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Now that everything he has ever said about anything will be under scrutiny for a very long time, there is a lot out there. As of now, though, it is Brian Williams’ Tales from Katrina that are receiving an extra

Former FEMA Director Michael Brown called “B.S.” on embattled NBC anchor Brian Williams’s claims that he saw a dead body floating outside of his hotel room during Hurricane Katrina. Williams, who lied about having been shot down in a helicopter

In a 2009 interview with the  New Jersey Star-Ledger, Brian Williams regales the reporter with tales from his hardscrabble youth, including the specific events that prompted him to drop out of college. But just four years earlier, Williams told a

When Comcast acquired NBCUniversal in 2011, Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts called NBC News “the crown jewel” of his new empire. With good reason: At the time, the news division was dominant on all fronts. ‘Today’ was number-one in the morning, ‘Nightly News’ was number-one at night, and ‘Meet The Press’ was number-one on Sunday.

A source familiar with the operations of NBC News is defending producer Justin Balding, saying he never told NBC colleagues a chopper he was riding in with Brian Williams was hit by RPGs in Iraq in 2003.

As Media Research Center fairly suggests, “the biggest witness against the exaggerated claims of Brian Williams’ Hurricane Katrina fabulism” may be Williams himself.

There are several inconsistencies in Brian Williams’s puppy-savior story. His story of courage and heroism should rightly be met with skepticism.

NEW YORK (AP) — Embattled NBC News anchor Brian Williams is backing out of scheduled appearance on David Letterman’s “Late Show” on Thursday.

On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, Breitbart News Executive Chairman and host Stephen K. Bannon will be discussing the most important news stories, including the recent visit to the White House by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the increasing Islamist threat around the world, Brian Williams stolen valor, and much more.

From Page Six: Long before Brian Williams was caught lying about his chopper coming under fire in Iraq, he claimed he’d stared down the barrel of a bandit’s gun as a teenager in sleepy Red Bank, NJ. In a 2005

Rosie O’Donnell blasted NBC’s Brian Williams when discussing her separation from wife Michelle Rounds.

UPDATE: Politico’s Mike Allen states on Twitter that an NBC source tells him Williams has cancelled his appearance on Letterman. https://twitter.com/mikeallen/status/564543945943044096 According to an NBC News source who spoke with Howard Kurtz at Fox News, Brian Williams is seriously considering

Tom Brokaw is the highest-profile dissenter to call for the ouster of Brian Williams over his stolen valor helicopter story, but he’s not the only one.

Per an email from NBC News, Brian Williams just passed a note along to the NBC News staff that says he will not be hosting the Nightly News for the next several days. Lester Holt will take his place.

According to Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, NBC News executives knew Brian Williams had a problem with the truth but the infrastructure wasn’t in place to do anything about it. Per Dowd, things were so bad with Williams that his “flourishes to puff himself up” became “a joke in the news division.”

UPDATE: A blogger who goes by the name of SooperMexican was the first to report this discrepancy.  Per this CNN Money report, a Brian Williams’ Katrina tale appears to have evolved somewhat dramatically over the course of just one year.

Completely separate from the 2003 Iraq helicopter incident Brian Williams confessed to lying about this week, thanks to a Twitter user who alerted Ace Of Spades, we now have a 2007 video of Williams claiming he was involved in a hairy wartime incident involving a different helicopter during a different war.

More trouble for NBC’s Brian Williams, as reporters have disproved another detail included in the first (2003) and second (2007) versions of Williams’s story about his 2003 Iraq reporting mission, as well as his Wednesday apology in which he admitted “misremembering” that event.

The New York Post reports that Brian Williams can’t even keep his puppy-saving tales straight. In October of 2011, Williams spoke of the time he saved a puppy as a teenage volunteer firefighter: “I remember one such house fire . . .

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blasted Brian Williams’s colleagues in the mainstream media “crime syndicate” for enabling and covering up his Iraq War lies. “It appears that some at NBC did know that Williams was lying for over a decade

A man identified by Variety as a “celebrity brand expert” polled 1,000 people familiar with the ongoing scandal surround NBC’s Brian Williams and found that an incredible 80% believe he needs to lose his chair as anchor and managing editor

Fox News Media Analyst and “Mediabuzz” host Howard Kurtz declared “beyond a shadow of a doubt” that Brian Williams’ claims that a helicopter he was in was hit by an RPG “was not a one-time memory lapse or regrettable fog

Breitbart News traces the evolution of Brian Williams story about his 2003 reporting mission to Iraq. We found three distinct versions that have developed over the years.

Disgraced former TV news anchor Dan Rather has come to the aid of embattled NBC anchor Brian Williams, saying that Williams is an “honest man.” But Williams is caught up in a scandal of his own making after admitting to lying about being in a helicopter downed by enemy RPG fire in Iraq in 2003.

In the wake of the revelation that NBC’s Brian Williams told a false story about his helicopter being shot out of the sky by an RPG in Iraq, some of his other claims of facing danger while on assignment deserve

Author and military mother Mary Ward relays a story of talking to NBC producer Justin Balding, who says he rode in the same helicopter as Brian Williams and also claims the Chinook was hit by an RPG. The year of this event is unclear, but Ward’s book was published in October 2004, so the interaction with Balding would have to occur some time before then:

Fox News Media Analyst and “Mediabuzz” host Howard Kurtz said that Brian Williams was “too big to fail” at NBC and that “if another correspondent had told such a false story on the air he’d be lucky to get away

Good news: NBC has agreed to investigate an NBC employee about reportorial misdeeds at NBC. This is how the news media works today, folks. A bombshell report from the New York Daily News claims that Brian Williams’ claims about Katrina

Friday on “CBS This Morning,” host Jeff Glor reporting on NBC’s “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams controversy, opened the segment saying, “This morning, one of the biggest names in media is fighting for his reputation.” Glor continued, “Brian Williams has

Actress Mia Farrow is on Team Brian Williams. Still.

The Broadway Danny Rose star used Twitter to defend the embattled NBC anchor after he apologized for claiming to have flown in a U.S. military helicopter hit by an RPG.

In an email exchange with the Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone, former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw disputed reports that he is calling for Brian Williams to be fired. Brokaw, however, is obviously not defending or standing by his successor.

The source CNN media reporter Brian Stelter introduced to the world as the man “who was piloting the Chinook that Williams was on,” is now backing off his claim. And Stelter is now all but admitting he was burned by

On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” former U.S. Army helicopter pilot and Concerned Veterans of America senior military adviser Amber Smith reacted to the controversy swirling around NBC’s “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams’ apparently embellished story in

Despite an admission by NBC News’ Brian Williams that for the last 12 years he has repeatedly and falsely claimed that he was in a helicopter that was hit by an enemy RPG in a war zone in Iraq, NBC executives are still standing behind their nightly news anchor.

The question of whether or not Brian Williams can survive lying for 12 years about being shot down by enemy fire over Iraq in 2003 is one thing. Now a whole new series of questions have arisen surrounding Williams’ heroic

On her Thursday broadcast, CNN’s “OutFront” host Erin Burnett declared NBC’s “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams lied in his past statements about an incident involving a Chinook helicopter in 2003. “‘NBC Nightly News’ anchor and managing editor, Brian Williams, facing new questions tonight after