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Truth and Consequences

Dramatis Personae
Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General of Connecticut
Reporters

REPORTER 1: Mr. Blumenthal, is it true you lied [1] about serving in Vietnam?

BLUMENTHAL: Everyone has a slip of the tongue now and then. I remember Alan Shepard told me — while we were walking on the surface of the moon together — that he was a full admiral; when, of course, he was only a rear one.

REPORTER 2: You’re saying you were on the moon?

BLUMENTHAL: In fact it was the inspiration for my famous dance.

REPORTER 3: So, you do admit you weren’t in Vietnam?

BLUMENTHAL: It depends on what your definition of “in” is.

REPORTER 4: You want to be the next senator of this state. Don’t you think it’s important that elected officials be truthful?

BLUMENTHAL: Yes. And I’ve been as truthful as any politician. That’s a fact. That’s why I was the one who exposed the Watergate cover-up.

REPORTER 5: It’s also being reported that you lied about being captain of the Harvard swim team. It seems you weren’t even on the Harvard swim team.

BLUMENTHAL: Next you’ll tell me I didn’t win those seven gold medals at the ’72 Olympics.

REPORTER 6: Is there anything you haven’t done?

BLUMENTHAL: I haven’t been elected senator. Nor is it likely will I.

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