Does The News Really Have To Be True?

Brian Williams the NBC anchor has been accused of lying about events that he said took place in 2003 when he was covering the Iraq war.

He said that the Chinook helicopter he was traveling in was stuck by a rocket from an RPG and forced to land. A nice little story to tell and tell it he did. To Letterman, Larry King and on Alec Baldwin's radio show all the while the crew of the Chinook that took the hit screamed at their TV's and tried to tell people but no one cared.

Looking rugged, helmets ruin hair and only pussies wear them. 

Eventually someone listened and called Williams on his account of events and he has issued an apology saying he he some how managed to mix up the helicopters in his memory.

A Chinook is big and noisy, you don't really have much idea of what is going on if you are in the rear, his pilot says that did take a few small arms hits but that Chinook had to land because of an up and coming storm and the Chinook that was in front of them was the one hit by an RPG and that had to sit and get repaired in the desert.

At the time Joseph Miller, the flight engineer on the Chinook that was dooned called Williams an idiot when he babbled that it was like something out of Saving private Ryan. He says that Williams kept away from him after that.

Williams was out in the desert of 3 days and over the years has constantly celebrated a sergeant he met there who was responsible for keeping them safe while on the ground. Sgt. Major Tim Terpack served for over 23 years and was from the same town as Williams, so they had kept in touch and maybe Terpack didn't call him names.


Other stories are now being looked at, did a body really float past his hotel window during hurricane Katrina? The staff didn't see any floaters. Did the Asian tsunami of 2004 even happen? Did he double dip his nacho into the cheese dip? The late Ernest Borgnine went to his grave saying he did, does the world owe poor Ernie an apology?

While he claims to have been there the night the Berlin wall came doon he actually was there the day after.  David Hasselhoff was the only good looking tanned American kicking that wall doon as he lead East Germany to freedom. 

Did his daughter really get her ass eaten on the TV show Gurls or was there protective padding as they claimed? Who to believe?

Now we want to know if SEAL team 6 who may or may not have shot Bin Laden really did send Williams a piece of helicopter wreckage because they are all buds .... who really cares? Some say it doesn't sound like something SEAL's would do but then neither do books bragging about yer exploits.


He seems like a dull kinda guy, maybe he got tired of just watching and reporting on the news and wanted to be a part of it. Memories can be dodgy, things that happen are often not straight forward or yer only getting a bit of what is happening.

Old Knudsen has moved home and cuntries countless times, he often plans to get something he had in the US sitting on a shelf to use in the UK, when he goes to get it he realises, 'shit, wrong life.' How many times has he threatened to shoot some one, only to look under the bed and not find his lovely Enfield rifle sitting in its case?  ..... at least 3 - 4 times.   

 Beating someone to death with half a brick is not the same as blowing their hed off. 

Williams has apologized and probably hopes the world will forget and move on as he likes his well paying job. Will NBC have him back or has the shine of truth and integrity been tarnished too much? Many news stories are slanted and full of bias, who ever thought that Williams would be the only 'popular' reporter that told the absolute truth?

He has been suspended without pay for 6 months to get this mess sorted out, during that time we'll see Williams grow a beard and reinvent himself as a wiser, older man. If NBC don't take him back then he can go to Fox news, where the truth goes to die.   

I Remember When All This Was Fields

Having done a 'deep' post, well when I say deep I mean deep for my readers as most of them read at an 8th grade level which would be 3rd year in a real school. I'm no sayin thats a bad thing I for one am envious as when I was 6 I had to get a job to support my Da and my 12 brothers and sisters, it wasn't until I was 9 that I found out I was actually in a street gang of pick pockets run by the evil Fagin who was fag in by name and nature anyway we were close.

Well I like this picture as it represents the world and my struggle to rise above the rest and see the truth plus its got a ginger in it about to feel pain. I obviously took this pic here in Southern Callyfornia when I was watching the lads do their bike stunts.

You know kids today don't listen to the wisdom of the aged and use words like, "Fuck off" and " If you keep watching us I'm telling my dad who'll kick yer ass" Where has the respect gone? I shouted over, "No don't shove those intestines in just hold them in place until the ambulance gets here" did they listen?


So is that a BMX or do they have a super duper cool name for them these days? its hard to keep up.
Remember when you were young you knew alsorts of unimportant shite and thats what kept you young and cool, now I don't know what the kids are into. It all seems so trivial.

There used to be this puppet in the UK called Emu (pronounced aimyou not e-moo) it was that Australian bird like an Ostrich and a fella called Rod Hull had his arm up it.

The bird took on a life of its own and would grab celebs and talk show hosts by the face and threw them to the ground, ah British culture at its best.

Violent, funny and good for the whole family .

In 1999 Rod Hull fell off the roof of his house while he was adjusting his TV aerial for a football match and died aged 63.
TV kept him alive and TV killed him. His son Toby took over the bird and he has cable TV.

Nowadays birds won't let you put yer hand up them and the kids have Emo (pronounced e-mo) its not the same.

Last week I was reading the lovely Pearl and she said about quotes making her feel old like when she quoted the Holy Grail at some young uns and they didn't get it. I gave this matter a great deal of thought and think its really also a knowledge of pop culture and history and that anyone at any age can have.

I had a wife who was only 5 years younger than me (God rest her soul) and she never got my references or jokes, yes that was the piano wire across the top of the stairs wife in case you were wondering. I hated that bloody piano, just because you can play half of Chop sticks doesn't mean you can play the piano .

Well with those lads and their bike stunts I was laughing at them and asking if they needed lessons on how to ride their bikes and as one kid kept on and on trying to lean his bike over and stand in the side and still move I shouted, "Use the force" which he got, you have to pick and choose yer quotes and dumb them doon. No wonder those kids are always fixing at their bikes.

I remember when bicycles had solid rubber tires and only one brake at the front, never stop at speed or you'd go over the handlebars, ach I remember when bicycles were called 'Bone rattlers' and a bike was the village slut.

Now if I could remember whether or not I took my pills today that would really help, the older you get the more yer short term memory goes, thats because there is fuck all worth remembering these days.


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