Slippery Slidey Tim Walz Blames Stolen Valor Scandal on… Bad Grammar

As we’ve been reporting, Democrat presidential nominee ~~Joe Biden~~ Kamala Harris finally deigned to appear for a formal interview over a month after Joe quit his reelection campaign and handed her the keys to the car. Of course, she would only agree to sit for questions if it was in front of a famously biased anchor, CNN’s Dana Bash, and only if she were allowed to bring her Emotional Support Governor, Minnesota's Tim Walz. (To be fair, even though Dana Bash is a reliable left-wing hack, she did ask some tough questions. She wasn’t exactly Mike Wallace on the hunt for a hot story, but she was notably less pandering than usual to her Democrat buddies.)

Now, they're selling Tim Walz as a nice enough guy (on the surface), and he served his country, and he has a family, and he taught school and coached football, all things I highly respect. However, it also seems that he has a penchant for um, playing with the truth, so Bash asked him about possibly his most controversial fib, his misrepresentation of his time in uniform.

He was more slippery and slidey than a snake covered in oil:

BASH: Governor Walz, the country is just starting to get to know you. I want to ask you a question about how you’ve described your service in the National Guard.
WALZ: Yeah.
BASH: You said that you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a war zone. A campaign official said that you misspoke. Did you?
WALZ: Well, first of all, I’m incredibly proud. I’ve done 24 years of wearin’ uniform of this country. Equally proud of my service in a public school classroom, whether it’s Congress or — or the governor. [Kamala looks on glowingly.]

My record speaks for itself, but I think people are coming to get to know me. I — I speak like they do. I speak candidly. I wear my emotions on my sleeves, and I speak especially passionately about — about our children being shot in schools and around — around guns. [Your point is?]

So I think people know me. They know who I am. They know where — where my heart is, and again, my record has been out there for over 40 years to — to speak for itself.

Note that none of what he just said has anything to do with the question that was asked of him.

Watch:

"Well, my grammar's not always correct."

Tim Walz’s excuse for his Stolen Valor scandal is he’s not good at English.

You can’t make this stuff up!pic.twitter.com/CQ4NpbpXAu
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) August 30, 2024

Even CNN had to follow up:

BASH: And the — the idea that you said that you were in war, did you misspeak, as the campaign has said?
WALZ: Yeah, I said — we were talking about in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war. And my wife the English teacher told me my grammar’s not always correct. But again, if it’s not this, it’s an attack on my children for showing love for me, or it’s an attack on my dog.

I’m not gonna do that, and the one thing I’ll never do is I’ll never demean another member’s service in any way. I never have and I never will.

Again, despite Walz’s downhome, good ole boy vibe, he’s remarkably cagey: literally nobody has attacked him for his service. They’ve attacked him because he misrepresented his record and his rank, and appeared to duck out on his fellow servicemembers to avoid deployment to Iraq.

But RedState doesn't forget:

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Tim Walz just blamed his decades of Stolen Valor on a school shooting, and his bad grammar…

Are either of these excuses remotely acceptable to you? pic.twitter.com/FQssY5FHUY
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) August 30, 2024