{"id":57508,"date":"2024-08-30T15:02:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57508"},"modified":"2024-08-30T15:02:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:02:54","slug":"walz-flubs-simple-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57508","title":{"rendered":"Walz flubs simple test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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CNN anchor Dana Bash posed a simple yes-or-no question to Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz.<\/p>\n

It went like this: You said you carried a weapon in war, but then we learned you did not. Did you misspeak?<\/p>\n

Walz didn’t answer the question. Instead, he walked us through his 24-year career in the Army National Guard, expressed his pride in his service and said we shouldn’t denigrate any service person’s military record.<\/p>\n

Bash asked him a second time: Did you misspeak?<\/p>\n

And again, Walz didn’t answer the question, saying something about how voters “know about my record.”<\/p>\n

Republicans have made a bit of noise about the Minnesota governor embellishing his service record. For me, it’s not a huge deal. I accept that he is proud of his service to the country and that he retired as a senior non-commissioned officer; that, too, has been a talking point the GOP has sought to use against Walz.<\/p>\n

Bash’s interview with Walz and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris was enlightening, to be sure. My own thought is that they both handled themselves coolly and with poise.<\/p>\n

I just wish Gov. Walz would have spoken directly to the direct question that Dana Bash posed. I guess I can answer it for him.<\/p>\n

Yeah … he misspoke!<\/p>\n\n

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CNN anchor Dana Bash posed a simple yes-or-no question to Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz. It went like this: You said you carried a weapon in war, but then we learned you did not. Did you misspeak? Walz didn’t answer the question. Instead, he walked us through his 24-year career in the Army National Guard, … Continue reading Walz flubs simple test<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1043,7714,8357,10381,5041],"class_list":["post-57508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-cnn","tag-dana-bash","tag-kamala-harris","tag-tim-walz","tag-us-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57509,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57508\/revisions\/57509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}