IN THE BUSH

This is a good one. Connecticut Attorney General and senate candidate Richard Blumenthal said today he had "misspoken" in claiming...more than once...that he'd served in Vietnam. He dismissed the controversy as a matter of "a few misplaced words".

He said he meant to say he served "during Vietnam" and not "in Vietnam".

I suppose when he said "I was deep in the bush catchin' fire from Charlie all around" what he MEANT to say was "I was elbow deep in paperwork as an army file clerk in Nebraska".

When he said "I dismantled a trip wire and saved a platoon" he meant to say "I got a paper cut in Nebraska".

When he said "I was one of the last men out at the fall of Saigon as the Vietcong rained Hellfire down upon us" he meant to say "It was rainy in Nebraska".

Darn those few misplaced words.

And yes, I know he wasn't really stationed in Nebraska.