Brian Williams Gets Flak on Twitter for ‘Plowed Over’ Remark During Nice Coverage

If you’re wondering why MSNBC’s Brian Williams is a top trend on Twitter right now, this is why.

See, as 8:00 approached, Williams––covering the attack in Nice––said a little lightly he “plowed over” Chris Matthews‘ timeslot.

But given the truck that killed people in France today, people on Twitter found his choice of words just really, really bad:

Crap! Now Brian Williams makes some sick pun about "plowing over" an hour of news. @MSNBC please get rid of him

— Gretchen Davis (@sfgretch) July 15, 2016

Brian Williams just said “we just plowed over our coverage” about the Trump VP thing. Bad word choices since Nice is still breaking news.

— Meghin Moore (@meghin_) July 15, 2016

Brian Williams saying that they "plowed over" Chris Matthews show is beyond a poor choice of words.

— Jenny (@JennyCups) July 15, 2016

After huge truck crushes well over100+ people in Nice, Brian Williams just said on air:"we have just plowed over the 8pm hour. #NiceFrance

— Judith Lombardi (@JEL317) July 15, 2016

Brian Williams said "we plowed over" the airtime for Chris Matthews. He had been talking about what happened in France earlier. Not good.

— eric sondheimer (@latsondheimer) July 15, 2016

Please tell me I didn't hear @MSNBC's Brian Williams,just out of exile,say "plowed over" while covering #NiceAttack pic.twitter.com/nDVsRNNdiS

— John Horlander (@DrJIrish91) July 15, 2016

"We have just plowed over the normal hour" I'm almost impressed Brian Williams can make his continued employment worse.

— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) July 15, 2016

Atrocious clod Brian Williams, once again bringing left, right & center together in teeth-gritting agony. https://t.co/U8FwG06qFt

— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) July 15, 2016

Some people were also critical of Williams for reading some of Trump’s Nice tweets on air.

You can watch the clip above, via MSNBC.

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