Can someone tell me what's going on with Brian Williams?

"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform) 02/09/2015 at 15:18 • Filed to: None

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I is confused

qbeezy > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:21

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Someone might have said he was attacked while overseas in a war, and a bunch of other people were like "Nah Bruh". And 1st someone was like "Mah Bad Bruh". Brian Williams was the first guy.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:21

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He is a "journalist" that has admitted to "embellishing" his stories. Quotes are there because some of his stories may be outright lies and therefore he isn't really a journalist since you can't trust him to tell the truth.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:22

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Long story short he lied about events that happened while in Iraq and during hurricane katrina so now he's an Internet meme

Svend > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:25

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He said he was in a helicopter that was shot down and has been sticking with and telling that story for a while. It turns out he wasn't. He was in another helicopter about 30 minutes after the incident which shot down the actual helicopter and one of the guys from the actual shot down helicopter called him on it and now he's says it was the fog of memory that he remembered the incident wrongly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…

Easy thing to miss remember I guess being in an aircraft that was shot down and an aircraft that well, erm, wasn't. Small detail.

ranwhenparked > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:26

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For the past 12 years, he's been repeatedly and publicly telling a plausible sounding story about riding in a helicopter that came under enemy fire, embellished with lots of vivid details, and people that were with him on the helicopter have just gone public and said it was totally made up and never happened.

Xyl0c41n3 > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:26

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He lied about being in a Chinook helicopter that took fire while he was reporting in Iraq. He was actually in Iraq, but he never came under fire. Basically, he butchered, trampled upon, and ignored every bit of ethics journalists strive to live and report by. It's beyond disgraceful.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 02/09/2015 at 15:27

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It keeps growing. The most recent was an "I totes saved a puppy from a burning building when I was a volunteer firefighter" story. No. Really.

Rico > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:27

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He claimed to be in a helicopter that was shot down in Iraq while there as a journalist shortly after the US entered war with them after ousting Saddam, turned out his helicopter was one that arrived later and was never under enemy fire.

Basically he hyped up his story under the impression that no one would know. He's like that friend that's always exaggerating shit.

For Sweden > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:27

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It's about ethics in conflict journalism

macanamera > For Sweden 02/09/2015 at 15:28

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lulz

ttyymmnn > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:28

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He wished he were Ernie Pyle , and now he's come clean about lying for years about what he actually saw and did. News reporters are supposed to be trustworthy (ideally) and he has admitted that he lied. Not so good for your credibility.

Jeff-God-of-Biscuits > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:29

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That's okay... So is he.

macanamera > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:30

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For 10 years he said he was in a helicopter that got hit by an RPG then he was like "nah, I can't remember exactly if I was hit by an RPG or not", then he was like "let me examine my own memories" then he was like "my memories are telling me that never happened, this is not a mistake I would choose to make (?)"

tldr, he lied about getting hit by an rpg

macanamera > Svend 02/09/2015 at 15:32

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what did I have for breakfast that day? what color socks was I wearing? did I get hit by a rocket propelled grenade? did I cancel that magazine subscription?

Garrett Davis > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:34

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You could, I don't know, read one of the many articles about it?

Party-vi > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:35

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His daughter got her ass eaten on a mediocre HBO original series to keep it interesting and current.

Tapas > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:36

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He embellished his experiences quite significantly in one instance (when he was deployed as a correspondent during the war in Afghanistan). Some soldiers came forward and proved his story wrong.

People wondered what else he could have exaggerated or flat-out lied about and more inconsistencies came forward - where he tried to portray himself as an awesome hero.

Tapas > Party-vi 02/09/2015 at 15:39

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That does keep it interesting...

wiffleballtony > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 15:41

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He is a big phoney.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Tapas 02/09/2015 at 15:42

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Not interesting enough. No connection with current events is worth watching "Girls".

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Party-vi 02/09/2015 at 15:45

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If the lie was recent, I'd absolutely forgive him because of that.

"Brian Williams lied? Dude, he just watched his daughter get her salad tossed on network TV...cut him some slack."

Been a bad month for Brian Williams, a bad month all around.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 02/09/2015 at 15:46

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I for one was not terribly surprised that he turned out to be the lovechild of Walter Mitty and Baron Munchhausen, only surprised at the extent. A very vanilla, bland, and glib delivery and appearance with just enough involvement and overdramatization in his reads to not put the audience to sleep - who could've guessed that behind that the dull man with a little extra drama was someone actually dull and a dramatist?

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > Party-vi 02/09/2015 at 15:52

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I would...

Snooder87 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/09/2015 at 16:15

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What, really? I thought it was just the Iraq thing.

Svend > macanamera 02/09/2015 at 16:21

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See what I mean. It's easily done.

He's taking time off because he doesn't want the news to be about him. I bet he wasn't thinking like that when he was telling his cool story hoping no one was going to call him on it and that missions and who was on them are kept private/confidential/secret.

Svend > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 02/09/2015 at 16:26

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Oh hell, ye'.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Snooder87 02/09/2015 at 16:31

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It goes far beyond just one Iraq incident, it's merely (with the stolen valor outrage) what made the dam burst. Mind you, that one's really bad - it's been told in multiple versions again and again with varying embellishments. There was an anecdote somewhere else where he talked about flying through an area with "Katyusha rockets flying underneath the chopper" - bullshit. Then there's his Emmy-winning attachment to the story in Katrina: "a body floating facedown past my hotel in the French Quarter" - hotel not actually in the French Quarter, no significant flooding where his hotel *was*, and no bodies floating there regardless. Bullshit, bullshit, and bullshit. Deaths in the Superdome, "I knew two of those people". EEEE, wrong. More bullshit. "I was menaced by thugs *in my hotel*!" Bullshit. Had mild altercation with staff/hotel owner family. "I contracted dysentery there from bad water!" Questionable, likely bullshit. Claims ov various other things related to people, such as being among the first to notice the Superdome roof leaking - sniff test?

Going further back in his career, or more correctly his Tales Of Brian Williams' History, he claims to have been held up as a Christmas tree sales guy "with a .38". In all likelihood, not the case, and bears too much information and little ability to verify. His description in detail of being a volunteer firefighter through high school is highly embellished and misleading - he was only eligible for a few months of high school and the rest of his time was not during high school (but he portrayed it that way)... he describes "fighting fires every day" (which is deceitful horseshit) culminating with a claim of having saved a "three week old puppy" from a burning building...

You get the picture. Serial fabulism. Compulsive liar, Baron Munchhausen'ey beyond belief.

Snooder87 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/09/2015 at 16:35

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Oh god its even better than I could have ever imagined.

"I saved a puppy." Amazing. I bet that got him laid so many times. I need to take notes from this guy cause DAMN.

Funktheduck > Party-vi 02/09/2015 at 16:35

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Calling it mediocre is too much of a compliment. That show is flat out awful. I tried watching it once and after about 10 minutes decided having every hair plucked from my body one by one would be more pleasurable.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Snooder87 02/09/2015 at 16:39

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It's almost like NBC thought having somebody who could lie with a straight face was more asset than liability.

Party-vi > Funktheduck 02/09/2015 at 16:44

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The first two seasons were good. Season 3 was "meh". I haven't felt the need to watch any more of Season 4 after the first two episodes.

NJAnon > TheHondaBro 02/09/2015 at 22:28

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Is his job moving at such a "blistering pace" that he fumbles something like that? Like if all news jobs involved witnessing acts like shot down helicopters or huge fires or natural disasters and you can't recall what happened then I hope they don't have bad habits like forgetting where they car keys are!! well shoot, I am glad I don't work in the news industry!