#BrianWilliamsPopeStories = The best way to welcome Brian Williams back to mainstream media airwaves! https://t.co/yx741y9SOa
— Rachel Blevins (@RachBlevins) September 22, 2015
Hey, everyone. Serial fabulist and liar Brian Williams was back on the air yesterday, hosting NBC’s JV coverage of Pope Francis’ arrival in D.C. over on MSNBC.
And as you’d expect, his return to our television sets was quickly welcomed with the moctastic #BrianWilliamsPopeStories hashtag filled with anecdotes every bit as phony as the anchor himself. Here are some of the funnier ones we’ve seen:
#brianwilliamspopestories While he was off the air, he took a ghost-writing job & penned that climate change encyclical for Pope Francis.
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 22, 2015
#brianwilliamspopestories "And that's when I used my infallibility to explain evading death in Iraq."
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 22, 2015
#BrianWilliamsPopeStories Did you know he was grazed by the very same bullet that struck Pope John Paul II in 1981 in Vatican Square?
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 22, 2015
Is he going to talk about the time he & the pope took live fire in a Blackhawk over Iraq? #brianwilliamspopestories https://t.co/1Bp7qOZNvx
— Kate Thomas (@KatieOnTheRight) September 22, 2015
#brianwilliamspopestories Yes! And he sent the smoke up the papal chimney, too! https://t.co/GCZNt0TaNN
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) September 22, 2015
https://twitter.com/jimmiebjr/status/646421993248657408
You know the Pope Mobile? That was my idea. #BrianWilliamsPopeStories
— Jim O'Sullivan (@josullivan4) September 22, 2015
https://twitter.com/sheloveswinter/status/646428249292042240
https://twitter.com/JoeSta11ings/status/646430922338766848
https://twitter.com/RepRepublic/status/646433123605999616
When I was asked to come back to NBC white smoke cane out of the studio #BrianWilliamsPopeStories
— Peter P. Lackey, Jr. (@PeterPLackeyJr) September 22, 2015
"Really uncalled for@docdepotceo: The Pope told me how impressed he was when I walked on water during Katrina. #BrianWilliamspopestories"
— Jackie Colson-Miller (@JColsonMiller) September 22, 2015
That time I walked on water to save young Frankie from drowning when I covered Evita's wedding…#BrianWilliamsPopeStories
— Charles Eddins (@cmeddins) September 22, 2015
Dude, Brian and I burned a stick he told me @Pontifex confided that he was really coming to NYC for the Desnudas. #brianwilliamspopestories
— Bill de Blazeio (@MayordeBlazeio) September 22, 2015
The pope ran out of communion wine so I humbling offered my blood. #BrianWilliamspopestories
— Drip Dailey ?? (@DaileyOfficial) September 22, 2015
https://twitter.com/brakinggnus/status/646499100536532992
So I said, “Michelangelo, ‘Dogs Playing Poker’ is cute, but hardly appropriate for the Sistine Chapel…” #brianwilliamspopestories
— Mattphilbin (@Mattphilbin) September 23, 2015
When BW's talking about the Popes visit at one point says "well thats obviously an exaggeration but.." #Drinkspit #BrianWilliamsPopeStories
— Katie "Red Pickle" Jerkovich (@redsoutrage) September 23, 2015
https://twitter.com/TempoGT/status/646517400603639808
#brianwilliamspopestories "the pope and I actually walked from the Vatican to Washington D.C, we used the ocean as a walkway- my suggestion"
— PartyLange (@RobCarr24) September 23, 2015
I voted for the pope as a member of the conclave #brianwilliamspopestories
— Robert M Staples M (@RMStaples) September 23, 2015
'I taught him English!' #BrianWilliamsPopeStories https://t.co/oNocylKe6Y
— kcvinalpena (@kcvinalpena) September 23, 2015
https://twitter.com/TheRaytedex/status/646683743306969089
So I saw Judas Iscariot with the 30 pieces of silver, but never did I imagine this would happen! #brianwilliamspopestories
— Greg C (@calderone_greg) September 23, 2015
https://twitter.com/lou_jocks/status/646695378780299264
All hilarious!
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