Brian Williams made no mention of his false Iraq helicopter story on Thursday night’s broadcast. He apologized a day earlier during theย “NBC Nightly News” broadcast, but that apology — in whichย he said, “I made a mistake” — has only led to more controversy for the venerable newscaster.
After telling the story for more than a decade of being in a helicopter that had been forced down by a rocket propelled grenadeย in Iraq, Williams admitted that the story wasn’t true. This was in response to a report in the military newspaper Stars andย Stripes asserting that Williams was not shot down, but rather was on a helicopter behind the one that was brought down by an RPG.