{"id":19156,"date":"2010-05-18T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19156"},"modified":"2010-05-18T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:55:15","slug":"blumenthal-campaign-denies-he-lied-about-vietnam-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19156","title":{"rendered":"Blumenthal Campaign Denies He Lied About Vietnam Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2010\/05\/blumenthal-responds-to-vietnam-allegations\/56867\/\">Atlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The New York Times story is an outrageous distortion of Dick Blumenthal&#8217;s record of service,&#8221; Blumenthal&#8217;s campaign manager, Mindy Myers, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unlike many of his peers, Dick Blumenthal voluntarily joined the Marine Corps Reserves in 1970 and served for six months in Parris Island, SC and six years in the reserves. He received no special treatment from anyone.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Voluntarily&#8221; my ass. He got five deferments in five years to avoid service in Vietnam and when he couldn&#8217;t get anymore, he joined a reserve unit he knew wasn&#8217;t going to deploy (which isn&#8217;t true today-4th Civil Affairs Group is getting deployed a lot).<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal is having a press conference today at 2 pm ET to discuss these charges (i.e. trying to kill the story).<\/p>\n<p>The video (he says he was in Vietnam around 0:35):<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"490\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eEl0wMmyZ2Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"490\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eEl0wMmyZ2Q&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Atlantic: &#8220;The New York Times story is an outrageous distortion of Dick Blumenthal&#8217;s record &hellip; <a title=\"Blumenthal Campaign Denies He Lied About Vietnam Service\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19156\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blumenthal Campaign Denies He Lied About Vietnam Service<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-phony-soldiers","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}