The whole hullabaloo about NBC’s just-another-pretty-face talking head is a bit confusing. As a commenter I read somewhere I forget said in response to a post about why Lyin’ Brian would tell whoppers about his supposed war heroics:
“The question is not why he would feel compelled to lie but why he would ever feel compelled to tell the truth, in a business where lies pass for truth every day.”
Works for me. The only other idea I have is that he’s another Democrat wannabee, a fellow who despises the military and would never serve but who nevertheless wants to be thought tough and heroic. And so he phoned it in.
You know, like the Lizard Queen. Another Democrat who was under fire in her own mind, as you may remember.
Williams is what they called in the Civil War “a parlor soldier.” Or the 16th century commedia dell’arte stock type of the Italian theater known as Il Capitano (the braggart soldier). Neither of them were real soldiers. Like Bri.
He’s probably toast now. I mean when even Mad Cow Dowd is joining the pile-on…
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
“He’s a walkin contradiction,
partly truth,
and partly fiction”
Mostly fiction,looks like.
David Hackworth called his type “Scud Studs” in the first Iraq war. Did I already comment that? If so, sorry.
A good comment deserves repetition
Re Ms Dawd: it is like sharks in a frenzy consuming one of their own, when wounded. But I have a question: when she says “When Williams was declared the hair apparent ” – that “hair” – is it a typo or some kind of… er… idiom or whatever?
Her little pun, I’m sure, a reference to the hairdos guys like him have to have to be talking heads. Their main qualification, by the way.
Oh… thanks.