Michael Moore has taken a break from attacking Chris Kyle’s memory to defend memory-challenged NBC News anchor Brian Williams.
Taking to his Facebook page, Moore expressed outrage that Williams is being held to any standard of truth-telling because, well, “Bush, Cheney,” etc.
All the lies that led us to war, and FINALLY we’re going to nail… Brian Williams???This is nuts. My Facebook post: https://t.co/1yGMa8Wqjs
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) February 9, 2015
Williams’ crime, according to Moore, is simply being “Faux Macho,” while the real criminals are everyone in the Bush administration and at The New York Times.
Sinners (that means you, too, Paper of Record of Judith Miller), put down your stones. Social media mob, put down your noose. Have the guts to go after the big cheese. Let Brian Williams get back to telling us about the next big storm that’s going to drop 3″ of snow on New York City and the exclusive report on the lost dog who made it home to help its handicap master.
Moore ends his post by defending Brian Williams’ character because, well, he covered Moore on his show after 9/11. Writing:
(Note: I don’t know Brian Williams personally, but I’ll say this about him: in the post-9/11 years, he did the nightly news hour on MSNBC/CNBC, and he was one of the few people in TV news who would allow an opposition voice such as mine on the air. I remember thinking this is a man with integrity.)
For the record, in the “post-9/11 years” cable news, particularly MSNBC, routinely had antiwar, anti-Bush guests on their airwaves. Code Pink and Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan were regular guests on cable news. They’ve faded into obscurity since the election of Barack Obama, no matter how many countries he bombed.
Here’s Moore’s entire statement:
Let’s see… So George W. Bush is now an artist and a painter & roots for dear brother “Jeb in 2016;” Dick Cheney now appears on many networks as a grumpy old man pundit; Condi Rice gets to be on the board that picks college football’s Final 4… but it’s Brian Williams who’s to be punished for Iraq? Are u effing kidding me? I mean, an entire country was demolished, trillions were wasted, thousands of our troops were killed & wounded, tens/hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed, and now, FINALLY, someone is paying for Iraq war lies… and it’s Brian fucking Williams????? Yes, there is much that can be said about all the network reporters in 2003 who were embedded (i.e., Pentagon-approved) with the troops and getting to “play war” instead of asking the Bush administration the hard questions THAT DID NOT GET ASKED, and yes there is much to say about how all the networks have dumbed down the nightly news and made it unwatchable… BUT – to let the real liars who were responsible for the Iraq War roam free while instead going after Brian Williams for committing the crime of Faux Macho due to his claim of being on the wrong chopper, well, this just begs to be ridiculed and stopped. Sinners (that means you, too, Paper of Record of Judith Miller), put down your stones. Social media mob, put down your noose. Have the guts to go after the big cheese. Let Brian Williams get back to telling us about the next big storm that’s going to drop 3″ of snow on New York City and the exclusive report on the lost dog who made it home to help its handicap master. (Note: I don’t know Brian Williams personally, but I’ll say this about him: in the post-9/11 years, he did the nightly news hour on MSNBC/CNBC, and he was one of the few people in TV news who would allow an opposition voice such as mine on the air. I remember thinking this is a man with integrity.)