Brian WILLIAMS is added to MSNBC's: Barnicle, Buchanan, Wiener-Savage, Scarborough
Years ago, whoever set the mold for MSNBC was somebody with an identity problem -- did they want to be *this* or *that* (Left, Right, or just-News)? But they made it clear they were willing to do *anything* to grab what nutcase demographic they could, putting on Michael WIENER "Savage," Pat BUCHANAN, IMUS, BARNICLE, and Joe Scabs -- the weirdest fringe.
After Brian WILLIAMS' performance this morning, it looks like MSNBC is a good fit for him, although way this side of the *best* fit which would be for him to be off the air totally.
I have a pretty good b.s. detector, even against some public figures who were popular here and turned out to be clay. But I can't claim to have seen Brian WILLIAMS coming. True, I dubbed him "The Wedding Cake Guy" years ago, but I was still taken in by him, thinking it odd how "perfect" and manikin-like his grooming and dressing was at the same time that he claimed to be so JoeSixPack with his NASCAR thing. Something didn't fit, but I was more, like, bemused wondering how he mixed into the NASCAR masses -- sticking out, fly in the soup -- but it was sort of a "cute" harmless discrepancy.
Now, after a HUGH!1 public pratfall, his first appearance after what might have been months of radical self-examination was disturbing, to me (us?) anyway/not to him, a picture of a very disturbed dude. "Word salad" is always used about PALIN, but what he regurgitated was a word salad of psychobabble and public relations/focus group tested gibberish. He immediately reminded me of this dude at my workplace in the '90s who *seized* on the latest management jargon (think, "7 Habits" and "win-win"
and would preen as he threw these out in meetings with the visiting bosses.
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http://gawker.com/brian-williams-many-lies-just-a-sloppy-choice-of-words-1712503246
[font size=5]Brian Williams' Many Lies Just a "Sloppy Choice of Words"[/font]
Gabrielle BLUESTONE
.... Calling the lies an unintentional, “sloppy choice of words,” Williams pressed the narrative that he was a hapless prisoner of his mind, twisted around by urges of his subconscious he ultimately had no control over. Which I think is worse? A liar who doesn’t know he’s lying seems more dangerous than an asshole who likes attention, if you ask me. Therapy can only help one of these things.
“This came from a bad place, a bad urge inside me,” Williams says. “This was clearly ego-driven, a desire to better my role in a story I was already in. That’s what I’ve been tearing apart and “This “This came from a bad place, a bad urge inside me,” Williams says. “This was clearly ego-driven, a desire to better my role in a story I was already in. That’s what I’ve been tearing apart and unpacking.” ....
Williams also declined to explain what else he lied about, saying, “I would like to take this opportunity to say that what has happened in the past has been identified and torn apart by me and has been fixed. Has been dealt with. And going forward there are going to be different rules of the road.”
TLDR; Brian Williams is sorry, he won’t do it again, just take his word for it.
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