There's yet another case of misremembering wrong. HuffPo's Sam Stein caught this one:
In a questionnaire he filled out for the Chicago Sun-Times this past January, the Illinois Republican was asked to describe the "wildest thing" that he had ever done in his career.
Kirk, who coasted with relative ease to the Republican senatorial nomination, replied: "Last year, I was with a Dutch armor unit in Kandahar, getting shot at."
Such a recollection of his trip to Afghan outpost seems a bit more dramatic than the one Kirk gave to the Lake County News Sun one year prior, in which he explicitly said that "getting shot at" didn't happen.
"It was very much of a combat environment," Kirk told the paper. "Our base got shelled once. We heard small-arms fire. I never got shot at, but it was a very tense situation."
The tally is really racking up. We've had the "Intelligence Officer of the Year," the "only member of Congress to serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom," the "I'm a veteran of Desert Storm," the "commanding the War Room in the Pentagon," the being "shot at in Iraq," and now "shot at in Afghanistan" stories. It gets more bizarre and more damaging every day. And at some point, curious reporters are probably going to start investigating just what else Mark Kirk might have been "embellishing" during his career in Congress.