you're not going to BELIEVE what Brian Williams just said...

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The News with Brian Williams...tonight, Brian Williams said "some people are stockpiling flashlights, food, and all of this WITHOUT ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE that y2k will cause any problems whatsoever." Is that RIDICULOUS OR WHAT!!!!!!!

-- Orson Wells (wells@whitebulb.com), December 14, 1999

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Zombies, zombies, everywhere, and none will stop to think...

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), December 14, 1999.

Re: evidence. Literally, there is no "evidence" yet. By the time there is any evidence, you may not be able to stockpile food and buy a new flashlight. Brian Williams has an apartment/condo in what city?

-- Dot (dromano03@snet.com), December 14, 1999.

I too heard this. I have been fuming inside ever since. I keep telling myself that this is the same network that refused to mention Alan Keyes after the debate last night until several hours after it was over.

Despite the fact that he trounced all the other candidates in a poll taken on their own website.

LACKING A SHRED OF EVIDENCE, THAT WE WILL BE AFFECTED FOR EVEN 30 SECONDS............ While not substantial, I would consider the mistakes with the Jury summons, the horseless carriages and other various small examples to qualify as shreds of evidence.

-- (question411@home.com), December 14, 1999.


Is this another obvious attempt of the media to "downplay" the effects of Y2K per instructions of the Whitehouse?

-- LZach (lisa@texasnetworks.com), December 14, 1999.

Did he happen to mention that some of them have names like "The US Army," "The City of New York," "The District of Columbia," and so forth?

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), December 14, 1999.


Koskinen gave these idiots in the media their marching orders long ago and they have followed them dutifully. Nothing will change in this area until they see riots, bank/gas lines, mayhem on the boob tube. The media will look different soon if we have alot of it at all.

-- PJC (paulchri@msn.com), December 14, 1999.

Further evidence that you can train a chimpanze to read...

-- Uncle Bob (UNCLB0B@AOL.COM), December 14, 1999.

Actually Bob, you can't teach a chimpanzee to read any more than you can teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and the pig, at least, is annoyed.

-- Irving (irvingf@myremarq.com), December 15, 1999.

LOL Irving, pig is annoyed, heh.

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 15, 1999.

Brian Williams should also note that for over thirty years people have been wearing seatbelts in their cars WITHOUT ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE that they will ever have an automobile accident.

...Or that the United States of America has maintained, at enormous expense, land based, sea based and aircraft based nuclear weapons WITHOUT ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE that someone was about to use the same on us.

Brian Williams...oh, never mind. What an imbecile !

-- snooze button (alarmclock_2000@yahoo.com), December 15, 1999.



Remember the State Department report???

Substantial economic disruptions in all countries at all levels - if memory serves. That report was never directly challanged by anyone.

-- gary (a@a.com), December 15, 1999.


Yet another "Wag the Dog" scenario, yet Williams doesn't even know he's in the script. Koskinen might not even know that Uncle Bubba is going to blame him for all the prolems in Act IV and fire him. Then in act V, he appoints Al Gore to fix all the problems. After all, he created the internet didn't he? With some huge tax increases and work programs (and Martial Law) to enforce the progress, Al wins an easy election. By the way, that occurs in Act VI

-- Carl (no3daystorm@hotmail.com), December 15, 1999.

Not one shred of evidence, meaning the multiple GAO reports such as on city and state readyness, the State Department's IG's testimony, the White House final report, Congressman Horn's report card, the Bank of International Settlements white papers, the U.S. Naval War College assessments, the Navy report on utilities in various cities, the Senate 100-day report, the IEEE letter to the Senate (?), the report from the British version of the IEEE, hmmm, are there are shreds of evidence that I'm not thinking of--yes,no shred of evidence.

A big thanks to the media and to Brian Williams for being a big fat sell-out jerk.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 15, 1999.


If shit were brains we'd have one more millionaire on our hands.

I swear the media is all a bunch of good looking robotoids with implants in their brains. These droids are making Tass look like WND and Drudge all wrapped into one Tell All news agency.

-- paul leblanc (bronyaur@gis.net), December 15, 1999.


I wonder if he just 'said' it, or if he was instructed to say it by Kosky and crew...whatever the case, someone should be tried for this!!

-- Orson Wells (wells@whitebulb.com), December 15, 1999.


Oh, boo! I always thought he was so cute. You know women judge people by how cute they are - that's what makes them vote for someone, or so I've been told.

-- Sheri (wncy2k@nccn.net), December 15, 1999.

Williams is a face without a brain!!!!

idiot

-- d----- (dciinc@aol.com), December 15, 1999.


Brain Williams is telling the truth. If O.W.'s quote is correct, he said "ONE SHRED OF EVIDENCE". Two shreads? Yes. Three? Uh huh! A veritable mountain. Ay yup!

-- Ken Seger (kenseger@earthlink.net), December 15, 1999.

Historically, intelligence has never been a requirement for success on television, though it is not necessarily a disqualification.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), December 15, 1999.

I like what LZach says. The gov't wants us to believe everything will be ok to keep from stockpiling/hoarding. That would just make things worse. Williams and Clinton are sleeping together!

-- shawn agee (shawn_d_agee@mail.bankone.com), December 15, 1999.

A rip-n-read guy, apparently. He won't begin to understand what a supply pipeline is until suddenly the shelves are empty. It would be kinda nice (but useless) if he would then see that he bore some blame for the shortages. I expect his reaction to be more along the lines of "But but but ... nobody TOLD ME ..."

-- bw (home@puget.sound), December 15, 1999.

Can you say MSNBC ???

Doesn't MS = MicroSoft? Bill Gates probably told Brian Williams to stifel.

IF the MS does not = Microsoft, disregard this post.

-- (Polly@troll.com), December 15, 1999.


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