How many times have you watched an empty talking head state that Iraq is a failure and a disaster.  Did you ever wonder where and when these pinheads became foreign affairs experts?  How is it they have more insight than any elected official supporting the administration.

What do you suppose the odds are that 99% of our fighting forces in Iraq have got it all wrong because we are really losing the battle?

Don’t you think it’s time for Americans to speak up and tell these self appointed experts that they are full of it.

Typical Liberal sophistry: Use information about "the accuracy of U.S. military data collection and categorization" to argue against the lack of "accuracy of news media coverage."  This is more of a lie than a non-sequitur.

 As others have stated, why is it that 99% of the troops disagree with Brian's assessment?  I don't know, maybe they're all "dumb" like Jon Carry said they were.  I guess Brian & the MSM are the only smart ones and those of us who are stupid need their  guidance to help us see the "truth".  Yeah, right and I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell ya.  The 'rents will be disappointed that they won't get to watch Boy Brian for the 3 weeks they're with me.  Too bad, I am Scrooge. 

Most initial stories I see are later revised down as to the death toll. I can't claim first hand accounting of the validity of any of it for sure. But I have to believe if numbers are getting revised on a daily basis it is because someone in the area is talking to someone else and calling BS. Otherwise the initial number would stand.

Beyond that he was focusing on one facet of a multipart issue.

That is similar to trying to project some kind of assesment of the well being of the USA by the number of DUI's last year.

Interesting in it's own right, but not a conclusion grabber.

With the state of the MSM the way it is, can you imagine 100 years from now a student trying to do a truthful report on the Bush 43 Presidency, or a historian trying to do a book? There is more fiction than fact on record.

If Brian Williams and his kind keep up it will not matter. We will all be speaking Iranian and the one nightly news reader on the sole TV channel in the US will be Brian Williamsabobaloulou, Brian Williams' grandson, and no one will be interested in what was 100 years ago.

This is so disrespectful and irresponsible!  And so frustrating, because Brian Williams, Katie Couric, and what's his name..  oh yeah Charlie Gibson, and crazy Olberman, and all the other liberal MSM hood ornaments can get away with this kind of thing because so much of the viewing public has been quite duped into accepting as gospel anything that these news readers..  read.  Brian Williams, how dare you to undercut the First Lady with deceptive statements like this.  You hold yourself up as if you are some kind of symbol of truth and integrity, when all you can do is twist and spin half turths or out right lies. 

Everytime I think my disgust with Brian Williams could sink no lower, he moves the bar further down.

Insult Mrs Bush? Not the sharpest knife in the drawer is he, this Williams creep?

There's something inherently unprofessional about Brian Williams correcting the First Lady of the United States on national television for an opinion that, frankly, she's right about.  From what I have seen of Laura Bush, she has not pushed her own political agenda in the years since she's been in the White House nor sought media attention to satisfy her own narcissism; unlike a certain former First Lady and current junior Senator of New York.  And frankly, Laura Bush has been more than cordial to a media that, on a daily basis, demonstrates their unadulterated hatred towards her husband as a president and human being.

So she treats the press with class and professionalism and what does she get in return?  A public "slap-in-the-face".  Take some advice Mr. Williams, it's one thing for you to go after the president because of his policy decisions, it's another thing for you to go after his wife simply because you don't agree with her opinion.

And if Mr. Williams did his research, he would come to find out that Mrs. Bush is correct.  The troops on the ground hate the media (with the possible exception of Fox News) because of their distortions and disinterest in reporting any of the progress that's happening in both Iraq and Afghanistan; I hear it from my buddies who return from the sandbox.  Mr. Williams' behavior may get him a pass from the elitists he cavorts him, but it doesn't from people like me who still believe that there is a line you should never cross when dealing with people on a professional basis, regardless of whether or not you agree with them.

I don't think there's ever been a network anchor so stuck on himself.
Don't take yourself so seriously, Mr. Williams, I can assure you we don't!