The Fabulous Life Of Brian Williams

[Capt. Obvious]

It appears that Brian Williams has a fairly active imagination as suggested by his admitting to fabricating his coming under fire in Iraq, and now a LA newspaper looking at two claims he made during Hurricane Katrina.

I'm sure we can come up with more scenarios that occurred in Brian Williams' life.

Brian Williams: I remember being at the Brandenburg Gate in 1987 with Ronald Reagan, or Dutch as I liked to call him. His advisers were expecting him to give a standard boiler plate about nuclear arms reduction but I told him, "Dutch, this is your chance to define your legacy. Get up there and tell Gorbachev to blow up that wall." Of course Ronnie, ever the actor ad-libbed my suggestion but it still came out well. And that's how we ended Communism.

[Cleita]

1. He seems to have missed his calling, writing fiction or maybe

acting.

[dgibby]

2. If these stories can be disproved,

Brian Williams is toast. Sad.

[underpants]

3. Looks like he is putting together a resume & video sample to retire to Fox News

I mean, that is where all the discredited news people end up ...... Or start

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. As a young pup of a reporter, while he was observing Apollo 13, issues,

he asked why the Nasa engineers didn't think about using the LEM as their home until they returned from the moon orbit. NASA seriously debated giving him a medal because the idea would never had occurred to them without his help. Director of Operations Gene Kranz, a brilliant and pragmatic thinker himself said, "In all of my years of experience, I never met anyone as impressive, creative, and intellectually powerful as Brian. WIthout his help, 13 would have been a huge failure."

There was the time when he suggested to Columbus that he head west, not east, and of course, the time he gave flying instructions to Lindbergh on how to fly solo. Chuck later said, "If it wasn't for Bri-man, I would have never made it across the pond. His insight and knowledge made it happen."

Also, do not ignore his farsighted ideas in atomic bomb design, coming up with a new and effective trigger mechanism that would cause the 26 simultaneous explosions necessary to reach critical mass. When asked about Brian's input and importance, Niels Bohr state, "Every single thing I learned about quantum physics came from Brian. It was him, and him alone that brought our world of physics into the 20th, even the 21st century. Plus, his creative and insightful ideas about nuclear triggers - Just imagine, a room filled with mathematicians, physicists and atomic scholars, with no less than 4 Nobel prize winners - and who taught them about nuclear bomb design? Brian Williams. He won the second world war for for the west. "

[Capt. Obvious]

9. And who can forget Groundhog Day 1981

Brian was there to cover the big day when Punxatawny Phil fell ill. Brian went into hero mode, tossed on a bear skin rug and declared to the world that he couldn't see his shadow saving us all from six more weeks of winter.

Brian, we need you now more than ever!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. At some point, the network will not be able to afford keeping

a joke on the air. I suspect his days are numbered. And not just consecutively.

[Capt. Obvious]

11. What about imaginary numbers?

He invented those.

[Throd]

16. He invented helium.

[roguevalley]

19. If only I had listened to Brian! -Amelia Earhart's last transmission

[ChairmanAgnostic]

21. You win the intertubes today!

[Laxman]

5. Did I Ever Tell You About The Time.....

its sad that a person who otherwise has a very interesting life nevertheless feels compelled to embellish it further.

[Iggo]

18. Quite.

[TheNutcracker]

6. Turn him off. Just as you should Lara Logan. The are propagandists.

[jberryhill]

7. "And that's how we ended Communism."

I still am amazed at how people think Reagan "ended Communism". The ultimate collapse of the Soviet system was built-in to the way that it functioned. We waited them out through consistent policy for decades.

[PCIntern]

8. When he was in Philly years ago

he was generally despised/laughed at. What a putz deluxe.

[leveymg]

12. Sad to say it, but he's loads better than other network anchors. As was Dan Rather, before the RW

pajama media types managed to find a way to knock him off CBS.

Better watch what you wish for.

[Capt. Obvious]

13. Speaking of wishing

The year was 1987 and baby Jessica McClure fell down her Aunt's wishing well.

Brian Williams was there along with every major news outlet (all three) to report on the ongoing rescue attempts. It was well into day three when rescuers began to tire and give up hope in the Texas heat - it was Brian Williams who shed his tie and got right to work digging the last few meters with his bare hands.

[polly7]

15. He sounds like he's already done some really good things,

I think it's sad that he embellished/lied about/incorrectly remembered what could be pretty easily verified or disproved. If he is normally a good journalist/reporter, I hope this doesn't ruin him. I'm sure he'll learn from it and do better.

Or were you joking? I've never heard him.

[CanonRay]

14. Portrait of a man in love with....himself.

[pintobean]

17. It's a thing that you build slowly, over time

(20 second vid)

[Raine1967]

20. *This* Brain Williams story is true:

When Brian Williams started playing New-tainment, I believe he lost his credibility.

It's really sad and a bigger statement on the MSM news itself.

[GeorgeGist]

22. Nov 22, 1963

[Capt. Obvious]

25. "I'll never forget the sight of Gza, which is what I liked to call Jackie back then,

frantically crawling over the trunk trying to save her husband's hair piece. We all lost a little something that day."

[Tom Ripley]

23. "And then I said, 'Tom, how about something like...I dunno...The Greatest Generation...instead...

of Hurry Up and Die and Leave Us All of Your Stuff?"

[Capt. Obvious]

24. "I suggested, "Good night, and good luck" to Edward R Murrow

instead of his initial send off of, "Night, night, sleep tight, don't let the Communists win.""

[d_r]

26. this one time

He skipped school with fix friend Cameron and girlfriend Sloan. They borrowed Cameron's Dad's car and went to a baseball game.

[Capt. Obvious]

27. Seahawks fans know who to blame