What's it with Tweety and Blumenthal? Look at the man's lifelong record of service to his state!

[flpoljunkie]

Tweety would have none of David Corn's explaining that Blumenthal had corrected himself when he said he had served in Vietnam--in the same speech. Tweety accused Corn of 'endorsing' Blumenthal which Corn denied. It has been suggested Blumenthal deeply identified with the plight of Vietnam veterans and that he has worked hard to help Vietnam veterans over these many years.

It is a bit odd, but understandable. Condemning Blumenthal only helps Linda McMahon. Why in hell would Tweety elevate this horrid exploiter of her own WWE employees to the United States Senate--when Blumental has such a exemplary record as Attorney General of the state of Connecticut.

Bad Tweety!

[napi21]

1. More than that, yesterday Tweety said Blumenthal just had to apologize and state plainly that he

was wrong. Unless my ears are worse than I thought, that's what I heard him do yet Tweety is not satisfied! He must have some other nit to pick that we haven't heard yet.

[monmouth]

2. He starts Monday off as a Democratic Progressive and by the time

Friday rolls around he's ready for a teabagger march.. Bad Tweety...

[elleng]

3. Matthews is highly unreliable, always has been, always will be.

[molly77]

11. Mathews is unstable

Blumenthal has represented his state in a very remarkable way. Takes on big corporations when others are afraid. Naturally all MSM is going to hit him for any infraction as the corporations run MSM. That is why it is so boring.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. If only Tweety would hold the same standards for the teabaggers and Repukes who lie incessantly...n/

[COLGATE4]

5. Tweety is just a loudmouth who realizes that his time is past

and tries to make up for it by being 'aggressive' with whomever catches his eye at the moment. For some reason he has a wild hair up his ass with Blumenthal, and he's just going to keep pushing the meme and pushing it and pushing it. I wish to God they'd dump Tweety and give some new blood (like Cenk) a chance.

[golfguru]

6. A politician loses trust and credibility when caught in blantant lies

Since Blumenthal never served in Viet-Nam, his saying so
more than once means he is not to be trusted.

[CTLawGuy]

9. he's always made it clear in his speeches

that he didn't serve in combat, even if sometimes he gets sloppy about it later on. I think that is what Dick is guilty of, rather than lying about it.

[Dawson Leery]

7. Chris Matthews is a piece of s**t! He is a parasite on society!

Richard Blumenthal has done much to help we the citizens of Connecticut! :wtf: has this overpaid, underworked cocktail party pundit done for Connecticut?

[winstars]

8. I have noticed this too, I think that...

it's because Tweety AVOIDED the Vietnam War by joining the Peace Corp, which I am totally OK with him doing. So maybe Tweety is feeling a bit guilty for not joining the military and is super-sensitive to people essentially like him (reservists, deferments, college, having lots of kids. You know, all of the Darth Cheney reasons. I not do put Tweety in the Chicken-hawk group------ but maybe HE DOES!!!

Dr. Freud anybody????

[Cosmocat]

10. Yep, two things ...

First, on a base level, the false equivilency crape that someone who wants to be a media person has to do ... If you call the republicans out on being the absolutely deranged lunatics they are, you had better pound away at democrats equally, or more preferably more so, deserved or not ...

Second, as you noted, Mathews show is like one big open therapy session for someone bordering on schizophrenia ...

[karynnj]

12. Who knows?

In 2004, he swung between going after the SBVT because he, like everyone who bothered to think about it, knew they were lying, to having almost a "crush" on Bush. He, more than anyone, seemed to really buy (push) the "man of the people", "great man to have a beer with" stereotypes. Yet, he had been in either DC politics or media since the Carter years. He knew the arrogant, mean drunk sides of Bush. Yet, in 2004, it was Kerry's reserve that he questioned - even though he is genuinely nice and Matthews knew him.

There is something weird in his reaction to Blumenthal. As you said, any misconception that he was ssaying he had been in Vietnam was completely corrected within that same speech. The fact is that anyone speaking publicly as much as Blumenthal will occasionally make an unfortunate gaffe. Here the cause was likely that he always said Vietnam ERA veteran - and this one time he skipped the word "era". What is clear is that he never claimed on any web site, campaign literature, or ad that he was in Vietnam. Nor is there any time he ever spoke in a Walter mittyish fashion of his time there. As a counter to these minor verbal errors, Blumenthal has a squeaky clean reputation of decades of service.

As to what Blumenthal said,you can compare it to what Kirk in Illinois did. He greatly distorted what he did in the National Guard - and he inflated his past claiming to have teaching experience which he didn't have. This was done repeatedly, on his House web site, his campaign web site, his ads and in many spoken claims.

Or, in a case more comparable to Blumenthal's, consider Scott Brown. Speaking in present tense, Scott Brown often refers to "being in the military" and he speaks of having been in the military for 30 years. In fact, he is in the National Guard (something the Boston papers have given him enormous credit for), but he was never activated and he is a JAG officer. If you look at comments in the Boston papers, there are many people who refer to his military experience as giving him credibility on the Armed Services committee, ignoring that many members of that committee have real combat experience.