. . . the crash that never was — for him.

He’s one smooth talker on Letterman show not two years ago, in detail! What a guy.

One of our era’s greatest bullshitters.

​Defender of the faith, like Henry VIII? Nah. Defender of Islam.

Come to think, WH Guy does remind one (me) of that Tudor rascal. As in this:

A Henry VIII clause is the term given to a provision in a primary Act which gives the power for
secondary legislation (regulations) to include provisions which amend, repeal or are inconsistent
with the primary legislation. The effect of a Henry VIII clause is that whoever who makes the
regulations has been delegated legislative power by the Parliament. In other words, the executive
arm of government would have the power to make regulations which can modify the application of
the primary statute.

The original Henry VIII clause was contained in the Statute of Sewers in 1531, which gave the
Commissioner of Sewers powers to make rules which had the force of legislation (legislative power),
powers to impose taxation rates and powers to impose penalties for non-compliance. A later Statute
of Proclamations (1539) allowed the King to issue proclamations which had the force of an Act of
Parliament. Both these were passed during the time of Henry VIII.

He invented legislation by bureacrats and usurped his legislature.

​Question of my day, if not yours:​

​Can we trust these people?​

​He kept on lyin’:​

According to the military’s Stars and Stripes, the organization that exclusively broke the story on Williams’ tall tale (emphasis added):

The admission came after crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment’s Chinook that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire told Stars and Stripes that the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft or two other Chinooks flying in the formation that took fire. Williams arrived in the area about an hour later on another helicopter after the other three had made an emergency landing, the crew members said.

Williams even repeated the "following aircraft" fabrication in greater detail on his Facebook page while apologizing to the troops:

I was indeed on the Chinook behind the bird that took the RPG in the tail housing just above the ramp.​

​Like that "bird that took the RPG"? He’s a reg’lar guy, knows the lingo. Hey, give ‘im a break, Okayyy?​

​He took it to bloggers once, of course.

In a 2007 lecture at New York University’s journalism school, NBC News host Brian Williams touted his “BS meter” when it came to credible news and mocked the credibility of bloggers, pitting himself—a man “developing credentials to cover my field of work”—against lowly bloggers who can’t always be trusted.​

Remember the "gateway" scenario painted by newsies in the early days of blogging? Those were the days.

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​NY Times skinback:

Editors’ Note:

Joe Nocera’s column on Saturday, about the indictment of the longtime New York State Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, was premised on several factual errors.

The column misidentified the person who in 2008 placed Arthur Luxenberg, a lawyer who represents people exposed to asbestos, on a panel that recommends judicial appointments. It was Mr. Silver, not Jonathan Lippman, chief judge of the State Court of Appeals.

The column also suggested that Mr. Luxenberg’s role on that panel resulted in the appointment of a judge, Sherry Klein Heitler, to lead New York City’s dedicated asbestos court. In fact, the panel had no involvement in that appointment.

Finally, the column implied that Mr. Silver rewarded the judiciary with a pay increase. While Mr. Silver’s appointee to a state commission on judicial pay did cast a deciding vote in 2011 for a pay raise, as the column noted, the appointee actually voted against an even greater pay increase favored by some members of the commission.

Otherwise? A great column.

However,

Sheldon Silver hasn’t been indicted — yet. Not only does the correction miss that blunder. It even repeats the error. It is a mistake that bears reflection at a time when the constitutional niceties are getting all too little attention.

Etc. Read the rest at the New York Sun.

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​Thou shalt not show graphic pix of aborted fetuses, a.k.a. not-yet-fully-disclosed fellow human beings.