Posted on 08/08/2024 3:33:21 AM PDT by texas booster
It’s been widely reported that Gov. Tim Walz lied about his military service. We know that Walz rapidly exited the military once he knew he would be deployed in a war zone. And yet he launched his political career by lying about being a military veteran who had gone off to war.
At Dossier.Today, Jordan Schachtel connects the dots to the start of Walz’s political career.
Schachtel dug up an Atlantic profile of Walz telling the big lie that launched his political career.
Command Sergeant Major Tim Walz is a twenty-four-year veteran of the Army National Guard, now retired but still on active duty when a visit from President George W. Bush shortly before the 2004 election coincided with Walz’s homecoming to Mankato, Minnesota. A high school teacher and football coach, he had left to serve overseas in Operation Enduring Freedom. Southern Minnesota is home to a large Guard contingent that includes Walz’s unit, the First 125th Field Artillery Battalion, so the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are naturally a pressing local concern—particularly to high school students headed into the armed services.
The president’s visit struck Walz as a teachable moment, and he and two students boarded a Bush campaign bus that took them to a quarry where the president was to speak. But after they had passed through a metal detector and their tickets and IDs were checked, they were denied admittance and ordered back onto the bus. One of the boys had a John Kerry sticker on his wallet.
Indignant, Walz refused. “As a soldier, I told them I had a right to see my commander-in-chief,” the normally jovial forty-one-year-old recently explained to a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party dinner in the small town of Albert Lea, Minnesota.
His challenge prompted a KGB-style interrogation that was sadly characteristic of Bush campaign events. Do you support the president? Walz refused to answer. Do you oppose the president? Walz replied that it was no one’s business but his own. (He later learned that his wife was informed that the Secret Service might arrest him.) Walz thought for a moment and asked the Bush staffers if they really wanted to arrest a command sergeant major who’d just returned from fighting the war on terrorism.
They did not.
Instead Walz was told to behave himself and permitted to attend the speech, albeit under heavy scrutiny. His students were not: they were sent home. Shortly after this Walz retired from the Guard. Then he did something that until recently was highly unusual for a military man. He announced he was running for Congress—as a Democrat.
Not only was Walz lying about his actual military service, pretending to be a “command sergeant major who’d just returned from fighting the war on terrorism”, but the entire story was one big lie.
The whole story about Walz, a combat veteran, bringing students along who then got kicked out because they had a Kerry sticker on their wallet was false.
The true story was that Walz was protesting with a pre-made sign for John Kerry.
A local Democrat also protesting at the time confirmed that story.
Walz kept repeating that lie throughout his campaign, claiming that it launched his career in politics. In reality, his career in politics was launched by getting involved with the Kerry campaign, and then being handpicked by Wellstone’s Action group to run for office as a ‘veteran’.
The lying by Walz was constant.
Walz’s political odyssey is a study in strange timing. The thought of a career in Congress “never would have crossed my mind,” the National Guard sergeant major said, if he hadn’t been hustled out of a 2004 rally for President Bush for defending a student there who was wearing a John Kerry sticker. Angered by the event, Walz got involved in the Kerry campaign, making connections that ultimately prompted his race against Rep. Gil Gutknecht (R), whom he beat by six points.
“I never planned to run for Congress, but I believe my life has prepared me well for it,” Walz said.
In another version, Walz claimed that he begged Secret Service agents to let him stay.
Tim Walz, a 23-year National Guardsman and teacher who chaperoned the teens that day, also was threatened with eviction from the grounds but begged numerous Secret Service officers to let him stay. He later wrote in the Mankato Free Press newspaper, “Here I am, a 40-year-old professional and veteran being asked to behave ‘or else…’; at a speech by the president of the United States.”
As of 2020, Walz was still repeating the same basic lie, but had improved it a bit.
“The last sitting President to visit my hometown of Mankato, Minnesota was George W. Bush in 2004. As a high school teacher and football coach, I brought two fellow teachers’ children to the speech as an educational experience. We were denied entry because the students had previously volunteered for the democratic party.
“Having just returned from military duty in Italy in support of Operation Enduring Freedom I wished to hear directly from the President and my students, regardless of political party, deserved to witness the historical moment of a sitting president coming to our city. Above all, I was struck by how deeply divided our country was becoming that a veteran & a group of high schoolers would be turned away at the door.
“It was at this moment that I decided to run for office. While I had a passion for politics, I had never been overly involved in political campaigns, and many people thought that a high school teacher and football coach didn’t stand a chance.”
This time, Walz correctly stated his service, and modified the story to being turned away before entering.
Walz did not acknowledge the different versions of the story that he had previously put out there and once again claimed that he was a disinterested party who was motivated to run for office because of the incident rather than that he was a partisan there to protest against Bush.
Gov. Tim Walz launched his career with a lie. And he’s been lying about it ever since.
Walz kept repeating that lie throughout his campaign, claiming that it launched his career in politics. In reality, his career in politics was launched by getting involved with the Kerry campaign, and then being handpicked by Wellstone’s Action group to run for office as a ‘veteran’.
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So lying improves support from Democrats doesn’t it?
Yes, it probably does!
What is wrong with these people?
(That is a rhetorical question.)
I was up in the air about aspects of this, but I have finally solidified my stance on what the underlying strategy of the Left is: They lie deliberately to advance themselves or their cause. And they don’t care because there are no consequences to doing so.
They have done the calculus, and determined there is no downside to lying.
Their own voters are going to vote for them. Conservative voters won’t vote for them.
So they are going after the reprehensible and execrable “Undecided” Voters.
