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Feb. 6, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 6, 2015, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And looking at the audio sunbites here, it looks like we're going to start at the top.
Maybe number two, but it just follow my lead and everything will be fine.
Greetings, my friends.
Rush Limbaugh barely got everything I needed to get done done in time for the program today.
Major, major fun distraction going on this morning.
But we're here.
As long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where here is.
It's Friday, and you know.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
They also have that Brian Williams skit handing by.
I haven't had a chance to tell a broadcast engineer what I want when.
So I'm doing it in front of you people.
You know the one I'm talking about?
Good.
Good.
I haven't standing by it.
Open Line Friday, folks.
It's great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882 and the email address LRushbaugh at EIBnet.com.
I think in honor of the news, honor Brian Williams, I want to extend yet another aspect of Open Line Friday that I normalize.
I've never done this before.
I want to, you people, you can call here and you can make something up if you can lie about anything.
You don't even have to tell us what you really think about something.
You can call here.
You can share with us acts of heroism.
You can talk to us about the black family you saved at Target one afternoon.
Whatever you want to make it, you can talk to us about the illegal immigrant kid that you saved from measles.
And we'll never be able to do anything other than accuse you of lying.
We'll never be able to prove it.
But the point is, it won't matter.
It won't matter.
Tom Brokaw, this is funny.
New York Post today, Tom Brokaw wants Brian Williams fired.
You know, I saw that and I didn't believe it.
I mean, why would Brokaw dump on Brian Williams when he gave Dan Rather an awards dinner?
You know, when Dan Rather made up that whole thing about George Bush and the National Guard and Bill Burkett and those fake documents and so forth and Mary, whatever her name was, Mary, the CBS babe that also got canned, Mary Mapes, Mary Mapes.
Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings, to save the news.
I love saying that to save the news.
There isn't any news.
To save journalism, to spare liberalism, to circle the wagons, held his big awards dinner for Rather.
And then here comes Brokaw, according to New York Post, NBC's most revered narrative reader, is furious that Brian Williams is still in the anchor chair after he sheepishly admitted that he had not traveled on a helicopter hit by enemy sniper fire.
Guess what else, folks?
We've come to find out that Brian Williams' helicopter wasn't even in the formation that took the original fire.
He was an hour behind.
You know what else?
We've also now, because of some local New Orleans paper looking into things, Brian Williams during Hurricane Katrina was in a French quarter.
He's looking at his hotel room and he said he saw a dead body go floating by.
The only problem was there wasn't any flood in the French quarter.
If a body floating by, it would have been on bourbon.
But it wouldn't have been on floodwaters.
The local New Orleans publication couldn't have happened.
And A couple of other aspects of the Hurricane Katrina.
Like, what did Williams say he saw the dead body?
Oh, he said he got dysentery.
Said he ended up because he's doing such a courageous and heroic job covering the news that he ended up swallowing some of the flood water and he ended up getting dysentery.
So they've checked around.
They've asked.
They can't find anybody who had dysentery.
Not anybody.
Can't find a single person who had dysentery after.
This is starting to get pathological.
It's starting to get pathological, and the pathology here seems to indicate that we have a man who needs to be thought of.
He needs to think of himself as a hero, as a very, very brave, heroic guy, and he wants everybody else to.
Now, who knows from where that stems?
Is that just part and parcel of doing the news and establishing credentials?
You know, some of the predecessors, Brian Williams, I mean, let's face it.
They went to war zones.
They went to hurricanes.
They stood out there in snowstorms.
They risked everything, we're told.
They risked everything to bring us the news.
And Brian hadn't done any of that.
So he looks like he is making it up.
Yeah, not even the dogs got dysentery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
But Brian Williams said that he did.
So we've got some audio soundbites coming up, too, of drive-bys exactly as I thought would happen, circling the wagons and trying to protect the guy.
Even if Chuck Tutsis, you know, Chuck Tutsis, I know exactly how he feels.
Really, Chuck?
What does that mean?
You know exactly how he feels.
What have you made up?
I mean, what does that mean?
I know exactly how he feels.
Oh, maybe to be put on by everybody, to be under the glaring spotlight of scrutiny, which is where everybody wants to be in that business.
So anyway, NBC's most revered journalist, that would be Tom Brokov.
