The Brian Williams’ stolen valor scandal has moved to page A1 of the New York Times and in the worst possible way. The Times is questioning the veracity of the NBC anchor’s on-air apology during Wednesday’s edition of the NBC
The ground beneath NBC anchor Brian Williams’ feet grew more unstable on Thursday, as the New York Post reports NBC News icon Tom Brokaw is calling for Williams to be fired after he was forced to recant a phony story about taking fire in Iraq that he’s been telling for years.
The New York Post’s Page Six quotes an anonymous NBC source who says the network stands behind Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and will not punish him in any way for repeating a false story for 12 years.
Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell said that NBC anchor Brian Williams should resign after revelations that he had erroneously reported that a helicopter he was in was hit by an RPG and shot down on Thursday’s “Hannity”
After the face of NBC News Brian Williams recanted his fabricated story about being in a helicopter that was shot down at the beginning of the Iraq War, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin wondered what and who else the mainstream
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin predicted that NBC News anchor Brian Williams’s lies about having been shot down in a military helicopter at the beginning of the Iraq War will compel more Americans to abandon legacy media outlets for new
Thursday on NewsmaxTV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” editor of The Weekly Standard Bill Kristol said NBC News’ Brian Williams should be fired for lying and now apologizing about being in a helicopter in 2003 that was hit by an RPG missile,
Although other military witnesses on the scene at the time claim the chopper NBC’s Brian Williams flew in was an hour behind the Chinook shot down in 2003, Politico’s media reporter Dylan Byers is asking his readers to take those
CNN “New Day” co-host Chris Cuomo didn’t defend NBC’s Brian Williams for telling a stolen valor lie repeatedly over 12 years, but he did use the occasion to rip “lesser [online] outlets and the growing mass of the angry.” “They,”
CNN Senior Media Correspondent and “Reliable Sources” Brian Stelter reported that he couldn’t find “many people at NBC” who think Brian Williams’ erroneous helicopter story was “an innocent mistake” on Thursday’s “CNN Newsroom.” “One thing is clear, and that is,
Based upon a search after seeing a Brian Williams quote via Twitter, a September 2007 Media Research item, Brian Williams Derides Petraeus as No Eisenhower, indicates NBC’s Brian Williams used a story now shown to be false as part of his coverage undermining then-U.S. General David Petraeus.
Thursday on ABC’s “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell had a heated debate over NBC News’ Brian Williams lying and now apologizing about being in a helicopter in 2003 that was hit by an RPG missile, instead of the
Travis J. Tritten, the Stars and Stripes reporter who broke the Brian Williams bombshell Wednesday, reports today that soldiers who were in Iraq with Williams in 2003 are blasting the Nightly News anchors on-air apology Wednesday night as “misleading“: Apologies
The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple sees the Brian Williams scandal as a bigger than just one person — a serious problem for NBC News in general. While it is obvious the network never vetted or noticed the evolution of their
Writing for the Baltimore Sun, media journalist David Zurawik called for Brian Williams to resign or to be fired by Friday. “If credibility means anything to NBC News, Brian Williams will no longer be managing editor and anchor of the
Veterans in all branches of the military who have sacrificed to keep America safe are livid at NBC News anchor Brian Williams, who was forced to admit this week that he had, for 12 years, lied about taking fire in a helicopter over Iraq. Below, responses from career veterans who condemn his use of a false story to elevate his resume for more than a decade:
Per CNN, during a March of 2005 interview with the late Tim Russert, Brian Williams’ stolen valor lie about a helicopter he was riding in being shot down by an RPG over Iraq hadn’t yet fully evolved into him being
During a WNYC interview with Alec Baldwin in March of 2013, NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams told the television actor that he was “briefly” afraid he might die after the Chinook helicopter he was riding in
In the video below, at the 10 minute mark, you can watch NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams smile smugly and bask in the glow of David Letterman referring to him as a “war hero” during a March 2013 appearance
During his Wednesday broadcast of “NBC Nightly News,” anchor Brian Williams admitted he had incorrectly stated the facts surrounding a March 2003 incident over the skies of Iraq in which he had claimed to been involved. Previously Williams had claimed
Fox News Media Analyst and “Mediabuzz” host Howard Kurtz declared that NBC anchor Brian Williams’ admission that the was not shot down in a helicopter over Iraq was a “major blow to his credibility and that of his network” and
— ***SECOND UPDATE: TV Newser reports that Williams’ story got more dramatic over time. ***UPDATE: Starting at the 3:50 mark below, you can watch Williams tell David Letterman this fabricated story. The level of detail is astonishing. After the story, Letterman
On Monday’s broadcast of NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” Jimmy Fallon and his crew commemorated the show’s return to Los Angeles for the first time since Fallon took over with a cut of “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams “rapping” Snoop Dogg’s
Television’s top news anchor, NBC’s Brian Williams, earns a reported $13 million a year to read the news. This disparity far surpasses the 150-1 ratio earned by the average CEO.
