Stolen Valor And Blumenthal, With Links

October 12, 2025

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Here are some pieces on Blumenthal taken from the Connecticut Commentary archive -- by no means the whole load -- that relate to U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal’s “lies” concerning his falsely claimed service as a U.S. Marine in Vietnam recently mentioned by US. Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Stolen Valor

November 11, 2010

On this Veteran’s Day, it will be well to remind ourselves that there are those among us who steal valor and suck the honor from the marrow of the nation’s heroic bones. A few months ago, the Australian Broadcasting System (ABC) put together a documentary called “Stolen Valor.”

https://donpesci.blogspot.com/2010/06/blumenthal-on-uptick.html

Stolen Valor Fraud

February 20, 2012

The “Stolen Valor Act” punishes with a prison sentence up to six months to a year those who “falsely represent” that they have received any “military decoration or medal.”

The bill has an enviable parentage: In a 1782 military order, George Washington proclaimed, “Should any who are not entitled to the honors have the insolence to assume the badges of them, they shall be severely punished.”

https://donpesci.blogspot.com/2012/02/stolen-valor-fraud.html

Blumenthal’s Snippit

September 23, 2013

U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal’s awkward false claim, made or intimated several times , that he had served as a marine in Vietnam rose out of the newspaper morgues recently after former New York Times political writer Ray Hernandez joined a Washington D.C. PR firm.

https://donpesci.blogspot.com/2013/09/blumenthals-snippit.html

Lies, Damned Lies And Blumenthal: Why Does This Guy Keep Doing This?

November 12, 2015

U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal has a way of sneaking up on the truth and clubbing it to death with either a half-truth or a persistent, outright lie.

https://donpesci.blogspot.com/2015/11/lies-damned-lies-and-blumenthal-why.html

Blumenthal’s Glass House

September 29, 2018

Blumenthal played more than a walk on role in a documentary on stolen valor that ran on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) called “Heroes, Frauds and Impostors,” still available on YouTube. Blumenthal enters the Fraud and Imposters documentary at around 18:44. The documentary contains the most hilarious 30 seconds of a smarmy politician avoiding a reporter’s legitimate question.

https://donpesci.blogspot.com/2018/09/blumenthals-glass-house.html

Blumenthal’s Matters

January 26, 2022

Blumenthal Even Achilles had an Achilles’ heel. U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal is up for re-election in 2022. He has been able to count on a nearly worshipful media in Connecticut that follows him doggedly on his many – too many, some would say – political rounds.

https://donpesci.blogspot.com/2022/01/blumenthals-matters.html

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Don Pesci

Don Pesci is a political columnist of long standing, about 40 years, who has written for various state newspapers, among them The Journal Inquirer, the Waterbury Republican American, the New London Day, the Litchfield County Times, the Torrington Register Citizen and other Register Citizen papers. He maintains a blog, among the oldest of its kind in Connecticut, which serves as a repository and archive, for his columns; there are approximately 3,000 entrees in Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes From A Blue State, virtually all of them political columns stretching back to 2004. He also appears once a week Wednesdays on 1080 WTIC Newstalk radio with Will Marotti.