Walz Lied About Being in Hong Kong During Tiananmen Square Massacre
Walz was in Nebraska. He didn’t leave for China until August of 1989.
In 2014, then-Rep. Tim Walz told a congressional hearing commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre he was in Hong Kong when it happened.
From The Washington Free Beacon:
“I was just going to teach high school in Foshan in Guangdong, and was in Hong Kong in May of ‘89,” he said. “And as the events were unfolding, several of us went in. And I still remember the train station in Hong Kong.” He went on: “There was a large number of, especially European, I think, very angry that we would still go after what had happened, but it was my belief at that time that the diplomacy was going to happen on many levels.”
Walz told the committee that the “protests and the massacre ‘certainly had an enduring influence on me as a young man.'”
Walz didn’t go to China until August.
The local papers show him in Nebraska in May and June of 1989.
The picture in the below tweet shows “Walz touring a National Guard storeroom in Alliance, Nebraska.”
Tim Walz said he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre. But he was home in Nebraska, local news reports and photographs show, via @alanagoodman – https://t.co/z9bNpIUpQH pic.twitter.com/OO3jLXNXT7
— Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) September 30, 2024
Has Walz ever told the truth?
To make matters worse, The New York Times, CBS News, and NPR parroted the talking point without fact-checking it.
What. A. Shock.
The NYT article came out on August 11, 2024. From the article:
A newly minted college graduate from small-town Nebraska, he had just turned down a stable, 9-to-5 job offer and moved across the world to teach at a local high school in China. He had made it as far as Hong Kong, just across the Chinese border, when People’s Liberation Army tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square to crush pro-democracy protests.
Rumors were flying about a possible civil war in China. Many foreigners, including most American teachers, had fled the country. Should he go back home or continue his journey into China?
He decided to go in.
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Mr. Walz was 25 when he arrived at Foshan No. 1 High School in southern China, near Hong Kong, as part of the WorldTeach program, a nonprofit affiliated with Harvard University. The school is in one of Foshan’s oldest neighborhoods, where thick banyan trees dangle aerial roots over sidewalks and streets.
Mr. Walz soon settled into the cocoon of daily life on a small-town campus, even as the chaos of the Tiananmen Square crackdown more than 1,100 miles away rippled across the country. He taught four English and U.S. history classes a day with about 65 students in each class. As one of the first American teachers at the school, he was afforded small luxuries like an air-conditioner and a monthly salary of around $80 — double what the local teachers earned.
CBS News mentioned how Walz married his wife on June 4, the anniversary of the massacre. Gwen said, “He wanted to have a date he’ll always remember.”
NPR repeated everything in the NYT article.
How pathetic. I need to go through all the Walz articles and see if anyone missed anything.
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Ugly outside as in
Opens mouth
Delivers lie
The next thing we will hear from him that he was meeting with Corn Pop and that he drive a logging truck in Death Valley or something.
Now we know why Kamala chose him.
She knows she’s gonna miss Joe, and all his wacky autobiographical tales.
She didn’t choose him.
Obama chose him and Eric Holder vetted him.
Tells you all you need to know.
Corn Pop was a bad dude…
I hear he was a cereal offender.
So that’s where all the trees in Death Valley went!
I know of Foshan from all of the Ip Man movies. That was the big Chinese martial arts city where everyone belongs to a kung fu school and they all fight each other in the streets for respect and honor, but no one can touch Ip Man. Then, in the commie revolution Ip Man had to seek sanctuary in Hong Kong, where he established a little school on a rooftop … and had to fight all the other schools in the street for respect and honor … And then, one day, a kid named Bruce Lee came to Ip Man to train in his Wing Chun.
Good movies. I’m surprised Walz didn’t lift a bit of the Ip Man/Bruce Lee history in the process of making up his tales.
Oops. My mistake. I think it was the Japanese occupation that forced Ip Man to Hong Kong.
Why is anyone surprised that the media did n ot fact check Walz? Always keep in mind that the MSM are simply stenographers for the DemoncRat party. They have no need to fact check DemoncRats.
Remember when McCain picked Palin? The MSM sent planeloads of reporters to Alaska to check out her past.
As the saying goes, “If his lips are moving, he’s lying!”
Only kinda true, since he usually talks out of his A$$.
It would be much simpler to tell the places where he’s told the truth but I don’t think blank pages would get very good ratings
He is a Dem. They lie
It’s in the dna
Now,now – don’t be so harsh… I mean it’s possible . You are making VERY strict assumptions about the concepts of time and space. My grandmother told me, “don’t you listen to those old White European men who teach science.. No matter what they say, a politician can
behave -been- anywhere, at any time, it’s to his or her advantage.Perhaps Hillary dropped him off from her helicopter on her way to land under sniper fire in Bosnia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/23/recalling-hillary-clintons-claim-of-landing-under-sniper-fire-in-bosnia/
Or John Kerry brought him up the Yangtze river by Speed Boat on a detour from his Cambodian Christmas mission
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/reason/2013/01/03/fact-check-john-kerrys-war-accounts-and-whether-he-deserved/15842428007/
He might have parachuted in from Joe Biden’s uncle’s plane, and was lucky enough to escape the cannibals.
https://apnews.com/article/papua-new-guinea-biden-ambrose-finnegan-marape-cannibals-9479088c4262fe6879258e5ad135238f
This dude is a flipping disaster waiting to happen. Minnesota can keep this guy all to themselves.
I wonder if the Republicans in Minnesota will vote for Harris in the hopes of getting rid of Walz.
