Williams' 'misremembering' is sad on many fronts

Somewhere Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley and Peter Jennings are either turning in their graves, rolling their eyes — or both.

Brian Williams, the anchor and editor of NBC Nightly News, has peacock egg on his face after having been “outed” for largely fabricating accounts of being an imbedded reporter during the early days of the Iraq War in 2003.

Seems he “misremembered” a sequence of the events where he was either on board an Army Chinook helicopter that took enemy fire and was forced to land, or not.

It was refreshing to see that dictionary.com defines misremember as: “to reme...