Bloomberg News was forced to edit a glaring mistake in what was apparently intended to be a glowing profile of Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) — a mistake that only fanned the social media flames surrounding already-existing claims that Walz was guilty of stolen valor.
Kamala Harris, who only rose to the top of the ticket two weeks earlier after President Joe Biden announced that he could not continue his campaign, announced on Tuesday that Walz would be her running mate, and the article in question — headlined “Walz’s Holy Trinity of Normal: Coach, Teacher, Veteran” — was published just hours later.
In the piece, Bloomberg Businessweek correspondent Joshua Green referenced Walz’s military career — just over 24 years in the Nebraska (1981-1996) and then Minnesota (1996-2005) National Guard — but flubbed a couple of key details when he claimed that Walz had deployed to Iraq…