During Sunday night’s season premiere of HBO’s Girls, Lena Dunham and company once again pushed the boundaries with a racy sex scene in which Allison Williams was on the receiving end of… well… the receiving end. The show’s cast seemingly
On Tuesday’s “The Tonight Show” on NBC, host Jimmy Fallon and NBC’s “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams performed a “slow jam” over the announcement of Obama’s executive order dealing with immigration policy last week. Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo
In a recent interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, comedian Jerry Seinfeld revealed that he believes he falls on the autism spectrum, citing his inability to function properly with basic human interaction. Jerry spoke with Williams about his past and present
Denver Broncos slot receiver Wes Welker, suspended prior to the season opener for testing positive for amphetamines, won tentative reinstatement following the NFL Players Association endorsing a new drug policy for the league over the weekend. Wes gets a do-over
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC has picked its Peter Pan: high-flying “Girls” star Allison Williams. The network announced Wednesday that Williams will play the boy who refused to grow up in NBC’s new staging of “Peter Pan Live!” The live
As part of his show’s series of NBC’s “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams rapping to rap classics, on his Monday show, “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon present Williams performing Sir-Mix-A-Lot’s 1990s classic “Baby Got Back”… Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter
Friday in an exclusive interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, President Barack Obama said he would authorize swapping the five Taliban top commanders for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl all over again. The President continued “It’s also important for us to
In an exclusive interview with NBC’s Brian Williams set to air Friday at 8 p.m. ET on NBC, Barack Obama doubled-down in his defense of a prisoner swap for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl going so far as to claim he’d do it, again
In response to Edward Snowden’s claim that he “repeatedly raised constitutional concerns about National Security Agency surveillance internally”, the NSA insists an internal search doesn’t support Snowden’s claim. They also released an email from Snowden which also contradicts his claim
WASHINGTON (AP) — Edward Snowden says he repeatedly raised constitutional concerns about National Security Agency surveillance internally, but an NSA search turned up a single email in which Snowden gently asks for “clarification” on a technical legal question about training
NEW YORK, May 22 (UPI) — NBC’s Brian Williams will conduct the first-ever American television interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the network announced Thursday. Snowden, who was granted temporary asylum by Russian authorities and now lives in Moscow, has
On the Tuesday broadcast of NBC “Nightly News,” anchor Brian Williams got his countries confused in a report about the kidnapped school girls in Nigeria. Williams had referred to Nigeria as Kenya twice in his opening introduction.
On Monday’s “The Tonight Show” on NBC, host Jimmy Fallon presented Brian Williams “rapping” Snoop Dogg’s classic “Gin and Juice”…
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On CBS’s Thursday broadcast of “Late Night with David Letterman,” host David Letterman took on NBC’s “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams over his insistence that the scandal surrounding Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) was important to the public at a nationwide
It appears that NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams would have done well on the TV game show, What’s My Line?, popular in the 1950’s. The show aimed to stump blindfolded panelists trying to decipher who was the mystery guest by
