"New example" of Blumenthal quote "unearthed" by Politico is anything but

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005210002

Politico is reporting tonight that the Danbury News-Times has "unearthed two new examples of Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal suggesting that he served in Vietnam." One of those examples, however, seems to have appeared in the original New York Times article on Blumenthal's service.

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It is the Post's quote that the News-Times and Politico are both citing today as "new." But it seems clear -- unless there were two events at the same building during the same year in which Blumenthal offered nearly identical comments -- that the Post's quote and the New York Times' quote are from the same speech. Indeed, searches of the Nexis and Factiva databases uncover no contemporaneous reports besides the Post's of a Blumenthal speech in 2008 at Shelton's Veterans War Memorial Building.

Also -- and here we see the problem with relying on print reports to draw conclusions about a speaker's specific word choices -- it appears that one of the accounts misquotes Blumenthal, as the Times' and Post's quotes are slightly different.

Adding to the confusion is that the News-Times has incorrectly placed that speech as occurring in May 2009, rather than in May 2008, an error that Politico copied.

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I am still waiting to see in CT how this all plays out. So far, the Dems here in CT are sticking by Blumenthal's side. This only adds to all the speculation and confusion.

the people of CT. are saying --We know our candidate and
do not need National Media interfering.

Blumenthal has been AG here since the early 90's. And does not have the rep they are trying to put on him. He was always squeaky clean actually, to the point that it was a joke here. Clearly he made two mistakes in misspeaking. But there has not been any other instances found and he has stated the truth about his service many more times then these 2 instances. Honestly, it was Linda McMahon looking through all of his past statements to find something. I don't think he actively set out to lie about himself, why tell the truth the other times? I want the national media to stay out. If there is someone better, well, the Dem party here in CT has to decide that. I think they are sticking with Blumenthal.

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