Blumenthal (D-CT) Invents a War Record

I was about to post that we should stop romanticizing military service so politicians wouldn't exaggerate it, then I remembered we were fighting two wars. And the whole day off from work to remember dead soldiers thing.

 

Sounds like the guy is crazy?

 

Seems like an epidemic of this going around, via dailykos:

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is so upset that some have invoked Goodwin's Law when discussing her state's new Latino ethnic cleansing law.

Compelling! Except that she might be pulling a Mark Kirk. From the June 1 edition of the Arizona Guardian (behind a paywall):

 

WTF?

 

Wow...quite despicable to try and use some invented stuff for political gain...actually, I find the stuff about the father even worse. Stupid, too, when it's so easily debunked.

 

This one's a little more murky to me. It's clear she was misleading. But on the flipside, she was 11 in the 1950's, so that part is accurate. And it appears that the dad worked in a factory that was producing stuff for the war effort, and as a result of that, got sick and eventually died. So she may very well blame the war (and the Nazi's) on the death of her dad.

 

Lots of money would say he was a heavy smoker like pretty much everybody else back then. Combine that with exposure to asbestos as was common, especially in ports and shipyards, at the time and it's basically guaranteed death by lung disease/mesothelioma etc.

But come on, the Nazis? That's a pretty awful theory of causation (and by the way, lady, WRONG FREAKING OCEAN! The Pacific fleet didn't do a lot of Nazi fighting)