The answer to that is an absolute No.
Walz is hated by most every republican in MN.
The ultimate representation of the Peter Principle. Attempting to be promoted to the next highest level of incompetence.
Out of his league in the Army as an E9
Out of his league as a representative in Congress
Out of his league as governor of Minnesota
Out of his league as a VP candidate
Soon, we’ll hear how he would make a great president.
Failing upward at every level. Yet, he keeps getting elected and reelected. Doesn’t give me much respect for the majority of MN residents.
Tell me you missed all the arsons.
He *is* the kungflu
If Walz was in China then, if he had his way he would have been driving one of the tanks .
Subotai Bahadur
This! I’m sure he still fantasizes that scenario.
Subotai, all you can be sure of if TImid was trying to drive a tank is that the Three Stooges would be suing him for copyright infringement.
Good material for the vp debate.
I may be missing something.
Why lie about this? What benefit did it give him?
It was a hearing to commemorate a notable historical event. His story gave him a personal connection to that event. So he told it, much like Biden used to do. I mean he could have told the truth, that he was about to embark for China in a few months, and this happened, and it raised all these questions about whether to go ahead with the trip or cancel it; but that would not have been as exciting a story. Putting himself right there, out of the way of the action but right at the border, made it more about him.
Consider John Kerry’s Vietnam stories, such as his clear memory, which was “seared, seared” into his brain, of being in Cambodia and hearing Nixon on the radio saying that there were no US forces in that country. Total lie, never happened, but why did he tell it? Because it made him a “first-hand witness”.
“being in Cambodia and hearing Nixon on the radio saying that there were no US forces in that country.”
Total irony, given that Kamala just did exactly that, and we have video receipts!
He was at Woodstock. He was in Arizona when he saw a dude name Miranda get arrested. His family was staying at the Watergate hotel when he saw some guys breaking into an office. He was in Dallas on November 22, 1963, he couldn’t see much from where he was inside his mother.
He’s a regular Forrest Gump. If something exciting and historic happened Timmy the Gimp was there.
He does have Kilroy’s nose.
He is certainly a good replacement for Biden, in all respects.
Does this lie matter? How many Harris voters will change their minds? I suspect few to none. How about the undecided? Some on the fence might. I don’t think voters much care about politicians lying. They expect it. Look at Hillary: she won the popular vote in 2016 despite being what I call a recreational liar. She lies for the sport of it. For example she claimed she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary of Mt. Everest fame. But as someone pointed out to Hillary, he was an obscure Australian beekeeper when she was born. “Well my mother told me I was named after Sir Edmund.” She also claimed she turned an initial $1,000 investment into $100,000 trading cattle futures. Wow this was a big one. The pros frequently lose money. I once told a liberal Democrat that I could prove Obama didn’t write his books with an analysis technique used to resolve an authorship dispute regarding the Federalist Papers. He said he didn’t card and no one would. This from a highly intelligent theoretical chemist.
“A lie is halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on.” (C. H. Spurgeon)
“Well my mother told me I was named after Sir Edmund.”
All Democrats lie, even mothers. Hillary’s. Liz Warren’s. Tawana Brawley’s.
Idiot bastard deserves a blanket party.
On the uptick, he is living and lying testimony of Harris’ gut instinct, intuition and political prowess.
Sean Penn should be her first choice for Secretary of Snizz.
Then the question is: What (if anything) WOULDN’T he lie about?
That’s one we’ve known the answer to for a long time: Nothing. But the fact that someone would lie doesn’t mean he has lied in any specific instance. So this just adds one more instance in which he did.
I don’t know if he can be considered a pathological liar, a congenital liar, or a compulsive liar. But he is a liar and anything he says now bears scrutiny.
Anything he says should be considered a lie unless proven otherwise.
Back in my corporate life I would interview candidates. I was mid -level and took my job seriously. No internet in the 80’s. I could look through their resume, call previous employers and references. I could then ask questions based on those inquiries. I would drop them in as we were discussing the job. Even back then candidates would lie by omission or enhancement. If they did it was a no go. By the 90’s HR had taken over hiring and I noticed that the level of competence of new hires was ticking lower on a yearly basis. FKH
An additional lie bumps up the probability he’s lying in a specific instance. Or to cast ii in more quantitative terms, one more lie changes the prior distribution.
Walz lied?
What is that? News?
Now, if you said he spoke the Truth…
That would be something.
The irony is – saying that he told the truth – that would be a lie.
Let me just consult the ol’ Magic 8-Ball®…
“Oh @#$!! No”
I’ll call that a “not likely.”
He misspoke, confusing the incident with coming under sniper fire when landing in Bosnia in March of 1996. That incident gave him the strength to save millions of lives while he was visiting both twin towers on 9/11. Or maybe he was dancing the Bossa Nova after buying two slurpies at the 7/11.
Are we sure there is even a person named Tim Walz?
There must be, he has an official Hawaiian birth certificate, on butcher paper.
Apparently walz is liar about countless things in his career. Dems don’t care as long as the candidate has upper case D in front of name.
I also understand that Walz coached the SuperBowl XX winning team.
“Walz lied…”, water is wet.
Walz seems to be an Equal Opportunity Liar: He lies about EVERYTHING.
This self-proclaimed knucklehead potentially a heartbeat from the Presidency? Whoa Nellie!
So what’s the score now? About 99.9% lies?
Walz of Minnesota–I’m sure he thought that Deng had saved international socailsim and the hopes of revolution on June 4, 1989.