{"id":995542,"date":"2021-11-10T18:14:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T23:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=995542"},"modified":"2021-11-10T18:14:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T23:14:36","slug":"brian-williams-anchor-caught-misleading-about-iraq-retires-from-msnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brian-williams-anchor-caught-misleading-about-iraq-retires-from-msnbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Williams, Anchor Caught Misleading About Iraq, Retires From MSNBC"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fbrian-williams-anchor-caught-misleading-about-iraq-retires-from-msnbc%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=995542&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, who anchored the \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d for more than 10 years before being caught exaggerating the danger he faced while covering Operation Iraqi Freedom, has announced he is stepping down from his current position as a talk show host on MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing much reflection, and after 28 years with the company, I have decided to leave NBC upon the completion of my current contract in December,\u201d Williams <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/11thHour\/status\/1458509769271087113\">said<\/a> at the end of his show, \u201cThe 11th Hour,\u201d on Tuesday night. \u201cI have been truly blessed. I have been allowed to spend almost half my life with one company. NBC is a part of me and always will be: 28 years, 38 countries, eight Olympic Games, seven presidential elections, half a dozen presidents, a few wars, and one\u201d episode of \u201cSNL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The last thing before we go\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>A message from Brian. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q2RXOG1Ea2\">pic.twitter.com\/q2RXOG1Ea2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 11th Hour (@11thHour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/11thHour\/status\/1458509769271087113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Williams first faced national backlash more than a decade after succeeding Tom Brokaw as anchor of NBC\u2019s nightly newscast. NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/longtime-anchor-brian-williams-leaving-nbc-28-years-rcna5042\">noted<\/a> in its coverage of Williams\u2019 resignation:<\/p>\n<p><em>In 2015, when he was the anchor of \u201cNBC Nightly News,\u201d Williams was suspended by the network for six months after he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nightly-news\/brian-williams-offers-clarification-about-2003-iraq-incident-n300461\">told an inaccurate&nbsp;story&nbsp;about his helicopter\u2019s having been hit<\/a>&nbsp;by a rocket-propelled grenade.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He admitted on the air that he had \u201cmade a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Williams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/near-death-experiences-a-look-back-at-famous-figures-whose-claims-drew-criticism\">claimed<\/a> his helicopter had been \u201cforced down after being hit by an RPG\u201d while covering the second Iraq war on March 24, 2003. In reality, Iraqi forces had attacked a Chinook helicopter that passed over the area earlier in the day, and Williams\u2019 helicopter had been forced down due to inclement weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the suspension, Williams moved to MSNBC, where he later launched \u2018The 11th Hour,\u2019\u201d NBC noted.<\/p>\n<p>NBC officials have portrayed every step of Williams\u2019 professional decline as his own choice. After the 2015 controversy over Williams\u2019 misleading statements, an NBC executive <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/02\/09\/media\/brian-williams-scandal\/index.html\">said<\/a> that Williams chose to \u201cbench himself\u201d by stepping aside as anchor of the \u201cNBC Nightly News.\u201d He was replaced by current anchor Lester Holt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy return years later was my choice, as was launching \u2018The 11th Hour,\u2019\u201d insisted Williams in his statement. He added that he wanted his show to air on MSNBC outside prime time. \u201cI wanted it to be called \u2018The 11th Hour,\u2019 as it was late in the 2016 campaign back then, and I wanted it to air at 11 p.m. Eastern time,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Williams, who anchored the \u201cNBC Nightly News\u201d for more than 10 years before being caught exaggerating the danger he faced while covering Operation Iraqi Freedom, has announced he is stepping down from his current position as a talk show host on MSNBC.\u201cFollowing much reflection, and after 28 years with the company, I have decided to leave NBC upon the completion of my current contract in December,\u201d Williams said at the end of his show, \u201cThe 11th Hour,\u201d on Tuesday night. \u201cI have been truly blessed. I have been allowed to spend almost half my life with one company. NBC is a part of me and always will be: 28 years, 38 countries, eight Olympic Games, seven presidential elections, half a dozen presidents, a few wars, and one\u201d episode of \u201cSNL.\u201dThe last thing before we go\u2026 A message from Brian. pic.twitter.com\/q2RXOG1Ea2\u2014 11th Hour (@11thHour) November 10, 2021Williams first faced national backlash more than a decade after succeeding Tom Brokaw as anchor of NBC\u2019s nightly newscast. NBC News noted in its coverage of Williams\u2019 resignation:In 2015, when he was the anchor of \u201cNBC Nightly News,\u201d Williams was suspended by the network for six months after he\u00a0told an inaccurate\u00a0story\u00a0about his helicopter\u2019s having been hit\u00a0by a rocket-propelled grenade.He admitted on the air that he had \u201cmade a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago.\u201dWilliams claimed his helicopter had been \u201cforced down after being hit by an RPG\u201d while covering the second Iraq war on March 24, 2003. In reality, Iraqi forces had attacked a Chinook helicopter that passed over the area earlier in the day, and Williams\u2019 helicopter had been forced down due to inclement weather.\u201cAfter the suspension, Williams moved to MSNBC, where he later launched \u2018The 11th Hour,\u2019\u201d NBC noted.NBC officials have portrayed every step of Williams\u2019 professional decline as his own choice. After the 2015 controversy over Williams\u2019 misleading statements, an NBC executive said that Williams chose to \u201cbench himself\u201d by stepping aside as anchor of the \u201cNBC Nightly News.\u201d He was replaced by current anchor Lester Holt.\u201cMy return years later was my choice, as was launching \u2018The 11th Hour,\u2019\u201d insisted Williams in his statement. He added that he wanted his show to air on MSNBC outside prime time. \u201cI wanted it to be called \u2018The 11th Hour,\u2019 as it was late in the 2016 campaign back then, and I wanted it to air at 11 p.m. Eastern time,\u201d he wrote.An anonymous \u201csource close to Williams\u201d told CNN that NBC offered Williams a new contract, which the host declined.Williams continued to stir controversy at MSNBC. On the eve of the 77th anniversary of D-Day, he aired a video produced by the Lincoln Project which equated the U.S. troops who stormed Normandy with the black-clad, often-violent radicals of Antifa.In April 2019, Williams demanded that President Donald Trump\u2019s legal counsel, Jay Sekulow, tell him how the administration could \u201cget off with that characterization this morning \u2026 that there was \u2018no collusion\u2019\u201d between President Trump and the Kremlin during the 2016 presidential campaign. As The Daily Wire reported:Sekulow responded by simply reading directly from the second page of Mueller\u2019s now publicly available\u00a0report. \u201cWell, page 2 of the document says, \u2018the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,\u2019\u201d Sekulow read.To his credit, Williams admitted last month that the legacy media tend to live in a sequestered bubble of fellow liberals. \u201cThe press corps \u2014 the people we read and the people we see all day long on cable news \u2014 tend to live in blue dots. No fault of their own \u2014 it\u2019s where their employers are located. But it helps explain why the press corps largely was shocked at the rise of the Tea Party, shocked at the election of Donald Trump,\u201d he said.Williams closed his statement by promising to return to the airways at an undisclosed time.\u201cThere are many things I want to do, and I\u2019ll pop up again somewhere,\u201d said Williams. \u201cI will reflect on the kindness people have shown me, and I will pay it forward.\u201dRelated:The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.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":76,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995542","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}