Brian Williams apologizes for lying about being on a helicopter which was shot down in Iraq in 2003

 After facing heat from veterans who were aboard a helicopter which was shot down in Iraq “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams admitted he was not on board the helicopter after years of claiming he was. He has now apologized.

“NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams apologized Wednesday for falsely claiming that he had been aboard a helicopter that was shot down during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Stars and Stripes reports.

On Friday night’s broadcast, Williams cited “a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG. Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry.”

One crew member responded to the story on Facebook the following day, writing to Williams, “Sorry dude, I don’t remember you being on my aircraft. I do remember you walking up about an hour after we had landed to ask me what had happened.”

This week, crew members of 159th Aviation Regiment’s Chinook helicopter also told Stars and Stripes that Williams had not been in the shot-down helicopter but had arrived an hour later.

On Wednesday, Williams conceded that he was not onboard the shot-down helicopter, but he told Stars and Stripes he did not intentionally make the mistake. 

“I would not have chosen to make this mistake,” Williams said. “I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.”

  He admitted he made a “mistake” and stated that he did not what “screwed up” in his mind that made him think he was on a helicopter which he was not on.

  The problem is; this was not a one time “mistake” as he has made the same claim on multiple occasions.

 Williams has told the story several times, including during a 2013 appearance on “The Late Show” with David Letterman.

  This man has lost any credibility he might once have had and honestly I do not think an apology is good enough for who can now trust anything this man reports to the American people as news?

  I have made the claim repeatedly in the past that the mainstream media is not interested in reporting the news but rather in making or shaping the news and I believe this is a perfect example. He made himself the story when the story should not have been about him and I think he did it, ironically, to boost his credibility. How is that working out?

  But perhaps he just did not want to be outdone by Mrs. Clinton…