"NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams has angered many military veterans for repeatedly telling a personal story of sustaining enemy fire in Iraq 2003 claiming a helicopter he was on was struck and forced down.

"Sorry dude, I don't remember you being on my aircraft. I do remember you walking up about an hour after we had landed to ask me what had happened. Then I remember you guys taking back off in a different flight of Chinooks from another unit and heading to Kuwait to report your "war story" to the Nightly News. The whole time we were still stuck in Iraq trying to repair the aircraft and pulling our own Security." - Flight engineer Lance Reynolds

Mike O’Keeffe, the door gunner on the damaged helicopter, also commented that Williams was a liar.



Let's get a few things straight, Williams is a news anchor not some Fox or MSNBC pundit paid to give an opinion, he is paid to report the news not become the news or inject himself in to the story and certainly not to make up the news by stealing valor.

So what do you think should he be fired? I think yes, he can't be trusted his credibility is the only thing about him that was shot down over Iraq.

Let’s see if he accurately remembers being blown off the air.

UPDATE 2/7: Williams off the air

“In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news, it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions,” Williams said in a statement to NBC staff. “As managing editor of NBC Nightly News, I have decided to take myself off of my daily broadcast for the next several days.”

In other words they pulled him off the air while they investigate all the video and hope people let the the story die down.

It's awful to make something like that up, especially for attention.

He should be sacked tbh.

The NBC online archive shows the network broadcast a news story on March 26, 2003, with the headline, “Target Iraq: Helicopter NBC’s Brian Williams Was Riding In Comes Under Fire.”

So yes 12 years but there are a few stories where he actually did tell the truth In a 2008 NBC blog post with his byline, he wrote that the “Chinook helicopter flying in front of ours (from the 101st Airborne) took an RPG to the rear rotor.” So he knows exactly what happened he just kept the lie going and told it one to many times.

If you are shot down that is something you never forget.

I don't understand what the motive of the lie was. How stupid.

Maybe it's 'cause I don't care about the military but I don't see the problem. He's in the entertainment industry, his job is basically to hyperbolate things to make them seem more exciting.

he's so gross

What I'm wondering is if Williams is going to be disgraced off the air like Dan Rather after the whole "Killian Documents" debacle or Lara Logan after Benghazi

I never liked him. Hopefully they use this to switch him out for Ann Curry or someone similar!

He's not an entertainer. His daughter, Allison is. Brian Williams is tasked with being a serious journalist and the credible face of NBC News.

He's not an entertainer his job is to report the news, not recount a more exciting version

He's not an entertainer, he's a journalist and this is incredibly disrespectful to people in our military who actually have been through things like this and worse.

Dan tried to torpedo Bush with those fake Killian memos it's clear he didn't do any due diligence considering the papers were clearly fake. Rather still claims he did not let politics in to his work.

Lara just was as guilty for not doing the basic background work, it's a shame because she is fearless but her mistake was epic and you can't allow something like that on 60 Minutes.

What Brian did is even worse.

This is extremely vile for him to do so. He should be fired, what kind of reporter lies about this for a decade and then claims it was a mistake?

How do you mistake being on a helicopter that was hit and forced down? Like bitch, you lie.

He should be fired and dropped in Iraq without any protection.

He looks so professional though professionals don't lie.

So gross, he should be fired. He can't be trusted to report the facts.

I'm sad! I liked him. Goodbye!

The irony here is that the Hillary Clinton woman y'all support LIED about coming under sniper fire in Bosnia yet you're probably A-OK with that (and also that story was covered by Brian Williams).