The have determined if they lie often, loudly, and convincingly, there are a a number of those morons they are convinced they will capture for their side.
They don’t care that there is this thing called the “Internet”. Those pathetic people are watching cat or dog videos, they aren’t watching videos of someone explaining issues. They aren’t concerned that some segment of those people will stumble across something that will bring them back to reality by realizing they are being lied to. There will be some, but the number is so small as to be insignificant.
They don’t care that there are Social Media companies out there where the truth might be disseminated to those coveted “Undecideds”, because, with few exceptions, those are fully in the pocket of the Left, and censorship, if brought to light and trumpeted to the public, will be explained away as an “error in the algorithm” which has “been corrected”, even though nothing of the sort has been done. And very few prospective Democrat voters will be lost in the process. Some will, but most won’t.
They don’t care that there are search engines like Google which actively shape their returns. In the post after this one, I am going to demonstrate my own effort to verify just how true this is, and it is indisputably true. In my experiment, I searched Google for Kamala Harris, examined the first page of the “News Feed” pane on the first page for Kamala Harris, listing every title, then viewed the next ten pages of returns. After that, I searched for Donald Trump and repeated that process. It is so skewed as to beggar belief that they would be so brazen, but they are. And they don’t care. Not even a bit.
And they most CERTAINLY don’t care about Media coverage. They know their party’s water is being carried by the media. They know they are being covered for. They have determined that while Fox News is considered “right wing”, it isn’t so conservative that it will dissuade those people from voting for their candidates. And they know all the other networks will present such a uniform and lopsided picture that is detrimental to a non-Democrat candidate, that the variances are so small that any of those precious “Undecideds” who open their eyes at the wrong time can be viewed as an anomaly.
So, in all of this, they feel perfectly confident in their selections.
They are so comfortable in their calculus that they can simply select, against the wishes of their voter base someone like Kamala Harris to lead the ticket, who was in charge of the border situation and deliberately destroyed it, who advocated getting rid of police while encouraging people to donate to organizations that bailed out violent repeat offenders, and publicizing, who got where she was by performing sex acts on an older, married man with political connections, and cannot string together a sentence without inappropriately laughing.
They are so comfortable in their disgusting process that they can simply select a candidate like Tim Walz, who lies openly about his military service, bugged out on his comrades when they went to war, lied about it, lies about his encounter with the GW Bush campaign in 2004, is responsible for $500 million dollars in damage and 1,500 properties damaged or destroyed, pushed legislation to put feminine hygiene product in grade school and high school boys bathrooms, pushed legislation to force children undergoing transgender conversions to be kept from their parents if they disapprove, is fully invested in Communist China, was arrested for DUI and lied about it, and one could go on, and on.
Things like this do absolutely make one wonder just what they intend to do during the actual election to cheat it, because in a straight up election, it would be impossible for them to win. Yet they chose candidates like these who will further accelerate the destruction of this country.
I am very concerned. And we all should be, because their selection of these reprehensible, unlikable, and unelectable people appears to be a giant middle finger to voting Americans, and indicates they have something up their sleeves.
I am very concerned. And we all should be, because their selection of these reprehensible, unlikable, and unelectable people appears to be a giant middle finger to voting Americans, and indicates they have something up their sleeves.
Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse has mentioned the same concern that you have.
Before the 2020 election, I recall Nancy Pelosi appearing on some interview, and she said, with a flat and unshakable certainty, that there was no chance Donald Trump was going to get elected.
I remember sitting up straight when I saw that, and thought “That is bizarre. How can she make a flat, declarative statement like that with such finality and certainty?”
Now we know. They intended to cheat on a scale never publicly revealed in any prior Presidential campaign. They had it planned.
There are no consequences, even if caught, so they are going to do it again.
Sure, some small fish here and there were sacrificed, but that was it. I have been a big fan of Sundance for many years, even if I parted ways with him on various issues and analyses, but I think he is spot on.
To anger a liberal, tell him the truth; to anger a conservative, tell him a lie.
I also recall “sitting up straight” that day. Truly terrifying. I knew the fix was in.
What she actually said, IIRC, is that he would not be “INAUGURATED”. And that “You can take that to the bank.”
WIKI:
“He was appointed the Kerry campaigns coordinator for his county as well as a district coordinator of VETS FOR KERRY”
Walz volunteered for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. He was inspired to volunteer in the presidential election after he took a group of students to a George W. Bush rally in Mankato, and was angered by the security team’s questioning of his students’ politics after they saw a Kerry sticker on a student’s wallet.[3] He was appointed the Kerry campaign’s coordinator for his county as well as a district coordinator of Vets for Kerry.[31] In 2005, Walz completed the two-and-a-half-day campaigns and elections crash course at Camp Wellstone, a program run by Wellstone Action, the nonprofit organization Mark and David Wellstone created to carry on the work of their parents, Paul Wellstone and Sheila Wellstone.[32]
Egad. Evil is afoot, no doubt.
A football coach! President Obama said that he had sons he would never let them play football. Would Walz let his sons play football?
Tim Waltz wiki bio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Walz
Note awards -
Army Commendation
Army Achievement
Twenty four year in the Army and he got two participation medals?
There may be more but if he was in a combat zone he would have at least the campaign medal.
Lying is a resume enhancer for Democrats.
The problem is that they lie and get away with it then you have to unwind the lie and prove they lied. The damage has already been done.
24 years? He must have joined up in 1980, when we were just starting to build back up after the Carter decimation, but before Reagan. And how did he miss out on Gulf War I?
Master Sergeant Tim Walz?
Who gets to be a MS without lots of combat time?
Things sure have changed.
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