{"id":66962,"date":"2016-07-19T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66962"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:30:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:30:27","slug":"joseph-rice-phony-afghanistan-vet-at-rnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66962","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Rice; phony Afghanistan vet at RNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two delegates support Oregon delegate and Oregon delegate and Afghanistan war veteran Joseph Rice holding up an American flag during first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016. (AP Photo\/Matt Rourke)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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Our old buddy and serial phony, Joe Rice was featured in Associated Press photo spreads<\/a> of the Republican National Convention this morning, as well as UPI. No, AP, Joe is not an Afghanistan veteran. The last time he was on active duty was in 1988<\/a> and he’s been telling lies about his service ever since. <\/p>\n

Rice has claimed Purple Hearts for wounds and service in the first war against Saddam Hussein during which he claims his helicopter was shot down twice and he was captured both times by the Iraqi Army. <\/p>\n

Joseph Rice is a serial liar<\/a> and his lies may have caused the deaths of nine firefighters. I’m ashamed that he gets to own an American flag.<\/p>\n

Thanks to our buddy Nate Thayer for pointing out this egregious error by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our old buddy and serial phony, Joe Rice was featured in Associated Press photo spreads of the Republican National Convention this morning, as well as UPI. No, AP, Joe is not an Afghanistan veteran. The last time he was on active duty was in 1988 and he’s been telling lies about his service ever since. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/joseph-rice-RNC-oregon-delegate.jpg?fit=1086%2C724&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-hq2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}