Richard Blumenthal missed his true calling…he should have been a tap dancer…….

Man can this guy lie.

If the NYTs article did not mention his time in the Reserves, how could it possible denigrate his time in the reserves?

From the article- tell me this is just “misplaced words”:

“In an interview, Jean Risley, the chairwoman of the Connecticut Vietnam Veterans Memorial Inc., recalled listening to an emotional Mr. Blumenthal offering remarks at the dedication of the memorial. She remembered him describing the indignities that he and other veterans faced when they returned from Vietnam.

“It was a sad moment,” she recalled. “He said, ‘When we came back, we were spat on; we couldn’t wear our uniforms.’ It looked like he was sad to me when he said it.”

Ms. Risley later telephoned the reporter to say she had checked into Mr. Blumenthal’s military background and learned that he had not, in fact, served in Vietnam.

Sad to know that there are some dumb saps out there like Susan Stephenson who will believe Blumenthal when he says it was only “a few misplaced words”.

How does one “misspeak” when saying, “When I was serving in Vietnam?” Did he forget he wasn’t really there?

Misspeaking is saying someone’s name wrong, getting the name of a location wrong, forgetting a date… not mistakenly saying you WENT TO WAR!

What’s really amazing is that it seems the Democrats are standing by him!!! Wow!

As a Marine Corps Vet , This man is a disgrace!

He is a typical liberal.

“I will not let anyone slander me by repeating my words and lies.”

Next excuse: lying is not illegal.

Rep. Souder resigns over being a bit of a slut with an adult woman.
The Democrats circle the wagons around Blumenthal for stolen valor.
This evening, we shall see just how stupid the people of Connecticut are.
The man should just admit his short comings in honesty and slink off in to the sunset, never to be heard from again. The bastard.

I’m Not Blue:

OT,

Hall is way too thinned skinned and will ban you for criticizing him and he will delete posts criticizing him.

Well said Chuck.

The dems will always circle the wagons, no matter how bad, how sad, how disturbing, how gross the lies are of one of their colleagues.

He should be forced out of the race by his own party, but that will not happen. Just look at Newsbusters recap of the events:

“CBS Skips Any Mention of Dem Senate Candidate’s Military Scandal, NBC Avoids Party ID”

Yup, the media will circle the wagons around this guy as well, he is one of them (media=dem party).

Just to demonstrate how MSM is reporting this:

From their websites:

ABC: Richard Blumenthal Not the First Public Official to Misstate Military Record
CBS: Richard Blumenthal Regrets “Misplaced Words” on Vietnam Service
CNN:; NOTHING ABOUT BLUMENTHAL (But they do have a headline about the republican who resigned)
FNC: The ‘I Misspoke’ Defense
MSNBC: ‘I have misspoken’ about military record, says Senate hopeful

The shocker is that CNN is SILENT on their main web page on this topic – SILENT. I guess they don’t consider a lying democrat senatorial candidate to be newsworthy.

Just like VP Joe Biden. Another democrat draft dodger

ha!

Here is how the liberals are explaining this:

He has done other good things.

It’s easy to see he misspoke and instead of saying “…when I served *during* Viet Nam…” he said “…*in* Viet Nam.”

I wonder if he “corkscrewd” in and ducked sniper fire in Bosnia as well.

The United States Marines Corps is ashamed of you Mr. Blumenthal- You disgrace all Vets!!!! I guess the Corps Values of Honor , Courage, and Commitment, didn’t apply to you.

What is it about admirable Mid-Atlantic Attorney Generals and NYTimes exclusives?

Blumenthal has always been near the top of my list of great AGs. I could go back to one or two of my previous blogs and find the posts I’ve written praising him for his fight against Microsoft and the work he has done toward restricting child predators from social media, off the top of my head, or I could just point toward a retweet of a press release from his office last week, where he and 22 other AGs called out Topix for not actively policing user comments and charging $20 for an expedited “investigation”.

Personally, I think the good this man has done far outweighs any sins known thus far and hopefully this won’t kill his candidacy because we need folks like him on the people’s side, but why can’t the admirable Mid-Atlantic AGs keep their act together and their noses clean?

He gives lying politicians a bad name.

I successfully did CPR on 10 people and only murdered one (not really, I don’t hurt people). I have obviously done more good than harm. Is that similar to your argument Magister?

Poor Bloomy, he joins Hillary when she stayed in that damaged hotel. Remember Hill said she WANTED to join the military. She mispoke about the sniper fire in Bosnia, she was with Bloomy in Vietnam.

ANY veteran that defends this clown is crazy. That moron that cried when he introduced him needs to have his head examined.

Someone needs to research what Bloomy said about Bush in the National Guard. I would bet we would find out he was telling a different story then.

That moron that cried when he introduced him needs to have his head examined. ”

That was just pathetic that a veteran would promote such a coward.

I wonder if the dems will roll out anyone else to shill for Bloomy.

That lying Murtha is dead; the phony who also lied about his Viet-Nam experience, Tom Harkin, is too busy telling people that it is the Government that gives people rights,and Clinton was overseas protesting the war so he can’t do it.

Maybe Joe Biden???

