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Title: NBC Nightly News' Brian Williams recants claim he was on chopper that took fire in Iraq
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URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen ... that-was-on-chopper-that-took/
Published: Feb 4, 2015
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2015-02-04 21:58:46 by Gatlin
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NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday that he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, recanting a claim that he and the network had repeated for years -- most recently on Friday night. Contrary to Williams' past claims that he was traveling in a Chinook helicopter that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire on March 24, he arrived at the scene in a separate helicopter about an hour later. He apparently was never in any danger, and the Chinook that took fire, one of three in its formation, was able to make an emergency landing with no casualties. "I want to apologize," Williams said on Wednesday night's broadcast of NBC Nightly News. "I said I was traveling in an aircraft that was hit by RPG fire. I was instead in a following aircraft." Williams, 55, most recently told the story during NBC coverage of a tribute to a retired command sergeant major at a New York Rangers hockey game. “The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG,” Williams said on the broadcast. “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry.” The Stars and Stripes, a newspaper that covers the United States Armed Forces, first reported the admission. Williams disputed claims to the newspaper that his original report was inaccurate, saying that he originally reported that he was in another helicopter but that he had confused the events. “I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams told the newspaper. “I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.” In a 2008 blog post, Williams said he was flying in a Chinook helicopter as part of a four-chopper formation, and all four took fire. But Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Miller, who was the flight engineer on the aircraft that carried the journalists, told Stars and Stripes that their helicopter "never came under direct enemy fire." Several service members said they recall NBC reporting Williams was aboard the aircraft that was attacked, despite the claim being false. Mike O’Keeffe, who was a door gunner on the damaged Chinook, told The Stars and Stripes the incident has bothered him since he and others first saw the original report. “Over the years it faded,” he said, “and then to see it last week it was — I can’t believe he is still telling this false narrative.”
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#1. To: Gatlin, All (#0)
Right, he was in the helicopter with Hillary when that one took fire.
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
Frauds all of them. Hillary landing at heavily guarded BIAP thought she was in combat because the C17 did a standard altitude drop before final approach. Every flight in and out of Baghdad did that. Part an overreaction from the pilots who did not bed down in Iraq and the result of congested air space.
"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools " (Romans 1:21-22)
Hillary landing at heavily guarded BIAP thought she was in combat because the C17 did a standard altitude drop before final approach. Say hello to your next POTUS.
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
By Joshua Muravchik Tuesday, August 24, 2004; Page A17 Washington Post Most of the debate between the former shipmates who swear by John Kerry and the group of other Swift boat veterans who are attacking his military record focuses on matters that few of us have the experience or the moral standing to judge. But one issue, having nothing to do with medals, wounds or bravery under fire, goes to the heart of Kerry's qualifications for the presidency and is therefore something that each of us must consider. That is Kerry's apparently fabricated claim that he fought in Cambodia. It is an assertion he made first, insofar as the written record reveals, in 1979 in a letter to the Boston Herald. Since then he has repeated it on at least eight occasions during Senate debate or in news interviews, most recently to The Post this year (an interview posted on Kerry's Web site). The most dramatic iteration came on the floor of the Senate in 1986, when he made it the centerpiece of a carefully prepared 20-minute oration against aid to the Nicaraguan contras. Kerry argued that contra aid could put the United States on the path to deeper involvement despite denials by the Reagan administration of any such intent. Kerry began by reading out similar denials regarding Vietnam from presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. Then he offered this devastating riposte: "I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared -- seared -- in me." However seared he was, Kerry's spokesmen now say his memory was faulty. When the Swift boat veterans who oppose Kerry presented statements from his commanders and members of his unit denying that his boat entered Cambodia, none of Kerry's shipmates came forward, as they had on other issues, to corroborate his account. Two weeks ago Kerry's spokesmen began to backtrack. First, one campaign aide explained that Kerry had patrolled the Mekong Delta somewhere "between" Cambodia and Vietnam. But there is no between; there is a border. Then another spokesman told reporters that Kerry had been "near Cambodia." But the point of Kerry's 1986 speech was that he personally had taken part in a secret and illegal