Brian Williams Suspended Without Pay!!!

See what you get for fabricating the truth? NBC reported Brian Williams Suspended Without Pay after he got BUSTED lying about his war story.

This guy should be ashamed and he should have been fired unless the network already knew about it hmmm. Check what is being said and done.

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Here’s the tea on Brian and his bogus story:

Beleaguered NBC anchor Brian Williams has finally been suspended without pay amid a firestorm of criticism over false claims he was inside a helicopter that was gunned down over Iraq.

Williams, anchor and Managing Editor of the flagship Nightly News show, had been under fire for 11 days after being called out on the overblown story by indignant veterans of the 2003 invasion.

Bosses at the network finally acted after deciding Williams’s own decision to remove himself from anchoring for ‘several days’ was not enough.

In a note sent to NBC staff, Deborah Turness, the president of NBC’s news division, described his puffed-up retellings of events from 2003 as ‘wrong and completely inappropriate’.

In the mean time Lester Holt, who has already covered two broadcasts for Williams, will sit in the Nightly News anchor’s chair.

The scandal began on January 30, when Williams repeated an often-told anecdote about being on board a Chinook helicopter during the 2003 Iraq invasion.

He said that he was on board a chopper which got hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and was forced to land. In fact, he was on a completely different helicopter.

After being called out on the tall tale by veterans who objected to his glory-grabbing, Williams issued an on-air apology – and said he had been in a ‘following’ helicopter.

This detail too came under scrutiny, and it emerged his chopper had been part of a different mission and was around half an hour behind.