That'd be more revered than John Cameron Swayze, more revered than Chet Huntley or David Brinkley, more revered than John Tancelore, more revered than Lawrence Spivak, more revered than Milmon Rowe.
Last two guys hosted Meet the Press way back in the days when that show was what it was, like when Tim Russert.
Anyway, an NBC source said that Brokaw wants Williams' head on a platter.
He's making a lot of noise at NBC that a lesser journalist or producer would have immediately been fired or suspended for a false report.
Brokaw 74 was still a nightly news anchor when Williams came back from his Iraq expedition.
And an insider said he knew the story Williams later spouted was bunk.
Tom Brokaw and former NBC News president Steve Kappas knew this was a false story for a long time and have been extremely uncomfortable with it.
Allow me to interject something here.
And I made this point yesterday.
The drive-bys are trying to focus now on military people.
I saw it yesterday afternoon on CNN.
I've read a lot about it since then, last night and today.
And it's an audio soundbite said, all these media types are trying to apparently blame this on military people for not speaking up about it sooner.
Now, naturally, they are trying to shift focus.
They are trying to deflect everybody's attention.
Well, if this was so obviously made up, if it so obviously didn't happen, then where was the military?
Why didn't the military speak?
Do you ever stop think maybe the military has better things to do than worry about what's on the news?
You ever think maybe the military is trying in its own way to protect the dignity of this news organization?
My bet would be that the military, as much as I revere it and hold it in awe, understands tradition, manners, integrity, and so forth, and maybe roll the dice that in the war effort it made, let this thing slide.
It's inconsequential what we're trying to do, and let's not.
I mean, Williams was otherwise being somewhat favorably disposed to the war effort.
Remember, this is in the early days, 2003.
This is before the Democrats and the media decided they were going to try to destroy it and achieve defeat for us and the Bush administration.
It was back in the heady days.
Oh, man, Iraq, baby, war on terror.
Yeah, man, going off to war.
Back in those heady days, everybody's excited about it.
This is all before the big shift to destroy Bush, destroy the war, even try to secure defeat.
And maybe the military is being self-protective.
The real question is, if all these journalists knew about it, right here at NBC, Tom Brokaw and Steve Kappas knew this was a false story for a long time.
They've been extremely uncomfortable with it, the source said.
NBC News execs had counseled Brian Williams to stop telling the lie.
Another source at NBC said he's not going to be suspended.
He's not even going to be reprimanded.
He has the full support of NBC News.
He's too big to fail.
He's the face of the network.
Just to show you how things have changed in terms of honor, dignity, shame, honesty.
It's a new day, and a lot of those old traditional definitions are out the window.
My question is, if you're going to clamp down on the media and on the military and try to somehow blame them for not coming forward, well, how about all these journalists that knew about it?
How about all these, Tom Brokaw and these other people that knew about it from the get-go, knew it wasn't true.
Why didn't they speak up?
Now, it turns out that Brokaw now is denying that he wants Brian Williams fired.
And this, I must say, makes far more sense to me.
The Huffing and Puffington Post, former NBC nightly news anchor Tom Brokaw, pushed back today against reports that he wants his embattled successor, Brian Williams, to be fired for falsely claiming to have been aboard a helicopter, came under rocket-propelled grenade fire in Iraq.
Brokaw said in an email to the Huffing and Puffington Post, I have neither demanded nor suggested that Brian be fired.
His future is up to Brian and NBC news executives.
But the New York Post last night quoted NBC sources who said that Brokaw wanted Williams' head on a platter.
And also the media narrative reporter at CNN said that his reporting inside NBC, here's what we're being asked to believe.
Hey, you've got a media guy at CNN, Brian Stelter.
He started a blog.
He'd never done anything in the media, but started a blog.
The New York Times hired him.
After a while, CNN hired him away.
And now he's got sources inside NBC.
How the hell do I?
I don't have sources inside some other talk show.
I'll guarantee it to you.
I don't have sources inside some other radio station.
But these guys at CS reporting from inside NBC Has backed up the post story that Brokaw is furious.
So maybe Brokaw does want him out, but didn't want it known that Brokaw wants him out.
So now Brokaw is circling his own wagons.
But when you hear the soundbites coming, and we'll get to them quickly, we'll stay on topic here.
It's clear that the media types are circling the wagons.
I wonder, you know, here's the real question, Mr. Snerdley, the rest of you too.
