To one’s surprise, CBS News ‘ hack-tivist discussion editors allowed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s many lies about his military assistance to get unsolved during Tuesday’s 2024 vice-presidential conversation.
While Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan did n’t bother to inquire about Walz’s frequent inflated rank and lied about details surrounding his time in the Army National Guard to advance his political career, neither Norah O’Donnell nor Margaret Brennan bothered to ask him about the baby-killing incident on January 6 and how they found time to ask dishonest questions about it.
For instance, the Minnesota Democrat frequently used the phrase “retired command sergeant big” as a covert illustration. Although it is true that Walz was promoted to command sergeant major during the waning decades of his company, he did not finish the necessary number of years by leaving his system before it deployed to Iraq, and he is really a master commander with a lower rate.
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The circumstances surrounding Vice President Kamala Harris ‘ running mate’s implementation abroad have also been falsified. At a campaign event in 2018, Walz said,” We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in battle, is the only place where those arms are at.”
The issue? Walz was never deployed to a battle territory, so he never carried so-called “weapons of war” there. As The Federalist’s Matt Kittle noted, his Guard product “was called up early in the war in Iraq — to Italy”.
As if those were n’t enough, Walz has previously lied about reenlisting following the terrorist attacks of September 11 and reportedly supported a book that falsely claimed he served in Afghanistan.
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The discussion on Tuesday night provided a unique opportunity for Walz to be questioned about his stolen courage disagreement. He and Harris ‘ even distinctive appearance on the subject was in an August sit-down interview with CNN’s Dana Bash.
When pressed by Bash on his “weapons of warfare” note, Walz blamed his rest on poor grammar.
” Yeah, I said we were talking in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war”, he said. ” And my family, the English instructor, told me my grammar is not always right”.
Shawn Fleetwood is a University of Mary Washington student and a team author for The Federalist. He previously served as a condition content writer for Agreement of States Action and his work has been featured in various stores, including RealClearPolitics, RealClear Health, and Conservative Review. Following him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood