Brian Williams on Tonight Show

[Skwmom]

I didn't see this anywhere else, sorry if it's already been posted.

Summary of what he said:

No matter who is sworn in, you have tears during the ceremony.
Cost of the Inauguration - The public has to pay for security, and as long as private donations are paying for the balls it's okay.
Rice not getting sworn in is just politics.
He likes it when the Democrats and Republicans can work together and get along.
The Bush twins are very well brought up young ladies.
His wife told him not to bring home any kids when he went to do the Tsunami story (or something along those lines) because she knows him (I guess inferring that he is such a kind, compassionate guy).

[DELUSIONAL]

1. did he still have his knee pads on?

[skylarmae]

3. sure sounds like it to me.

[The Zanti Regent]

12. Maybe Tom Brokaw gave Brian his pair.

I see no difference between Brokaw and Williams, both are practiced liars.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

2. This is my opinion of Brian Williams:

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Algorem]

4. he seems to like to wear "Bush blue" ties

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/essays/july-dec03/mudd_11-26.html ROGER MUDD: Not since George Schultz, Ronald Reagan's secretary of state, wore the same necktie four days in a row back in 1983, has there been anything quite like the blue tie phenomenon of the George W. Bush administration.

It's not that it's gone unnoticed, it's just that nobody has seemed willing to talk about it. That is until tonight. ( Cheers and applause ) ROGER MUDD: Not since George Schultz, Ronald Reagan's secretary of state, wore the same necktie four days in a row back in 1983, has there been anything quite like the blue tie phenomenon of the George W. Bush administration.

It's not that it's gone unnoticed, it's just that nobody has seemed willing to talk about it. That is until tonight. ( Cheers and applause )

The phenomenon began soon after the president's inauguration more than two years ago, when America's chief executive would show up from time to time wearing a tie whose color was unknown in Washington, D.C. -- not the familiar power red or the Ivy Leaguer's stripe or the diplomat's polka dot or even the bureaucrat's standard silk foulard, but a blue that seemed more at home on a teenaged girl's bedroom wall than on a necktie.

It was a blue that the paint store color charts might call "rock-a-bye blue" or "bassinet blue," and it was a blue that sent a signal: "I, George Bush, am from Texas. I wear cowboy boots. I wear blue jeans. I talk with a twang. But that doesn't mean I can't be sensitive once in a while

[bluestateguy]

5. Pretty Boy Williams

I guess I am the only person at DU with a favorable opinion of Tom Brokaw, but Williams has been a disappointment so far.

it's not that I think Williams is a stringent right winger--he comes from a Democratic family, and held a minor post in the Carter Administration--but I do think that Williams and NBC are trying to market themselves to Red State America by being a FOX-lite network.

Most of NBC's reporters are even worse: Robert Hager, Lisa Myers, David Gregory, Campbell Brown, Andrea Mitchell are all just nauseating. Martin Fletcher, however, does excellent work as a foreign correspondent. His talents seem to be wasted at NBC. He should at least move over to ABC where international news is valued a bit more, or maybe CNN.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

7. Disappointment doesn't even begin to express

how I feel about him. See my post above.

Last night, Thursday, he did a piece on Chimpy. It basically was about how politically connected Junior is. You know the fact that his grandfather Prescott Bush was a Senator, Poppy as CIA director, VP and Pres.

But what really got to me was they showed Chimpy at the Republican National Convention in August, 1972. I lost it.

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't that the time when Junior was to take his physical for the Texas ANG? I sent Nightly News an e-mail basically telling Brian if Chimpy had the time to attend the Republican National Convention in 1972, why couldn't he find the time to take his physical.

That one piece just summed up to me what is wrong with the corporate media in the USA.

I honestly think they're all cowed and intimidated by the BFEE and it makes me want to tear my hair out.

:argh: :argh:

[rainbow4321]

10. GE has a Pentagon contract, also....

There was a website that listed what companies had Pentagon contracts and GE was on the list...being the parent company of NBC it is probably thought that they don't want to bite the hands that feed them.

[glarius]

6. What scares me is that all the TV news people I have heard are describing

the Bush Inaugural speech as either "visionary"...or "thought provoking"....or "ambitious"...or other nauseating descriptions, rather than what it was....FRIGHTENING AND THREATENING!....I have not heard even one person say they thought Bush was being threatening....Are they all really that stupid?

[Benhurst]

8. Yes. NT

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

9. No, they're not that stupid,

they're intimidated. Look at what happened to Dan Rather. Need I say more?

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[katinmn]

11. just another ass kisser