We need to get a body watch on Deborah, what's her name, Turness, the NBC news president, the British babe, Deborah Furness or Turness, I forget Deborah Turness.
We need to have a spy on her because she might remember how she backed a Brinkstock truck up to Jon Stewart and tried to hire him for Meet the Press.
Well, Turness, here's another golden opportunity to get Stewart.
CBS got Colbert.
NBC could get Stewart.
So you're out there professing your love and admiration and your total unblinding support for Brian Williams.
You're secretly trying to hire Jon Stewart to do the news.
I mean, if you're going to have Jon Stewart host Meet the Press, what does that say about Meet the Press?
And what does it say about what the news has become?
And if it's not about numbers anymore, if it's all about bragging rights and getting the hippest dude, as Les Moonves said when he hired Colbert, well, here's a chance for Deborah Turness to make another run at Jon Stewart while everybody thinks Brian Williams is safe.
Keep a sharp eye, and you might have heard it here first.
I don't know if anybody else.
And we are back.
Rush Limbaugh on Open Line Friday.
Grab Sunbite 11.
This is interesting.
You know, yesterday I was having a little fun with this.
No, no, no, we're going to get to the Crusade stuff.
We're going to get to everything.
We always do.
In fact, I've got some things from yesterday that I really meant to get to that I didn't have a chance to.
Gruber, the guy who says that people, they had to lie to the American people who were too stupid to understand the brilliance of Obamacare.
He's now suggesting that fat people be taxed by body weight in terms of Obamacare, try to defray costs.
There's this big story Joel Gurkey had at National Review yesterday.
Senate Republicans are working to influence Supreme Court on Obamacare.
This is not a good story.
It's about how the Republicans have a plan to fully implement Obamacare, even if the Supreme Court strikes down the whole notion of federal exchange.
It's an incredible story.
And then we have, let's see, what else from yesterday?
Oh, yeah, this story on the Reformic Cons in the Wall Street Journal.
And talking about it, Ramesh Panuru, who is one of the ReformaCons identified, wrote a response to my take on this.
And his feelings, his feelings were hurt a little bit.
And so I'm going to do that.
In addition to the Crusades and the reaction people are having to Obama and that observation he made in the National Prayer Breakfast, that's what you would think it is.
But let's go to C-SPAN.
This is from this morning on Washington Journal, and the host is Peter Slin.
And he's talking about me.
This is the most talked about show in the country, most talked about host in the media.
And of all the things I said yesterday, this is what C-SPAN found curiously interesting enough to put out there and discuss.
Rush Limbaugh spent a lot of his show on Thursday talking about this issue.
And from the website, the rushlimbaugh.com website, Brian Williams should not resign his job as NBC narrative reader is the headline.
Here's a little bit of the transcript.
They're not newsreaders anymore, and there certainly isn't journalism going on here.
It's not just NBC, it's the whole drive-by media.
They're narrative readers, Mr. Limbaugh said.
You know, in the UK, they call them newsreaders.
You know, BBC, the news anchors, they're called presenters and newsreaders.
Here, they call themselves journalists, and they give themselves awards for bravery and courage.
And you know what?
I got to credit Peter Slen and C-SPAN.
They actually went to my website to find out what I said rather than relying on some liberal watchdog fraud website.
So thank you, Mr. Slin.
Thank you, C-SPAN.
But I'm not surprised they found that interesting.
Narrative readers.
That's a hey, folks, it's exactly what the news has become.
It's a daily soap opera, purpose of which is to advance the liberal agenda in America.
I don't even think that is disputable.
So here is Brian Williams.
They love revisiting Katrina, don't they?
The drive-bys just love going back to that period of time because they love using Katrina to hang Republicans.
And they hammer George W. Bush.
And they hammer the fact Republicans don't like people.
The Republicans are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes.
And so when Katrina flooded New Orleans, it was okay with the Republicans because the people that live there vote Democrat.
They love to go back and talk about Katrina.
But if they want to revisit Katrina, they may have to resign because it turns out a lot of what was so-called reported out of there probably was a series of big lies.
And I don't doubt that for a minute.
Here's Brian Williams from 2006.
This is Michael Eisner, the former Disney CEO, interviewing Brian Williams.
He said, your change after Katrina was clear to me.
