During Paris Attack Brian Williams Oddly Breaks News About The Deftones, Al Gore

The world is reeling this morning from the series of terrorist attacks in Paris that have claimed at least 129 lives. Over the last few years, a familiar media pattern has developed with these sorts of unfolding tragedies, one which played out during MSNBC’s coverage of the attacks Friday night.

All the familiar elements were there: the unsourced or barely-sourced video footage, the parade of terrorism experts, the boundless speculation, and the desperate need to continue moving your face-hole and making sounds with it at all costs. In this case, it was Brian Williams leading the coverage, which consisted of a Vine video of the soccer game playing on a loop, and a live video feed from a Paris news outlet that, for a good portion of the coverage, Williams only identified as “the Paris cable television” feed.

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When Williams wasn’t simply describing what was happening on the screen (with the disclaimer that he didn’t know what any of it meant), he was talking to terrorism experts who openly speculated on everything from the possibility that the hostages were probably all going to be shot to the likelihood that all of the Islamic terrorist groups had joined together into a Legion of Doom.

If that didn’t get you, then you knew Brian Williams was in trouble when he segued from the sadly mounting death toll by saying “For music fans…”

“For music fans following this as well, because after all, this is an American band we’re talking about that was giving the sold-out concert tonight. The Deftones were also in Paris to perform tomorrow evening. We assume that will be canceled. They’re all accounted for and well.”

This just in, among those not killed tonight were multiple Butthole Surfers. Echo and the Bunnymen were also unharmed, but their audience did suffer a number of deep cuts. Kajagoogoo‘s whereabouts remain a mystery, but nobody’s heard from them in years.

At another point in the broadcast, Williams created some drama around the well-being of former Vice President Al Gore, who was…READ MORE

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.