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Botany

(70,516 posts) Wed Feb 4, 2015, 10:34 PM Feb 2015

Well, OK then Mr. B. Williams it was just a mistake ..... real quote

"I feel terrible about making this mistake, especially since I found my OWN WRITING about the incident . . . and I was indeed on the Chinook behind the bird that took the RPG in the tail housing just above the ramp," Williams wrote. "Because I have no desire to fictionalize my experience ... and no need to dramatize events as they actually happened, I think the constant viewing of the video showing us inspecting the impact area -- and the fog of memory over 12 years -- made me conflate the two, and I apologize."

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Williams told Stars and Stripes, "I don't know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/02/04/brian-williams-iraq-recant/22892419/

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Well, OK then Mr. B. Williams it was just a mistake ..... real quote (Original Post) Botany Feb 2015 OP

Not a mistake as in a factual numeric error, but mistake as in major character failure / flaw on point Feb 2015 #1

Well, no. A mistake in his line of work would be a failure to TwilightGardener Feb 2015 #2

I'm not ready to hate on Williams for such an inconsequential 'mis-statement'. 99th_Monkey Feb 2015 #3

Bullshit. He's a regular right-wing fluffer... truebrit71 Feb 2015 #4

Williams should no longer be employed in the news business. bigwillq Feb 2015 #5

Just out of curiosity, how did Brian Williams react truebluegreen Feb 2015 #6

i think being in a helicopter hit by an RPG would be such a traumatic event ..... spanone Feb 2015 #7

I like him but no way you would forget being shot down or not. Nt marlakay Feb 2015 #8

on point

(2,506 posts)

1. Not a mistake as in a factual numeric error, but mistake as in major character failure / flaw

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2015, 10:40 PM

Feb 2015

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)

2. Well, no. A mistake in his line of work would be a failure to

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2015, 10:53 PM

Feb 2015

fact-check a story or to ensure the credibility of a source. Fabricating an experience that never happened to him is a deliberate act.

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)

3. I'm not ready to hate on Williams for such an inconsequential 'mis-statement'.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2015, 11:15 PM

Feb 2015

He's one of the better M$M news peeps IMHO.

He's had a long and otherwise distinguished journalism career,
he doesn't deserve to be black-balled off the air, like Dan Rather
was.