Does this look like the face of a liar? Yes, it does. Right above the chin. Where the mouth is.
Connecticut’s Attorney General Richard Blumenthal made a huge mistake: He decided to run for the United States Senate, at which point people began to pay attention to what he said, going so far as to fact-check his statements. The Democratic senatorial hopeful was then shown to be one whose “words… differ from history”, as The New York Times politely puts it; or, in the vernacular of the people, Blumy was exposed as a fucking fraud.
This is the quote that’s getting Blumy the Liar in hot water:
“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008. “And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it — Afghanistan or Iraq — we owe our military men and women unconditional support.”
Except, Richard Blumenthal never served in Vietnam. He received five deferments, and otherwise avoided becoming cannon fodder. His avoidance of the draft doesn’t bother me in the general sense, but once I start really thinking about it, issues of class and privilege quickly surface. His being alive and free of PTSD because he was a Harvard boy aside, what really galls is the shameless lying. Except… politicians lie all the time. The ability to twist the truth is almost a prerequisite of aspiring to work on Capitol Hill. What his grievous sin is, then, is that he told an easily disprovable lie that would make him look like a complete tool if anyone ever called him on it. We expect a better class of liar from people in power. For shame, sir. For shame.
