WTH is wrong with Brian Williams?

[cilla4progress]

I know there is division here about MSNBC in general, but Williams is so extraneous, anchoring there. His comments are dim-witted and off topic. He adds nothing to the conversation. Why is he still working there, when no longer have Melissa Harris-Perry, Ed Schultz, and other more talented, informed journalists?

[SamKnause]

1. I don't know why MSNBC would hire a known liar.

That is why I don't get my news from MSM.

[AngryAmish]

19. Why would Comcast hire anyone who is not a liar?

They get paid to lie to you. They are good at it. That is why they get paid so much.

Don't be a mark.

[SamKnause]

20. I don't watch MSM.

He was put on 6 months suspension for lying.

I thought it was disgusting when MSNBC hired him.

[Demonaut]

33. which company suspended him? answer: "NBC"...internally moved to "MSNBC", same news corp...

He was lucky to "keep" his job

[SamKnause]

35. I am fully aware.

Sad isn't it.

Paid liars.

What a job.

[LiberalArkie]

2. Probably cost too much to buy out his contract or fire him.

Comcast probably will not renew his contract.

On edit: He may be screwing up in hope they buy out his contract.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

3. He's a drama queen.

A male Peggy Noonan.

[bbgrunt]

4. I never understood his appeal--he would probably make a good game show or reality show host

[Laxman]

5. He Is Lacking In Character....

and integrity. I also believe he is deficient in intellect as well. There are reasons why he fabricated stories and those reasons did not go away just because he was caught and suspended. He was stupid enough to think he could get away with it and unethical enough to actually do it. He's still the same guy.

[stopbush]

6. He's providing the comic relief, and he's actually good at it.

Rachel has something of an anchor crush on him these days.

[trumad]

7. He just reported that if there is a brokered convention...

He will get the nomination.

[madinmaryland]

10. Huh? Brian Williams will get the nomination??

Well, I guess he has more military experience than dRumpf has.

SMH

[trumad]

13. Actually...

He now is reporting that he's the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth and that he may be first in line rather than Charles.

[UTUSN]

8. I named him "the Wedding Cake Guy" years ago. He's flying without a parachute.

What I am now puzzled at is how Rachel and Nicole WALLACE and even ROBINSON yuk it up at everything he says. TODD appears to be trying hard to resist his "charm".

[cilla4progress]

14. I KNOW!

I don't get it...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. or Ken doll

[yortsed snacilbuper]

9. Nobody's perfect!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. love it. I think for one day I am going to just say "nobody's perfect"... Bet

I will be a whole lot happier by 5:00. thanks YS

[NutmegYankee]

11. Maybe he's ready for a career in rapping.

[Dont call me Shirley]

12. Company loyalty?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. Exactly DCMS ! He has a certain old-school gravitas air about

him. And, you can tell you are right on the money - because you can see all the others defer to him. So, despite his exaggerated truths that got him suspended - the NBC PTB still respect him.

On the other hand, he is just too stiff and controlled for cable news IMHO. He is so afraid he will be criticized again, he adds disclaimers in excess to everything he says. Like, "I may be wrong, so don't take this as the truth, but I believe it is Monday."

Think he would be much better suited to regular network anchor. He stiffles the better minds on MSNBC. Bet 75% of the public have no idea he was ever canned in the first place. Bet my mom and dad don't

[Dont call me Shirley]

25. He is probably mandated to be contrite for those who do know of his lies. As for the better minds on

Msnbc, most of them are gone, the rest toe the company line.

[Renew Deal]

15. Schultz was a bore. Perry was great at wonk talk, but she is not a desk host.

Williams seems to have a clownish quality, but it seems to work at MSNBC.

[Iggo]

16. He's a big fat fucking liar. (n/t)

[runaway hero]

17. that's just who he is.

some people just have wonky personalities.

[malaise]

18. Other than the fact that he's a shameless, self-serving

pathological LIAR???? Hmmmmmmmm

[yortsed snacilbuper]

21. Brian's cool!

[deathrind]

26. MSNBC...

Has not been worth watching since they got rid of Keith.

[valerief]

27. He supports the plutocrats. He doesn't have to be smart. nt

[tabasco]

28. The corporate propaganda networks are nothing but garbage.

Please, turn it off.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

29. PTSD?

Sniper fragments in his brain?

[SDjack]

30. BW is a known liar in his news reporting. His corporate bosses know that but don't

want to buy out his contract. BW wants or needs the paycheck, so he performs his TV assignments. It is painful for him, as he looks around at his co-workers and wonders what they are thinking about him. And, do the people in the TV audience see him without clothes, naked, with a tiny package?

[bbgrunt]

31. It's his eyebrows.....

like two halves of a perpetually opened draw bridge.

[tavernier]

32. I like him.

His exaggerations didn't bother me a great deal. If I was riding in a jeep in a country at war and everyone was shooting at each other, I would think a few misfacts could easily occur. Knowing myself, my recounted adventures after would rival Rambo.

I would have been much happier if NBC had not sold him down the river, and brought him back to face humiliation. Fox would never do that to OReilly who hasn't spoken an honest word in years.

[SoCalDem]

34. His mega-bucks multi-year contract

signed weeks before his "issue"..