Well we now have a full reaction from Richard Blumenthal to the story revealing that he has lied about his military service in Vietnam. According to Breitbart, "his campaign called the report an 'outrageous distortion' of his record." Blumenthal is holding a news conference at a Veterans of Foreign Wars post this afternoon to discuss the matter further.
Somebody better warn Blumenthal that there is videotape of him claiming to have served in Vietnam. It is posted all over the web and some of it actually ran with the story in the Times. It is also posted on web sites for the Greenwich Time, Stamford Advocate, Connecticut Post and other new organizations. There is no way to dany the lies. An apology is Blumenthal's only avenue. Indeed, it is offensive that Blumenthal is actually using a VFW to make the statements when he is NOT a veteran of foreign wars.
Maybe he will tell the press about how it was that he even got into the reserves. At the time that he "enlisted" there were enormous waiting lists to get into the reserves; there is no way that he just walked in and enlisted. My guess is that Blumenthal either used political pull to jump ahead of the others on the list or he paid someone off. He should not be a senator.
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