{"id":1108364,"date":"2021-12-11T07:44:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T12:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1108364"},"modified":"2021-12-11T07:44:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T12:44:55","slug":"graham-just-go-away-brian-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-just-go-away-brian-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: Just Go Away, Brian Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-just-go-away-brian-williams%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1108364&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Brian Williams, dismissed as \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d anchor in 2015 for serial embellishment and lying, has decided to walk away from his MSNBC show \u201cThe 11th Hour.\u201d CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter, from a competing network, previewed the last show: \u201cThere\u2019s no word on what the Thursday finale will entail, but here\u2019s hoping for a sendoff befitting his position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams should be sent off with a lump of coal.<\/p>\n<p>Stelter wasn\u2019t quite as bad as one of his favorite Sunday-show guests, journalism professor and former Baltimore Sun reporter David Zurawik. \u201cI have separation anxiety about Brian Williams leaving at 11:00 because it means so much. We\u2019re losing big stars in this medium and I don\u2019t know what the impact is.\u201d He also included Chris Cuomo and Rachel Maddow in this lickspittle sendoff.<\/p>\n<p>Separation anxiety? This is not a case of \u201csometimes when we touch, the honesty\u2019s too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In case anyone forgot, Williams uncorked a series of tall tales that caused him to resemble Jon Lovitz\u2019s \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d character Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar, who said he was married to actress Morgan Fairchild and added, \u201cYeah, that\u2019s the ticket!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Williams claimed Secret Service agents helped him meet and shake hands with Pope John Paul II at Catholic University in 1979. He claimed he was present at the Brandenburg Gate in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell, although the only American broadcaster on the scene was his NBC predecessor, Tom Brokaw.<\/p>\n<p>The worst exaggeration of his exploits was in war zones, imagining himself in great peril. He claimed he was on a Chinook helicopter hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq, at one point comparing his experience to \u201c\u2018Black Hawk Down\u2019 meets \u2018Saving Private Ryan.&#8217;\u201d He also claimed that he not only flew into Iraq in 2003 with Navy SEAL Team 6 but they later sent him gifts and souvenirs from the raid carried out to kill Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>The conventional wisdom in 2015 revolved around whether Williams could remain in journalism at all after this debacle. Then NBC picked him up, dusted him off and put him on MSNBC, first as a \u201cbreaking news\u201d specialist and then on the \u201c11th Hour\u201d show, which then doubled from 30 to 60 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, like everyone else on MSNBC, spends his on-air hours ripping on Republicans, like deriding Sen. Ted Cruz in May as \u201cKremlin Cruz.\u201d But he\u2019s most vividly remembered as one of the most embarrassing Obama-polishers in the press. Twice in 2008, he handed a glowing magazine cover story to his hero, Barack Obama, and asked him to comment on how wonderful he felt about it.<\/p>\n<p>During that year\u2019s Republican convention, Williams asked Michelle Obama, \u201cWhat of the attacks has busted through to you? What makes you angriest at John McCain, the Republicans? What\u2019s being said about your husband that you want to shout from the mountaintops is not true?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Obama won the presidency the first time, Williams announced: \u201cThis nation woke up this morning changed. As one columnist put it, America matured in 2008 by choosing Barack Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of this underlines Williams fell to the floor in his obsequiousness toward the Obamas. But he was shameless enough to mock others as up someone\u2019s intestine in June. \u201cIf (Texas Gov. Greg) Abbott wants to, say, run for president, he must be more further ensconced in a particular area of Trump\u2019s anatomy than even (Gov.) Ron DeSantis of Florida. And that won\u2019t be easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Republican half of America will have no anxiety whatsoever over Williams separating from his MSNBC safe space.<\/p>\n<p>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Williams, dismissed as \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d anchor in 2015 for serial embellishment and lying, has decided to walk away from his MSNBC show \u201cThe 11th Hour.\u201d CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter, from a competing network, previewed the last show: \u201cThere\u2019s no word on what the Thursday finale will entail, but here\u2019s hoping for a sendoff befitting his position.\u201dWilliams should be sent off with a lump of coal.Stelter wasn\u2019t quite as bad as one of his favorite Sunday-show guests, journalism professor and former Baltimore Sun reporter David Zurawik. \u201cI have separation anxiety about Brian Williams leaving at 11:00 because it means so much. We\u2019re losing big stars in this medium and I don\u2019t know what the impact is.\u201d He also included Chris Cuomo and Rachel Maddow in this lickspittle sendoff.Separation anxiety? This is not a case of \u201csometimes when we touch, the honesty\u2019s too much.\u201dIn case anyone forgot, Williams uncorked a series of tall tales that caused him to resemble Jon Lovitz\u2019s \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d character Tommy Flanagan, the Pathological Liar, who said he was married to actress Morgan Fairchild and added, \u201cYeah, that\u2019s the ticket!\u201dWilliams claimed Secret Service agents helped him meet and shake hands with Pope John Paul II at Catholic University in 1979. He claimed he was present at the Brandenburg Gate in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell, although the only American broadcaster on the scene was his NBC predecessor, Tom Brokaw.The worst exaggeration of his exploits was in war zones, imagining himself in great peril. He claimed he was on a Chinook helicopter hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq, at one point comparing his experience to \u201c\u2018Black Hawk Down\u2019 meets \u2018Saving Private Ryan.&#8217;\u201d He also claimed that he not only flew into Iraq in 2003 with Navy SEAL Team 6 but they later sent him gifts and souvenirs from the raid carried out to kill Osama bin Laden.The conventional wisdom in 2015 revolved around whether Williams could remain in journalism at all after this debacle. Then NBC picked him up, dusted him off and put him on MSNBC, first as a \u201cbreaking news\u201d specialist and then on the \u201c11th Hour\u201d show, which then doubled from 30 to 60 minutes.Williams, like everyone else on MSNBC, spends his on-air hours ripping on Republicans, like deriding Sen. Ted Cruz in May as \u201cKremlin Cruz.\u201d But he\u2019s most vividly remembered as one of the most embarrassing Obama-polishers in the press. Twice in 2008, he handed a glowing magazine cover story to his hero, Barack Obama, and asked him to comment on how wonderful he felt about it.During that year\u2019s Republican convention, Williams asked Michelle Obama, \u201cWhat of the attacks has busted through to you? What makes you angriest at John McCain, the Republicans? What\u2019s being said about your husband that you want to shout from the mountaintops is not true?\u201dWhen Obama won the presidency the first time, Williams announced: \u201cThis nation woke up this morning changed. As one columnist put it, America matured in 2008 by choosing Barack Obama.\u201dAll of this underlines Williams fell to the floor in his obsequiousness toward the Obamas. But he was shameless enough to mock others as up someone\u2019s intestine in June. \u201cIf (Texas Gov. Greg) Abbott wants to, say, run for president, he must be more further ensconced in a particular area of Trump\u2019s anatomy than even (Gov.) Ron DeSantis of Florida. And that won\u2019t be easy.\u201dThe Republican half of America will have no anxiety whatsoever over Williams separating from his MSNBC safe space.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":1893929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}