All of a sudden, it was no longer Tom Brokaw, it was you.
Something must have happened down there that you were no longer in waiting to go on stage.
You were the stage, Brian.
What was it in New Orleans that you saw that matured a mature man?
When you look out of your hotel room window in the French quarter and watch a man float by face down, when you see bodies that you last saw in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, and swore to yourself that you would never see in your country.
I beat that storm.
I was there before it arrived.
I wrote it out with people who later died in the Superdome.
Why didn't, well, if they did, why didn't you take them with you?
If people died in the Superdome and you didn't die, why did you take them with you, Brian?
I've often wondered about these people like Sally Struthers.
They go over to sub-Saharan Africa and asking us to send money for hungry people.
And I'm shouting, Sally, I'm sure you brought a caterer with you there.
Why don't you feed him?
Give him your pimento cheese sandwich or something.
Anyway, I have to take a quick time out here at an obscene profit break, but as you always know, there's much more.
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So here's the former Disney CEO interviewing Brian Williams.
I don't even know what the event was, but Eisner wanted to know.
So, Brian, what happened, man?
Your change after Katrina, man, that was clear to me.
And when you got back from Katrina, man, I saw a different guy.
I saw a guy, I saw a guy who was maturing.
I saw a mature guy, Brian, who had been, he'd matured even beyond maturity.
That's what Eisner said.
Eisner was really laying it on the thing.
Boy, Brian, I am really impressed.
You go down to Katrina.
You saw a bunch of suffering.
You saw a bunch of destruction.
How did that change you?
This is so part and parcel of the ingredients necessary to be a good news reader.
Have to have this myth about you that you have seen suffering and that you can't abide it.
And that when you saw suffering, you had to go into journalism so that you could call attention to the suffering.
Because the suffering is incomprehensible.
And the suffering is insufferable.
And the suffering is intolerable.
And so, this is my exact point about liberalism.
Okay, so you see suffering.
This is why it's such an easy thing to do to be a liberal.
You see suffering and you go where it is and you tell people what you're seeing.
In this case, he made it up.
But nevertheless, you go watch people suffer.
You point out how they're suffering.
Then you point fingers of blame at the Republicans if you want to put icing on the cake.
And tell everybody how rotten it is, how sad it is, how unfortunate it is.
And how can this possibly be in our great country?
Oh my God, look at this suffering.
You don't actually do a thing about it.
You don't actually solve anything.
You just go look at it.
And then you tell people how bad it was.
And you tell people how moved you were.
And then guys like Mike Eliza come along and say, man, you blew me away.
You've just really matured, Brian.
And all of this is just play acting.
It's PR.
It's buzz.
It's symbolism over substance.
As I say, pick your journalist and pick your episode of suffering and ask yourself, what do they do to solve it?
They don't.
They advance a political agenda when they see suffering.
They blame their political opponents for it.
They blame the Republicans or they blame talk radio or they blame whoever is the villain of the day.
And they look at the suffering and they wring their hands and they chide all of us.
How dare you allow this to happen?
How dare we permit this to happen?
I can't believe I'm watching this in the United.
I look at that dead body floating down the river there, face down in the French quarter.
Except that didn't happen.
But it sounds really good.
And then after I saw the dead body, oh my God, I got dysentery.
Oh, geez, did I suffer too?
I suffered so much when I brought you the suffering.
Never mind that nothing was done.
That's how you get your chops in the news.
And so Eisner says, wow, man, you really, really, really impressed me when you chronicled all of that suffering.
But nothing happened.
And it's classic, folks.
You know, I first became aware of this tactic, and that's what it is.
It's a tactic, and I think it's probably taught in journalism school.
I first became really aware of this tactic when I was in Sacramento.
It would have been 1984, 1985.
It was Thanksgiving afternoon.
Sacramento is in the Pacific time zone.
So the football games start at 9:30 in the morning and 1.30 in the afternoon.
There was no Thanksgiving night game then.
So the late afternoon Thanksgiving game is at 1.30 on the left coast, which is when a lot of people are doing Thanksgiving.
The news networks that were not covering the football games all sent their local reporters to the homeless shelters.
And at halftime of the football game, they cut away to local news and they took us to the homeless shelter.
Now, here are people gathered around their Thanksgiving tables.
And in the middle of halftime, we get a local news story of an infobabe or an anchor, a reporter at inside the homeless shelter, watching dirty, filthy, sad, homeless people being fed by the courageous standing in line at the food kitchen, and they're stuffing food in their mouths like they have not eaten in days.
And the infobabe or the reporter looks at us and essentially, how can you sit there in the middle of the football game and be enjoying your Thanksgiving dinner when these people, a few miles away from you, are suffering and are starving.
And their Thanksgiving is to sit around a bunch of fellow hobos in a homeless shelter and they guilt trip you.
While you have nothing to feel guilty about, you're at home with your family or wherever you are, and you're watching the game, the halftime newscast.
And that's when I first became aware of this tactic.
And it predates this.
I'm just telling you when I first learned about it.
I've been taking classes at the School of Liberalism all my life.
And I can tell you various days I learned and had epiphanies.
And this was one of them.
And this is how they do it.
It's where I evolved my belief that liberalism is the most gutless thing you can do.
You don't have to solve it.
All you've got to do is sat like you're really troubled by what you're watching and then be able to blame the right people for it.
Do you know that Brian Williams' coverage of Hurricane Katrina won NBC News the coveted DuPont Columbia Journalism School Award for Journalism?
Did you know that?
They're not going to give it back, but they won an award.
This is exactly what happens.
Nothing that was reported was true, or very little of it was.
There certainly wasn't a dead body floating down a river in the French quarter because there wasn't a flood in the French quarter.
But this is how it works.
So they get awards for this, but they never solve anything.
Never is anything ever done about any of this that we are shown.
Nope, we're just blamed for it.
For not caring, for not paying high enough taxes, for voting for Republicans.
The Republicans are blamed because they're cold-hearted, mean-spirited extremists that only want tax cuts for the rich, you know, that dribble.
And that's how they do it.
And it looks like Brian got caught in the midst of, shall we say, exaggerating a bit the suffering that he saw.
And so now there are all kinds of people looking into as much video as they can find and trying to find other examples.
And so the real question is going to be, what's NBC going to do?
Now, in the real world, he'd already be gone.
In the old, real world where people really cared about their reputation.
I'm talking about NBC News, cared about their reputation.
If your business is the news, and if you are competing with other networks in the news, and one of the ways you try to get more viewers than anybody else is that you're right, you're first.
You are trusted.
Your news division has credibility and integrity and honesty.
If you believe in all that, and that's what you tout, and this comes along.
The old days, John Chancellor would not have survived this, neither would Brinkley or Huntley, but Brian's too big to fail.
There's a now it's as competitive.
We talked about yesterday that the news media no longer has a monopoly like it did back in the days, Huntley Brinkley and Chancellor and those guys.
Now they're openly competing in the news business with us here and others in the alternative media.
And that competition has changed everything.
Do you think the New England Patriots would bench Tom Brady if it ever is proven that he deflated the footballs?
Well, then do not expect NBC News to cap Brian Williams here.
It's the same thing.
It's this doesn't matter.
Integrity game, all that sort of stuff.
If the Patriots would not bench Brady for if he's ever found to actively orchestrated the deflation of those footballs or whatever, if he was behind Spygate, I don't care what it is, you know they would never bench Brady.
They wouldn't have, the Patriots wouldn't.
And the league, you know, would they suspend him?
No.
The news is a game.
That's my point.
The news is a competitive enterprise now.
They've always wanted to be immune from bottom line concerns.
They've always wanted to be immune from the traditional notions of competition and business because they thought their mission was so far more important than those silly little concerns like earning a profit.
Don't kid us.
Profit?
We're bigger than profit, they always thought.
But it's just in the era of media competition now, they're not going to allow their quarterback to be taken out of a game like this.
They'll find ways.
Look for, make a prediction, look for reports in days ahead of other anchors at other networks doing the same thing.
Not to embarrass or get those other anchors in trouble, but to create the impression: hey, everybody does it.
And so what?
So what?
Nobody got killed.
Nobody died.
Just a helicopter.
This is some guy floating down the river.
You know what happened somewhere.
Even if it wasn't China, there was a guy that day probably floating dead down a river somewhere in the world.
Okay, it wasn't New Orleans, but it happened.
We all know what happens.
And they'll find some example of pick an anchor, Info Babe, making the same things up or different things up about a different kind of story.
