Brian Williams gets bum rap.....

In his commencement address to the senior class at Ohio State University, Brian Williams called on the grads to 'help fix the country'. Because of his long standing liberal bias and his TV visibility as NBC anchor, many blogs picked up on this comment, taking it out of context -- and blistered him with it.

Although I am certainly no fan of his, or his political leanings, I reckon he deserves a fair shake. Particularly with his positive comments about the U.S, Military -- not often heard on Campuses these days. Here is a little larger picture of his comments;

".... Politics: Pick a campaign. Campaign for McCain, campaign for Obama, campaign for the Libertarian, for the Vegan Party, but volunteer, get out there and campaign for someone. We won't see an election like this for decades again in this country. We are at a crossroads. They don't get more important and it's so important that you all get involved. Put your generational stamp on American politics.

Dial in and pay attention, and I say that as part of a group we all have to start thinking and acting as one. There are, as of this week, 117 million blogs in the United States. One more time: 117 million blogs. And I stand here today as one of them. And what do most of us bloggers talk about? Us. And the problem is we need to start talking about us, all of us. We need to start thinking of us as the collective, the United States that we used to know. It's going to require a lot of work.

I am proud to say that in my life and my job I am able to spend a lot of time with American in uniform. They are magnificent and would so enjoy this here today....They too, as you are, are the very best of your generation. Think of them when you think you're having a bad day....Will all veterans of the U.S. armed forces please do us the honor of standing up in place?... "

And that, as Paul Harvey would say --- is the rest of the story! I sure hope I don't have to come to the defense of these media lib's too often!