No disrespect intended, but of you have confused those memories, how would you know?
For some reason, the point made earlier by Frylock seems to have been subsequently overlooked.
It might well be that if you’ve been in this type of life-threatening experience you would not misremember or confuse it with anything else, etc. etc. But the question here is whether if you had not been in this type of life-threatening experience, whether you might misremember or confuse it with a life-threatening one. Because that’s the question in the case of BW.
People who keep discussing actual life-threatening situations seem to be missing this point.
Brian Williams’ name should be struck from the history books. He should become an unperson. He wallows in the filth of lies and writhed in the sin of selfish pride. His ancestors should rise from the grave to bring him down back with them. He is a bad journalist, an unfit man, and a rotten human being. May his flesh be ripped top shreds by buzzards again and again throughout an eternity in hell.
So it’s ok for someone who is not a trustworthy source for news to deliver the news??? I don’t think so.
So those are different cartoon strips. (As Ludovic posts in the “obvious things you just realized about a work” thread.)
Good cartoon. How did this Brian Williams lying-about-his-experience story gain so much traction? I understand if his employers view the story as detrimental to their brand. However, who exactly is complaining about this and how did it get to be such a big story?
What journalists should have been fired by their employers during the lead up to the Iraq invasion, and why?
They are. Bolling’s funny.
It’s easy to get them confused, both have “Tom” in them: Tom Tomorrow draws This Modern World, Ruben Bolling draws Tom the Dancing Bug.
Yeah that first one was terrible. But Bolling’s was great!
I agree. It’s time that Brian Williams brings back the real news.
Brian Williams’s other apologies (humor from a college friend of mine): http://hothotphone.com/post/111305014579/brian-wiliams-other-apologies-a-lot-of-people-are#
Except not as smart or funny. However Jon might be the perfect replacement for Brian Williams, just more intelligent and honest.
Hm. It now appears Bill O’Reilly has a similar problem to Brian Williams.
Only he won’t get fired or suspended for it, because, you know, Fox.
Somehow, that’s less surprising.
Those are not “similar.”
O’Reilly’s claims are questioned by inference. Williams’ were refuted by direct contraction by another witness.
In other words, O’Reilly said, “I saw a combat situation” and the refutation is, “I don’t know of any American reporters who were in the combat arena.”
Williams said, “I was on this specific helicopter and it was damaged by shrapnel,” and the refutation is, “I was on the same helicopter with you, and it wasn’t.”
And of course, as I said from the beginning with Williams, I do not believe he deliberately lied.
Except O’Reilly’s defense has been to admit that he was not, in fact, in the Falkland Islands. He was in Buenos Aires, at a protest after the war had ended.
So the question is whether or not he really could have thought that “combat zone” was a reasonable description for a major city, far from the combat, after the combat had ended.
I don’t know – did he address that in his admission?
IIRC, he played it like no reasonable person would question the description of unrest in Buenos Aires after the war as a “war zone” and that he was involved in “combat.”
Were there bullets flying? Were there people being killed? It’s a “war zone”. Not formally, no, but it definitely can be described as a “was zone”.
As for “involved in combat” - can you give the exact O’Reilly quote?