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Blumenthal Apologizes For Vietnam Remarks (VIDEO)
Rachel Slajda | May 24, 2010, 10:06AM
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).
Richard Blumenthal apologized Sunday night for falsely suggesting that he saw combat in the Vietnam War.
Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general who's running for Chris Dodd's Senate seat, served in the Marine Reserves during the war but was never sent overseas. A New York Times story published last week reported that, on several occasions, Blumenthal had suggested he was there, going so far as to say "I served in Vietnam."
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Richard Blumenthal
Times Publishes More Accounts Of Blumenthal Misrepresenting Service
Rachel Slajda | May 21, 2010, 2:29PM
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal
The New York Times today published two more examples of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal suggesting that he served in the Vietnam War.
In one, unearthed by the Stamford Advocate's search through its archives, Blumenthal says he "wore the uniform in Vietnam."
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Richard Blumenthal
That Other Thing: Blumenthal And The Swim Team
Rachel Slajda | May 21, 2010, 11:30AM
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate
In its bombshell story on Richard Blumenthal's military record this week, the New York Times took a few paragraphs to mention Blumenthal's college athletic record, framing it as an example of his willingness to mislead. Not only had he never served in Vietnam, the Times wrote; he was never on the Harvard swim team, either.
"On a less serious matter, another flattering but untrue description of Mr. Blumenthal's history has appeared in profiles about him. In two largely favorable profiles ... Mr. Blumenthal is described prominently as having served as captain of the swim team at Harvard. Records at the college show that he was never on the team," wrote the Times reporter, Raymond Hernandez.
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Richard Blumenthal
NYT: Longer Video Of Blumenthal Describing Record Doesn't Change Our Story
Rachel Slajda | May 20, 2010, 10:18AM
CT AG Richard Blumenthal
The New York Times says a longer video of the March 2008 speech in which Richard Blumenthal said he "served in Vietnam" -- and in which he also also correctly says he served "during Vietnam" -- doesn't change its story about Blumenthal lying about his record. A Times spokesman also urged Blumenthal to come clean to voters.
"The New York Times in its reporting uncovered Mr. Blumenthal's long and well established pattern of misleading his constituents about his Vietnam War service, which he acknowledged in an interview with The Times," said Diane McNulty, a spokesman for the Times. "The video doesn't change our story. Saying that he served 'during Vietnam' doesn't indicate one way or the other whether he went to Vietnam."
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Richard Blumenthal
At Same '08 Speech, Blumenthal More Correctly Describes Military Record (VIDEO)
Rachel Slajda | May 19, 2010, 3:46PM
CT AG Richard Blumenthal
Earlier this week, the New York Times ran a story about the ambiguous way Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal describes his military service. In the Times' strongest example of Blumenthal's misrepresentations, he says, "when I served in Vietnam."
But as the Associated Press points out today, in a longer version of the speech -- which has been posted on the YouTube page of one of Blumenthal's Republican opponents since the Times story broke -- the attorney general also describes his military service more accurately, saying he "served in the military during the Vietnam era, in the Marine Corps."
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