On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” former U.S. Army helicopter pilot and Concerned Veterans of America senior military adviser Amber Smith reacted to the controversy swirling around NBC’s “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams’ apparently embellished story in
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
On her Thursday broadcast, CNN’s “OutFront” host Erin Burnett declared NBC’s “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams lied in his past statements about an incident involving a Chinook helicopter in 2003. “‘NBC Nightly News’ anchor and managing editor, Brian Williams, facing new questions tonight after
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.
Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell said that NBC anchor Brian Williams should resign after revelations that he had erroneously reported that a helicopter he was in was hit by an RPG and shot down on Thursday’s “Hannity”
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
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin predicted that NBC News anchor Brian Williams’s lies about having been shot down in a military helicopter at the beginning of the Iraq War will compel more Americans to abandon legacy media outlets for new
Thursday on NewsmaxTV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” editor of The Weekly Standard Bill Kristol said NBC News’ Brian Williams should be fired for lying and now apologizing about being in a helicopter in 2003 that was hit by an RPG missile,
Although other military witnesses on the scene at the time claim the chopper NBC’s Brian Williams flew in was an hour behind the Chinook shot down in 2003, Politico’s media reporter Dylan Byers is asking his readers to take those
CNN “New Day” co-host Chris Cuomo didn’t defend NBC’s Brian Williams for telling a stolen valor lie repeatedly over 12 years, but he did use the occasion to rip “lesser [online] outlets and the growing mass of the angry.” “They,”
CNN Senior Media Correspondent and “Reliable Sources” Brian Stelter reported that he couldn’t find “many people at NBC” who think Brian Williams’ erroneous helicopter story was “an innocent mistake” on Thursday’s “CNN Newsroom.” “One thing is clear, and that is,
Based upon a search after seeing a Brian Williams quote via Twitter, a September 2007 Media Research item, Brian Williams Derides Petraeus as No Eisenhower, indicates NBC’s Brian Williams used a story now shown to be false as part of his coverage undermining then-U.S. General David Petraeus.
Thursday on ABC’s “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell had a heated debate over NBC News’ Brian Williams lying and now apologizing about being in a helicopter in 2003 that was hit by an RPG missile, instead of the
Travis J. Tritten, the Stars and Stripes reporter who broke the Brian Williams bombshell Wednesday, reports today that soldiers who were in Iraq with Williams in 2003 are blasting the Nightly News anchors on-air apology Wednesday night as “misleading“: Apologies
The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple sees the Brian Williams scandal as a bigger than just one person — a serious problem for NBC News in general. While it is obvious the network never vetted or noticed the evolution of their
Writing for the Baltimore Sun, media journalist David Zurawik called for Brian Williams to resign or to be fired by Friday. “If credibility means anything to NBC News, Brian Williams will no longer be managing editor and anchor of the
Veterans in all branches of the military who have sacrificed to keep America safe are livid at NBC News anchor Brian Williams, who was forced to admit this week that he had, for 12 years, lied about taking fire in a helicopter over Iraq. Below, responses from career veterans who condemn his use of a false story to elevate his resume for more than a decade:
Per CNN, during a March of 2005 interview with the late Tim Russert, Brian Williams’ stolen valor lie about a helicopter he was riding in being shot down by an RPG over Iraq hadn’t yet fully evolved into him being
During a WNYC interview with Alec Baldwin in March of 2013, NBC Nightly News anchor and managing editor Brian Williams told the television actor that he was “briefly” afraid he might die after the Chinook helicopter he was riding in
In the video below, at the 10 minute mark, you can watch NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams smile smugly and bask in the glow of David Letterman referring to him as a “war hero” during a March 2013 appearance
During his Wednesday broadcast of “NBC Nightly News,” anchor Brian Williams admitted he had incorrectly stated the facts surrounding a March 2003 incident over the skies of Iraq in which he had claimed to been involved. Previously Williams had claimed
Fox News Media Analyst and “Mediabuzz” host Howard Kurtz declared that NBC anchor Brian Williams’ admission that the was not shot down in a helicopter over Iraq was a “major blow to his credibility and that of his network” and
