Bloomberg Stealth Edits Piece on Walz to Cover Lie That He Served in Iraq
Bloomberg quickly edited a piece by Joshua Green (this guy is important to the story) about presumptive Democrat VP candidate Tim Walz serving in Iraq.
The outlet changed it from Iraq to Italy.
The article came out on August 6 at 12:05 PM CDT.
The outlet changed it on August 7 at 1:33 PM CDT.
You cannot hate the media enough.
Especially since the change is a lie, according to veteran Chris Manning.
Just wow.
Jordan Schachtel found an Atlantic article in 2004 that profiled Walz during his first Congressional campaign.
The author? Joshua Green.
Command Sergeant Major Tim Walz is a twenty-four-year veteran of the Army National Guard, now retired but still on active duty when a visit from President George W. Bush shortly before the 2004 election coincided with Walz’s homecoming to Mankato, Minnesota. A high school teacher and football coach, he had left to serve overseas in Operation Enduring Freedom. Southern Minnesota is home to a large Guard contingent that includes Walz’s unit, the First 125th Field Artillery Battalion, so the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are naturally a pressing local concern—particularly to high school students headed into the armed services.
Schachtel made two great points. Did Green omit the fact that Walz didn’t serve overseas in Operation Enduring Freedom? Did Walz lie to Green about it?
Well, Green probably answered the question later in the article when then-President George Bush showed up in Walz’s hometown where he was protesting (emphasis mine):
The president’s visit struck Walz as a teachable moment, and he and two students boarded a Bush campaign bus that took them to a quarry where the president was to speak. But after they had passed through a metal detector and their tickets and IDs were checked, they were denied admittance and ordered back onto the bus. One of the boys had a John Kerry sticker on his wallet.Indignant, Walz refused. “As a soldier, I told them I had a right to see my commander-in-chief,” the normally jovial forty-one-year-old recently explained to a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party dinner in the small town of Albert Lea, Minnesota.His challenge prompted a KGB-style interrogation that was sadly characteristic of Bush campaign events. Do you support the president? Walz refused to answer. Do you oppose the president? Walz replied that it was no one’s business but his own. (He later learned that his wife was informed that the Secret Service might arrest him.) Walz thought for a moment and asked the Bush staffers if they really wanted to arrest a command sergeant major who’d just returned from fighting the war on terrorism.
Green answered on Twitter, but we are left with more questions.
Those in Walz’s battalion have also called him out.
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