If you’re embattled NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams attempting to save your career, who would you most like to see coming to the defense of your journalistic integrity? This is probably not the answer:
Dan Rather backs Brian Williams, says he's "an honest decent man" http://t.co/ObUte13vHy via @DylanByers
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) February 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/563399945773142017
Dan Rather, glad to have company in the disgraced journo status, runs to buddy up with Williams.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) February 5, 2015
If you’re Williams, any port in a storm will have to do:
#Break: Dan Rather backs Brian Williams, tells @POLITICO Williams is "an honest decent man," http://t.co/2Xh3OqgDev via @POLITICO
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) February 5, 2015
“Brian [Williams] is an honest decent man, an excellent reporter and anchor–and a brave one.” — Dan Rather http://t.co/xYF53bA2Fi
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) February 5, 2015
So Williams has the former CBS Evening News anchor tied to the Bush National Guard documents story for which four people at the network were fired on his side:
“I don’t know the particulars about that day in Iraq,” Rather told POLITICO. “I do know Brian. He’s a longtime friend and we have been in a number of war zones and on the same battlefields, competing but together. Brian is an honest, decent man, an excellent reporter and anchor–and a brave one. I can attest that — like his predecessor Tom Brokaw — he is a superb pro, and a gutsy one.”
Is Rather trying to help salvage Williams’ career, or finish it off?
Lying liars unite! RT @lachlan: Dan Rather comes to Brian Williams' defense http://t.co/IxRPSa4Fbb
— Melissa Mackenzie ? (@MelissaTweets) February 5, 2015
@lachlan Next up: Jayson Blair.
— Cody Derespina (@CDerespina) February 5, 2015
@lachlan Kiss of death for Williams.
— R. J. Montes (@rjmontesLC) February 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/IMA_CA_GOPer/status/563401947974086656
Wait. Is Dan Rather saying that Brian Williams has… "courage?"
— Seth (@dcseth) February 5, 2015
Fabulists of a feather… MT @Hadas_Gold Dan Rather backs Brian Williams, says he's "an honest decent man" http://t.co/U64B8qz9rQ
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) February 5, 2015
And he has a memo to prove it. MT @DylanByers: Dan Rather backs Brian Williams, tells @POLITICO Williams is "an honest decent man."
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 5, 2015
Thus proving that Dan Rather HATES Brian Williams. RT @politico Dan Rather backs Brian Williams http://t.co/ytF1Iu7nXt
— l?l (@laura_lrnzo) February 5, 2015
Some “help”!
Throwing an anchor to a drowning man RT @politico Dan Rather backs Brian Williams http://t.co/c1Jh1GvRZ1
— Michael Freeman (@michaelpfreeman) February 5, 2015
+1 for the double meaning.
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