Toon: The cost of lying

[n2doc]

[reddread]

1. I expected to see someone's cable bill.

[Enthusiast]

2. K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations!

[WillyT]

3. K & R !!!

[KG]

4. brain williams is being held to account for his own lies.

[obxhead]

11. The day he hangs his head in shame

and announces he was fired will be the day he STARTS to account for his lies.... All of his lies that helped bring us the Iraq war.

Right now he's just taking a break and hoping it all blows over, which it probably will.

[840high]

12. I hope he's good and gone.

[Gothmog]

5. Great cartoon

[Overseas]

6. K&R. Well said.

[Fred Sanders]

7. But a major news anchor has taken full responsibility, can they all now return to their regularily

scheduled lying and deflection?

Everyone good?

Not you Fox, you were already doing just fine.

[90-percent]

8. Brian's actual journalism record during the Invade Iraq Bush mendacity propaganda era

I would think by now somebody would have compiled a Brian Williams "greatest iraq invasion on air lies" by now. He was certainly no where close to the treasons of a Judith Miller or other professional propagandists.

I don't have any recollections of Brian spewing egregious lies in that era. But, I think like most of us, I assume he participated in the lie factory that was MSM in that era as much as anybody else?

And I think his current persecutions for embellishing his participation in what I see as a pretty harrowing mission is pure chickenshit and nobel prize winning hypocrisy from anybody in MSM that criticizes him.


-90% Jimmy

[MADem]

14. Frank Luntz used to call Brian Williams the "GOP go-to guy" because his ideological bias was nearly

undetectable.

Really.

Read all about it: http://mediamatters.org/research/2005/02/07/brian-williams-republicans-go-to-network-anchor/132703

Media Matters for America has identified some examples that may explain why Republicans consider Williams to be their "go-to network anchor":

In an interview following President Bush's February 2 State of the Union address, Williams failed to correct Senator John McCain's (R-AZ) false assertion that the Social Security trust fund will have "no money at all left" in 15 years.

On January 12, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) noted that an NBC Nightly News segment on Social Security ignored privatization critics and presented a conservative activist as an impartial "analyst." The FAIR report stated that, although Williams prefaced the segment by mentioning that "critics say he's [Bush] exaggerating the problem to sell his plan," the actual report "included no such critics of the administration's 'crisis' rhetoric."

In a December 2, 2004, interview with C-SPAN founder, president, and CEO Brian Lamb, Williams said that "it's my duty to listen to [nationally syndicated radio host] Rush" Limbaugh and that "Rush has actually yet to get the credit he is due." Before his promotion, Williams hosted several other NBC news programs, including The News with Brian Williams on MSNBC and CNBC, where Limbaugh was a frequent guest. As Media Matters previously noted, on September 24, 2002, Williams introduced a News segment on a speech by former Vice President Al Gore by observing: "[O]ur friend Rush Limbaugh told his radio listeners he almost stayed home from work, not due to any health reasons, but because he was so livid at the speech given yesterday by former Vice President Al Gore criticizing the Bush administration's apparent march to war in Iraq." Williams asked, "Is it un-American to speak out against the Bush plan to take on Iraq? Is it democratic to ridicule and threaten those who do?" Washington Post columnist and Brookings Institution senior fellow E.J. Dionne Jr. responded on the September 28, 2002, edition of CNN's Reliable Sources: "Since when do we debate that it's un-American to take on a president? ... We are told all the time it is the liberal media, and here Rush Limbaugh not being able to get out of bed supersedes what Al Gore says. If you -- if you want to have Rush Limbaugh on trashing Al Gore afterward, fine. Report the news. Report what he said, and then criticize him."

In a "fact check" segment following the October 8, 2004, presidential debate, Williams implied that Senator John Kerry's assertion that the U.S. economy had lost 1.6 million jobs under President Bush was deceptive -- falsely claiming that Kerry's use of "private sector jobs" numbers applies to "just one category" of jobs, when in fact it includes all non-government jobs and is, according to The New York Times, "a better predictor of the economy's future, analysts say."

[pansypoo53219]

9. the TEVEEE GNEWZ safe trying to obsolve themselves for banging the war DRUMS ON GW ASSHAT'S LIES

and NOT doing their goddamned jobs.

[obxhead]

10. ..

[Glassunion]

13. Where in the cartoon does it show all the dead bodies from media lies?

1 media lie does not equal all of the GWB lies.

This is a cartoon, from the media, for the media, by the media.