Monday, February 9, 2015

Strange Timing of the Brian Williams’ Affair

Twelve years ago Brian Williams made an astonishing claim. He said a Chinook helicopter he was flying in was shot down in Iraq. Now, few would believe such a claim could be a lie, because nobody would make such an easily verifiable claim if it were. It is an exercise in the strategy of Joseph Goebbels; if you are going to lie you go all in.
There is only one problem; reality disagreed with Williams’ claim. So did everyone who was present. The truth just came out, thirteen years later.
This is puzzling, very puzzling. Why did it take so long for an obvious fabrication to be noticed by the media? It’s not as if the executives at NBC were unaware of the problem.  But for some strange reason nobody bothered to check on this matter - until the military publication Stars and Stripes broke the story.

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