{"id":2334142,"date":"2024-08-30T06:52:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T10:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-walz-says-he-has-a-grammar-problem\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T06:57:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T10:57:42","slug":"tim-walz-says-he-has-a-grammar-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-walz-says-he-has-a-grammar-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Walz Says He Has A Grammar Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftim-walz-says-he-has-a-grammar-problem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2334142&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota has faced criticism \u2064for his tendency to\u200b &#8220;misspeak,&#8221; particularly \u200bregarding his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/controversial-candidate-jr-majewski-drops-out-of-ohio-house-race\/\" title=\"JR Majewski, a controversial candidate, withdraws from Ohio House race\">military service claims<\/a>. In a recent interview with CNN, \u2062amid discussions about his candidacy alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, Walz\u200c was questioned about a previous assertion\u2064 where he stated \u200che carried weapons in war despite \u2063never having been deployed\u2062 in a \u200ccombat zone.\u200c This led to accusations of dishonesty,\u200b with claims that \u2064he has \u200crepeatedly used misleading statements for political gain.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his claims of being &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dallas-mavericks-owner-mark-cuban-slammed-for-removal-of-national-anthem-at-start-of-games\/\" title=\"Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban slammed for removal of national anthem at start of games\">incredibly proud<\/a>&#8221; of his military service, evidence suggests that he has mischaracterized his background; \u200bhe was called up to \u2062serve\u2062 in\u2063 Italy during the Iraq War and\u2064 retired just before his unit was to be \u200ddeployed to Iraq.\u2064 Throughout the interview, Walz avoided directly addressing the question \u2062of \u200bwhether \u200bhe &#8220;misspoke,&#8221; continually\u200b redirecting the dialogue instead to \u2063his record and emotions surrounding issues\u200d like gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s Dana \u2063Bash pressed Walz on his military statements, challenging him to clarify\u200b his previous \u2064remarks. Despite the scrutiny, Walz\u2063 remained evasive, deflecting the\u200b focus onto his emotional connection to political issues rather than providing a substantive\u2062 answer. The article criticizes both Walz&#8217;s integrity and the media&#8217;s failure to hold him accountable for his past statements, painting a picture\u2064 of a politician who uses controversial \u200dnarratives to\u200c bolster his political image.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., has made a political career out of &ldquo;misspeaking.&rdquo; Why stop now? &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The No. 2 on the Democratic Party&rsquo;s forced dream team campaign ticket, featuring the joyous empty vessel Vice President Kamala Harris, was back to doing what he seems to do best Thursday night. After several weeks of evading actual questions, Harris and her running mate sat down with CNN&rsquo;s Dana Bash for the first semi-substantive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/30\/politics\/video\/kamala-harris-tim-walz-full-interview-part-3-digvid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a> of their honeymoon campaign &mdash; more than a month after President Joe Biden&rsquo;s political wake.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bash was anything but browbeating in an edited, open-notebook test that was anything but adversarial. This is CNN after all, the network where journalistic ethics go to die. But when Bash wasn&rsquo;t watching Harris peeking at her notes to answer basic policy questions, the host of CNN&rsquo;s &ldquo;Inside Politics&rdquo; was attempting to show she could still ask a tough question or two.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want to ask you a question about how you described your service in the National Guard. You said that you carried weapons in war but you had never deployed actually in a war zone. A campaign official said you misspoke. Did you?&rdquo; Bash posed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First of all, Walz didn&rsquo;t misspeak about his military bravado. He lied. And, as The Federalist has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/27\/tim-walzs-malignant-lies-disqualify-him-from-being-anywhere-near-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported,<\/a> he has done so in the name of politics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;I&rsquo;m Incredibly Proud&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>In 2018, Walz, while talking about gun violence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/vance-laughs-off-cnn-fact-checking-his-joke-walz-finally-visited-combat-zone-dnc-chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said,<\/a> &ldquo;We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, is the only place where those weapons are at.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Problem is, Walz never served in a combat zone. His unit was called up early in the war in Iraq &mdash; to Italy. Later, in 2005, he abandoned his National Guard unit as it was preparing to deploy to Iraq. Walz, who opted to run for Congress at the time, retired not long before the deployment. He claimed to be a &ldquo;retired Command Sergeant Major,&rdquo; a top rank for an enlisted soldier. Except he wasn&rsquo;t.