Brian Williams Suffers More than Most

Brian Williams may suffer from PTSD. This would explain his confusing so many historic moments in his favor. Also, why he can’t properly apologize and his hair gets fuller as he ages. Somebody felt bad enough about Brian Williams falling from grace to go find a college professor somewhere to provide a less reprehensible rationale for lying about being in shot down helicopters or seeing bodies floating by in New Orleans:

Sometimes, memories that emerge from traumatic experiences, such as war, can feel completely real to the individual experiencing them, whether they follow a factual account of the traumatic event or not.

Then they found some dude from a journalism school to remind everybody how reporters in the field suffer PTSD at alarming rates and we really should build them some kind of obelisk on the Washington mall. When asked off the record if any of this applied to Brian Williams, everybody responded fuck no, he’s just a lying sack of shit. It seems believable that if you’re running around a military invasion that you might jumbe events in your mind. It seems convenient that you’d always confuse events in your favor. Nobody misremembers shitting their pants, trading their North Face jacket for opium, or experimenting with man-man love because they were certain it was their last night on earth and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Goodbye, Brian, you shall be missed. I bet the next guy is awesome. Or double Latino awesome.

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