovereignty and putting our finest in harms way.

We was not founded as a democracy of any sort, our founders studied all forms of government and despised democracy because it produced failed states and chose us to be a Constitutional Republic.

If we was a Constitutional Republic i bet we would be in less wars. Because Democracy seems to love war just like these two parties do that advocate our nation in our names and misinformed votes.

Article 4 section 4 clearly says, "Section 4 The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government".

wake up you fools.

The only government i support is a Constitutional Republic which is what this flag beside my name represents.

Mr Nobody are you saying that i am a Marxist? Because i am not are you claiming a Constitutional Republic that has 50 states and the flag beside my name is Marxist?

Your wrong, these two parties who claim we are a democracy love using Marxist communistic things like a Central Bank and a income tax, both are Marxist policies , and both i am extremely against because we are being improperly represented.

I have reasoning for all my statements and history backs it up.

I do not spoon feed anyone, be a big boy i encourage you to look it up.

or in sheep language here for you

i do not believe in either

I do not believe in mythical creatures either

lizard people