Brian Williams is not a man for irony. The disgraced MSNBC host, who in 2015 lost his NBC anchoring job because of repeated false statements and exaggerations about his own reporting, does not like the phrase “fake news.” On Monday’s show, he repeatedly derided the use of these words as “pernicious” and “insidious.”
Talking about new accusations that Donald Trump misdirected a statement by his son on Russia, Williams seethed, “On top of that, we have the President’s lawyers tonight using that insidious label fake news.”
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