The public wrangling over Tim Walz military service continues. Most of the media seems very eager to help the Harris campaign get around this speed bump as quickly as possible. Case in point, this Politico story with three credited authors is titled “Vance runs a Swift Boat attack against Walz’s military service.” Despite the three authors, the article manages to mangle the story pretty effectively. Here’s the opening paragraph:
Ohio Sen. JD Vance slammed the timing of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s retirement from a more-than-two-decades-long military career as a means of avoiding a deployment to Iraq on Wednesday, calling it “stolen valor garbage” and testing a new line of attack on the newly minted Democratic vice presidential contender.
If you’ve followed this closely, you know that there are two different issues here. First, Walz claimed during a 2018 town hall event that he…
