Senator Walsh’s Ted Kennedy moment

So we’ve been talking about this scrap of dung, Montana Senator John Walsh who plagiarized his thesis at the Army War College in 2007. But he thinks that he can explain his unscholarly behavior with a unsoldierly excuse, according to the Associated Press;

National Democrats said Wednesday they remained “100 percent behind Sen. Walsh” in his campaign against Republican Rep. Steve Daines.

Walsh told The Associated Press when he wrote the thesis, he had PTSD from his service in Iraq, was on medication and was dealing with the stress of a fellow veteran’s recent suicide.

“I don’t want to blame my mistake on PTSD, but I do want to say it may have been a factor,” the senator said. “My head was not in a place very conducive to a classroom and an academic environment.”

That the National Party supports him is no surprise, they supported Ted Kennedy after he murdered a woman. I suggest that this is just as bad for the veteran community as that murder. PTS does not cause veterans or anyone else to lie. The only people who use PTS for their bad behavior are weak little pussies who don’t even know what is Post Traumatic Stress, because they never experienced anything traumatic. But this weak-ass excuse from this weak-ass man threatens to cause every employer to think twice about hiring a veteran.

Someone should ask around and see if Mr PTSD has ever been treated for PTS (here’s a hint; I already know the answer to that question), he says that he was on medication, so it shouldn’t be hard to prove. In fact, since he brought the whole thing up, he should show us his medical records about his treatment, you know, since he’s already untrustworthy, we can hardly believe him. We have cause. And since it’s the rest of us veterans who he’s smeared, it’s our issue. I’m not waiting for some intern to come out in a few days and tell us that Walsh passed the intern’s smell test.

And what the hell does, “I don’t want to blame PTSD for my mistake, but…” mean. If you don’t want to blame PTS, just don’t f*ckin’ blame PTS, you coward. So cough up your records, dingus, or you’re going to read about this every day. And, oh, since you’re retired, we can get your records and see if you were ever in any situation that might have caused you to have PTS, besides sitting through an exceptionally long PowerPoint Presentation about the placement of burnpits.

On top of that, one of the pointy-headed twerps, Sean M. Lynn-Jones, that Walsh plagiarized went on the Washington Post to tell us that he doesn’t mind that Walsh stole from him – because being a Democrat is more important than being intellectually honest;

Honestly, I’m not outraged. Although I don’t condone plagiarism, I was surprised and mildly flattered that Sen. Walsh had decided to incorporate so much of my paper into his, albeit without citing me once.

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As a loyal Democrat, I still harbor hopes that there will be a Democratic majority in the Senate after the November 2014 elections. The revelations about Walsh’s paper make that outcome a little less likely. A Harvard colleague e-mailed to say that he could see the post-election headline already: “Democrats lose the Senate, Fail to Attribute Research Sources Properly.”

Yeah, well, what with Democrats putting their little intellectually vacant club above honesty and trust, that’s what they deserve.

The Montana governor is stacking up behind Walsh, too, according to the Army Times;

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock said Thursday he had no knowledge that Sen. John Walsh had plagiarized his master’s thesis when he appointed the former lieutenant governor to the Senate in February, and that he continues to support the Democrat’s candidacy in 2014.

Bullock joined state and national Democrats with a statement supporting Walsh, whose apparent plagiarism was first reported Wednesday by The New York Times.

“Senator Walsh has a long history of fighting for Montanans, both at home and in combat,” Bullock said. “He deserves respect for his courage on our behalf.”

Party above integrity and credibility, apparently.

When Walsh shows the medical records for his treatment, that’s his first step towards regaining any trust he had. Then he can back completely away from the PTS excuse and give the country a lesson on what real veterans are like and not the pretend veterans who hide behind their service.

Added: Aaron Fix of the Washington Post writes;

A little further down the “fact sheet,” Walsh’s campaign says this:

While commanding the 1-163rd Infantry Battalion in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, Walsh survived hundreds of IED explosions while in a Humvee, he was targeted – by name – by Al Qaeda in Iraq, and his unit endured hundreds of rocket attacks.

If surviving “hundreds of IED explosions” sounds unbelievable, that’s because it didn’t happen. Walsh’s campaign followed up with a correction (which they call a clarification), noting that he personally didn’t survive all those IED attacks.

“He survived an attack in October 2005, while his unit endured hundreds of both IED and rocket attacks throughout the deployment,” a Walsh spokeswoman said.

That’s a pretty glaring factual error, especially for a “fact sheet.”

And, oh yeah, the campaign is alternating back and forth between Walsh being treated for PTS and NOT being treated for PTS – that can be verified easily – release the medical records. Walsh brought up the PTS excuse, so there is no longer an expectation of privacy. Vindicate the entire veteran community and release the medical records.

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