In its bombshell story on Richard Blumenthal’s military record this week, the New York Times took a few paragraphs to mention Blumenthal’s college athletic record, framing it as an example of his willingness to mislead. Not only had he never served in Vietnam, the Times wrote; he was never on the Harvard swim team, either.
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