A Personal Opinion on the Brian Williams Debacle:

By Robert Janicki

Put aside Williams' charm, personality and sense of humor, and his occasional self deprecation for the moment, and look to Williams the journalist and then pivot to his second and possibly greater role as a celebrity.

This celebrity role of Williams, seems to have eclipsed his role as a journalist. Somewhere along the line in time, Williams' celebrity overtook his role as journalist.  I have seen Williams appear many times on various late night broadcast TV or cable TV comedy shows. He has all the tale telling requisites and timing of the very best comedians of our time. He could easily be another Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart.

And that seems to be the genesis of Williams' conflict between celebrated TV news anchor and multifaceted celebrity across a greater social spectrum. Williams, at some level in his role as journalist, may have believed that he was running out, or coming up short, of heroic and self aggrandizing stories to enhance his dual role of journalist and, by association, his celebrity and needed more and greater tales to perpetuate his celebrity persona, if not his role as professional journalist and top ranked news anchor position.

It seems that being the top broadcast network news anchor was not enough to feed his alter ego of celebrity. Williams needed to expand his celebrity and that's when he went over the line of reality and into a world of self delusion of some sort. Either Williams is self delusional or he purposely has tried to delude the public to enhance his persona.

Is Williams a narcissist? I don't know, but I do know that people that live in those higher reaches of celebrity have at the very least, elements of narcissism. All one has to do to substantiate this assertion is to look to Barack Obama and his complex makeup of narcissist behaviors. Looking to the future as it rolls around in six months, I cannot see Williams coming back as the anchor of the NBC Nightly News and here's why.

Expect many more of Williams' lies and fabrications to pop up as every amateur sleuth turns up video clips on what will turn out to be an avalanche of previous prevarications, fabrications or misstatements by Williams. It will happen. Some will be inconsequential and others will have greater substance and significance. Time will not be kind and forgiving for Williams. Quite the opposite will be true, as more of Williams' prevarications come to the light of day and are published for all to see.

The problem for NBC is not just a matter of having the public forgive Williams, as much as it is having the public forget Williams' serial lying over more than a decade. I think that may well be a hurdle too high to overcome.

Jon Stewart announced that he is leaving Comedy Central by the end of the year. Maybe Williams can pickup that gig. He certainly has the comedic skills of telling tall tales.

It's Okay if You're Not Old Enough to Get It.....

Mr. Flanagan's Resume'

Word on the Street: Allah Ran Out of Virgins Long Ago

ISIS Running Low On Suicide Bombers....

Daily Mail: 

"The Islamic State is experiencing a shortage of suicide bombers after dozens of fighters deserted the terror group or defected to rival militias.

Reports from inside the ISIS-stronghold of Raqqa claim that a rebellion among a 'martyrs battalion' is a severe blow to the ISIS leadership who recruit foreign fighters for their suicide operations.  According to the respected anti-ISIS activists, Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, ISIS has seen dozens of militants earmarked for suicide operations flee the battlefield or defect to other groups.

The news comes after ISIS was forced to admit defeat in the key battle for the northern Syrian town of Kobane, where it deployed many suicide bombers in what turned out to be a lost cause...." 

If You Still Doubt We Are Being Led by an Idiot…. Read This.

Iranian Nuclear Weapons are Against Their Religion

"The issues now are sufficiently narrowed and sufficiently clarified where we’re at a point where they need to make a decision. We are presenting to them in a unified fashion, the P5+1 supported by a coalition of countries around the world are presenting to them a deal that allows them to have peaceful nuclear power but gives us the absolute assurance that is verifiable that they are not pursuing a nuclear weapon.

And if in fact what they claim is true, which is they have no aspiration to get a nuclear weapon, that in fact, according to their Supreme Leader, it would be contrary to their faith to obtain a nuclear weapon, if that is true, there should be the possibility of getting a deal. They should be able to get to yes. But we don’t know if that’s going to happen."  --- Barack Obama

See video of him actually speaking these words Here

Who Said Joe Biden Doesn't Answer His Mail?

* The original idea for a personal form letter was totally stolen from Steve Martin.
But he's dead, so he will never know.

Pat Caddell: “Republicans are wusses,” and Democrats “dictator to the common man.”

"The country is at a tipping point, “a pre-revolutionary moment,” where citizen power is eroding while Washington is absorbed with keeping its own power."-  Pat Caddell 

 More people should listen to the famed Democratic political strategist Pat Caddell.  He's right on the money in many respects when he compares Washington DC to Vienna in 1914.  An ossified, self interested capital city which is out of touch with reality. This while the hinterlands rumble with discontent.

Caddell blames both parties.The Republicans won’t stand for anything, funding Obamacare and refusing to hold the president's feet to the fire in the face of obvious and deep corruption. Concurrently the Democrats have embraced special interests even more than in the past and have come to reflect a non-working class (perhaps anti-working class when it comes to illegal immigration) while supporting a president who is clearly out to lunch and Caddell thinks, dangerous.

