Brian Williams mocked for ‘Baghdad Bob’ comparison to AG Barr

MSNBC’s Brian Williams is coming under criticism from conservatives for saying that headline writers may compare Attorney General William Barr to “Baghdad Bob,” the former press secretary to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein during the U.S.-Iraq war.

Williams made the reference to Iraqi press secretary Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf not long after the end of Barr’s press conference on Thursday ahead of the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

“It’s already been mentioned around here, it would harken back to a conflict decades ago,” Williams said on Thursday in reference to the Iraq War that began in 2003. “We would not be surprised if some headline writer somewhere came up somewhere with ‘Baghdad Bill Barr’ for what we saw today.”   

Conservatives ripped into Williams for the remark, with some mentioning his six-month suspension in February 2015 after he embellished several stories he covered during the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina.

Brian Williams, moron https://t.co/4H4iLNcl2A

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) April 19, 2019

Well Known Liar Brian Williams Smears AG Barr as ‘Baghdad Bill’ https://t.co/mfdD1Wc5IL pic.twitter.com/idsnIQ6Dal

— Scott Whitlock (@ScottJW) April 18, 2019

@guypbenson on @foxnewsnight: I’m still trying to get over @BWilliams going the Baghdad Bill Barr route my given why he’s no longer hosting the @NBCNightlyNews pic.twitter.com/Jgao0HGUFG

— Sean Langille (@SeanLangille) April 19, 2019

.@BWilliams failing and falling even more @MSNBC. His “deployment” to Iraq was as trying as @SenBlumenthal in Vietnam.

— David Webb (@davidwebbshow) April 19, 2019