‘Riding Shotgun With OJ’ And Other Hilarious ‘Brian Williams Memories’

Television journalist Brian Williams arrives at the Asbury Park Convention Hall during red carpet arrivals prior to the New Jersey Hall of Fame inductions, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, in Asbury Park, N.J. Williams will ... Television journalist Brian Williams arrives at the Asbury Park Convention Hall during red carpet arrivals prior to the New Jersey Hall of Fame inductions, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, in Asbury Park, N.J. Williams will be inducted into the hall of fame along with actor James Gandolfini, who played the lead role in the cable series The Sopranos. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) MORE LESS
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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:

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  1. Avatar for deuce deuce says:

    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)

  2. 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.

  3. Didn’t he offer Mrs. Lincoln his handkerchief to apply to the gunshot wound?

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