WaPo’s foray into the world of phony soldiers
In this morning’s Washington Post, they try to write an “everybody does it” story to offset the damage done to Richard Blumenthal in Connecticut by going after Republican candidate for Obama’s Senate seat in Illinois;
Kirk, an Appropriations Committee member, changed his Web site last week to incorporate a different account of the award. Kirk wrote on his blog that “upon a recent review of my records, I found that an award listed in my official biography was misidentified” and that the award he had intended to list was given to his entire unit.
A professional group, the National Military Intelligence Association, gave Kirk’s unit — based in Aviano, Italy — an award for outstanding service in 2000. The association’s Vice Admiral Rufus L. Taylor Award celebrates “the exceptional achievements of an outstanding Naval Intelligence career professional,” but the citation does not mention Kirk and instead designates the entire Intelligence Division Electronic Attack Wing at Aviano.
So actually, he was just one of the recipients of the Vice Admiral Rufus L. Taylor Award – an award not given by the US Navy but by a private organization. It’s not like his unit was awarded a Valorous Unit Citation (an Army award which is equivalent to awarding every member of a unit the Silver Star) and then claimed he was awarded a Silver Star. Or like claiming he was in a war when he wasn’t.
Now let’s play name that party. First the Republican, Kirk;
Now from the first article the Post did on Blumenthal’s deception;
Now, I’ll admit that in the very next paragraph, the Post identifies Blumenthal’s party with a “(D)” after his name, but that’s hardly the equivance of spelling out “Republican” twice in the first ten words of the article, is it?
And no matter how hard they try, the Post can’t make the award a “Navy award”. It was given by a professional organization, not the US Navy.
Yeah, Kirk shouldn’t have done what he did, but it hardly rises to the level of deceit that Blumenthal set or that the Post tries to make it.
Category: Media
Yep! Ever the Leftist Libtard’s heritage MSM way:
If a Dem does it, it’s good (or at least, ok)
If a Repub or conservative does the same thing, it’s baaaaaadd.
If a Dem does something even the MSM accepts as baaaaad, don’t mention the party affiliation.
If a Repub even crosses the street against the traffic light (and no ticket issued), plaster the party name all over the headline and article.
I don’t know what brought Kirk’s error to his attention, but he was man enough to immediately correct it and issue a “mea culpa”.
Whereas when BlumenIdiot’s error was pointed out to him, he ducked and dodged, and repeated the same error — before finally, reluctantly, and only half-heartedly admitting his “mistake”.
Partisanship for the revolution! (That left/liberal fetish in the media– Democrats get a pass when they misbehave.)
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