He's a sane voice in an insane town.

Washington, and Republicans in particularly would be wise to heed Caddell’s warnings. People are fed up with the political class and things are going to change whether the establishment likes it or not.

You can see an interview with Mr. Caddell and what he has to say Here

A Good Monday Morning

Happy Birthday Kim Jong Un

The North Korean Bureau of Middle Finger News Service

(MFNS - Pyongyang) - Today, February 8th in the year of their Supreme Leader 2015, the People of North Korea came together to celebrate the birthday of DPRK Leader Kim Jong-un. While the actual date of his birth is disputed, (some say January) Kim himself sets the date every year, and this year he chose today. 

The Supreme Leader rose early Sunday for his short daily walk to the Pyongyang  Thought Criminal Re-education Academy and back, and then a hearty breakfast before tweeting a birthday announcement to the world......

Because of the guidance and fatherly leadership of Kim, the prosperous North Korean people were able to give lovingly to a secret restoration project on portions of the People's Palace, as a birthday present to Kim.  Dear Leader was not expecting what was in store for him on this years birthday.....

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same.....

Google Earth Pro, Once $300, is Now Free

You can get it by going to this location and noting the download link and the license key: Google Earth Pro Account Self-Service

h/t vanderleun

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Brian Williams Reminisces........Updated

Brian Williams Interviews Mark Twain 

 

Brian Williams in Munich

Brian Williams at the D-Day Invasion 

30 Seconds Over Tokyo - Brian Williams with the Doolittle Raid

Brian Williams on the Grassy Knoll

Brian Williams at the making of Sgt. Peppers  

Brian Williams at the Moon Landing

Brian Williams at Woodstock

Williams on The Brady Bunch When America's Mom Carol Brady Showed Her Tits to All America

Brian Williams After Taking Heavy Ground Fire From Rebel Comanche Indians  

Brian Obviously Missed Something in the Translation

Brian Williams in Tokoyo

On the President's National Prayer Breakfast Comments:

by Robert Janicki

On Thursday, at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama, with a straight face and in his best preacher pontification mode, put forth the idea that there is a moral equivalence between the brutal murderers of ISIS and the Christian Crusaders, among other allusions in history, which, in fact, are not comparable.  

Obama then flashed forward from the Christian Crusades of 900 to 1100 years ago in the Holy Land to make his point more meaningful and timely in more recent events.  Obama then gratuitously threw in the religious Inquisition in Europe and then moved to the period of American slavery and Jim Crow laws to further his argument that we're all imperfect and perhaps we should not judge ISIS on a religious basis, but rather on the basis of a political ideology.  Its's hard to determine what point Obama was making with these later historical allusions, since it was just so much drivel.

Obama's historical delusion of moral equivalence swept reality under the carpet despite the hundreds of millions of Muslims today that actually support in part or in whole, what goals and objectives ISIS is trying to achieve through their inhuman savagery.

It was obvious that Obama was simply engaging in a polemical argument of equivalency to give, albeit false, credence to his argument in separating ISIS from Islam.  Of course Obama never said that the analogy he put forth was really a moral equivalence between the two movements, since the Christian Crusades were, indeed, based upon religious grounds and his claim is that ISIS is a political ideology, but that did not prevent Obama from trying to make that ludicrous comparison.  

Obama's equivalence argument falls apart from the very beginning because he has repeatedly said the ISIS is not a religious movement under the banner of Islam, but is a perverted political movement hiding behind the religion of Islam.  So Obama's attempt at moral equivalency between the religious crusades of the Christians and the actions of ISIS, falls apart by his own definition of ISIS as a political ideology, rather than as being a movement influenced by Islam, the so called religion of peace.

This disparity in Obama's logic will, unfortunately, fall upon the deaf ears and deluded minds of the ignorant and stupid, who cannot see the fallacy of his perverted argument and will buy his bullshit lock, stock and barrel.

It's argued by some that Obama must be a stealth Muslim, since he supports Muslims over Christians.  I don't think Obama is a Muslim or a Christian.      How can a person sit in a pew in the Church of Hate lead by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who preached the Marxist secular religion of Black Nationalism, rather than any known Christian Protestant sect and claim be a Christian?  Forget about the fact that Obama has failed to attend any church in over 6 years in office.  So where does that leave Obama?

I believe that Obama at his core is a political secularist with no deep belief in any organized religion.  Obama is  an intransigent political ideologue, who merely uses religion as he finds it necessary to accomplish his political goals.  All this fits into Obama's narcissism, nihilism and his Messianic complex. 

Obama doesn't believe in any god, since he believes he is God.

Brian Williams Reminisces

Brian Williams in Munich

Brian Williams at the D-Day Invasion