Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) has now been caught on several occasions exaggerating his military exploits and service in his race for the Illinois Senate once held by Barack Obama. But state Rep. Linda Chapa La Via, herself a veteran, managed to bungle things pretty badly when she went on the local Fox affiliate to knock him around and said Kirk should “come out and apologize to all the veterans, especially the veterans during the Vietnam era since that’s when he supposedly served.”
Only problem is that Kirk was 13 or 14 (depending on when you want to date the end of the war) when the war ended. And I’m pretty sure that’s one fib he hasn’t to pull. So Chapa LaVia seems to have gone on the air and gotten Kirk mixed up in her head with Richard Blumenthal.
