{"id":24577,"date":"2011-06-21T15:17:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=24577"},"modified":"2011-06-21T15:27:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:27:03","slug":"jon-huntsmans-stolen-valor-spokesdouche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24577","title":{"rendered":"Jon Huntsman’s Stolen Valor Spokesdouche"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw this over at Ace’s shop<\/a>, from Politico<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Jon Huntsman’s 2012 video voiceover man<\/p>\n

It’s actor Brian Dennehy, of “Tommy Boy” and “F\/X” fame, who narrates the Fred Davis web videos that the press is enjoying, including this new one that was showed before the candidate announced today at Liberty State Park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, Brian Dennehy, the guy from First Blood that made us all look like lunatics on the edge. But it is okay, because he’s a big time combat veteran:<\/p>\n

“As for killing someone, anyone in combat would agree that it’s pretty much accidental. It’s not what you’re thinking about. You spend a considerable amount of time just trying not to be in a combat situation. You’re trying to avoid coming face-to-face with anything. So when something bad happens, it’s usually accidental. But the implication in war movies is that war has this rational beginning, middle and end. And of course none of it does. It’s absolutely fucking chaos. Apocalypse Now is the movie. Even more interesting is that it was made so soon after the war was over. It was and is the most sophisticated overview of the experience.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, he goes on about his awesome service in Viet Nam. Which he apparently garnered via his acting, like that other jackass Val Kilmer. Regarding Dennehy:<\/p>\n

Dennehy is a fine actor and apparently does a lot of research into his roles. But he is not a Vietnam veteran. According to his military record, which we obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Dennehy was on active duty from Sept. 15, 1959, through June 4, 1963 — before the war really got cranking. He wasn’t wounded in combat. Dennehy’s only overseas duty assignment was as a Marine football player in Okinawa in 1962.<\/p>\n

Dennehy finally admitted in a lengthy handwritten letter to us that he had not served in combat in Vietnam. He’d started “shooting my mouth off in bars” years ago. From there it snowballed.<\/p>\n

In 1998, when Stolen Valor was published, Dennehy got calls from newspapers asking about his claims. He came clean.<\/p>\n

“I lied about serving in Vietnam,” Dennehy told the supermarket tabloid The Globe, “and I’m sorry. I did not mean to take away from the actions and the sacrifices of the ones who did really serve there…I did steal valor. That was very wrong of me. There is no real excuse for that. I was a peace-time Marine, and I got out in 1963 without ever serving in Vietnam… I started the story that I had been in ‘Nam, and I got stuck with it. Then I didn’t know how to set the record straight.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wouldn’t vote for Huntsman anyway, this makes it no less or more likely, but now I will be pretty vocal bashing him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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