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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