CNN: 'Fearful' NBC Unsure How to Deal With 'Humiliated' Williams

According to CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter, "fear" is setting in at NBC as the executives and journalists there worry over the widening "questions" being raised about Brian Williams. 
Scott Whitlock
 

Leftist Corrected by TurboTax for Posting False Hacking 'Scoop'

Notorious DUer, William Rivers Pitt, who along with his TruthOut colleague, Jason Leopold, published a "scoop" nine years ago that Karl Rove had been indicted. That story collapsed but Pitt is back again with yet another "scoop" of equal veracity that TurboTax was hacked. Because this scoop went viral, a representative of TurboTax was forced to post the truth on Pitt's Democatic Underground…
P.J. Gladnick
 

Chuck Todd Blames Obama's Weak Foreign Policy On 'Iraq War Syndrome'

Appearing on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Friday, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd was simultaneously critical and sympathetic toward President Obama while lamenting the commander-in-chief's poor handling of foreign policy: "...you do get the sense that there is a form of Iraq war syndrome that has impacted the administration here. Where are they doing everything that they want to do or…
Kyle Drennen
 

MSNBC: Catholicism Was Once 'The Most Murderous Force on...Earth'

MSNBC's resident socialist Lawrence O'Donnell made a whopper of a historical claim on the Thursday edition of his program. In the midst of ripping President Obama's controversial National Prayer Breakfast speech earlier in the day, O'Donnell asserted that "Catholicism was the most murderous force on the face of the Earth for hundreds of years."
Matthew Balan
 

NYT Laments 'Damaging Stereotypes' of Vets, Skips Own Notorious Smear

A New York Times military correspondent filed a useful story on the problem of military veterans being stereotyped as violent and troubled on movies and TV. But what about when the Times was guilty of doing the same thing on its Sunday front page, smearing veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan as killers on "a cross-country trail of death and heartbreak"?
Clay Waters
 

On Page 1, NY Times Warned 'Williams Digs Himself Deeper'

The New York Times caught up to Thursday’s Washington Post and put the Brian Williams phony-RPG scandal on the front page on Friday. This surely explains how ABC and CBS were shamed into acknowledging this was real on TV on Friday morning. “With Apology, Williams Digs Himself Deeper” was the Times headline, and the story continued onto page B-8, which was entirely dedicated to the Williams…
Tim Graham
 

Recap: Liberal Media Critics, Journos Turning on Brian Williams

A handy review of media critics who have been speaking out against Brian Williams, most of whom are also politically liberal.
Claire Chretien
 

USA Today Hits Brian Williams on Page One, Goes Mushy on 3-B

Making up for its tiny A-3 brief on the Brian Williams scandal on Thursday, USA Today’s splashy front-page headline on Friday was “Brian Williams loses credibility with ‘mistake.’" The story was actually Rem Rieder’s tough commentary that went online yesterday. The subheadline was “Hard to see how anchor will survive as face of NBC News.” It even jumped over to A-2 with the headline “Brian…
Tim Graham
 

Maddow Still Parroting Left-Wing Lie That Bush Went it 'Alone' In Iraq

MSNBC's ratings are bad and getting worse by the month, and what a wonder this isn't when its marquee evening host refuses to ditch the myths of her ideology in favor of indisputable facts. The network's Rachel Maddow, a self-described "national security liberal," seldom lets a week pass without blaming former president George W. Bush for something, anything that's gone wrong, especially in…
Jack Coleman
 

Goldberg, Krauthammer Blast Williams: Stunning 'How Dumb This Is'

Fox News contributors Bernard Goldberg and Charles Krauthammer appeared on separate Fox News Channel (FNC) programs on Thursday to weigh in on the controversy surrounding NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams severe case of lying with Goldberg declaring it “a special kind of lie” Williams committed and Krauthammer remarking that “what stuns me is how dumb this is.”
Curtis Houck
 

CBS Covers Brian Williams 'Fighting for His Reputation' After Iraq Lie

On Friday's CBS This Morning, substitute co-host Jeff Glor introduced a report on the growing scandal surrounding NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams by proclaiming: "This morning, one of the biggest names in media is fighting for his reputation....On Wednesday, Williams said he was sorry for saying his helicopter in Iraq was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in 2003. That never happened. It's…
Kyle Drennen
 

ABC Discovers Brian Williams Scandal: Lie 'Tarnishes' His Reputation

ABC on Friday finally woke up to the scandal engulfing NBC competitor Brian Williams. Good Morning America's David Wright covered the story and gravely intoned, "This controversy threatens to tarnish the reputation of America's number one news anchor."
Scott Whitlock
 

Conan Mocks Brian Williams By Inserting the Anchor Into World Events

Conan O'Brien poked fun of NBC's Brian Williams on the late Thursday/early Friday edition of his TBS program over his false Iraq War claim. O'Brien played a montage of the anchor's own footage from NBC Nightly News, but edited it to insert the journalist into news events from recent years – including having Williams fly the "Miracle on the Hudson" plane landing in 2009 and make the first ascent…
Matthew Balan
 

New Orleans Doc Mocks Dramatic Brian Williams Katrina Tales

The New Orleans Advocate is finding the locals skeptical about Brian Williams catching dysentery from Katrina flood waters. “I saw a lot of people with cuts and bruises and such, but I don’t recall a single, solitary case of gastroenteritis during Katrina or in the whole month afterward,” former city health director Dr. Brobson Lutz said. "I don’t know anybody that’s tried that to see, but my…
Tim Graham