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Geraldo: Critics of Williams in 'Mother's Basement' Should 'Shut Up'
February 8th, 2015 10:15 PM
Friday morning on Fox and Friends, Geraldo Rivera, echoing Rathergate, the 2004 scandal which put the blogosphere and New Media on the map to stay and accelerated its growth, reacted to the Brian Williams debacle by denouncing those criticizing the NBC Nightly News anchor "from the safety of their mother's basement," telling them that they should just "shut up."
Saturday, in a pair of tweets…

CNN Media Show Leaps on Brian Williams Defense from Moyers, Joe Klein
February 8th, 2015 7:32 PM
CNN’s Reliable Sources devoted most of its show Sunday to the Brian Williams scandal, but host Brian Stelter made sure that Williams defenders in the liberal elite, from Joe Klein to Bill Moyers, were quoted and discussed. Stelter didn’t have interview or quote any conservative critics of Williams.
Stelter quoted Bill Moyers the PBS omnipresence to former network reporter and analyst Jeff…
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Brian Williams Cancels Thursday Night Appearance with David Letterman
February 8th, 2015 7:32 PM
Late Sunday afternoon, CNN’s Brian Stelter reported the latest information in the ongoing Brian Williams controversy with the news that the NBC Nightly News anchor has cancelled an appearance on CBS’s The Late Show with David Letterman after reports initially suggested that he was planning to use it to clear the air and answer the many questions surrounding him.
The cancellation comes a day…

Williams Katrina Diary: Bush Bashing But No Floating Body or Dysentery
February 8th, 2015 12:02 PM
Ironically, the biggest witness against the exaggerated claims of Brian Williams' Hurricane Katrina fabulism turns out to be Brian Williams himself. His diary entries in the NBC News Daily Nightly online journal from the time of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans to the aftermath several days later shows no mention of his many disputed claims.

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ABC’s This Week Criticizes NBC’s Handling of Brian Williams’ Iraq Lies
February 8th, 2015 11:40 AM
On Sunday, ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos discussed the fallout from the Brian Williams controversy with two prominent media critics, both of whom agreed that NBC News had badly handled Williams’ false claim that his helicopter came under enemy fire while he was reporting from Iraq in 2003. Liz Spayd, editor and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, insisted that NBC’s internal…
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Nets Cover Brian Williams Announcement; CBS, NBC Downplay His Lying
February 7th, 2015 9:06 PM
On Saturday afternoon, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams released a statement announcing that he will be removing himself from NBC’s evening newscast “for the next several days” following the news that Williams lied about being in a helicopter that was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) over Iraq in March 2003. Later that night, all three of the major broadcast networks devoted…

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In 2007, Williams Says He 'Looked Down the Tube of an RPG' in Iraq
February 7th, 2015 6:36 PM
This is for the "false memories" and "he's an untouchable 'brand' crowds defending Brian Williams, who this afternoon announced that he has "decided to take myself off of my daily broadcast for the next several days."
At the 2-minute mark of the 2007 interview with a collegiate reporter following the jump, watch Williams speak of his alleged brushes with danger, including how he "looked down the…

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BREAKING: Brian Williams Steps Aside for 'The Next Several Days'
February 7th, 2015 4:58 PM
CNN media reporter Brian Stelter is reporting “Brian Williams is stepping aside from his "NBC Nightly News" amid mounting questions about the accuracy of a story he told about an Iraq War mission in 2003."
"I have decided to take myself off of my daily broadcast for the next several days," he said in a memo to colleagues.
Only CBS Covers Latest on Brian Williams, Downplays ‘Helicopter Ride’
February 7th, 2015 11:38 AM
Of the three morning shows on Saturday, only CBS covered the latest on the evolving Brian Williams scandal. Predictably, NBC’s Today again stayed silent. But so did ABC’s Good Morning America. CBS reporter Anthony Mason noted, “the New York Times reports NBC News is launching an internal investigation into the reporting of anchorman Brian Williams.”
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On Hannity, Bozell Slams: Brian Williams Is 'Lying About Everything'
February 7th, 2015 10:56 AM
According to Media Research Center President Brent Bozell, Brian Williams is “lying about everything." Bozell appeared on the February 6 edition of Fox News’s Hannity and asserted that the NBC anchor has clearly fabricated multiple parts of his claim to have been in a helicopter shot by an RPG in 2003.

USAT Reporters Defend Williams: 'False Memories,' 'Seething Reactions'
February 7th, 2015 10:48 AM
At USA Today Friday afternoon, two of its reporters came down on the side of Brian Williams in the controversy over what even the often media-enabling Associated Press has called his "fake Iraq story."
Roger Yu tried to portray Williams as a victim of a "synergistic stretch" who is now having to defend himself against the "firestorm on the Internet and social media," while Marisol Bello, who…

Brian Williams 'Flub' Can Be Explained Away By 'Science'?
February 7th, 2015 9:52 AM
Of all the things written about the Brian Williams affair, this trend is the most hilarious: The Washington Post opining about the validity of false memory. If this kind of article isn't seen as the most obvious example of journalists circling wagons around a lying colleague, what could be more obvious?
The headline was “The science behind Brian Williams’s mortifying memory flub.” Amy Ellis…

Distinguished Retired General Vallely Slams Brian Williams
February 7th, 2015 8:02 AM
"Be gone, Brian Williams, from our TV screens," Major Gen. Paul E. Vallely, US Army (ret), told our sister site MRCTV in an exclusive interview regarding NBC’s Brian Williams scandal, in which the news anchor admitted to having fabricated his oft-repeated claim of having been in a U.S. military plane that was shot down.

The Fallon-ization of Lyin' Brian Williams
February 6th, 2015 5:53 PM
Comedian Jimmy Fallon is a celebrity fraud's best friend. He's an answer to normal America's question: How do creepy stars get away with their grotesqueries? If you're lucky enough to sit by his late-night throne and join his cool-kid games, all your troubles will melt away. Funnyman Jimmy is not just a bread-and-circuses buffoon. He's the keeper of the pop culture immunity necklace.