Blumenthal: "I served in Vietnam"/NYT to Blumenthal: You lie!

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Hopefully people will stop pretending the NYT is some liberal rag now, considering they just lost us a safe Senate seat.

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Well, yes, but my point is, if the NYT were some incredibly biased liberal paper, like so many on the right seem to argue, they wouldn't have printed an article that dramatically hurts Democrats' chances of holding on to the Senate.

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Ok, so it turns out the NYT piece was a load of crap. In the same speech that the NYT makes a big deal about, where he said he served in Vietnam, in the same speech he clarified with "served in the military, during the Vietnam era."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNhzPBn3zP0&feature=player_embedded

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005190039

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So why didn’t the Times include Blumenthal “correctly characterizing his service” in its version of the video?  That’s awfully misleading, isn’t it?  Given that Republican Linda McMahon’s campaign has taken credit for feeding the Times the Blumenthal story, you have to wonder if it gave the Times the incomplete video, as well.  Either way, the Times should explain why it chose to omit Blumenthal’s correct characterization of his service.

UPDATE: Greg Sargent gets a comment from the New York Times.  But rather than explaining the Times’ decision to omit the part of the video in which Blumenthal accurate describes his service, NYT flak Diane McNulty sounds more like a political opponent of Blumenthal’s:

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Seriously: Would that first paragraph read any differently if it came from a spokesperson for one of Blumenthal’s potential Republican opponents rather than from the New York Times?

Sargent, meanwhile, spells things out for the Times:

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Meanwhile, here's Connecticut reporters on the NYT claim that this wasn't an isolated incident, but a long-time lie Blumenthal had been involved in (source):

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10 to 1, refuting the NYT story.

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It's an unfortunate and confusing choice of words, but he's not saying that he specifically came back from Vietnam to all kinds of disrespect. If he had said "we came back", or "I came back", or "many like me came back" or something to that effect, then that would be damning.

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http://richardblumenthal.com/action/ConventionVideo?utm_source=sp3022122&utm_medium=e&sc=sp3022122

If that's not a heartwarmer, you're far more cynical than I

Truly, (Democratic) Attorney Generals are the greatest Americans.

"Hey mom, there's the man who saved my life!" hahah, wow.