The Lying game

Instead of admitting that he may have told too tall a tale about his chopper experience in Iraq, Brian Williams took an alternate course of action: He wondered if he had a brain tumor..

VANITY FAIR has an elaborate report about the civil war for the soul of NBC NEWS..

Among the revelations reported by Brian Burrough: An NBC insider spilled the beans on what life was like at NBC NEWS during the feeding frenzy of media attention over Williams’ ability to misstate many things..

VANITY FAIR says that insider said that Williams said (feel like a grade school recess yard yet) he wondered if he had a brain rumor.. the insider claimed Williams was unable to use the word ‘lie’ to describe his behavior..

Again, the ‘insider':

“He didn’t want to leave New York,” a onetime NBC exec told the magazine. “Getting him to war zones was real tough . . . but when he did go, he came back with these great stories that kind of put himself at the center of things.”