And they'll try to say at NBC, everybody does it as a way of taking the focal point away from Brian Williams.
Mark my words.
It's Open Line Friday.
And remember, in case you were not here when I introduced the program today, in honor of Brian Williams and NBC News, you can lie about anything you want today.
You can call here and share with us stories of great courage and bravery.
Feel free.
Make it up.
Be creative.
Have fun with it.
Try to sell it.
See how good you are at it.
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This is Philip in Sugartown, Ohio.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
I was listening to you yesterday and somewhat today, and you seem like you're making this a contemporary phenomenon that reporters would lie when, in fact, this has been going on for as long as I've been alive and reading or watching the news.
You had Edward R. Murrow going after Joseph McCarthy, completely unjustified.
You had the New York Times and their coverage of Stalin's kangaroo trials.
You had Edward R. Murrow saying the war is lost after the pet offensive, in which we kicked everybody's rear end.
That was Cronkite.
Yeah, Cronkite.
Yeah, Edward R. Murrow.
Oh, Edward R. Murrow with Joseph McCarthy.
Right.
So he had these.
I don't think it's a contemporary problem.
Probably have, if there's been a consistent theme more than any other topic on this program for the last 27 years, it's been the media.
So, no, I'm fully aware that the media is not news, that it isn't journalism, that it really isn't even reporting.
My creative ways of describing what I think it is change, but the Brian Williams example is just the latest, and it's one of the most glaring.
It's right up there with Dan Rather making up a story about Bush and the National Guard.
Bush, or rather, that's the one time, the one egregious error of his that we know.
I don't know how many others, but this, there's more than one example here with Brian Williams.
But no, I'm sorry that you have the impression that I think this is something that's never happened before, because I clearly think the exact opposite.
I know, I've chronicled every step of the way for 26, 27 years here.
But the events that you talk about, like you mentioned, Edward R. Murrow and the New York Times ignoring Stalin and the famine and all that.
Those were not eyewitness accounts.
Making up a reporter inventing, making up eyewitness accounts.
That's something that doesn't happen every day.
Sure, the media is pro-Soviet.
Yeah, they stood aside while Stalin conducted his famine, and the New York Times got a Pulitzer for ignoring it.
And I know the McCarthy, I don't know all that.
But this is a guy who said he was somewhere and this happened and he wasn't and it didn't.
In numerous occasions, on numerous occasions, in different places.
You know, the media would have you believe that Ferguson, Missouri happens every day, multiple times a day, right?
Well, this really does.
This kind of stuff in the media, making it up, shaping it, doing a narrative.
This happens every day.
This just happens to be a little bit glaring because it is an eyewitness account.
A reporter has made up an eyewitness account.
And it is somewhat new.
Here's, let's see, grab number 12.
This is Brian Williams after the, no, I played that.
Here's Howard Kurtz.
This is what was next.
Howard Kurtz, number 13.
This is on American Newsroom on Fox today.
And Jamie Colby is talking to Kurtz.
That statement, pretty dramatic.
You said you were with him.
You saw where he stayed.
You believe the story about seeing a dead man floating in the river at Katrina?
I have no way of knowing whether that particular anecdote is true or whether he embellished it.
He has told it to me.
I was not there at the time of the storm.
This was some months later.
He's treated like a hero there because he won so many times that he really was emotionally invested in that story.
I do think, you know, NBC with its no-comment stance almost has to stand behind Brian Williams because he is the face of the news division.
He is the top-rated anchor.
He is a bankable star.
He's almost too big to fail.
So there young Howard Kurtz said there's no way they can get rid of him.
He's too big to fail.
He's the face of the network.
And they're not embarrassed, folks.
I mean, they may be behind the scenes, but not like you.
Not like you.
But did you hear him?
Did you hear this?
Is my exact point?
He's treated like a hero there because he went so many times.
He was so emotionally invested.
Yes.
And what was his emotional investment?
He gazed upon suffering.
Oh my God.
And it really hurt.
And then he told us about it.
When he left, the suffering were still suffering.
Maybe even worse.
But he was emotionally invested.
So he's better than us.
They can't get rid of it.
No.
Get this, folks.
NBC News ran an ad back in October 2014 that began by saying Brian Williams has seen things he can never forget.
Tell you, I know that.
I know what I'm doing.
Let me see if I can.
It's a YouTube link.
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