{"id":6332,"date":"2015-02-07T11:59:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T18:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2015-02-24T12:08:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T19:08:12","slug":"brian-williams-neil-degrasse-tyson-george-w-bush-mitt-romney-hillary-clinton-james-frey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/07\/brian-williams-neil-degrasse-tyson-george-w-bush-mitt-romney-hillary-clinton-james-frey\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Williams, Neil deGrasse Tyson, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, James Frey"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Brian Williams isn\u2019t the first big name to \u2018misremember\u2019 a story<\/h1>\n

By MICHAEL MARTINEZ<\/p>\n

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Call it a false memory. A trick of the mind. Or a \u201cmisremembrance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Television anchor Brian Williams isn\u2019t the first person to be embarrassed by claiming a remembrance that, well,\u00a0never really happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Recent history shows how several famous figures suffered what one expert labels a false \u201cflashbulb\u201d memory.<\/p>\n

NEIL deGRASSE TYSON<\/span><\/p>\n

Astrophysicist and television host Neil deGrasse Tyson, a protege of the late Carl Sagan, claimed he heard President George W. Bush make a remark intended to highlight divisions between Judeo-Christian Americans and fundamentalist Muslims.<\/p>\n

Tyson\u2019s assertion is still published on the webpage of the Hayden Planetarium, which he runs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the 9\/11 attacks, when President George W. Bush, in a speech aimed at distinguishing the U.S. from the Muslim fundamentalists, said, \u2018Our God is the God who named the stars.\u2019 The problem is two-thirds of all the stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don\u2019t think he knew this. This would confound the point that he was making,\u201d Tyson said in a 2008 speech.<\/p>\n

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH<\/span><\/p>\n

Even President Bush suffered a false memory of what he saw on television the day of the September 11, 2001, attacks.<\/p>\n

Bush recalled more than once how he saw the first plane hit the north of the World Trade Center before he entered a classroom in Florida, where his reaction to the devastating attacks was forever captured on television cameras.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn reality, he had been told that a plane had hit the building, but had not seen it \u2014 there was no live footage of the plane hitting the tower,\u201d the two professors wrote.<\/p>\n

HILLARY CLINTON<\/span><\/p>\n

In her own campaign for the U.S. presidency in 2008, Hillary Clinton stated she evaded sniper fire when visiting Bosnia as first lady in 1996.<\/p>\n

While seeking votes, she provided a dramatic recollection of the event, which occurred on March 25, 1996.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base,\u201d said Clinton, a Democrat.<\/p>\n

[ click to read complete article at LVRJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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