{"id":59616,"date":"2016-12-09T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=59616"},"modified":"2016-12-09T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T19:54:09","slug":"now-we-know-why-fake-news-king-brian-williams-was-given-a-second-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=59616","title":{"rendered":"Now we know why &#8216;fake news&#8217; king Brian Williams was given a second chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"title\">NBC&#8217;s Fake News King Brian Williams Launches Crusade Against &#8220;Fake News&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>Now this is rich.\u00a0 Brian Williams, the <strong>disgraced ex-NBC journalist who was literally fired for falsely reporting that he was in a helicopter during the Iraq war that took on combatant fire<\/strong>, is now going on a crusade against &#8220;fake news.&#8221;\u00a0 On his MSNBC show last night, Williams decided to attack retired General Flynn and Donald Trump for spreading &#8220;fake news&#8221; via their twitter accounts.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>The retired Army 3-star general has passed on some gems himself.<\/strong>\u00a0 Here are a few&#8230;Flynn retweeted accusations that Clinton is involved with child sex trafficking and has &#8220;secretly waged war&#8221; on the Catholic Church, as well as charges that Obama is a &#8220;jihadi&#8221; who &#8220;laundered&#8221; money for Muslim terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As we talked about here last night, fake news played a role in this election and continues to find a wide audience.<\/strong>\u00a0 A BuzzFeed news study of Donald Trump&#8217;s own tweets where they followed back news stories to their root source found more of them came from Breitbart originally than any other single source.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid178544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kgMa-TUo6lM\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, we should probably just ignore that time Williams simply &#8220;mis-remembered&#8221; being in a helicopter taking on combatant fire when he was actually completely safe in a convoy about an hour away.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cI don\u2019t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.\u201d <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid638156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pCl4Y5-mfL0\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This pretty much sums it up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user230519\/imageroot\/2016\/12\/09\/2016.12.09%20-%20Brian%20Williams%202_0.JPG\" alt=\"Williams\" width=\"500\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, more breaking news from Williams&#8217; current employer, the beacon of impartiality and purveyor of &#8220;real news,&#8221; MSNBC.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking news from network that pays Brian Williams $10 million\/year<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/toK3WxAhBU\">https:\/\/t.co\/toK3WxAhBU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Burge (@iowahawkblog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iowahawkblog\/status\/807215489671950336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In conclusion:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user230519\/imageroot\/2016\/12\/09\/2016.12.09%20-%20Glass%20Houses_0.JPG\" alt=\"Glass Houses\" width=\"500\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-links\"><\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-12-09\/nbcs-fake-news-king-brian-williams-launches-crusade-against-fake-news\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-12-09\/nbcs-fake-news-king-brian-williams-launches-crusade-against-fake-news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC&#8217;s Fake News King Brian Williams Launches Crusade Against &#8220;Fake News&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}