NBC'S Brian Williams Admits On Air To Lying

Apologizes for bogus story of his ‘personal heroics’

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NBC News’ Brian Williams has been caught in a lie and forced to recant.

The nation’s top-rated news anchor apologized on the air Wednesday evening for fabricating a story of personal heroics, claiming to have been aboard a helicopter in Iraq in 2003 when it was hit by enemy fire.

“I made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago,” Williams said.

At the time Williams reported the original incident, he did not claim to be on the Chinook copter that was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in the rear rotor.

“On the ground, we learn the Chinook ahead of us was almost blown out of the sky,” he said in 2003.

His story was no different five years later in a 2008 blog post: “Chinook helicopter flying in front of ours (from the 101st Airborne) took an RPG to the rear rotor.”

But something changed last week when Williams spoke at a New York Rangers hockey game, honoring a retired soldier who had provided security for grounded helicopters in 2003 when the newsman was in Iraq.

“The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG,” Williams recalled. “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry.”

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