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We’re telling tales this week, tales about the effectiveness of vaccinations (with our guest Dr. George Savage), we parse Brian Williams’ tales of the Iraq War, about the minimum wage in San Francisco, about the evils of porn (h/t Ricochet member Merina Smith), even about Harper Lee’s new novel. It’s another Ricochet Podcast, and that’s the whole truth.
Music from this week’s episode:
White Liar by Miranda Lambert
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I just heard Brian William’s account of the story as he told it to David Letterman (another lying creep) and it just made my blood turn cold, then hot with anger. They liberal elites just _____ me off.
Gentlemen,
Let’s face it. There are lies, damn lies, and NBC.
Regards,
Jim
Alright, I’ve had enough. If Jon Gabriel is going to keep showing up on these podcasts, then someone needs to ask the question. Yes, speak truth to power…
Am I dreaming, or does Jon Gabriel sound just like Stephen Hayward? Is it because when Jon talks through a coffee cup, he sounds like Stephen? Or are they really the same person? I mean, just like Clark Kent/ Superman, you never see them together. What’s going on? The people have a right to know.
Yes. It’s available.
Brian Williams, as with Dan Rather, let the mockery and laughter never stop.
I had the exact same thought.
LOL: Dan Rather: Brian Williams Is An “Honest, Decent Man”
In this recently discovered engraving, Brian Williams put himself in grave danger by helping to draft the Declaration of Independence.
Yeti,
The idiot is defending the idiot. That’s one small step for the MSM and one giant leap for idiocracy.
Regards,
Jim
Brian Williams at an aid station after going “over the top” in WWI.
As distinct from the other times he’s gone over the top.
You guys shouldn’t be mocking Brian Williams.
He can call spirits from the vasty deeps. Worse, he can command the devil.
We don’t want to mess with that power.
Brian Williams really enjoyed the movie Selma because it brought back such good memories of his time marching with Dr. King.
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Barkha,
Yeessss!!!
Regards,
Jim
Didn’t Williams have a hand in the Patriots’ Super Bowl win?
I could have sworn I saw him intercept a pass at the end of the game.
Before the 1924 immigration laws, anyone could enter the United States, later applying for citizenship. But even in those days of open borders, when there were no illegal immigrants, some were rejected. Criminals, anarchists, those likely to become a public charge and those who were ill.
That worked pretty well
As Hinderaker wrote at Powerline, “Williams is not just an anchor, he is the Managing Editor of NBC Nightly News.”
I don’t know if NBC will fire him as they should. I don’t know if the network will apologize, as they should, for letting him perpetuate the lie for more than a decade. But I do know that I’ll have this story on hand anytime I meet someone who watches NBC. The viewers, and not just the network, should be embarrassed.
Nothing will happen to Brian Williams.
Speaking of Science and Brian Williams.
A NPR radio show yesterday afternoon had a Memory professor on explaining how Brian Williams believing his story was scientific fact. She spoke about how bad memory is and how based on her work in how inaccurate memories she thought he really thought he mistaking really believed he was shot down and to give him the befit of the doubt. In here scientific opinion it was possible he was lying but if you look how he slowly changed the story over the years she doubted it.
Yes now their is “science” to prove that if someone tells a factually incorrect story no matter how far from the truth it was, it is just you having a bad memory because science proves it not that you knowingly lied.
Aaron,
At long long last NBC News, have you no shame?!
Regards,
Jim
Gentlemen & Ladies,
Tom Brokaw wants Brian Williams fired
Well I guess this makes it ‘the right thing to do’. Massive fraud for personal gain being just business as usual in the news game.
Regards,
Jim
Rob is probably almost right about the real way to deal with ISIS. It will take Muslim states fighting to kill it to actually kill it. This however does not exclude our getting involved when they threaten our allies/interests/citizens.
Good to hear from Doc. Savage.
James is dead on about the backwards, superstitious nature of the Left. Republicans should hammer this loudly and often in the future. The Left’s knuckle-dragging, lick-it-to-make-sure-it’s-not-food, Moloch and Dagon worshiping anti-science attitude needs to be dragged into the daylight. Start calling them “Regressives” for crying out loud. That’s the accurate description.
[takes a minute to stop hyperventilating, tries to ignore frightened stares of the people in the library who just heard him shout this at the top of his lungs]
And then you went and mentioned “Logan’s Run”. Very interesting conservative point of that movie: Overpopulation, the justification for creating the mega-cities and creating the whole Sandmen/lifeclocks system is exposed to have been a LIE. It’s the subversive deconstruction of every left-wing liberal trope from the 70’s if you look at the message. Old age: good; monogamy:good; population control: an evil lie; worship of youth: evil (and unnecessary).
I wouldn’t say that. I called Brian and told him I was no longer going to fly him to the International Space Station in my gravitic drive galactic cruiser . . .
Now it seems strange when Rob does not interrupt a brilliant Lileks segue.
I have a question for people on Ricochet: we have seen either exaggerations or outright lies from many in the “ruling class” over the years including this incident, Hillary Clinton, Senator Blumenthal, John Kerry,all seeming to involve war. All appear to be coming from people on the left. I know Republicans do this as well though I can’t think of any off hand. Is this a tendency of leftism a tendency of the ruling elite, a tendency of modernity? I sometimes wonder if it is symptomatic of an age where people live such comfortable lives that there is nary a chance to prove bravery, a chance to showcase masculinity (though that does not explain Hillary, though I am sure jokes will be coming) that people feel compelled to exaggerate or lie in a Walter Mitty fashion.
Re: The minimum wage/San Francisco bookstore topic: After listening to the Ricochet podcast, I listened to a TED podcast wherein Nick Hanauer, a super-rich guy, was warning against the evils of income inequality. His bright idea to combat this scourge? Tax the rich and raise the minimum wage. Wow. Brilliant. I can’t believe no one thought of that before.
[sarcasm/off] Someone ought to explain to allegedly-smart Nick what happens when you raise the rich’s taxes and the not-so-rich’s minimum wage: The rich engage in tax-avoidance behavior (including moving out of the country) and the not-so-rich often find themselves out of a jobby-job.
Of course, Nicky advocated to the Seattle city council that they raise the minimum wage, so I’m sure there are science fiction bookstores closing in Seattle, too, as we speak.
This comes back to another point Rob made: Why do we place so much importance on wealthy people’s ideas? They are not necessarily wiser than anyone else. [cf: Buckley, Harvard faculty, Boston phone book]
So, Peter keeps skipping on us -is he well? Or is he just trying to get his book finished?
That’s Vol. 5 Number LI.
Re: the lies of Brian Williams, what troubles me most is his lack of humility towards the men and women that serve in our armed forces after he was given the privilege to work alongside them so closely. Rob mentioned the “missionaries ego.” Well, I’ve spent a lot of time with missionaries (and was one for a bit of time as an evangelical). While I was only overseas for a few years, I had teammates that had lived in extreme circumstances for decades. The more I learned about the challenges of life overseas, the or humbled I was by their sacrifice and generosity…and the more I felt that my experience was nothing by comparison. The fact that a guy like Williams who spends his life being glorified and held up has to seek even more glory and attention is gross. Why not rather say, “The little bit I risked showed me the greatness of their courage”?