war in a neutral country. That was only true if he was "in Cambodia," as he had often said he was. If he was merely "near," then his deliberate misstatement falsified the entire speech. Next, the campaign leaked a new version through the medium of historian Douglas Brinkley, author of "Tour of Duty," a laudatory book on Kerry's military service. Last week Brinkley told the London Telegraph that while Kerry had been 50 miles from the border on Christmas, he "went into Cambodian waters three or four times in January and February 1969 on clandestine missions." Oddly, though, while Brinkley devotes nearly 100 pages of his book to Kerry's activities that January and February, pinpointing the locations of various battles and often placing Kerry near Cambodia, he nowhere mentions Kerry's crossing into Cambodia, an inconceivable omission if it were true. Now a new official statement from the campaign undercuts Brinkley. It offers a minimal (thus harder to impeach) claim: that Kerry "on one occasion crossed into Cambodia," on an unspecified date. But at least two of the shipmates who are supporting Kerry's campaign (and one who is not) deny their boat ever crossed the border, and their testimony on this score is corroborated by Kerry's own journal, kept while on duty. One passage reproduced in Brinkley's book says: "The banks of the [Rach Giang Thanh River] whistled by as we churned out mile after mile at full speed. On my left were occasional open fields that allowed us a clear view into Cambodia. At some points, the border was only fifty yards away and it then would meander out to several hundred or even as much as a thousand yards away, always making one wonder what lay on the other side." His curiosity was never satisfied, because this entry was from Kerry's final mission. After his discharge, Kerry became the leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). Once, he presented to Congress the accounts by his VVAW comrades of having "personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires . . . to human genitals . . . razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan . . . poisoned foodstocks." Later it was shown that many of the stories on which Kerry based this testimony were false, some told by impostors who had stolen the identities of real GIs, but Kerry himself was not implicated in the fraud. And his own over-the-top generalization that such "crimes [were] committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command" could be charged up to youthfulness and the fevers of the times. But Kerry has repeated his Cambodia tale throughout his adult life. He has claimed that the epiphany he had that Christmas of 1968 was about truthfulness. "One of the things that most struck me about Vietnam was how people were lied to," he explained in a subsequent interview. If -- as seems almost surely the case -- Kerry himself has lied about what he did in Vietnam, and has done so not merely to spice his biography but to influence national policy, then he is surely not the kind of man we want as our president. The writer is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
I know why. It's because he's an arrogant self-aggrandizing piece of crap and a major creep.
A little stroll down memory lane to 1996: Radio interview of Hitlery's pilot and his account: We're so used to Goldi having them disabled that I think few people are using LF's Homepages and Bookmark features. A good place to stash stuff so you can find it later.
Check this one out...
Maybe there is hope for us.
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
I knew of it but it's been 10 months since he was last here.
There seems to be no shortage of dedicated war heros in high places in this country.
You're unusually optimistic.
Sounds like he's your kind of guy Gatlin----liar, scumbag, cop and troll!
How would you know?
потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
Williams tells his tale on David Letterman's Show:
OOPS! Williams is taking a beating @ #BrianWilliamsMisremembers ;) https://twitter.com/search? q=%23BrianWilliamsMisremembers&src=typd
Ah let me guess they were bees?
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
My guess is her true UNFAVORABLE rating is closer to 60 or 65%.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Lying so naturally is just something that the slaves and property of satan do so very well, for we all learn from our fathers,
NBC Nightly News' Brian Williams recants claim he was on chopper that took fire in Iraq
#2. To: SOSO (#1)
#3. To: redleghunter (#2)
Frauds all of them.
#4. To: redleghunter (#2)
Frauds all of them.
Kerry's Cambodia Whopper
#5. To: Gatlin (#0)
“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams told the newspaper. “I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.”
#6. To: SOSO, redleghunter, Stoner (#1)
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I'll put this on my Homepage just for fun.
#7. To: TooConservative (#6)
#8. To: TooConservative, redleghunter, Stoner (#6)
#9. To: Fred Mertz (#7)
Check this one out...
#10. To: Gatlin (#0)
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#11. To: SOSO (#8)
Maybe there is hope for us.
#12. To: Gatlin (#0)
#13. To: TooConservative (#11)
You're unusually optimistic.
#14. To: Gatlin (#0)
(Edited)
#15. To: All (#14)
#16. To: TooConservative (#6)
Clinton says she 'misspoke' about sniper fire - CNN.com
#17. To: SOSO (#8)
#18. To: Gatlin (#0)
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday that he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, recanting a claim that he and the network had repeated for years
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
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