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walz looked like he was tired of answering the question. He shook his ruddy head as if he hadn&rsquo;t used the lie for political currency and delivered what some have described as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13795107\/tim-walz-questions-military-service-weapons-ivf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;bizarre&rdquo;<\/a> reason for why he &ldquo;misspoke.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, first of all, I&rsquo;m incredibly proud. I&rsquo;ve done 24 years of wearing the uniform of my country. I&rsquo;m equally proud of my service in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-orders-teachers-back-into-classrooms-union-vows-to-call-a-strike\/\" title=\"Chicago Mayor Orders Teachers Back Into Classrooms, Union Vows To Call A Strike\">public school classroom<\/a>, whether it&rsquo;s in Congress or the governor,&rdquo; the VP candidate blathered. Spoiler Alert: Walz has no intention of answering this question.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to say that his &ldquo;record speaks for itself.&rdquo; It sure does. It&rsquo;s a record of lies and of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2024\/08\/tim-walz-is-a-radical-leftist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extreme left-wing<\/a> policies in a proud Midwest state shredded by such policies. A record of <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/08\/06\/tim-walz-was-a-covid-19-tyrant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tyrannical rule<\/a> during his draconian Covid lockdowns and of Minnesota&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/gov-tim-walz-laments-abject-failure-of-riot-response\/570864092\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">largest cities being set on fire<\/a> during the 2020 race riots. But no one in the accomplice media wants to ask Walz about any of that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He told Bash that he speaks &ldquo;candidly.&rdquo; Clearly he does not know what the word &ldquo;candid&rdquo; means. He &ldquo;wears his emotions&rdquo; on his sleeve. So, that&rsquo;s where the lying comes from? He&rsquo;s passionate about children being shot in schools. Understandable. Still, no reason for the lies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think people know me, they know who I am. They know where my heart is and, again, my record has been out there for more than 40 years to speak for itself,&rdquo; Walz said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So &hellip; about the gun in a combat zone thing?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Bad Grammar, Awful Person<\/h2>\n<p>To her credit, Bash didn&rsquo;t demure on this one. She pressed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And the idea that you said you were in war, did you misspeak as the campaign has said?&rdquo; the CNN anchor asked again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated and caught in his obfuscation, Walz blustered, &ldquo;Yeah, I said we were talking in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And this is where the bizarre comes in.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And my wife, the English teacher, told me my grammar is not always correct,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grammar?! It&rsquo;s not like Walz mixed up the usage of lay and lie. He LIED.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because he&rsquo;s an awful liar and an awful human being, he blamed his political enemies &mdash; like some of the National Guard soldiers who served with him &mdash; for his shortcomings in &ldquo;grammar.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But, again, if it&rsquo;s not this it&rsquo;s an attack on my children for showing love for me or it&rsquo;s an attack on my dog,&rdquo; the governor deflected. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not gong to do that. And the one thing I&rsquo;ll never do is demean another [service] member&rsquo;s service in any way. I never have and I never will.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He demeaned the service of members of the military for years by claiming he was something he wasn&rsquo;t, in places he had not been. It&rsquo;s called stolen valor, and it&rsquo;s a really lousy thing to do.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just ask Kathy Miller, the mother of forever 19-year-old Sgt. Kyle Miller, who was killed in 2006 by roadside bomb in Iraq. He was member of the Guard unit Walz left behind.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My son wasn&rsquo;t even 21 years old. He couldn&rsquo;t even buy alcohol. Yet he took the step to serve our country while Walz found the best way to run away,&rdquo; Kathy Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13720397\/Tim-Walz-military-service-Kyle-Miller-mother-Minnesota-Kamala-Harris-pick.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told the Daily Mail<\/a> earlier this month.&nbsp; &ldquo;It was the coward&rsquo;s way out.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser\/\" title=\"Trump Knew \u2018100 Percent\u2019 He Was \u2018Fighting for the Little Guy\u2019: Former Top Trump Economic Adviser\">award-winning investigative reporter<\/a> and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat from Minnesota, has built his political career on what he refers to as &#8220;misspeaking.