NBC’s Brian Williams compares the new Iranian president to our Founding Fathers: 1st Presidents “‘might have been called terrorists”.

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Update (Chad):
I did not see the Brian Williams debacle therefore I cannot confirm he said the following as reported by World Net Daily.

“What would it all matter if proven true? Someone brought up today the first several U.S. presidents were certainly revolutionaries and might have been called ‘terrorists’ by the British crown, after all.”

Assuming this is true, and again I did not see it, what kind of historical facts does Williams have? Seriously. Does he actually believe Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and even one of my ancestors stormed a British embassy and held those inside hostage?

I am quite the history buff and I have yet to see any type of mention where this happened or anything even remotely close. During the Revolutionary War, the British burned homes of settlers, executed ‘traitors’ and ransacked the nation. We gave the British soldiers quarter for the most part and eventually shipped a large number of Red Coats back to England . . . alive. Never did American soldiers storm into buildings and take everyone inside hostage. Never!

Excuse me, but where in the hell does Brian Williams get off calling someone a terrorist whose blood flows through my veins?

Update (Chad):
Through Michelle Malkin I found Brian Williams’ blog. He covers this topic above a little bit. Here’s what Williams had to say prior to his newscast.

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.

By the way, the story which Williams alludes to is whether or not newly ‘elected’ Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was part of the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis (covered here and here). According to Williams’ comments on his blog, the topic if our founding fathers were terrorists might not have come to him but from other NBC execs. Frankly, who cares who it came from. It is completely inaccurate and extremely offensive to me.

Leave some feedback and maybe the NBC News crew will figure out it is not the job of a news organization to make the news, but report it.

Update (Chad):
Professor Bainbridge makes the argument that you could call the Founding Fathers traitors. I make no qualms with this remark because in the definition of the word, they were guilty of treason. It was treasonous to declare independence from a sovereign nation, England.

There is however quite the difference between traitors and terrorists and when Williams made this analogy, he was using the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis as the point of interest. At no point during the American Revolution did Americans hold Tories hostage or parade them around the streets. The equivalence of the two is nonexistent and any comparison between the two I believe is morally bankrupt.

At no time during the buildup, during or aftermath of the Hostage Crisis were the United States and Iran at war. It was an embassy of another sovereign nation which was attacked through terrorist methods, not an Iranian government building. This is apples and oranges.

UNCoRRELATED linked with The Founding Terrorists
Obviously Right linked with Brian Williams: Crushed Like a Tiny Bug!
Ideas In Progress linked with A Man is Known by the Enemies He Keeps
Michelle Malkin linked with BRIAN WILLIAMS SAID WHAT?