I noted on my Facebook page a few days ago somebody mentioning that Brian Williams had successfully tainted the NBC brand. My immediate response was somewhat caustic suggesting that it would be impossible to taint an outhouse.
It’s clear, today, from the reports that we are getting that his superiors at NBC knew precisely what was going on almost a decade ago, and did nothing about it. On that basis, it seems logical to raise the question of what else he’s been lying about? What else NBC has been lying about along with the rest of the supposedly mainstream media. CBS, for example. Which brings to mind another point… Dan Rather. Brian Williams is going to lose his position, for the same reason that Dan Rather lost his. They were both caught making stuff up.
And certainly, there are reasons to lie from his vantage point. Consider Hillary Clinton is lying about landing at a diplomatic mission, under sniper fire. Like Williams, she apparently forgot that there are a lot of electronically savvy military service people out there, who are willing to stand up and speak the truth when these lies come forward. Al Gore inventing the Internet. Al Gore giving us rock solid predictions about the ice caps melting. Obama telling us that healthcare is going to be cheaper. And so on.
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But why would these people lie about such things? They do so because lies are expected by those that they need to curry favor from. At least, until such time as somebody dares to call them on their lies.
The trouble of course with all of this is that the American voting public has an extraordinarily short term memory, as I will demonstrate. How many of you would have remembered Dan Rather’s lie, if I hadn’t mentioned it?