{"id":28555,"date":"2012-01-31T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28555"},"modified":"2012-01-31T19:47:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T23:47:39","slug":"msnbc-fact-checkers-declared-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28555","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC fact checkers declared dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TSO sends <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/01\/31\/10279295-im-very-alive-army-veteran-declared-dead-4-times\">an article in keeping with our media fact-checking theme<\/a> today. It&#8217;s about a veteran who depends on his disability check being declared dead by a dead government agency;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Veterans Administration has declared him dead four times, but Miller, a Brevard County resident, has refuted the claims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me, it\u2019s stupid. I can\u2019t die but one time. They have killed me four times,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Miller, a former drill sergeant, served 10 years in the Army. He said he lives on a government pension and Social Security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, there hasn&#8217;t been a Veterans Administration since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.va.gov\/about_va\/vahistory.asp\">March 15, 1989<\/a>. You know what else I discovered? If you do a fricken Google search for Veterans Administration, the search takes you the the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs. In fact, it&#8217;s impossible to filter out DVA links if you&#8217;re looking for some information about the VA.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the terrible part of the story is the bureaucratic terror that Jerry Miller is experiencing. Maybe he should make stories up about his career like Matthis or Joe Cryer and the DVA will leave him alone. We certainly can&#8217;t get the DVA&#8217;s OIG to look into their pasts when we supply them with documentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSO sends an article in keeping with our media fact-checking theme today. It&#8217;s about a veteran &hellip; <a title=\"MSNBC fact checkers declared dead\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28555\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MSNBC fact checkers declared dead<\/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":[6,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28555","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=28555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}