{"id":19326,"date":"2010-06-03T11:20:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19326"},"modified":"2010-06-03T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:20:09","slug":"that-kirk-thing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19326","title":{"rendered":"That Kirk thing again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, I wrote about the weak phony soldier case that Wapo<\/a> was trying to smack Mark Kirk, the Republican running for Obama’s vacated Senate seat, to prove that “everyone does it” – lie about their military service, that is. Today the Associated Press<\/a> joins in;<\/p>\n

Kirk’s campaign said his official U.S. House website once incorrectly said he was the only member of Congress to serve in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that began in 2003. That was changed in 2005 to say that he served “during” the operation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now we’re down to mincing words. So as long as we’re mincing words about military careers, let’s talk about Tim Waltz, Democrat from Minnesota who was brought to our attention before the 2008 election by our buddy Dave Thul<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a shot of Walz’ bio on his official site;<\/p>\n

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See that last line about serving overseas in Operation Enduring Freedom? Waltz actually served in Italy in support of OEF. Although the error has been pointed out to Waltz and the misperception it causes, he keep his bio written that way. And the Washington Post and the Associated Press ignore it. (Yeah, I know TSO likes Walz…but I don’t)<\/p>\n

Now, I’m not exactly sure what the media is looking at when they look at Kirk, because there are no screen shots and the media claims Kirk changes his web sites when they talk to him, so until the WP and AP master the art of screen shots, it’s difficult to know exactly what they’re talking about. But here’s Tim Walz sitting out there like a barn door-sized target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, I wrote about the weak phony soldier case that Wapo was trying to … That Kirk thing again<\/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":[46,89,30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress-sucks","category-phony-soldiers","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326","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=19326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}