Brian Williams is a dope.  AllahPunditIan at HotAir posted a video grab sound bite of Brian Williams on Chris Matthew’s show.  Watch it, and read his soundbite. 

The money shot:

always tell people there are guys on our team like that, too. They’re called Army Rangers and Navy Seals and the Special Forces folks and the first responders on 9/11 who went into those buildings knowing, by the way, they weren’t going to come out. So we have players like that on our team.

Which is why I don’t watch NBC Nightly News, and have sworn off MSNBC.

The guys on our team, for Mr. Williams benefit, don’t grab a c-4 belt, strap it to their waist and walk into a disco and boogie.  The guys on our team, go into a combat situation fully trained and expecting to come home to their familes, and should they die, they expect their comrades to bring them back with them.  To our team, the motto is no one left behind.

Their team is more than willing to mold explosives to the bottom of a sport’s drink, and blow up planes in a manner to invoke fear and terror in normal citizen’s lives.  Our team takes strides to limit the amount of civilian casualities.  Their team fires indiscriminate rockets, or unreliable IEDs into crowds and civilian population centers.  Our team will sacrifice themselves to preserve life.  Their team sacrifices their lives to take more lives. 

There isn’t a line.  There isn’t any moral equivalence between their team and our team.  Mr. Williams isn’t helping us in spouting this blather… and who the hell gave him the right to ‘always tell people’.  Please NBC, don’t let this guy out in public.