NBC anchor Brian Williams just makes stuff up, and the world is shocked – but, then again, if you've been a regular reader of Antiwar.com, you already knew what a liar he is.

The Twitteratti are in a tizzy over Williams' blatant fibbery: he's been telling the same story for years, all about how he was in a helicopter over Iraq that came under attack and he feared for his life. "I was in a place I had no business being," he said the other day, reiterating the lie and even embellishing it. This was too much for those soldiers who had actually been there, and they quickly debunked his tall tale: Stars and Stripesgot a hold of it, and Williams was soon issuing groveling-yet-incomplete apologies, claiming he'd "misremembered" the incident. The Twitter mob then descended – but what are they complaining about? After all, this is the very least of the lies Williams has told on air – and, as far as I'm concerned, the least egregious.

Way back in 2007, I pointed out the pernicious role Williams played in the run-up to the Iraq war, loyally echoing the War Party's triumphalist nonsense. Citing Howard Kurtz's 2007 book, Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War, I pointed out in this space that Williams was a reliable foot soldier in the neocons' war on truth.