Brian Williams to take hiatus
NBC anchor off the
air because he's become 'distraction'
Beleaguered “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams announced he is temporarily stepping away from
the show because, he said, it has become “painfully apparent” his
self-aggrandizing stories of questionable heroism are a distraction.
In a memo to NBC News staff released by the network, the
anchorman said as managing editor of “NBC Nightly News” he is taking himself
off the broadcast for several days.
NBC News declined to comment further. Williams, however,
said he would be back.
“In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news,
it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of
the news, due to my actions,” Williams said in his memo. “Upon my return, I
will continue my career-long effort to be worthy of the trust of those who
place their trust in us.”
NBC News President Deborah Turness said Friday that an
internal investigation had been launched after questions arose over Williams’
false on-air statements that he was in a helicopter hit by a rocket-propelled
grenade while in Iraq in 2003. Williams apologized for those statements
Wednesday.
But since then, the story has only grown – with new
allegations of similar tall tales.
Since Williams’ apology, questions also have been raised about his claim that he
saw a body or bodies in the Hurricane
Katrina floodwaters
that hit New Orleans in 2005.
His remarks in a 2006 interview drew suspicion because there
was relatively little flooding in New Orleans’ French Quarter, the area where
Williams was staying. A person at NBC confirmed that Williams stayed at the Ritz-Carlton,
which is in an area where a news photographer and a law enforcement official
said they saw bodies.
Ritz-Carlton
Robert W. Goelet was the chairman for the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, and Robert G. Goelet is his son.
Robert W. Goelet was the chairman for the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, and Robert G. Goelet is his son.
Note: Robert G. Goelet
is Robert W. Goelet’s son, a trustee
at the French Institute Alliance
Francaise, and a trustee at the American
Museum of Natural History.
Anne M. Busquet
is a trustee at the French Institute
Alliance Francaise, and an overseer at the Columbia Business School.
Henry R. Kravis is an overseer at Columbia
Business School, married to Marie-Josee
Kravis, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Marie-Josee Kravis is married Henry
R. Kravis, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), was a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Robin Hood Foundation.
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Tom
Brokaw was a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation, an anchor for the NBC
Nightly News, and is a trustee at the American
Museum of Natural History.
Brian Williams is
a director at the Robin Hood Foundation,
and the anchor for the NBC Nightly News.
Robin Hood
Foundation raised money for the Hurricane
Sandy relief.
Hurricane
Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund is a relief organization for Hurricane Sandy.
Mary Pat
Christie is the chair for the Hurricane
Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund, and married to the New Jersey state government governor Christopher J. Christie.
Christopher
J. Christie is married to Mary Pat
Christie, the New Jersey state
government governor, and a potential presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election.
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