Morning Edition: CT Mirror Washington Report

another misstep by Blumenthal

Image
Senator Blumenthal
Photo:Chion Wolf, WNPR
Morning Edition: Another Misstatement for Blumenthal
Download Audio
Audio Playlist
Morning Edition: Another Misstatement for Blumenthal

Nine months ago, then Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal found himself miredin controversy over reports that he inaccurately claimed on at least two occasions that he served in Vietnam, when in fact he served stateside during the confict.  This week in Washington, Senator Blumenthal has made a similar misstatement.  The Connecticut Mirror's Washington Correspondent, Deirdre Shesgreen, discovered the discrepency, and she joins us now by phone.

Read Deirdre's story at ctmirror.org


  

Comments

Deirdre Shesgreen story

This seems really silly to me. With all the important issues now that really need clarifying, why would Ms Shesgreen choose to waste her investigative inclinations on this, and why would you waste precious time (especially when news is reduced by fund-raising) by covering it? Priorities please!

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <br> <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <hr> <table><td><tr> <div> <span><h3><h4><h2><h1><p>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Image CAPTCHA
Enter the characters shown in the image.