Now this is rich. Brian Williams, the disgraced ex-NBC journalist who was literally fired for falsely reporting that he was in a helicopter during the Iraq war that took on combatant fire, is now going on a crusade against "fake news." On his MSNBC show last night, Williams decided to attack retired General Flynn and Donald Trump for spreading "fake news" via their twitter accounts.

"The retired Army 3-star general has passed on some gems himself. Here are a few...Flynn retweeted accusations that Clinton is involved with child sex trafficking and has "secretly waged war" on the Catholic Church, as well as charges that Obama is a "jihadi" who "laundered" money for Muslim terrorists. As we talked about here last night, fake news played a role in this election and continues to find a wide audience. A BuzzFeed news study of Donald Trump's own tweets where they followed back news stories to their root source found more of them came from Breitbart originally than any other single source."

So, we should probably just ignore that time Williams simply "mis-remembered" being in a helicopter taking on combatant fire when he was actually completely safe in a convoy about an hour away.

“I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another.”

This pretty much sums it up...

And, of course, more breaking news from Williams' current employer, the beacon of impartiality and purveyor of "real news," MSNBC.

Breaking news from network that pays Brian Williams $10 million/yearhttps://t.co/toK3WxAhBU — David Burge (@iowahawkblog) December 9, 2016

In conclusion: