Military

Following days of controversy, PolitiFact officially gave GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance a “mostly false” rating on Friday for claiming his Democratic counterpart, Tim Walz, abandoned his National Guard unit prior to its deployment to Iraq. However, PolitiFact omitted some key details from those who served with Walz that could’ve changed the truth-o-meter.

CNN’s Laura Coates welcomed Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz’s former National Guard superior, Command Sergeant Major Doug Julin, to her Thursday show to try to defend Walz against claims he quit on his unit prior to its Iraq deployment in order to run for Congress. However, Julin refused to play along, leading Coates to object to the word “quit” and wonder if Walz simply offended him personally…

NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo seemed to think he was back on CNN Wednesday night as he actively tried to downplay the stolen valor scandal rocking the Harris/Walz campaign on his eponymous show. Ignoring the fact that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) lied about going to war and carrying a weapon there, Cuomo presented a misleading timeline of Walz’s retirement and openly suggested it was an…

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…

Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) lit a fire that had only grown larger after he called out his vice presidential opponent Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) for “stolen valor” after he ditched his Army National Guard artillery unit shortly before they deployed to Iraq in 2005. The morning newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC sprang into action Thursday morning as they openly lied about the sequence of events and…

On CNN This Morning, CNN commentator Karen Finney, who served as a spokesperson for Hillary Clinton in her 2016 campaign, claims that Tim Walz was speaking about "training" when he claimed that he carried weapons "in war." Walz never served in a combat zone.

Newly minted Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz (MN) has a major problem on his hands due to his penchant for embellishing his record of service at the Army National Guard. The networks who so warmly welcomed him into the race are now doing their level best to spin this problem away.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz had not even been VP Kamala Harris’s running mate for 12 hours before MSNBC’s All In host Chris Hayes accused Republicans of “swift boating” him on Tuesday. On Wednesday, CNN’s Jim Acosta and Brianna Keilar followed suit by also turning the clock back to 2004 as they defended Walz from GOP criticism.

Florida Rep. Mike Waltz joined CNN News Central host Boris Sanchez on Thursday to recap his speech to the Republican National Convention and gave Sanchez more than he bargained for as he ripped apart Sanchez's fact-checking colleague Daniel Dale’s from the previous night.

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has been criticized for offering courses on gender norms, representation, and cross-dressing in the military.

The New York Times dared to publish an unflattering fact-check of President Joe Biden’s economic talking points on Wednesday and MSNBC contributor and former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill was infuriated about it. Reacting on Thursday’s Morning Joe, McCaskill did not care to rebut the substance of the article, but demanded that no newspaper fact-check Biden unless they…

There was no low The View’s staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host, Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) would go to in order to attack her political opponents. During Wednesday’s show, scummy Hostin admitted she had “a dark heart” and insisted that Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley didn’t actually miss her military husband who was deployed in Africa. She…

Over at Newsmax (where, full disclosure, I am a contributor) is this interesting headline: "Rep. Banks Warns Ad Agencies: No More NewsGuard for Recruitment."

Big Tech’s race to create AI has produced yet another concerning hiccup, proposing a potentially catastrophic international outlook.