Twitter users took the opportunity on Wednesday night to mercilessly mock NBC News anchor Brian Williams after he was forced to apologize for repeatedly telling a bogus story about his time covering the Iraq War.
Williams had claimed as recently as last week that he was in a helicopter that was shot down by a rocket propelled grenade in 2003 while in Iraq. But he admitted on Wednesday he was never really in the helicopter, and blamed the error on “the fog of memory.”
So in that spirit, Twitter users stepped in to fill in other gaps in Williams’ memory, using the hashtags #BrianWilliamsMemories and #BrianWilliamsMisremembers.
Here are some of the best tweets:
“When I said I was there when Salk found cure for polio, I meant I have friends who play polo. Honest mistake.” #BrianWilliamsMemories
— ChristianChristensen (@ChrChristensen) February 4, 2015
Correction: I didn’t storm the beach at Normandy. I just had a friend named Norman. #BrianWilliamsMemories
— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) February 4, 2015
Correction: I wasn’t part of the Tet Offensive. I just ate at a Vietnamese restaurant a few decades later. #BrianWilliamsMemories
— AG (@AG_Conservative) February 4, 2015
#BrianWilliamsMemories I remember it was very cold as we made our way across the Delaware. George wanted to turn back, I kept him focused.
— Яob (@robx_d) February 4, 2015
“And then he said, ‘let there be light,’ and I put my hand on his shoulder and told him the light’s pretty good.” #BrianWilliamsMisremembers
— Ryan Parker (@TheRyanParker) February 5, 2015
Saving Private Brian
#BrianWilliamsMemories pic.twitter.com/IWMRKGxDrk
— Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) February 5, 2015
riding shotgun with O.J. #BrianWilliamsMemories pic.twitter.com/52E6h5tVcl
— Calhoun (@linkcalhoun) February 5, 2015
After he said more about remembrance, he passed the bread as I recall. #BrianWilliamsMemories pic.twitter.com/PDlQOZKg6J
— Ed Fuentes (@viewfromaloft) February 5, 2015
“That one live shot I did from the moon” #BrianWilliamsMemories pic.twitter.com/FbND6jAqc7
— Greg Dutra (@DutraWeather) February 5, 2015
“And then he said, ‘let there be light,’ and I put my hand on his shoulder and told him the light’s pretty good.” #BrianWilliamsMisremembers
“I said Martin, do you dream?, he said yes. I said, ‘well, tell the folks about your dreams” pic.twitter.com/SnjbvOm1Pn
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) February 5, 2015
“I was a hard-hitting journalist at a serious news organization for many years.” #BrianWilliamsMemories
— ChristianChristensen (@ChrChristensen) February 4, 2015
“I said Martin, do you dream?, he said yes. I said, ‘well, tell the folks about your dreams” pic.twitter.com/SnjbvOm1Pn
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) February 5, 2015
“Oddly enough I forget where I was on 9/11… Anybody know?” #BrianWilliamsMemories
— Hal Sparks (@HalSparks) February 5, 2015
And don’t forget this piece of nepotistic promotion: he flogged his daughter’s role as Peter Pan on an NBC special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85P4kDchyyA
(I actually was first made aware of this last December when he did it again on his show the day of or before the televised production. The attached clip above was from the announcement of her pending role)
Brian Williams suddenly remembering that he lied is like getting the slap in the face that you’ve always had coming.
I guess that he can report the news and still juice up his own history without crossing the ethics barrier as a newsman? But, he fails in the public’s eye as a decent human being so I guess that means that he has crossed some ethics barriers?
Brian Williams is in deep linguini and he doesn’t have the fork for it. Good thing that he is a master chef and played pro dodgeball all those years before he was a Finnish carpenter and fireman. A Renaissance man, that is what we are really talking about here.
Didn’t he offer Mrs. Lincoln his handkerchief to apply to the gunshot wound?