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Compulsive liar: New Senator Richard Blumenthal just can’t stop making up crap about himself

You’d think that “I was in Vietnam” scandal would have taught newly-elected Senator Richard Blumenthal a lesson, but no such luck. The Connecticut Democrat continues to give himself unwarranted pats on the back.

You’d think that “I was in Vietnam” scandal would have taught newly-elected Senator Richard Blumenthal a lesson, but no such luck. The Connecticut Democrat continues to give himself unwarranted pats on the back.

The CTMirror reports Blumenthal’s latest creative efforts:

Nine months after his campaign was staggered by reports that he had incorrectly claimed to have served in Vietnam, Sen. Richard Blumenthal made what seemed to be a similar misstatement Tuesday, putting himself at the center of the action in the historic 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion.

“I’m new to the Senate but I’m not new to this battle,” Blumenthal said at a Capitol Hill news conference, his first since taking office. “Since the days of Roe v. Wade, when I clerked for Justice Blackmun, as a state legislator, as attorney general, I have fought this battle.”

The problem is, Blumenthal clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun in 1974, the year after Blackmun wrote the Roe v. Wade decision.

Blumenthal’s slip might not normally generate much attention or scrutiny. But it comes on the heels of an election that focused in part of revelations that Blumenthal made similar misstatements about his Vietnam-era military service.

Upcoming Blumenthal lies: He was the first soldier ashore on D-Day. He was supposed to fly on Apollo 13, but had to study that weekend. He taught Donald Trump everything he knows about real estate. He invented the internet. And, finally, he once spent a wild weekend with Angelina Jolie.

There. That should get Blumenthal through the rest of 2011.

Source: Connecticut Mirror

Salon’s Joan Walsh makes pilgrimage to MSNBC, genuflects at altar of ignorance

Salon Editor Joan Walsh guested on Hardball, where despite video proof offered by host Chris Matthews that senate candidate Richard Blumenthal blatantly lied about serving in Vietnam, she said, “They’re distorting his words.”

Salon editor Joan Walsh should get down on her knees and say a prayer of thanks to whatever God she worships, for He, in his wisdom, endowed her with a blessed ignorance that protects her from seeing what a moron she is. Surely, if she had any degree of self-awareness she would never venture beyond the confines of her own home again, much less attempt to speak in public.

Walsh guested on Hardball, where despite video proof offered by host Chris Matthews that senate candidate Richard Blumenthal blatantly lied about serving in Vietnam, she said, “They’re distorting his words. It’s very difficult to say he lied.” In addition to being ignorant, she also made herself asinine by making those little finger quote motions around the word “lied.”

Save yourself the trouble of watching the entire clip. Go straight to the 6:58 mark of the video. (You owe us one.)

It gets even better at the 7:29 mark when Mathews, painful as it must have been for him, had no choice but to point out that Walsh was wrong, causing her to revert to an expression that one imagines monopolizes most of her face time – the confused dog/tilted head look.

Of course the true depth of Walsh’s “intelligence” was forever memorialized in an earlier video that went viral – her classic exchange with Mika Mxyzptlk, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe show.

Mika, the very model of vapidity, openly mocks Walsh right to her face. And let’s face it, when someone as dense as Mika finds you mockworthy, you must begin to realize just how low you reside on the evolutionary scale.

– Written by Sonny Palermo

H/T: Eyeblast.tv

15 more tall tales told by politicians (Richard Blumenthal’s not the only politician with a “creative” resume)

Here are other more politicans that have told tall tales in an attemp to advance their career with a resume-enhancing tall tale or two.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he served in Vietnam, but never left the safety of the United States. And he said that he was captain of Harvard’s swim team, but he wasn’t even a member of the team.

But he’s not the only politician who’s attempted to advance his career with a resume-enhancing tall tale or two. Just the latest.

For example:

1. The imaginary Obama-Kennedy connection

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Sen. Barack Obama attempted to link himself to the Kennedy legacy when he said JFK’s family had “paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother.”

But the Washington Post reveals the truth: “Contrary to Obama’s claims in speeches in January at American University and in Selma last year, the Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United States that included Obama’s father. According to historical records and interviews with participants, the Kennedys were first approached for support for the program nearly a year later, in July 1960. The family responded with a $100,000 donation, most of which went to pay for a second airlift in September 1960.”

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37 more lies discovered on Richard Blumenthal’s resume

We have gone over Richard Blumenthal’s resume with the proverbial fine tooth comb and discovered 37 other things this congenital liar claims to have done, but didn’t.

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A contrite Richard Blumenthal wonders if he should reveal that he invented Velcro

We now know that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal didn’t serve in Vietnam. And we also know that he wasn’t captain of the Harvard swim team.

But we have gone over his resume with the proverbial fine tooth comb and discovered 37 other things this congenital liar claims to have done, but didn’t. Such as:

  1. Walk on the moon with Neil Armstrong
  2. Lead the National League in hitting in 1997.
  3. Invent the internet
  4. Cure cancer with the power of his mind
  5. Go faster than a speeding bullet
  6. Coin the phrase “tastes just like chicken!”
  7. Serve as Butterfly McQueen’s stunt double in Gone With the Wind
  8. Hear the sound of clowns “crying on the inside”
  9. Maintain the force of gravity
  10. Save an entire bus full of children using a simple paperclip

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Glenn Beck treats Connecticut Attorney General like Rocky treated that side of beef

No wonder Glenn Beck’s ratings are skyrocketing.

He’s probably the only guy on television willing to express the outrage we all feel. And express it he did when Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal was naïve enough to appear on his show tonight.

Let this video be a warning to any overconfident politician silly enough to venture into BeckLand.

Source: MofoPolitics.com

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