NBC Nightly News wishes you a “happy and safe Independence Day” and undoubtedly hopes the furor over Brian Williams’ Durbinesque comments will be forgotten by tomorrow airtime.

IMAO hasn’t forgotten:

Neither has Jeff Goldstein, who brings you “9 OTHER analogies NBC’S Brian Williams would like us to consider in the name of showy, PC intellectualism.” Hah.

Seriously, Williams’ response is here. An excerpt:

While I insist that a re-reading of my question will prove that in no way was I calling the framers “terrorists” (for starters, the word did not exist 229 years ago), I regret that anyone thought that after a life spent reading and loving American history, I had suddenly changed my mind about the founders of our nation.

Translation: It’s your fault for misunderstanding him, and don’t you dare question his patriotism!