NBC’s Brian Williams recants Iraq story after soldiers protest

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  1. Casper

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    Were you sleeping the many times FOX has had to admit they presented a lie or half-truth as a lie and the many times others have pointed out the many lies they have aired or do you have selective hearing and reading skills? Try lifting the fog by performing a Goggle search for "FOX Lies" and start doing some reading and update your knowledge base. You're Welcome.

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    True, almost as good as Saddam has WDM's, nothing bad came from that now did it.
     
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    Micketto New Member Past Donor

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    I think he is a perfect match for NBC's credibility.

    Before my time but didn't they try to prove a vehicle faulty by igniting it's gas tank during a crash test or something ?!

    Then there's all that "Obama is doing a good job" BS.
     
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    Keep deflecting away from Brian Williams.
     
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    Isn't this the guy who said he saw a dead body float by his window in Katrina?
     
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    A lie within a lie.

    Saddam had WMD.
     
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    [video=youtube_share;KtpMzGN9uWc]http://youtu.be/KtpMzGN9uWc[/video]
     
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    In the age of progressive communist democrats, Lies are the new Truth.
     
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    This kind of deflection could go on for days. Remember this gem of fictitious air sirens, masks and incoming missiles (on CNN!)? [video=youtube;1LK9a8AT2b8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LK9a8AT2b8[/video]
     
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    Lmao.... "we overfilled the tank, put the wrong gas cap on, put incendiary devices on the tank, and lied about holes in the tank".

    How the hell does that network have any credibility whatsoever ?!
     
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    Should be easy for your handler to give a few links to some of the many lies that you seem to think are out there???

    OK. - - On Ebola Fox was called a liar because they reported what politicians were saying and the lie detectors called most of those statements "mostly false"

    Then we have what comedian Jon Stewart thinks were Fox lies.

    Another big lie that made the list - "Conservative publications, especially Fox News programs, often question the validity of human-influenced climate change by saying that snow means the world is obviously not warming very much. " Sorry it just has a ways to go before we warm up to the normal temperature that we had before the Little Ice Age.

    This is a good one - -The Bush tax cuts expiring is going to cause a huge increase in taxes for the middle class, and those dirty nasty liberals just want to steal your hard-earned money.

    Debunked by an opinion so how is a deferent opinion a lie ? -Yeah, not quite. In fact, the Bush tax cuts are - - thought to be - - -a major contributor to the deficit. Fox News, though, is in the habit of showing extremely misleading numbers as seen in the following graphic:
     
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    You have to ask a liberal Democrat, only they could answer that question.

    Remember when Barack Obama claimed that his uncle liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during WW ll ? :roflol: I didn't know that Obama had any family members who served in the Soviet army but it wouldn't surprise me.
     
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    Um we would have no left wing media after the Mchael Brown and Treyvon Martin incidents lol. Hell after Treyvon Martin there might only be 3 liberals bloggers left.
     
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    I know right, why would Hillary say that?
     
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    Or that his mother was arguing with insurance companies as she was dying in the hospital? It never happened, but that didn't stop the narrative from being advanced, and without it, much of the support for Obamacare wouldn't have been generated.

    With the left, it's all about the narrative, regardless of the reality.
     
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    I apparently did. Lol. And I even agree with it.
     
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    I was replying to another poster, that means I was not addressing you.
     
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    Because that was what the information provided to her told her by someone else, you know, the executive branch of the government.
     
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    You must mean her husband right? Willy said the same things about WMD's while he was in office.
     
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    I don't really care. I still responded.
     
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    No deflection, simply some here not reading what I originally posted on the topic and fixating on protecting Con news sources from their lies while whining about the Libs lies, selective outrage as usual.
     
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    LOL! I find it funny that both sides do it but we blame each side as if the other is innocent. My post was just a reminder of that.
     
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    Yes he did and back then it was likely Saddam still had viable stockpiles of WDMs, as we now know he mothballed and destroyed it by the time Dubya invaded without waiting for he inspectors to finish their job.
     
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    It's an "over there" story.

    "Yeah I got hit by shells over there." "I saw combat."
    Translated In reality they spent the duration of their tour of duty behind the wire and never faced real combat outside of a few mortar strikes in the vicinity.

    Take this from a non-combat guy...people make (*)(*)(*)(*) up to make it look impressive. Now, in the context of lying in uniform to get a recommendatioin for an award, or a benefit...that's a serious matter. What this civilian reporter did was lie, about his helo getting hit by an RPG while he was "over there." You would know if it got hit, trust me. You don't confuse the aircraft you are riding in with someone else's. You would know and the memory is seared into your brain because a natural human response is of course the fear of losing one's life.

    Brian Williams lied. Now let the first who has never lied or embellished cast the first stone. Just being in Iraq in 2003 was hazardous duty, yes he lied, his helo was not hit...but I'm not convinced he should lose his job over anecdotal story telling.
     
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    The inspectors were thrown out.
     
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    We haven't had reporters on nightly news for decades. They are all agenda-driven policy readers now.
     

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