Because it was Oscar weekend, I totally missed this story:
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Mitch McConnell got punk’d…by a blog. Well, more like his staff who wrote a letter on behalf of a constituent to Elizabeth King, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs. As the Pentagon’s congressional liaison, McConnell’s staff appropriately forwarded a concern regarding Guantanamo Bay prisoners receiving post-9/11 G.I. bill benefits.
On Nov. 14, 2012, the Senate Minority Leader wrote the following letter that was uncovered by Wired magazine’s Spencer Ackerman.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell broke it down in this manner: “The letter is actually asking an Assistant Secretary of Defense if GiTMO Bay al Qaeda detainees are getting—not just veterans’ benefits—but the enhanced veterans benefits of the post 9/11 G.I. bill. You got that? Mitch McConnell’s staff wants to know if the Obama administration is giving veterans’ benefits to the people the Obama administration believes would like to blow up America.”
In the contituent’s note, which was also uncovered by Wired magazine, the individual points out that there was no information about this online, not even on the Pentagon’s website. Instead, the constituent the only place such a claim can be found is in an article on The Duffel Blog, a military news satire website. - MSNBC/The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, 2/21/12
Here's the parody blog The Duffle Blog:
http://www.duffelblog.com/
The Duffle Blog is like The Onion for military related news. It's funny, you should check it out. Now here's the constituent's note to McConnell:
Now here's the actual letter to Elizabeth King, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs:
Lawrence O'Donnell really knocks it out of the park with this great quote:
“Twenty years ago someone on Mitch McConnell’s staff writing this letter would be fired. No senator would have continued to waste taxpayer dollars on the salary of anyone capable of being duped this way.” O’Donnell then concluded, “As Mitch McConnell continues to push for Medicare cuts and cuts in education spending and cuts in all sorts of valuable investments in our society the government supports, the last place Mitch McConnell will look to save the taxpayers any money is his own stunningly incompetent staff.” - MSNBC/The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, 2/21/12
And Republicans try to laugh at the idea of Ashley Judd being a strong opponent against McConnell and try to discredit her as a joke of a candidate. Looks like McConnell's the real buffoon here. By the way, Progressive Change Campaign Committee has a new ad out targeting McConnell on guns:
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