At the very end of an otherwise excellent piece on the Blitz, the insufferably smarmy Brian Williams imparted this nugget of history: "...just today, just this afternoon, not too far from here, outside one of the new Olympic venues, we happened to look down at the unmistakable sight of pock-marked bullet holes on a stone pillar...a reminder that the war is not that far off...." (transcript unavailable) Unmistakable? Bullet holes? Who wrote that? One of the army of fact-checkers at NBC? Who knew that the Nazis fought house-to-house with the Brits in East London? Tune in tonight, folks -- you may learn about the U-Boats in the Thames. The author once lived on a bay on a former British island where U-Boats actually did hide.....
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