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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
Sun Feb 8, 2015, 09:05 PM Feb 2015

Now doubts arise over Brian Williams' story about being mugged at gunpoint

Now doubts arise over Brian Williams' story about being mugged at gunpoint in his quiet childhood suburb where kids 'walked alone at night'
Locals in Red Bank, New Jersey, are questioning the credibility of claims by Brian Williams that he was threatened at gun point in the 1970s
According to a regularly repeated Williams tale, he was selling Christmas trees as a young man when someone 'stuck a .38-caliber pistol in my face'
Residents say the claims sound unlikely as Red Bank is a quiet suburb which was very safe in the 1970s
'I find it hard to believe anyone was held up in this area in the '70s. It was very safe,' said one local


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2944887/Residents-Brian-Williams-hometown-rubbish-claims-mugged-gunpoint-quiet-New-Jersey-suburb-kids-walked-night.html#ixzz3RCnxU0d4

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Now doubts arise over Brian Williams' story about being mugged at gunpoint (Original Post) Liberal_in_LA Feb 2015 OP
Daily Mail is a RW paper. Kingofalldems Feb 2015 #1
I believe the mugger asked him Capt. Obvious Feb 2015 #2
And then ... GeorgeGist Feb 2015 #4
Lol! nt cwydro Feb 2015 #6
I grew up in a quiet little suburb on the 70s marym625 Feb 2015 #3
He must have lied because that community was very SAFE! Chemisse Feb 2015 #5

Kingofalldems

(38,454 posts)
1. Daily Mail is a RW paper.
Sun Feb 8, 2015, 09:08 PM
Feb 2015

Anyway they could have searched police reports if they wanted to debunk this story.
What some guy says is not evidence.

marym625

(17,997 posts)
3. I grew up in a quiet little suburb on the 70s
Sun Feb 8, 2015, 09:24 PM
Feb 2015

And I was raped with a gun to my head.

Not going to question his story just because people think it's a quiet little suburb.

Chemisse

(30,810 posts)
5. He must have lied because that community was very SAFE!
Mon Feb 9, 2015, 05:30 PM
Feb 2015

Everybody there was good and kind; nobody was mentally ill, there were no drug addicts, and the whole town was fenced off from the world so nobody could've driven in from out of town and scared a young boy.

I think this is called 'piling on.'

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