I know it has been said elsewhere and I know that we have bigger issues of concern worth focusing on, but it seems to me that Mark Kirk’s lies about his military service actually exceed anything that Richard Blumenthal did, and, yet, there’s very little outrage or news coverage about it. I don’t have access to the statistics, but Blumenthal’s misleadiing representations merited a front-page article in the New York Times and wall-to-wall coverage on the cable news. Many media figures, including MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, effectively declared Blumenthal’s campaign to be stillborn. I haven’t encountered anyone willing to say the same thing about Mark Kirk’s campaign. And, really, there would be more merit if someone said it about Kirk, because Blumenthal was, and remains, an overwhelming favorite to win the Connecticut seat, while Kirk has never been better than a toss-up candidate.
Also, if you can die fighting Nazis in 1955, that’s pretty impressive.
Why is that surprising? Dr. Tiller died fighting Nazis in 2009.
Are you drinking?
no. why do you ask?
Jan B doesn’t seem to have much of a grip on reality. he died fighting the nazis when she was 11 – was she 11 when he was “fighting the nazis” in the munitions factory in 1945? lots of fog in that story.
You could have just as easily posted this under “Stupid Democrats”. It’s politically stupid that Democrats don’t make a bigger deal out of what should be career ending lies. Instead, they either remain silent or waste time attacking the President, still the best thing going for Democrats.
I still don’t get it. didn’t he say at the beginning of that speech that the NY Times diced up that he was stateside during the war. These people he was talking to were aware of his military record, right? What’s the big deal?
I think you mean Blumenthal – the Kirk story is something else, way out there, years of lies.
Somewhere on msnbc.com today they posted a story titled:
GOP’s Kirk faces fire over service record, again.
For Blumenthal:
Game-changer in CT?
What amazes me is liberals’ continuing ability to discover with amazement that the news media is biased – but not toward liberals!
Is WWII over now?
Better yet.
Is the Civil War over now?
don’t you mean the War of Northern Aggression?
2010 is going to be 1994 all over again. to write that story they need some huge upsets over sure things like Blumenthal, in addition to the GOP taking over the House and Senate. Come on, try to keep up.
Kirk is a liar, but yes, it’s quite obvious, the double-standard.