NBC BRIAN WILLIAM LIED, SHOULD RESIGN OR BE FIRED!

Icheoku says stepping aside will not cut it. What was good for CBS Dan Rather should also be good for NBC Brian William. In Dan Rather's case, it could even be argued in his favor that he mistakenly told a lie based on a third party's account that George Bush never served in Texas Air National Guard; but unlike Brian William, who intentionally and purposely told a lie just for his personal egotistic aggrandizement. At least Dan Rather never claimed he was in Texas when George Bush failed to serve, but Brian William was rehashing a first person account, somewhat a percipient-witness's account, of his "valor" in a war front. Therefore he told a blatant lie aimed at misrepresenting of facts and misled so many people into believing he is one strong son of a gun who flew into heat of battle but made it out alive and well, albeit a little shaken up. 

Icheoku says Brian William "taking himself off the air for several days" is not enough deterrent or punishment; he should rather take himself off the air forever and permanently or the network should do that for him by firing him. Icheoku says Brian Williams has lost all credibility whatever and the network leaving him still on air would be a tacit approval by them that it is okay to lie. He should not be allowed to to taint news from the network going forward as anything he reels out henceforth would carry some degree of incredulity. The best thing is to let him go permanently and let the NBC begin to heal its image of having an anchorman who told a a blatant lie. Icheoku calls on Brian William to do the needful and RESIGN his office now as the anchorman of NBC nightly news and failing which NBC must let him go, FIRE HIM. 

The Washington Post fired its reporter Sari Horwitz for plagiarism; the AP fired its reporter Bob Lewis for lying about Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe; The Los Angeles Times fired its reporter Jason Filch for false reporting, CBS fired Dan Rather for a mistaken report, so why not NBC portion out the same treatment to Brian Williams? So if all these media outlets could uphold the honor of their reports and disciplined their offending correspondents, what is NBC waiting to tow the line and see the back of Brian Williams from their network? Icheoku says such self gloating and self promotion, without merit or any basis, by Brian William, should be seriously frowned at and never tolerated of an anchorman or any other person for that matter, especially one with an apparent authority or influence over the people. What Brian William claimed was an over exaggerated sense of self and of a bravely which he did not earn, nor merited and therefore should not be rewarded by leaving him to continue on that his seat. He should be punished or rather disciplined with a termination of appointment or deployed out of public sight on NBC network television. 

Icheoku says Brian Williams knowingly and intentionally did what he did - he lied and misled the American people  as well as the rest of the watching world into believing his concocted story of heroism and repeatedly too. He did not tell the lie once,  but on several other occasions including on David Letterman show. Brian Williams had enough time to pull back and recant the lies he told, but no; instead he was revering in his newly found fame of bravery. He choose to rather continuously mislead the American people as he surfed the wave of his sudden unearned fame and bravery as a reporter who went into the eye of the storm and made it back safe. 

Icheoku says Brian William is a liar, he is a cheat and he should therefore be dismissed pronto and without any further ado or delay. For repeatedly telling a story that he was shot down in a helicopter in Iraq when he was not, tend to minimize the seriousness of what those real combatants who suffer such fate, go through. It is despicable, it is condescending of him and it should not be condoned. Icheoku maintains that this is not a case of a "fog of memory" as he was not alone in the supposed helicopter and had several occasions to recant his tale but chose not to and did not, until veterans complained about his unfounded claims. Icheoku is emphatic that his was not a mistake but a purposeful misstatement of fact which he witnessed and thus a blatant lie. Brian Williams having lost all credibility and trust of the news watching public, SHOULD BE LET GO and never allowed to show his lying face on NBC or any other new network again.