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Tom Brokaw is the highest-profile dissenter to call for the ouster of Brian Williams over his stolen valor helicopter story, but he’s not the only one.

Per an email from NBC News, Brian Williams just passed a note along to the NBC News staff that says he will not be hosting the Nightly News for the next several days. Lester Holt will take his place.

According to Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, NBC News executives knew Brian Williams had a problem with the truth but the infrastructure wasn’t in place to do anything about it. Per Dowd, things were so bad with Williams that his “flourishes to puff himself up” became “a joke in the news division.”

UPDATE: A blogger who goes by the name of SooperMexican was the first to report this discrepancy.  Per this CNN Money report, a Brian Williams’ Katrina tale appears to have evolved somewhat dramatically over the course of just one year.

Completely separate from the 2003 Iraq helicopter incident Brian Williams confessed to lying about this week, thanks to a Twitter user who alerted Ace Of Spades, we now have a 2007 video of Williams claiming he was involved in a hairy wartime incident involving a different helicopter during a different war.

The New York Post reports that Brian Williams can’t even keep his puppy-saving tales straight. In October of 2011, Williams spoke of the time he saved a puppy as a teenage volunteer firefighter: “I remember one such house fire . . .

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blasted Brian Williams’s colleagues in the mainstream media “crime syndicate” for enabling and covering up his Iraq War lies. “It appears that some at NBC did know that Williams was lying for over a decade

A man identified by Variety as a “celebrity brand expert” polled 1,000 people familiar with the ongoing scandal surround NBC’s Brian Williams and found that an incredible 80% believe he needs to lose his chair as anchor and managing editor

Disgraced former TV news anchor Dan Rather has come to the aid of embattled NBC anchor Brian Williams, saying that Williams is an “honest man.” But Williams is caught up in a scandal of his own making after admitting to lying about being in a helicopter downed by enemy RPG fire in Iraq in 2003.

In the wake of the revelation that NBC’s Brian Williams told a false story about his helicopter being shot out of the sky by an RPG in Iraq, some of his other claims of facing danger while on assignment deserve

Author and military mother Mary Ward relays a story of talking to NBC producer Justin Balding, who says he rode in the same helicopter as Brian Williams and also claims the Chinook was hit by an RPG. The year of this event is unclear, but Ward’s book was published in October 2004, so the interaction with Balding would have to occur some time before then:

Good news: NBC has agreed to investigate an NBC employee about reportorial misdeeds at NBC. This is how the news media works today, folks. A bombshell report from the New York Daily News claims that Brian Williams’ claims about Katrina

In an email exchange with the Huffington Post’s Michael Calderone, former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw disputed reports that he is calling for Brian Williams to be fired. Brokaw, however, is obviously not defending or standing by his successor.

The source CNN media reporter Brian Stelter introduced to the world as the man “who was piloting the Chinook that Williams was on,” is now backing off his claim. And Stelter is now all but admitting he was burned by

Despite an admission by NBC News’ Brian Williams that for the last 12 years he has repeatedly and falsely claimed that he was in a helicopter that was hit by an enemy RPG in a war zone in Iraq, NBC executives are still standing behind their nightly news anchor.

The question of whether or not Brian Williams can survive lying for 12 years about being shot down by enemy fire over Iraq in 2003 is one thing. Now a whole new series of questions have arisen surrounding Williams’ heroic

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.

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

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) believes that the mainstream media have not done enough to advance the pro-amnesty amnesty. The mainstream media, in their “balanced” immigration reports, often have a pro-amnesty Republican and a pro-amnesty Democrat touting the benefits of comprehensive