{"id":19176,"date":"2010-05-19T12:11:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T17:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19176"},"modified":"2010-05-19T12:49:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T17:49:10","slug":"vff-calls-for-apology-from-blumenthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19176","title":{"rendered":"VFF calls for apology from Blumenthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Fox News this morning, Pete Hegseth, our friend and Executive Director of Vets For Freedom demanded an apology from Connecticut Attorney General Blumenthal to his opponents and to all Vietnam Veterans;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=4203127&#038;w=400&#038;h=249\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest news video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Claymore sends us a link to Democratic Underground (in my opinion, Claymore spends more time there than I would consider healthy) in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=view_all&#038;address=389x8362650\">many DUmmies are more than willing to throw Blumenthal<\/a> from the train. I guess that&#8217;s reflective of the Democrats&#8217; worries about losing Congress in November.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s what it takes to make Democrats aware of their candidates beyond the (D) next to their names.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, TSO sent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetvoice.com\/showDiary.do;jsessionid=DA1FE343AB03FAAD2D0A1B602F5A3D9D?diaryId=4082\">a link yesterday to Jim Starowiscz&#8217; post <\/a>blaming Blumenthal&#8217;s duplicity on the Nixon White House somehow.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, speaking of morons with megaphones, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2010\/05\/17\/gordon-duff-slave-america-holocaust-by-deceit\/\">Gordon DUff ignores the biggest story in the country<\/a> right now to call the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan so they can seal the border. Not a mention of Blumenthal in Veterans Today &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2010\/05\/19\/top-10-veterans-stories-in-todays-news-36\/\">Top 10 Veterans Story in Today&#8217;s News<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>What passes for <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100519\/ap_on_re_us\/us_blumenthal_vietnam_27\">news at AP<\/a>? The fact that Blumenthal ONCE stated the character of his service correctly. <\/p>\n<p>The Connecticut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/connecticut\/articles\/2010\/05\/18\/conn_vfw_head_critcizes_blumenthal_on_vietnam\/\">VFW commander rightly blasted Blumenthal<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Richard DiFederico, the commander of Connecticut&#8217;s Veterans of Foreign Wars, said he won&#8217;t forgive the comments either, whether they were intentional or not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It diminishes the service of all who served and sacrificed, most especially those whose names are inscribed on the Vietnam Wall,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Mr. Blumenthal was considered one of the best friends a veteran could have in Connecticut. It is a true shame that he let a false claim of Vietnam service change that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An unconfirmed rumor is spreading that Jesse MacBeth and Ward Reilly are inviting Blumenthal to join the Iraq Veterans Against the War since he has the same amount of time in Iraq as most of the membership and he&#8217;s pretty good at lying with a straight face..<\/p>\n<p>MOTHAX asks <a href=\"http:\/\/burnpit.legion.org\/2010\/05\/are-some-animals-veterans-more-equal-than-others\/\">Are some <del datetime=\"2010-05-19T17:46:14+00:00\">animals<\/del> veterans more equal than others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fox News this morning, Pete Hegseth, our friend and Executive Director of Vets For Freedom &hellip; <a title=\"VFF calls for apology from Blumenthal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19176\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VFF calls for apology from Blumenthal<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19176","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}