Posted on 08/30/2024 9:02:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In an interview with CNN aired Thursday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who is Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, blamed “poor grammar” and “misspeaking” on his past lies about his military service.
“I want to ask you a question about how you described your service in the National Guard,” CNN’s Dana Bash said. “You said that you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a warzone. A campaign official said that you misspoke. Did you?”
“Well, first of all, I’m incredibly proud. I’ve done 24 years in the uniform of this country…My record speaks for itself but I think people are coming to get to know me. I speak like they do. I speak candidly. I wear my emotions on my sleeves. I speak especially passionately about our children being shot in schools and around guns,” he droned on.
“I think people know me. They know who I am,” Walz continued right after he stated that people were just starting to get familiar with him.
“They know where my heart is, and again, my record has been out there for 40 years,” he added.
“The idea that you said that you were in war…” Bash began. “Did you misspeak as the campaign has said?”
Walz said that those particular remarks came in the wake of a school shooting.
“We were talking about carrying these weapons of war…my grammar’s not always correct,” Walz said, before comparing this to the attacks that have come in on his children and his dog.
CNN’s Dana Bash presses Gov. Tim Walz on his military service.
Walz: I speak candidly, I wear my emotions on my sleeves...
Bash: So did you just misspeak as your campaign claimed?
Walz: Well, my grammar's not always correct. pic.twitter.com/5jNHpUCKAP— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 30, 2024
This wasn’t the only falsehood Walz was confronted about in the interview. Bash pointed out that Walz was dishonest about how his children were conceived. While he touted time and time again that they were born because of in vitro fertilization, it turns out that Walz and his wife used intrauterine insemination, or IUI, as Townhall covered.
“What do you say to voters who aren't sure whether they can take you at your word?” Bash pressed.
Walz claimed that his former students and people he served with can “vouch” for him.
“I certainly own my mistakes when I make 'em…I spoke about our infertility issues because it’s hell…I spoke about the treatments that were available to us that had those beautiful children..I think people know who I am. They’ve seen that record…I won’t apologize for speaking passionately…the contrast could not be clearer between what we’re running against…I think most Americans get it if you’ve been through that,” he said.
CNN’s Dana Bash: You also lied about using IVF and about a past drunk and reckless driving arrest. “What do you say to voters who aren't sure whether they can take you at your word?”
Walz: “I certainly own my mistakes when I make 'em.” pic.twitter.com/5UveGAAplH— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 30, 2024
Best election ever.
It’s amazing that the Democrats might be declared the winners. Because, you know.
‘My tongue got loose. Wasn’t me.’
I can relate to Gov. Walz‘s predicament. At my last IRS audit:
IRS agent: You did not report $8500 in income last year.
Me: Your records are wrong and you are an idiot. I wasn’t even alive last year.
I simply misspoke. Harmless, actually. Turns out the IRS isn’t as forgiving as CNN is.
The earth is flat! Oops, bad grammar!
Betting Markets Dump Kamala Harris After CNN Interview
Breitbart ^ | 08/30/2024 | Simon Kent
Posted on 8/30/2024, 9:53:27 AM by ChicagoConservative27
The cold, hard world of betting markets framing the outcome of the 2024 presidential election were singularly unimpressed by the showing of Kamala Harris during her CNN interview on Thursday evening.
Newsweek sought the views of two leading bookmakers and this was the outcome of the pre-taped Harris-Walz chat with Dana Bash: The vice president went from being the favorite to win with odds of 10/11 (52.4 percent) on Thursday to tied with Donald Trump on 19/20 (51.3 percent) each on Friday morning, according to the Star Sports betting company.
Over the same period, Trump’s odds of victory in November improved from 21/20 (48.8 percent) before the interview to 20/21 (51.2 percent), according to U.K. based bookmaker Betfair. Thursday’s interview with CNN’s Dana Bash was the first time Harris faced unscripted questions since she was anointed at the Democratic Party nominee and President Joe Biden pushed to the sidelines.(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
He cray-cray. TW kind of looks like Don Rickles but not nearly as funny.
WHAT A HORRIBLE PIECE OF $HIT!!
Waltz was an English teacher.
Bad grammar? My wife was an English teacher 20 years ago. She still gets mad when I end sentences with a preposition.
“It all depends on what your definition of is, check, stolen valor, is”.
Love how Dana kept putting excuses in their mouths.
“Grammar” WTF!? I think that is better than “Clinton’s “definition of is”.
Misspeaking?????
So, would anyone trust him to NOT ‘misspeak’ when dealing with our enemies?????
All I need to know about that gutter scum I got from watching him viciously and angrily YANK his learning disabled son on the stage of the DNC.
THIS “GOVERNOR” WILL NOT GIVE TEACHER’S LICENSES TO CHRISTIANS/JEWS/ MUSLIMS.
WHAT IS LEFT??
Now we know why he let the Twin Cities burn: the riots were really all just a case of bad grammar.
Well she definitely picked somebody as least as dumb as her. Not an easy feat!
I’m surprised that Bash was as provocative—no, as truth-seeking—as this.
I'll breathe a sigh of relief only when President Trump has been safely returned to the White House, and then very cautiously.
NOTHING is beyond or beneath these people.
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