The Pathological, Shameless, and Downright Weird Dishonesty of Tim Walz
Guy Benson
6–8 minutes
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz reportedly pioneered the "weird" taunt against JD Vance. That's increasingly looking like an acute manifestation of projection. As we learn more about the wave of lies and distortions promulgated by Walz, another word that comes to mind is 'pathological.' The Democrats may have just put one serial embellisher and fabricator out to pasture, in Joe Biden, but it seems they've added another one to their presidential ticket. Walz has exaggerated, distorted, and outright lied about his military service, including his final rank at retirement. He's been called on it for years, by military brethren up and down his chain of command. He's responded with unresponsive indignation, by falsely suggesting that his critics on this front never wore the uniform, and by demeaning members of his own unit who've spoken out as inconsequential '19 year old cooks' (never mind that the most prominent among them are his commanding officer, and his second in command). They are still actively lying on this subject, in spite of a factual correction from the National Guard itself:
If you are willing to do this sort of thing about your military service, what won't you lie about? The shamelessness is seemingly endless, on matters large and small:
We've also covered the brazenness of Walz's falsehoods about his DUI. His 2006 Congressional campaign (he quit the military just before his unit was sent to Iraq to pursue a political career) flagrantly lied about every element of that dangerous incident, in which Walz got drunk and was caught driving at 96 miles per hour. They completely inverted the truth in their completely inaccurate version of events -- which have been contradicted by court documents and the police. One of the related lies, that he failed the field sobriety test because of hearing loss due to his military service, was also utterly untrue. And now this week, we learned that Walz has been lying about how his own children were conceived (a creepy and bizarre echo of Joe Biden's serial lies about the circumstances surrounding the deaths of members of his own immediate family). Apparently eager to play the attack dog against JD Vance and Republicans, leaning into a fabricated claim that the GOP is looking to ban or undermine IVF treatments, Walz told a "personal" story, over and over again:
It turns out that Tim and Gwen Walz did not use IVF to conceive their two kids. They engaged in an entirely different fertility treatment that is completely separate from IVF. But Walz repeatedly linked their story to IVF, in service of a bogus political attack. Does this man tell the truth about anything? Is nothing sacred -- above being exploited, manipulated or lied about for political gain -- to him? Even the New York Times is reporting the truth:
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/08/21/the-pathological-shamelessness-of-tim-walz-n2643611
