'Anchor to a drowning man’: Does Brian Williams really want THIS journo vouching for his integrity?

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.”

'Anchor to a drowning man’: Does Brian Williams really want THIS journo vouching for his integrity?

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