I could have sworn I wrote about this before

February 10, 2015

This whole Brian Williams business (not this Brian Williams, although he might have his own stories to tell) has a lot of tongues wagging. If he was “lying” about some of his experiences — being in a helicopter in Afghanistan that was shot down, seeing a body floating on the water in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina — how can we trust him on other subjects?

https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/screen-shot-2015-02-05-at-9-34-11-am-e1423159616582.png?w=970&resize=480%2C267 But not so fast. Maybe his misremembering isn’t an overt decision to deceive. Maybe it’s just a false memory. Happens all the time, it seems. If that’s truly the way he remembers things, who’s to say Williams is totally wrong? Couldn’t he just be a little wrong?

A few years ago, I heard Moose Skowron talking very specifically about a single incident on my home boy Peter Sagal’s NPR quiz show, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. It got me to wondering about athletes’ amazing senses of recall. But I had recently read Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else and started digging a bit. Here’s my original post on the topic.

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