VIDEO: Brian Williams Makes Us Cringe By Calling Syrian Missiles ‘Beautiful’
Leave it to Brian Williams to try to reveal the bright side of the Syrian strike.
President Trump launched 50 missiles days after Bashar al-Assad unleashed a deathly chemical attack on his own citizens. Everyone’s losing their shit about the potential of a war in Syria, and frankly, there’s not much to celebrate. Yet, here comes Brian Williams to remind us about the, uh, bright side of things.
Williams, of fallen fame, took over Twitter trends again today when he couldn’t stop elaborating on the “beauty” of missiles being fired off of the decks of U.S. Navy vessels.
Brian Williams refers to this Pentagon video of missiles going to kill people as "beautiful" 3 times in 30 seconds pic.twitter.com/KBb3tP8qHT
— Trevor Timm (@trevortimm) April 7, 2017
He even quotes song lyrics from Leonard Cohen’s “First We Take Manhattan.” Between you and me, Cohen would roll over in his grave if he knew.
“I am guided by the beauty of our weapons,” says Williams, fawning over the brightly lit death weapons. Williams is so blinded by their “beauty” that he proceeds to call it out not once, but three more times.
For the record, these are the missiles. Not sure "beautiful" is the right adjective.
Tomahawk cruise missiles being fired, per Pentagon press desk pic.twitter.com/S3duw6hmWr
— Tim Mak (@timkmak) April 7, 2017
Not a good day for Brian and the Internet.
Brian williams actually rode on the cruise missile pic.twitter.com/AoI2jyxIut
— Export Fit (@FitExport) April 7, 2017
Thank you to Brian Williams and MSNBC for missile-splaining right now. I had been uninformed on the purpose and effect of a missile.
— Luke O'Neil (@lukeoneil47) April 7, 2017
find someone who looks at you the way brian williams looks at tomahawk missiles
— vlad (@VladChituc) April 7, 2017
im glad nbc suspended brian williams for 6 months... seems like he reflected during that time period and decided to do better
— Leah Finnegan (@leahfinnegan) April 7, 2017
At times like these I'm just glad we still have Brian Williams to be mad at.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) April 7, 2017
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