@ChuckfromTacoma: First of all, letting a biographical misconception get ahead of the truth and perhaps helping to keep that misconception alive is a far cry from a capital crime. Whether or not he will continue in the race is entirely up to him and it’s up to the good people of Connecticut, whether his good work outweighs this misstep. It’s not up to us or any talking head, it’s up to the voters, he’d like to represent.

Personally, through my many incarnations as a blogger, I’ve written several times about the work he has done and because I’m a newsjunkie who monitors literally thousands of feeds and have always read multiple papers including the one from Hartford, I have the utmost respect for the man and I’d be hard-pressed to name another AG who has done so much for their constituents.

If you cut into anybody, you’re going to find a mistake. That seems to be true for even the most pious among us and though he has obviously erred, it is not the entirety of his character.

Wowsers, could it be that even the mediaite “singers” aren’t sticking up for this clown? So far only Magister is giving him a pass? Where are all the other apologists today (rox/ted/adkins/trrk etal) is there a protest somewhere we didn’t hear about?

Magister “If you cut into anybody, you’re going to find a mistake. That seems to be true for even the most pious among us and though he has obviously erred, it is not the entirety of his character.”

Maybe it’s not the entirety of his character, but ya gotta admit it, that is one hell of a whopper to tell more than once…..

And common sense tells me, if he had an R after his name, you wouldn’t be nearly so understanding either.

Lying about being a war veteran is NOT a mistake it’s treason in my book.

Lying POS. There is no excuse for what he said. Crappy “apology” too. He probably shouldn’t be elected because of this.

But he will. :)

Magister- What he did is the equalivant to being in the service and pinning on combat ribbons to his uniform that he did not rate . Under the UCMJ he would be court martialed if he were still serving.

@timzank: By all appearances, he’s clearly made a mistake. But if you go through the link under my retweet and then open it up to the entirety of press releases from his office, it’s equally clear that he’s done a lot of good and as we try to limit the various monopolies, rein-in drug prices, credit card abuses, big banks, etc. I think someone with his experience, staff and wealth of knowledge would be hard to replace.

As for whether I’d feel the same if there was an “R” after his name, it’d depend on the positions the person has taken over the years and whether I feel they’re the best person for the job.

TylerDurden says:
May 18, 2010 at 4:23 pm

ha!

Here is how the liberals are explaining this:

He has done other good things.

Magister

“Personally, I think the good this man has done far outweighs any sins known thus far ”

As predictable as a shit after eating Bran Flakes.

What he did was despicable. He should have dropped out of college and angled toward a career in talk radio where he could have encouraged others to serve, all the while avoiding service by claiming an infected asshole. Or perhaps like that patriot Ted Nugent he could have simply crapped in his pants. Or like Glenn Beck and…well, I don’t know why Beck didn’t serve; maybe he’s just a coward. Or like Hannity…well, you get the idea.

All kinds of possibilities, but that being said, he should drop out of the race.

Ted, FDR and Lincoln were never in the military either. Give ‘em hell!

writer – What about Ronald Reagan, Newt, etc., etc. etc.

I wasn’t the one insinuating anything about lack of military service, Ted. You were.

Add Biden who had 5 deferments like Bloomy.

Damn, add BHO and Clinton while we are at it.

So Ted, all bullshit sniping aside, you’re ok with this? You give him a pass for lying? The AG?

writer – then we are in agreement. My point is that many of the tea-bagging bloviators never served a day in their lives, either dodging service by complaining of a painful asshole or crapping their pants. Others, like Beck, I assume are just cowards.

Others, like Beck, I assume are just cowards”

I agree- BHO is a coward.

As Tyler just said, Ted, does your ‘coward’ label also apply to Obama? He was never in the military either.

Bloomy:

“I will not let anyone tell the truth about my lies.”

Is this a big shocker?

A liberals liar…I would be shocked if they produced a liberal that told the truth.

Remember Billary was dodging bullets in Bosnia – Obama never heard Wright’s “America’s Evil” hatered when he was sitting in the front row for twenty years. B.J. Bill did not have sexual relations with that women. Obama barely knew the Terrorist Bill Ayres when Obama was holding fund raisers at his house. Al Bore continue to cliam Global Warming, caused by the emission of greenhouse gasses, will melt the ice caps and cause massive global flooding. Obama is only raising taxes on households that make over 250K per year. etc. etc. etc.

Beck was 8 years old when Vietnam ended. What war did he avoid? I don’t care if people did or didn’t serve as long as they tell the truth. Bloomy lied about being in Vietnam. He served in the reserves that was good enough but then he had to lie about serving in Vietnam. No excuse for that.

Ted is an idiot. Reagan was in the Army during WWII. What is your complaint?

The cowards are the draft dodgers and the traitors that went to Canada, not people that had legitimate deferments. There have always been deferments. Men that worked in vital industries like coal mines and steel mills had deferments, were they cowards? The men that trained the men that went to Vietnam were they cowards? What about the 9 troops that backed up the ONE on the battlefield, were they cowards. What about the troops stationed all around the world during the Vietnam war, were they cowards?
This is not about who served and who did not, liberals hate the military no matter when or how they served. They will always find a way to complain.

One thing we do know, Ted is the painful asshole.

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Ted, is it possible for you to admit that the Connecticut AG is an asshole without your kneejerk attack the Tea Party folks? It completely negates your point.

Only a liar deigns to defend another liar.