[img]3001|right|Brian Williams||no_popup[/img]A left-wing media figure has been forced to admit he is a liar.
Shall we reserve Dodger Stadium, the Rose Bowl and the Coliseum to accommodate compatriots on the left?
Water is wet.
Darkness falls at night.
With extraordinary reluctance – though his job was not threatened because his show is top-ranked — Brian Williams, anchor for NBC News, offered a squishy, Aw-Gosh, Excuse-Me, It-Could-Happen- to-Anybody apology last night about a lie he has vigorously perpetrated for 12 years.
That would be a lie with hair on it.
Mr. Williams craves being seen as a hero. He has told numerous audiences that when he was traveling with the military in Iraq in 2003, his Army helicopter was struck by rocket-propelled grenades that forced his pilot to make a scary emergency landing.
Not a strand of truth in the deliberate Williams lie told one time too many. l
Mr. Wannabe Hero was safely traveling an hour behind the real Army helicopter hit by RPGs. He was not even close to the scene.
But, hey. Picky, picky.
After several military veterans who were in the attacked helicopter called out Mr. Williams on the latest version of his lie, he was forced to – ahem, kind of — recant. His motives, gosh, gee whillikers, were pure as Ivory soap. He did not seek any glory for himself. He just wanted to honor the Army boys.
Shucks, he said with a boyish grin — “I spent much of the weekend thinking I'd gone crazy. I feel terrible about making this mistake.”
According to Stars and Stripes, here was his apology:
“To Joseph, Lance, Jonathan, Pate, Michael and all those who have posted: You are absolutely right and I was wrong.
“In fact, I spent much of the weekend thinking I'd gone crazy. I feel terrible about making this mistake, especially since I found my OWN WRITING about the incident from back in '08, and I was indeed on the Chinook behind the bird that took the RPG in the tail housing just above the ramp.
“Because I have no desire to fictionalize my experience (we all saw it happen the first time) 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.
“I certainly remember the armored mech platoon, meeting Capt. Eric Nye and of course Tim Terpak. Shortly after they arrived, so did the Orange Crush sandstorm, making virtually all outdoor functions impossible. I honestly don't remember which of the three choppers Gen. Downing and I slept in, but we spent two nights on the stowable web bench seats in one of the three birds.
“Later in the invasion when Gen. Downing and I reached Baghdad, I remember searching the parade grounds for Tim's Bradley to no avail. My attempt to pay tribute to CSM Terpak was to honor his 23+ years in service to our nation, and it had been 12 years since I saw him.
“The ultimate irony is: In writing up the synopsis of the 2 nights and 3 days I spent with him in the desert, I managed to switch aircraft. Nobody's trying to steal anyone's valor. Quite the contrary: I was and remain a civilian journalist covering the stories of those who volunteered for duty. This was simply an attempt to thank Tim, our military and Veterans everywhere — those who have served while I did not.”
