Perhaps because (after the inside the WH documentary) he is feeling he's perceived as being too pro-Obama, on the NBC nightly News tonight Brian Williams perpetuated the right wing propaganda that Obama has said nothing critical about the Iran situation:
"Good evening. While there's been fighting in the streets of Teheran between protestors and the Iranian government, there's been a fight underway in Washington and elsewhere over whether President Obama should do more or say more on the situation. He's avoided doing that, he says, for his own set of reasons until today. At a news conference he was tougher than he has been on the Iran situation. It's where we begin here tonight with WH correspondent Savannah Guthrie...."
This falls right in line the nonsensical question Garrett of Faux News posed ("Why so late?") and with the moronic recent criticism by John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
Of course the reality is Obama's Cairo speech was a very early, statesmanlike, unusually prescient, on the money assessment of the situation, in which he said just the right things encouraging more Democracy. He has been critical of the Iranian gov't several times since their election, his weekend comments even bringing praise from McCain on FTN Sun. morning.
Brian Williams must be aware of the subtleties of this issue and the politics involved. So one can only wonder at his motives here. I don't think he's necessarily a wingnut. I think it's likely this is another case of trying to please both sides to sustain ratings. He views it as two equal arguments instead of one right and one wrong.
You notice in the next sentence after the one emphasized above, he says Obama today "was tougher than he has been", implying that he has been tough already, just that now he's being tougher. Now that is fairly accurate, but completely inconsistent with his prior sentence. He's trying to have it both ways, and therefore spouting contradictory nonsense and sounding like an idiot.
If you are interested in complaining, here's NBC nightly news address:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...