{"id":570047,"date":"2010-05-18T23:58:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78230"},"modified":"2010-05-19T00:08:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T04:08:59","slug":"lockhart-on-the-trail-of-the-blumenthal-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570047","title":{"rendered":"Lockhart on the trail of the Blumenthal video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The smoking gun in the case against Richard Blumenthal&nbsp;is a videotape of a 2008&nbsp;event in Norwalk on which Richard Blumenthal recalls the days that he served in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctpost.com\/news\/article\/McMahon-claims-then-ducks-responsibility-491839.php\">Hearst Newspapers&#8217; Brian Lockhart <\/a>has tracked it down to a senior housing facility in Norwalk.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The housing complex director Mary Windt&nbsp;said her staff &#8220;filmed the festivities and later provided DVD copies to all of the attendees, including Norwalk&#8217;s mayor, various state legislators, the lieutenant governor, Blumenthal and then-U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/19\/nyregion\/19veterans.html?hp\">Chris Shays<\/a>, who is the focus of a New York Times story alleging that Blumenthal&#8217;s military exaggerations developed over time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smoking gun in the case against Richard Blumenthal&nbsp;is a videotape of a 2008&nbsp;event in Norwalk on which Richard Blumenthal recalls the days that he served in Vietnam. And Hearst Newspapers&#8217; Brian Lockhart has tracked it down to a senior housing facility in Norwalk.&nbsp; The housing complex director Mary Windt&nbsp;said her staff &#8220;filmed the festivities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}