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[h=1]NBC Nightly News' Brian Williams recants claim he was on chopper that took fire in Iraq[/h]Published February 04, 2015FoxNews.com


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Jan. 10, 2010: Brian Williams from "NBC Nightly News" answers a question during the panel for NBC News at the NBC Universal sessions of the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif. (Reuters)


NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday that he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, recanting a claim that he and the network had repeated for years -- most recently on Friday night.
Contrary to Williams' past claims that he was traveling in a Chinook helicopter that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire on March 24, he arrived at the scene in a separate helicopter about an hour later. He apparently was never in any danger, and the Chinook that took fire, one of three in its formation, was able to make an emergency landing with no casualties.
"I want to apologize," Williams said on Wednesday night's broadcast of NBC Nightly News. "I said I was traveling in an aircraft that was hit by RPG fire. I was instead in a following aircraft."
Williams, 55, most recently told the story during NBC coverage of a tribute to a retired command sergeant major at a New York Rangers hockey game.
“The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG,” Williams said on the broadcast. “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry.”
The Stars and Stripes, a newspaper that covers the United States Armed Forces, first reported the admission.
Williams disputed claims to the newspaper that his original report was inaccurate, saying that he originally reported that he was in another helicopter but that he had confused the events.
“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams told the newspaper. “I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.”
In a 2008 blog post, Williams said he was flying in a Chinook helicopter as part of a four-chopper formation, and all four took fire.
But Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Miller, who was the flight engineer on the aircraft that carried the journalists, told Stars and Stripes that their helicopter "never came under direct enemy fire."
Several service members said they recall NBC reporting Williams was aboard the aircraft that was attacked, despite the claim being false.
Mike O’Keeffe, who was a door gunner on the damaged Chinook, told The Stars and Stripes the incident has bothered him since he and others first saw the original report.
“Over the years it faded,” he said, “and then to see it last week it was — I can’t believe he is still telling this false narrative.”
 
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[ The sad thing is, hes even lying in his "confession," this is an intentional lie that he's been telling for years - not a *mistake* ]



'Brian Williams lied about his copter being shot down in Iraq



By Howard Kurtz
Published February 04, 2015FoxNews.com


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Jan. 10, 2010: Brian Williams from "NBC Nightly News" answers a question during the panel for NBC News at the NBC Universal sessions of the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, California. (Reuters)


Brian Williams, the nation’s top-rated news anchor, has admitted fabricating a tale of being shot down in a helicopter over Iraq a dozen years ago.
Williams apologized on the air this evening, calling it a “bungled attempt” to honor a soldier and explaining that he was not in the helicopter that was hit.
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.”
But Williams has been telling this bogus story for a long time, most recently 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, and his comedic skills have led him to guest-host “Saturday Night Live” and become a regular on the “Daily Show.”
For such a high-profile journalist to acknowledge that he essentially invented a story that dramatized his bravery in a war zone is hard to fathom. Williams said he had misremembered the story and was sorry.
Williams repeated the tale last week as he was paying tribute at a New York Rangers hockey game to retired soldier who provided security for grounded helicopters while Williams was in Iraq in 2003.
“The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG,” the anchor told viewers. “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry.”
But his account was contradicted by crew members of the 159[SUP]th[/SUP] Aviation Regiment on board a Chinook copter that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire. They told Stars & Stripes that Williams was nowhere near that helicopter and two other Chinooks in the formation that took fire.
The anchor and his NBC crew arrived in the area west of Baghdad on another helicopter about an hour later, they told the newspaper. The chopper landed because of an Iraqi sandstorm and was grounded by weather for two days.
“No, we never came under direct enemy fire to the aircraft,” Sgt. 1[SUP]st[/SUP] Class Joseph Miller, the flight engineer on Williams’ helicopter, was quoted as saying.
Some of the crew members on the Chinook that was hit were clearly upset with the anchor’s now-discredited claim. Lance Reynolds, the flight engineer, told Stars & Stripes it had been a “life-changing” trauma and “felt like a personal experience that someone else wanted to participate in and didn’t deserve to participate in.”
NBC trumpeted the Williams tale, airing a story on March 26, 2003, with the headline: “Target Iraq: Helicopter NBC’s Brian Williams Was Riding In Comes Under Fire.”
But the anchor appears to have backed off the story years later. In a 2008 blog post, he wrote that the “Chinook helicopter flying in front of ours (from the 101st Airborne) took an RPG to the rear rotor.”

