“Bri, why? Why Bri lie? Sigh. Were you Bri high?”
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart weighed in on Brian Williams’s admission that he misled the public about his experience covering the war in Iraq.
Stewart recapped the scandal for his viewers, explaining how in 2003 Williams reported that the helicopter ahead of the one he was in was almost blown out of the sky by a rocket-propelled grenade. Ten years later, during an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, Williams said two of four NBC helicopters, including the one he was in, were hit. In 2015, on a segment of Nightly News, Williams "stuck with the more interesting, work shopped version," Stewart said.
Explaining how the story changed from a news report to a late-night appearance, Stewart said, “the truth of what a reporter is saying is on the direction their face is turned.”
"News story."
