BREAKING: NBC Anchor Brian Williams Lied About Body Floating By Hotel Room in Katrina?
February 5, 2015 by Charles C. Johnson
Embattled NBC anchor Brian Williams claimed in a 2006 interview with former Disney CEO Michael Eisner that someone he had met during Katrina later died. Williams also claims that a body was floating by his hotel room in the French quarter.
“When you look out of your hotel room — window, in the French Quarter, and watch a–a man float–float by face-down, when–when you see bodies that you last saw in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, and swore to yourself that you would never see in your country, I beat the storm,” Williams said.
Williams returned to it at the conclusion of his Eisner interview to stress his connection to the audience. “These are Americans. These are my brothers and sisters and one of them was floating by,” he said with emphasis and pathos.
This claim was hard to believe. In fact, there wasn’t much flooding at all in the French quarter, according to the New York Times.
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