Mark Kirk has his own "Blumenthal Problem" and then some

http://trueslant.com/level/2010/05/21/republicans-have-their-own-richard-blumenthal-but-lack-outrage/

"Mark Kirk was claiming on his campaign site to be “the only member of Congress to serve stateside during Operation Iraqi Freedom,” which was true, but on his official web site he claimed to be “the only member of Congress to serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom.” To say you have served in a campaign is precisely the sort of falsehood for which Richard Blumenthal has been castigated for the past few days.

Yet, whereas Blumenthal repeatedly pointed out in speeches that he had served “during” Vietnam–with that noteable slip-up–and then corrected the record when the mistake was pointed out, Kirk’s office refused to address the falsehood on his web site for more than 50 days after I first contacted him, despite the fact the Navy’s Office of Information agreed that, because Kirk had never served in Iraq during Iraqi Freedom, he had no right to claim to be an Iraqi Freedom veteran.

In the end, Kirk’s staff simply changed the site "

if Blumenthal had committed an unforgivable sin? Oh, yes,
Blumenthal is a Democrat so he got 24 hour non-stop coverage
on TV for what seemed to be at least a week.