McMahon Ad Attacks Blumenthal’s Vietnam Claim

[RamboLiberal]

Just hours before the first formal debate in Connecticut’s United States Senate contest, the Republican candidate, Linda E. McMahon, released a new video showing her Democratic opponent, Richard Blumenthal, suggesting that he had served in the Vietnam War even though he did not. The video the McMahon campaign obtained shows Mr. Blumenthal, the state’s attorney general, delivering an address that it says occurred in Bridgeport in 2003 to express support for American troops overseas. “When we returned, we saw nothing of this gratitude,” Mr. Blumenthal said.

The video of Mr. Blumenthal, who has been under fire for exaggerating his military record, was part of a 30-second advertisement in which the narrator asks: “If he lied about Vietnam, what else is he lying about?”

It was circulated on the Internet on Monday morning and was set to be broadcast by television stations later in the day, according to the McMahon campaign. The attack was unleashed as Ms. McMahon, the former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment, was preparing to debate Mr. Blumenthal on Monday night in Hartford.

Republicans close to the McMahon campaign said the goal was to personally shake up Mr. Blumenthal, a once ubiquitous presence in Connecticut who has significantly curtailed his public appearances after The New York Times published an article in May describing how he had misrepresented his military service over the years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/nyregion/05conn.html?hp

[Mass]

1. I wonder if people will care more about this or about Blumenthal's video about McMahon's business

dealings and call to lower minimum wage.

She has already tried this and it did not float.

[HereSince1628]

2. What fire-base was McMahon stationed at?

Do patent leather shoes really shine up?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[ShockediSay]

3. So we want some supermillionaire running things, who exploited her

workforce, and laid them off when it fattened her millions? IMHO

[deminks]

4. Interesting that it was a "Times" hit piece that didn't include the whole tape

which they received allegedly from the McMahon campaign in the first place. The "Times" tried to pull a Breitbart/O'Keefe on Blumenthal. Old News, McMahon.

Here is some history:

http://mediamatters.org/iphone/blog/201005190069

The Times' Blumenthal hit piece continues to unravel
May 19, 2010 7:48 pm ET by Matt Gertz

Earlier today, Media Matters' Jamison Foser noted that the Associated Press had discovered a flaw in The New York Times' reporting on Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's description of his military service. The AP noted that the Times story "included quotations and a video of Blumenthal saying at a 2008 event that he had 'served in Vietnam,'" but left out that Blumenthal began that speech by accurately saying that he "served in the military, during the Vietnam era."

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