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Under Fire

The Minnesota Military and Veterans Museum is a non-partisan, private museum located inside Camp Ripley, up near Baxter.

It published a book referencing MInnesotans’ involvement in twenty years of the Global War on Terror. 

It includes Governor Walz’s comments at a 9/11 address the the Capitol.

I’ve screenshot this quote from those remarks:

Let’s forget for a moment that Bagram is in Afghanistan; people flub things when speaking in public. Let’s just let that slide for the moment.

He said “he was in the Guard – and one night, he stood on a ramp at Bagram”.  

Was this yet another cutesy turn of phrase – “I said I was in the Guard, and that I was at a Ramp Ceremony; I didn’t literally say my Guard service and this ceremony intersected, you weird Repubulican”.

But it sure does look like he’s saying he was in the Guard in…er, someplace in action, doesn’t it.

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5 responses to “Under Fire”

  1. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    How could Tummy Walz misspeak? The experience had to have been seared – seared! – into his memory.

  2. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    There has been a meme going around for about a week, that Walz is refusing to campaign in battleground states.

  3. SmithStCrx Avatar
    SmithStCrx

    Tim does a lot of lawyerly parsing of his words.
    1) He was in the Guard.
    2) He did go to Bagram as part of a Congressional trip.
    3) Maybe he saw a tarmac ceremony.

    This isn’t a particular one I want to spend too much time on. The same goes for his PTSD Congressional hearing speech. He parsed himself well enough to simultaneously not actually lie while making it easy for people to come to their own erroneous assumptions that he wants them to come to.

    The retired Command Sergeant Major and “weapons of war I carried in war” are more cut and dry and easier to explain to people that aren’t already aware of the falsehoods.

    That said, those attacks on Walz are really only useful to Veterans and their families and Second Amendment Activists. Both groups already skew against the Harris/Walz ticket. For the vast majority of Americans, they don’t know enough to find Walz’s statements offensive. I’ve personally heard from a family member that they’re “going to wait until his fellow MN National Guardsmen complain about his behavior.” My immediate response was that that’s who brought up the issue the first time and IS complaining.

    So, put these stories out there, remind people that are persuadable about them, but don’t just flood the airwaves with ONLY these “niche” issues. Also attack their economic record, among other problems.

  4. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    I’m sorry, but misspeaking (aka lying) about anything and getting caught is not penalized in DemoCommie world. I mean it’s fun to point out out and watch the initial reactions, but ultimately these inconvenient occurrences are just ignored, compartmentalized and squirreled away in a dark place where they aren’t inconvenient anymore.

    Perfectly normal.
    https://gab.com/DerekAlexander/posts/112949921672975925

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