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.”
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.—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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