Brian Williams? Don't Give Whitey A Second Chance

Sorry, but you know it's true. If the situation were reversed, there would be HOWLS.

"Oh, the Black guy makes a mistake and you find an excuse to suspend him, and then you won't give him his job back. And it goes to the WHITE GUY. Wahhhhhhh!"

Instead, White Brian Williams got suspended, doesn't get his job back, and everyone's happy a Black guy has it now.

Wha hoppen?

Brian Williams got too full of himself. He used the editorial "we" in anecdotes about a plane ride he took in a war zone. "We took enemy fire," he said, when it was actually the plane in front. So?

"We" can still refer to "US AMERICANS."

Give the man credit for risking his life AT ALL. Over at ABC, Diane Sawyer, the twat, NEVER got into a plane in enemy territory. At CBS, slow-talking senile Scott Pelley can barely get out of a taxi.

But the more Williams re-told it, the more obnoxious he got. He began to invent details about how HIS plane got hit, which it didn't. He mentioned this on Letterman's show and several pilots protested and the Williams-haters (a significant group!) picked up on it.

He was gleefully flayed as "lyin' Brian." In this laughable world of MEDIA BULLSHIT, people actually had the nerve to declare that he had "compromised" the news. NBC put him on suspension for half a year (that's FIVE MILLION BUCKS lost!) and in came a nerdy black guy, the chocolate Clark Kent, the charisma-challenged Lester Holt.

Six months later, NBC has decided to KEEP Lester Holt. Williams gets demoted to MSNBC Cable, far, far away from the glamor of NBC itself.

In a world loaded with piracy, adultery, perversity, and the most insane, crummy shit on the news every fucking day, a newsman gets his "morality" questions for bragging too loud. FUCK OFF.

Williams is a wiseguy, no question, and not easy to like. Hardly any news anchors are, anymore. We've gone well beyond the days of Walter Cronkite.

Williams was a regular with Letterman and Fallon, doing his prepared wisecracks, and being fed easy questions to quip with. He fancied that he might become a late night host, and not just a guy who reads the news.

It's pretty obvious why "Life of the Party" Brian embellished A news item, but many have done it and gotten away with it.

NBC grinned. Lester Holt's ratings have held steady; it's not the person, it's the habit. Who knows, in redneck parts of America where they don't have cable, it comes down to whether NBC comes in clearer on the wire coat hanger than CBS or ABC.

Why take flak for bringing back Williams when you can stay with the BLACK GUY, and the ratings are the same? Williams has sent a message to everybody in the industry that "You don't need to pay TEN FUCKING MILLION DOLLARS for some talking head asshole to read the news from a TelePrompter."

I just wonder about the race card. Don't we? It's one of the BIG deals everywhere we go. Everyone has to prove they aren't racist. Everyone has to embrace DIVERSITY. Everyone has to hate their own skin (to the point of Rachel Psycho identifying as "black" and joining the NAACP). You can bet when Williams had to leave, NBC's suits shouted, "OK, we can't have another white guy (no matter how talented). Do we go with black, woman, or black woman?"

Lester Holt, born at the right time. And to take HIS job away would be Rayyyyyyy-cist.