Washington Free Beacon editor-in-chief Eliana Johnson was forced to correct PBS News Hour host Amna Nawaz on Friday after the latter claimed “there’s no evidence” Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz has embellished his military resume. Johnson correctly pointed out that, on the contrary, “there’s no question” he has “padded and inflated his resume.”
Nawaz began by doing the same dishonest trick that MSNBC’s Ali Velshi did, by playing a clip of Walz’s GOP counterpart, JD Vance, accusing him of abandoning his unit prior to an Iraq deployment, but omitting the part where Vance also called out Walz for promoting gun control by comparing certain weapons he wants to ban to weapons he carried “in war,” despite never having been to war.
After the clip, a disappointed Nawaz turned to Johnson, who was again filling in for New York Times…
