Brian Williams' Motley Crew

[DonViejo]

By JOSH MARSHALL Published FEBRUARY 6, 2015, 12:42 AM EST

A list of all the pols who've either fibbed about military service or told phony baloney stories about their close calls in trips to the front line - Reagan, Hillary Clinton, Joe McCarthy, Mark Kirk, Dick Blumenthal. The list is endless and here it is.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/brian-williams-motley-crew

[99th_Monkey]

1. BAM! Take that all you Williams haters.

Good to get a little perspective on this ridiculous Williams witch hunt.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Williams is not a politician and past lying of others is irrelevant to acceptability of a major

news network anchor, the pinnacle of pretend credibility, a national treasure of a figure head, lying.

Having a gallery of strawmen is not any more of a counterpoint than having just one.

And the issue is not just Wlliams, it is all of NBC covering and even advertising the lie for over 12 years, and the general lying of the mass media.

What else are they lying about?

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Not to mention MSNBC (parent company NBC) fired Phil Donohue for telling the truth about Iraq...

Lie, and you're rewarded. Tell the truth, and you're out on your tukhus. That speaks volumes about the state of the US Mass Media today.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Folks I think are rejecting the mass media misinformation factory in droves for social media...about time.

[deaniac21]

4. Liars are generally pretty entertaining

and isn't that what TV news has become? His hair always looks nice too. I say give him a raise!

[madinmaryland]

6. I doubt that Walter Cronkite lied about stories. I do remember him actually

reporting from Viet Nam.