Illinois Senate candidate admits claim about military award was inaccurate

[Are_grits_groceries]

The Republican candidate for President Obama's old Senate seat has admitted to inaccurately claiming he received the U.S. Navy's Intelligence Officer of the Year award for his service during NATO's conflict with Serbia in the late 1990s.

Rep. Mark Kirk, a Navy reservist who was elected to Congress in 2001, acknowledged the error in his official biography after The Washington Post began looking into whether he had received the prestigious award, which is given by top Navy officials to a single individual annually.

The Post's inquiries were sparked by complaints from a representative of state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, Kirk's Democratic opponent in the Illinois Senate race.

Cmdr. Danny Hernandez, the Navy's assistant chief of information, said for several days last week that he was having trouble finding records to clarify the matter. Then on Friday, he said Kirk, an Appropriations Committee member who co-chairs an electronic warfare working group, had changed his Web site to incorporate a different account of the award.

There's more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/29/AR2010052903029.html?hpid=topnews

[Oceansaway]

1. let the games begin...hehehe...nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. yup. Gonna be interesting how the repubs play it

[Warren Stupidity]

2. I'm sure this will play huge on the national news cycle.

:sarcasm:

[tishaLA]

3. Will this get the kind of play the Blumenthal thing got?

didn't think so.

[Oceansaway]

4. send it to KO/ED/Rach.....nt

[starroute]

6. "Inaccurately claiming"? "Error"?

Whatever happened to "lying"?

Blumenthal might generously be considered to have misspoken by saying "served in Vietnam" rather than "served during Vietnam."

But there's no way you can accidentally claim to have gotten an Officer of the Year Award when you didn't.

And wasn't there another thread earlier saying Kird had claimed to have served in Operation Desert Storm when that was only "during"?

Some things are errors and some are deceptions, and it's generally pretty easy to tell the difference between them. So why is the Washington Post trying to let him off the hook?

[FrenchieCat]

7. Watch the media sleep through this one,

like they always do.

They are too busy blaming Democrats for whatever to bother with something like this....
plus it would mess it them thinking that a Republican will win Obama's old senate seat...
that that's a story they fucking want bad.