The first rule of fact-checking is to examine what the person you are fact-checking actually said, but MSNBC’s Ali Velshi broke this simple rule on Wednesday as he guest-hosted Alex Wagner Tonight and took GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance out of context in order to rule him “entirely false” for condemning his Democratic counterpart, Tim Walz, for misrepresenting his military service.
Velshi teed up a clip of Vance by claiming, “It does seem that both JD Vance and Donald Trump have found potentially potent lines of attack. The issue with those lines of attack, of course, is that they are entirely false.”
In the clip, Vance accused Walz of retiring from the National Guard in order to avoid service in Iraq:
What really bothers me about Tim Walz, it’s not even the positions that he’s taken, though certainly he has been a far-left…
