Posted on 08/30/2024 10:45:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has surely benefited from his portrayal as the country’s “football dad.” But he wouldn’t have passed the truth test in my father’s household, where lying was ranked as the highest punishable offense.
I’m not saying that Walz lies, precisely. But he tends to gild his résumé for political gain. He’s hardly the first to do this. And it’s not always detrimental to one’s career, as Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), has proved. Blumenthal claimed to be a Vietnam veteran even though he sought and received at least five deferments to avoid serving in the war.
Walz, too, is a bit of a fibber.
Take his 1995 arrest for drunken and reckless driving. Walz, then a 31-year-old high school teacher, was clocked at 96 mph in a 55-mph zone in Nebraska. He was pulled over by a state trooper, who, upon smelling alcohol, asked Walz to take a field sobriety test, which he failed. Walz then submitted to a hospital for a blood test, which revealed his blood alcohol level to be 0.128, well above the state’s legal limit.
All this information is recorded in police records, yet during Walz’s 2006 congressional campaign, the press was told that he hadn’t been drinking, that he drove himself to the police station and that the reason he failed his field sobriety test was because of a misunderstanding related to hearing loss from his time in the National Guard artillery unit.
In 2018, when Walz was running for governor of Minnesota, he came clean and admitted to drinking and driving. Telling the truth eventually is better than never at all, I suppose — and Walz now refers to his incarceration that night as life-changing. Today, his...
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He's probably more of an orthodox Marxist than Khrushchev.
”That’s the ticket”!
Timpon! That’s as good as A-walz!
he is a SHAMELESS pathological liar!
“Nikita Khrushchev”
Interesting analogy—Khrushchev was regarded by the Politboro as a bumbling fool—a compromise candidate who was too stupid to reinstate the horrors of Stalin—and someone they could easily control.
His wife reminds me a bit of Hillary Clinton.
Weird... He always came off to me like a narcissistic, Communist, liar...
“...nor has he fired any of his co-conspirators in the Feeding our Future scandal.”
Heck - along with the grift he received it is also a career enhancer that he implemented the programs to feed all of those poor starving children in Minnesota.
Wait - I thought Walz’s Minnesota was supposed to be a shining beacon for America? How come so many starving children??
Oh, IDK....He seems like a communist POS to me. Not sure how anyone can change my opinion based on his performance to date.
While tiny time a-walz would not strictly meet this level, his elaborations and
lies related to his military career should make him ineligible for the office of
dog catcher.
Uh, I dunno....the one clip I saw of him actually moving gesturing, he looked like a waving poofter. And that head bow thank you with praying hands namaste BS just irks me - it just seems so disingenuous.
Thanks for dropping by to virtue-signal.
Is Minnesotacide a thing?
Apparently ten FRiends stole my line, but ... Walz seems to be a communist fanatic.
and YOU are?
He reminded me of the audience warm-up guy for the Price Is Right.
I’m thinking more a of a queer Patton Oswalt.
The Washington Post? This is refreshing - a writer wants to save journalism by not kissing democrat butt for a few minutes? It’s a good sign.
A clown?
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