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Revisionist History

Free Brian Williams

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

History, Society & Culture

4.762K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

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On the evening of March 26, 2013,

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Brian Williams appeared on Late Night with David Letterman.

0:16.0

We're very happy to have this man.

0:18.0

Now with us he is the Emmy and the Feebody Award-winning anchor

0:21.0

and managing editor of the NBC Nightly News.

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Ladies and gentlemen, here he is, our good friend Brian Williams.

0:27.0

Mr. Williams.

0:28.0

Brian Williams looks like a TV anchor.

0:33.0

He has one of those rectangular super-handsome made for television heads.

0:37.0

Maybe two sizes larger than normal, like he inflates it with a bicycle pump before he goes on camera.

0:43.0

And he's charming, very charming.

0:46.0

Congratulations, 20 years at NBC News.

0:49.0

Thank you very much.

0:52.0

20 years.

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I'm starting as a young man.

0:58.0

Williams sits down next to Letterman and the two of them chit chat and tell jokes.

1:03.0

There had been some big kerfuffle about the today show involving Matt Lauer

1:07.0

and Letterman tries and fails to bait Williams into saying something juicy about it.

1:12.0

Now, if I am on to something blinked twice,

1:17.0

then Letterman asks the question that will destroy Brian Williams' career.

1:22.0

Tell me, and if I knew this, I forgot it, and if I forgot it, I'm ashamed.

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