Apparently Blumenthal is owed an apology

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The New York times had 3 examples of Blumenthal mistating his military record. Of those we know one was technically accurate, one was in a speech in which he did say he wasn't a VietNam vet, and one was a case where he over stated. In the same article we heard about how he wasn't on the swim team but said he was captain. Turns out he was on the swim team and didn't say he was captain. Oops.

Now we find out the following.

The Advocate thus seems to have located one new instance in which Blumenthal may have misstated. On the other hand, the Hartford Courant’s Colin McEnroe contacted a wide range of Connecticut political reporters about the Blumenthal matter (click here). McEnroe says he “asked reporters, anchors and columnists” to tell him “whether they could remember Blumenthal ever claiming to have served in Vietnam” and “whether they had been under the impression...that Blumenthal had served in Vietnam.” Again and again, these experienced reporters told McEnroe that they had never seen Blumenthal misstate his record, and that they never believed that he had served in Nam. This tracks the earlier statement by Christopher Keating, the Courant’s Hartford bureau chief. On Tuesday evening’s NewsHour, Keating told Judy Woodruff that he had attended many veterans events at which Blumenthal spoke, but he never heard him misstate his record (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 5/20/10).

One experienced observer after another say that he has never heard Blumenthal misstate his record. If the New York Times was trying to present a full picture of this marginal matter, it’s hard to know why evidence like this was missing from its original, massive front-page hit piece. But then, how awful does that original report by Raymond Hernandez seem to be? This awful:

In our own original treatment of this matter, we cited the peculiar passage in which Hernandez seemed to suggest that Blumenthal had lied about being on the Harvard swim team (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 5/18/10). “Records at the college show that he was never on the team,” Hernandez haplessly wrote. Yesterday, the Hartford Courant quoted a captain of the Harvard swim team saying that Blumenthal was on the team. And not only that! “A photo from the 1964 Harvard College yearbook... shows Blumenthal participating in a Harvard swim meet his freshman year,” the Courant further reported.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh052110.shtml#GAMBLING

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It seems that Blumenthal misspoke twice about VietNam and some reporters in CT can't do their jobs. Out of that we get Blumenthal is a big liar. Gee, a anti big business liberal gets taken down. What a shock.