Sunday, December 19, 2010

NBC's Brian Williams wins an award

It the time of year again for the Media Research Center to issue its "best of" awards for news coverage.  In the category of "The Poison Tea Pot Award for Smearing the Anti-Obama Rabble," this clip of NBC anchor Brian Williams earned runner-up status:
Transcript:
“It makes people feel better to say ‘Take our country back.’ If you ask them, they would say from, ‘from the Trilateral Commission, from the big bankers, from the Council on Foreign Relations.’...You see a lot of signs, ‘Federal Government Out of My Social Security,’ ‘Federal Government Out of My Medicare and Medicaid,’ but for the federal government, of course, those programs would not exist.”
— NBC’s Brian Williams talking about the Tea Party on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman, August 23.
What struck me about this particular quote is the contrast between (a) Williams' position as Managing Editor of NBC Nightly News, a position which should give him some familiarity with current events, and (b) the not merely uninformed but also downright delusional nature of his claims about Tea Party issues.

NBC = Never Been Correct ?

PREVIOUSLY on delusional Democrats:
A delusional reporter questions an incoherent President
Obama: "I am confident we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth."
Paul Krugman and imaginary crises
Obama: offshore drilling "absolutely safe"
Liberals longing for "imaginary golden age"
Bollinger's delusion and the madness of liberals
Seeing imaginary crises
When practiced by Democrats, professor says partisanship is good
Obama campaign or religious revival
Democrat believes Bush intended for Katrina to devastate New Orleans
Liberal imagines that her enemies are pro eating disorders

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