I like him a lot too. :( But there's been a scandal.
My understanding is that 12 years ago he was doing a report in Iraq and they were being fired at and the helicopter in front of his got hit. At first he reported it that way, but 12 years later when he talked about this story he started saying that his helicopter was the one that got hit. So recently the pilots came forward and said he was a liar, and now there's a media frenzy investigating whether or not he's lied about a whole bunch of other things, and whether or not anyone can ever trust him as a newscaster again, and he's been suspended from the news show he hosted for 6 months.
It seems like a lot of fuss over a pretty standard memory lapse / war story exaggeration, given the amount of time that's passed. I think the media has blown it out of proportion and I hope he can do something awesome soon.
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My understanding is that 12 years ago he was doing a report in Iraq and they were being fired at and the helicopter in front of his got hit. At first he reported it that way, but 12 years later when he talked about this story he started saying that his helicopter was the one that got hit. So recently the pilots came forward and said he was a liar, and now there's a media frenzy investigating whether or not he's lied about a whole bunch of other things, and whether or not anyone can ever trust him as a newscaster again, and he's been suspended from the news show he hosted for 6 months.
It seems like a lot of fuss over a pretty standard memory lapse / war story exaggeration, given the amount of time that's passed. I think the media has blown it out of proportion and I hope he can do something awesome soon.