This week, the media shredded NBC News Anchor Brian Williams for telling tall tales. His embellishments and fabrications may have fatality tarnished his credibility.

Host Anderson Cooper said Williams’ tales, which included seeing a body float by his hotel and facing roving gangs during Hurricane Katrina, don’t sound like simple misremberings because every one of them make Williams sound brave and bolstered his standing.

Bernard Goldberg said there are only two possible reasons for Williams’ stories. “One is that he’s delusional. I mean…mental illness. And the other is that he just flat-out lies a lot. If he simply lies a lot, it’s because that’s what celebrities do all the time. They go on TV shows, and they make up stories, because in the United States of entertainment…being uninteresting is the greatest sin you could commit,” he said.

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You’ve heard the news, perhaps ad nauseam. My point in writing about this sad demise of an otherwise nice man is to point out something humanly deep that lurks in all of us. Continue reading