Brian Williams has the entire media breathing down his neck right now- after lying about being on a helicopter that was shot down in Iraq, the "NBC Nightly News" newscaster has since been suspended for six months without pay and is more or less the laughingstock of the entire news-reading public. Worse yet,since Jon Stewart's retirement announcement, Williams is being looked at very unfavorably in comparison to the Comedy Central media darling.
But Williams has one ally on his side. An ally no one expected, and an ally who's probably not even close to someone Williams would want in his corner. That ally: Charlie Sheen.
Sheen spoke out in defense of Brian Williams in a recent Twitter post. Like anything that comes out of Sheen's mouth (or keyboard) these days, the response is weird, and incoherent. For some reason, it seems to have been written in the style of a poem. But it's adamantly in defense of Brian Williams, and speaks to the newsman's professionalism and strength of character.
Sheen's diatribe is very long (he Tweeted it using a service called TwitLonger, which allows users to tweet more than 140 characters), so to read the full thing, go ahead and click this link right here.
But here's a chunk of what Sheen's been saying.
"Lastly;
you are clearly the victim of
a transparent and vile
witch hunt!
Erroneously
"staged" by hooligans,
non coms, cowards and
oligarchs,
who's only
desperate and
hideous goal is to discredit
the genius that they relied
on for almost 3 decades!
Now and forever you
are a true Patriot and a Hero
of mine
until the day i leave this
star crossed imperfect
Rock we call Earth..."
Strange words from a strange man. But if you're Brian Williams, or if you're a supporter of Brian Williams during the reporter's troubled times, even something as strange as a handwritten Charlie Sheen poem has got to make things a little better. Right?
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