BRIAN WILLIAMS: WE USED NUCLEAR WEAPONS AGAINST JAPAN ‘IN ANGER:’

MSNBC’s Brian Williams said the U.S. used nuclear weapons against Japan “in anger” Friday, an expression sure to upset those who recognize the decision potentially saved hundreds of thousands of lives by bringing about a swift end to World War II.

And thus Williams comes full circle; recall a decade ago when he posited not only that the Founding Fathers were terrorists but that they also bore similarities to the Iranian revolutionaries:

Many Americans woke up to a curious story this morning: several of the former Iran Hostages have decided there is a strong resemblance between Iran’s new president and one of their captors more than 25 years ago. The White House and most official branches of government are ducking any substantive comment on this story, and photo analysis is going on at this and other news organizations. It is a story that will be at or near the top of our broadcast and certainly made for a robust debate in our afternoon editorial meeting, when several of us raised the point (I’ll leave it to others to decide germaneness) that several U.S. presidents were at minimum revolutionaries, and probably were considered terrorists of their time by the Crown in England.

Back in February of last year, when Williams’ career as a newsreader was in jeopardy after a military utterance too far, I created a Photoshop of Williams as MacArthur. Like Big Mac himself, no wonder he’s still arguing with Truman’s decisions!

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