&#8221; Why change that now? The second-in-command on the Democratic Party&#8217;s seemingly forced dream team campaign ticket, alongside the cheerful but vacuous Vice President Kamala Harris, was back at it Thursday night. After weeks of dodging real questions, Harris and her running mate finally sat down with CNN\u2019s Dana Bash for their first somewhat substantive interview during this honeymoon phase of their campaign\u2014over a month after President Joe Biden&#8217;s political fallout.<\/p>\n<p>Bash conducted an edited interview that lacked any real confrontation; after all, this is CNN\u2014the network often criticized for its journalistic integrity. However, when Bash wasn\u2019t observing Harris glancing at her notes to respond to straightforward policy inquiries, she attempted to demonstrate that she could still pose challenging questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to ask you about how you described your service in the National Guard,&#8221; Bash asked. &#8220;You mentioned carrying weapons in war but stated you had never actually been deployed in a combat zone. A campaign official claimed you misspoke. Did you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To clarify, Walz did not simply misspeak regarding his military claims; he lied. As reported by The Federalist, he has done so for political gain.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018 while discussing gun violence, Walz stated: \u201cWe can ensure those weapons of war that I carried in war are only used there.\u201d The issue is that Walz never served in a combat area; his unit was activated early during the Iraq War but sent to Italy instead. Later on in 2005, he left his National Guard unit just before it was set to deploy to Iraq because he chose to run for Congress instead of serving.<\/p>\n<p>Walz claimed the title of \u201cretired Command Sergeant Major,\u201d which is a high rank among enlisted soldiers\u2014but this claim was false.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview with Bash, Walz appeared weary of addressing these allegations and shook his head as if tired of using this lie politically while providing what some have called an odd justification for why he &#8220;misspoke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First off,&#8221; he said defensively, &#8220;I\u2019m incredibly proud&#8230; I\u2019ve spent 24 years wearing my country\u2019s uniform.&#8221; He continued by expressing pride in his work as an educator and public servant without directly answering the question posed about his military service record.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that \u201chis record speaks for itself,\u201d which indeed it does\u2014a record filled with untruths and extreme leftist policies detrimental to Minnesota\u2014a state suffering under such governance marked by strict COVID lockdowns and civil unrest during riots following George Floyd&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Walz asserted that he speaks \u201ccandidly,\u201d though it&#8217;s clear he&#8217;s misinterpreting what candid means since he&#8217;s passionate about issues like school shootings yet still resorts to dishonesty.<\/p>\n<p>When pressed again by Bash regarding whether he&#8217;d misspoken about being involved in warfare or if it was merely a misstatement from his campaign team response\u2014he became flustered and responded vaguely about discussing weapons after a school shooting incident without clarifying anything further.<\/p>\n<p>Then came an unusual excuse: \u201cMy wife\u2014the English teacher\u2014tells me my grammar isn\u2019t always correct.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This statement seemed misplaced since it wasn&#8217;t merely grammatical errors at play; rather than mixing up words like &#8216;lay&#8217; versus &#8216;lie,&#8217; Walz had outright lied about significant aspects of his military experience.<\/p>\n<p>In deflecting blame onto others\u2014including fellow National Guard members who served alongside him\u2014he suggested attacks against him were unwarranted distractions from more serious issues concerning children or even personal matters involving family pets.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded by stating he&#8217;d never belittle another service member\u2019s contributions\u2014a claim undermined by years spent falsely portraying himself as someone who served honorably where many others did not have such opportunities due solely because they chose different paths than him.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy Miller\u2014the mother of Sgt. Kyle Miller who died serving overseas\u2014expressed her disdain towards Walz\u2019s actions: \u201cMy son wasn\u2019t even 21 years old&#8230; Yet here we have someone finding ways out while others stepped up.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Matt Kittle serves as senior elections correspondent for The Federalist and has extensive experience across various media platforms including print journalism over three decades long along with investigative reporting accolades earned throughout those years prior roles held within organizations focused on empowering citizens through information dissemination efforts aimed toward accountability measures taken against government officials alike across Wisconsin state lines too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2334143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-30-at-4.01.28-AM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[15554,39735,5698,5894,36113],"class_list":["post-2334142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-communication","tag-grammar-problem","tag-minnesota","tag-politics","tag-tim-walz"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-30-at-4.01.28-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}