That makes it even more difficult to understand why Williams would repeat the claim last week, only to have it shot down by those who were there.
 

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Why don't you ever post the weekly retractions by fox news?
 

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Fox News doesn't tell a story they knew was a lie for 12 years, and then lie some more when the lie is exposed.

Thanks for asking.

Yeah, that news outlet is fair and balanced. Guys lie on a daily basis and retract half their shit. Unfortunately the sheep already have it and stick with it. A guy that lies about being under fire and an entire news network that scares the shit out of dumb people with their nonsense lies and half truths. Real comparable.
 
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Yeah, that news outlet is fair and balanced. Guys lie on a daily basis and retract half their shit. Unfortunately the sheep already have it and stick with it. A guy that lies about being under fire and an entire news network that scares the shit out of dumb people with their nonsense lies and half truths. Real comparable.

It doesn't surprise me one bit that you're defending the liar. He's a big name Democrat.
 
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Yeah, that news outlet is fair and balanced. Guys lie on a daily basis and retract half their shit. Unfortunately the sheep already have it and stick with it. A guy that lies about being under fire and an entire news network that scares the shit out of dumb people with their nonsense lies and half truths. Real comparable.

Anyone who claims that Fox News is somehow more slanted/biased than CNN/MSNBC, NBS/ABC/CBS is seriously deluded.
 

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Anyone who claims that Fox News is somehow more slanted/biased than CNN/MSNBC, NBS/ABC/CBS is seriously deluded.

Msnbc is left slanted....we know this. Difference is...conservative dolts think fox is down the middle. They don't even know fox is the right arm of the repub party
 
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Msnbc is left slanted....we know this. Difference is...conservative dolts think fox is down the middle. They don't even know fox is the right arm of the repub party

As if leftists don't think CNN/MSNBC is "down the middle" Yawn.
 
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the only one I a watch is cnn because my client watches it but more in the day with the news. Sunday mornings it's George whatever opolous. trust me I'd rather watch espn or Comedy Central. Watching opinion based programming like fox and friends or hannidy would be like watching Oberman. The one lefty I like is maher but I don't go out of my way to watch it. I'm a die hard Viking fan and the radio play by play announcer has a daily radio show and it's hard to stomach because his slant on the teams and players is well unrealistic and homer at its finest, I liken these TV stations to that
 

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This dude could say he punched out Jessie Ventura in a bar and I wouldn't care.

He put Alison Williams on this planet, cut him some slack.
 

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I don't watch cnn. Have no clue. What leftists doesn't think msnbc isn't left leaning? None here

I love how they brag about how many more viewers Fox News gets, then blame us for getting our news from a station that gets more viewers for their prison shows than their politics. I don't know anyone who watches MSNBC. People like festeringZit need to be told what to think.
 

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I love how they brag about how many more viewers Fox News gets, then blame us for getting our news from a station that gets more viewers for their prison shows than their politics. I don't know anyone who watches MSNBC. People like festeringZit need to be told what to think.

That's one of russ's fav things to post. Look at all the fox viewers!!! And honey boo boo was one of the most watched shows ever. These idiots confuse viewership and quality content. That fox and friends show is like retard hour
 

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Williams appeared nonplussed about the scandal on Wednesday evening as he enjoyed a New York Rangers game with his good friend Tom Hanks



 

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Williams pictured in Iraq in 2003 with Command Sgt. Major Tim Terpack: In a lengthy Facebook post on Wednesday, Williams admitted his mistake and blamed the ‘fog of memory over 12 years’ for his error



 

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