Brian Williams' brush with death or something

NBC News anchor Brian Williams admitted Tuesday he was not in an Army helicopter in Iraq that was shot down twelve years ago, as he's been telling viewers ever since. It's an honest mistake. How many times, when your car backfires, do you think you just got shot down in a helicopter in Iraq.   Comedian Argus Hamilton

 

From Drudge:

How Brian Williams’s Iraq Story Changed  "A compilation of Brian Williams’s television appearances shows how his accounts of a 2003 episode on military helicopters in Iraq gradually became more perilous."

Does the barbarism have a logic?

Jordan's King Abdullah flew home from the U.S. and answered the ISIS murder of Jordan's pilot by executing two ISIS prisoners and mobilizing his army. Reaction was twofold. ISIS announced its forces are withdrawing from northernmost Syria and King Abdullah is leading all Republicans in Iowa.  Comedian Argus Hamilton

 Charles Krauthammer

"Why did they do it? What did the Islamic State think it could possibly gain by burning alive a captured Jordanian pilot?

"I wouldn’t underestimate the absence of logic, the sheer depraved thrill of a triumphant cult reveling in its barbarism. But I wouldn’t overestimate it either. You don’t overrun much of Syria and Iraq without having deployed keen tactical and strategic reasoning.

. . . The savage execution has mobilized Jordan against the Islamic State and given it solidarity and unity of purpose.

"Yes, for now. But what about six months hence? Solidarity and purpose fade quickly. Think about how post-9/11 American fervor dissipated over the years of inconclusive conflict, yielding the war fatigue of today. Or how the beheading of U.S. journalists galvanized the country against the Islamic State, yet less than five months later, the frustrating nature of that fight is creating divisions at home." . . . Full article here.

But even they are mortified by Obama’s blind pursuit of detente with Tehran, which would make the mullahs hegemonic over the Arab Middle East. Hence the Arabs, the Saudis especially, hold back from any major military commitment to us. Jordan, its hand now forced by its pilot’s murder, may now bravely sally forth on its own. But at great risk and with little chance of ultimate success.

 

Well after all, Brian Williams WAS another voice of NBC

Brian Williams On Katrina: Fact or Fiction?  "Louisiana’s Hayride is on the Hurricane Katrina beat and has serious doubts about the veracity of Williams’ claim that he saw a dead body floating down the street:" . . .

Michelle Malkin: My fellow bloggers: You will heartily enjoy this best Brian Williams flashback ever   "I am reminded of what this arrogant fabulist once said about us lowly bloggers in2007 during a lecture at NYU’s journalism school:" . . .

CNN Money: Controversy grows over Brian Williams' Iraq apology  . . . "Bottom line: this pilot is revising his story - and, because of that, I'm revising mine.

"What initially looked like an account that supported some of Brian Williams' war story -- that he came "under fire" that day -- no longer appears to be true."

NBC News Executives Reportedly Told Williams To Stop Telling Chinook Fish Tale In Public

I'm asking the question. And I'm answering it: No, he won't lose his job. NBC News is far too invested in Williams to bump him off over thisyears-long fabrication, and certain media figures seem to be bulletproof, regardless of their infraction. The network had their anchor apologize on air last night, but as others have noted, he still isn't coming fully clean.

Brian Williams may have Dan Rather, but he’s lost Tom Brokaw  "According to a report via The New York Post’s Page Six (hat tip to Jammie Wearing Fools), Williams’ predecessor, Tom Brokaw*, thinks that it is in the best interest of both NBC and the Nightly News for the network to jettison Williams."   *A colleague of  Al Sharpton

Liberal moral equivalency; Obama, ISIS and Christianity

Update Via Bill Clark Yost on Facebook

Lauri B. Regan; Whether a Civilization Endures is Determined by How it Confronts Evil  . . . "Future civilizations that rise up from the ash heap of history will look back in wonderment analyzing how we allowed evil to win. The answer to that puzzle begins with Barack Obama and his Democrat colleagues."  Full article

 Roger L Simon;  A Jew Examines Why Obama Never Names Islam  . . . "It grieves me much to write this, because it is a horrible situation.  Obama is not a Manchurian candidate and never was.  He never had to be.  He is just absolutely the wrong human being to be leading the West at this point in history.  Heaven help us."  Emphasis mine, TD

Jonah Goldberg; Obama's Comparison of Christianity, Radical Islam Defies Logic  

. . . "It's also insipidly hypocritical. President Obama can't bring himself to call the Islamic State "Islamic," but he's happy to offer a sermon about Christianity's alleged crimes at the beginning of the last millennium."

Serving Up Rhetoric at the National Prayer Breakfast  . . . "First of all, the crusades were almost a thousand years ago. ISIS is killing today." . . . 

Iron Burkha: I beheld a rider on a high horse  . . . "We see the president and his subordinates going to ludicrous extremes to avoid mention of the devil that drives our enemies. We see that the president has become a laughingstock and an object of contempt around the world." . . .

WaPo; Critics pounce after Obama talks Crusades, slavery at prayer breakfast  

"President Obama has never been one to go easy on America." .

This column from Jan 12 seems to be relevant: “Je Suis Charlie” Morphed into ‘Je Suis Obama’ Before the Entire World   . . . " By staying at home in the White House, purportedly to watch a football game, Obama came out as stridently non-sympathetic to a world worried about terrorism; a politician who thinks it’s good enough to let empty lip service do his talking for him." .... 

Obama points the finger at Christians when talking about terrorism  . . . “ 'Our religion?” Was that a slip of the tongue? If he is speaking of Christians, where are the nihilists today murdering in the name of Christ that require a push back?

"The president appears willing to say or do anything to avoid speaking the truth about Islam." . . .

NRO: Jindal to Obama: ‘Medieval Christian Threat is Under Control’ . . . "We will be happy to keep an eye out for runaway Christians, but it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today. The Medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the Radical Islamic threat today.' ” 

James Longstreet; Whose history and whose talking points are these?   "Maybe the visit from the Muslim activists at the White House prompted this train of thought from our president, Barack Obama."  

Former White House Faith Leader Praises Obama For Linking Christianity To Islamic State Animals…

Canada Free Press: Imam Obama comes out at the National Prayer Breakfast

"We can hear it now, much closer than ever before, the Islamic call to prayer, not in the far away MidEast, but here in the villages, towns and cities we call home.

"We’ll be hearing it more often as it begins to drown out the peals of church bells, now that Barack Hussein Obama came out as Imam Obama at Thursday’ National Prayer Breakfast."