Interesting . . . .
Fox News’ psychiatrist and columnist Dr. Keith Ablow has written an interesting article today. If you’re interested, you can read it here.
Yeah, it’s about Brian Williams and his apparent very public “liberties” with the truth. But I’ll be damned if I didn’t think of a few others we all “know and love” when I read it.
YMMV, of course.
Category: Reality Check, Shitbags, Usual Suspects
Ah, yes, Brian Williams. Or as I affectionately refer to him, Brian von Muenchhausen.
Does the “Liar’s Club” still give yearly awards? I think we have a contender.
Then he can tell us how he became a Champion.
You have a few thousand fools out there faking military service, and no one cares. Get one news reporting talking head faking the funk and suddenly it’s a national discussion.
Funny how that works…
That is interesting in regard to Bree’s histrionics and fabrications.
However, it doesn’t address the more serious problem of a lifetime of chronic, compulsive lying and blaming mistakes and failures on other people, or the increasingly sociopathic behavior of such an individual.
It doesn’t address the behavior of someone who had a good career, then became a sociopath who stiffed his own family and screams bloody murder at people who even mention them, screamed bloody murder at his employer, and regularly gets into conflicts with the law.
It does explain a drunken old fart who tells tall tales that are ridiculous and who can’t keep his balance on a sidewalk curb and falls into the gutter.
And it also addresses the desperation for recognition in someone who forges awards for himself, and when those aren’t sufficient, forges more and more, but can’t for the life of him remember the details of his own service.
That should cover everybody in the DRC klowndog krew.
Fuck Him!! I hope he has a total meltdown and offs himself, and he should take some of his “Talking Head” peers with him.
Lying bastards, the lot of them!
Interesting article to be sure, it appears it would apply to many people who tell lies from the fab four here to others who were well respected service members doing great things who chose to fabricate or embellish when they got home about stories of derring do in the aftermath of a natural disaster or at a filling station…why do so many Americans lie and lie so often about things that are easily verifiable? When our best and brightest are found to be among the liars as well as our worst and dullest what lessons do we learn as a society? For me it appears we’ve become a nation accustomed to lies and to liars. We’ve become accustomed to politicians who lie and we’ve chosen to forgive those liars on our side while castigating the liars on the other side as being somehow more immoral than our own liars based on what the magnitude of the lie itself? A liar is without truth or honor once the lie is told and continued. I don’t mean the little lies we all tell each day to be polite, I mean the lies the adulterers tell their spouses. The lies we tell our government on tax day to steal some our tax payments back, the lies we tell our colleagues about the work we are doing. The lies we tell our friends about our lives. We as a nation tell lies everyday in millions and millions of instances. One thing I’ve learned on this site is there is no end to the liars, from the tournament contenders to guys like Chris Kyle everybody lies. We admire some liars and castigate others. That means we lie to ourselves about what is acceptable. I appears to me that lying is as American as apple pie lately, and that if we are truly honest with ourselves and take that long ugly look in the mirror we see a liar staring back at us, and if we don’t we at least see someone who will forgive the liars he likes and condemn the liars he doesn’t which… Read more »
Veritas Omnia Vincit…Thank you sir. Well said. I do not when when our country took that left turn onto the road of lying, as an acceptable, excusable nature of behavior. I remember being taught as a boy the value of the truth, my word and my integrity. Intangible things meaningful to me and those who rely upon me. Things which once lost, or better said given away, are terribly difficult to restore. I must say I don’t understand the current state of our nation and society in this regard.
Sad, very sad.
We cops had a simple test we used to find out if someone was lying.
If their lips were moving, they were lying to us.
Of course, we were exaggerating, but not by much. It was amazing the shit people would lie about.
Let me explain the difference between a Neurotic, a Psychotic, and a Psychiatrist. A Neurotic builds castles in the sky. A Psychotic lives in them and a Psychiatrist collects the rent.
In general we have a need to make sense out of peoples actions. We attempt to apply some sense of reason and understanding to how others act. We look for things that could justify their actions.
Truth has very little to do with it. We all have those moments in our lives when we act in a manner that is repulsive. The words uttered to a spouse in anger, our failures as parents, or the friend we wronged.
Accountability is the measure of our character. Not only how we hold ourselves accountable but the manner in which we hold others accountable. Most notably, how we react to being held accountable.
We never enjoy swallowing our pride. When some refuse to swallow theirs, we often resort to the rectal application for the dose of humility. There are those that need this thrust of accountability from time to time. On occasion, there are those that need additional treatments to bolster their recovery.
We need to be vigilant in our application of accountability. Most of us are familiar with the story of the adulteress in scripture. When the harlot was brought before the crowd for stoning, Jesus was questioned about the punishment. Jesus said, “Let the one among you without sin cast the first stone”. There was a moment of silence. All of a sudden a stone is hurled from the crowd striking the woman and knocking her to the ground. Jesus turns to the crowd and instantly sees the perpetrator. He drops his head somberly nodding and says, “Mom, sometimes you can piss me off”.
We should expect the unexpected. Understanding why an act was committed does not negate the need to be held accountable. The method of administration is entirely up to the patient.
I will now return to my usual ass hattery. Semper Fi.
Well, it’s official: Brie-brie has been suspended for six months. My guess is that his suspension runs to the end of his contract, and it won’t be renewed. It’s NBC’s way of saving face by not firing him on the spot.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/nbc-news-suspends-brian-williams-for-false-iraq-helicopter-story/ar-AA9eu7i
My advice to Brie-brie is simple: take up writing novels, but make sure you label them FICTION. And go to confession. I hear it’s good for the soul… if you still have one. I suspect you sold it a long time ago.