Linda McMahon Was One Who Gave Blumenthal Vietnam Story to NYT?

by Amy Judd | May 18, 2010 at 11:22 am

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Was Linda McMahon the One Who Fed the Richard Blumenthal False Vietnam Story to the New York Times?

A story about Democratic Candidate for the US Senate Richard Blumenthal's apparent exaggeration of his Vietnam service has been a talking point all day after the New York Times ran a piece about him.

Linda McMahon, former WWE CEO and wife of Vince McMahon is a Republican Senate Candidate and in a post by The Daily Caller, it reports that a blog post on her site states that she was the one who fed the story about Blumenthal to the NYT (the blog post has since been taken down).

The blog post was written by Kevin Rennie who stated that the story was 'fed to the paper by the Linda McMahon Senate campaign'.

“The Blumenthal Bombshell comes at the end of more than 2 months of deep, persistent research by Republican Linda McMahon’s Senate campaign. It gave the explosive Norwalk video recording to The Times. This is what comes of $16 million, a crack opposition research operation and an opponent who … gave them the sword,” Rennie wrote late Monday.

He then confirmed to The Daily Caller that the information was told to him and that he had written the post.

However the post has since been removed, but the McMahon camp has not commented as to why they did so at this time.

The Democratic Campaign Committee had a few choice words for her however:

“As a corporate executive for WWF [sic], Linda McMahon created fictional storylines for entertainment, often blurring the lines between theater and real violence in the ring,” said DSCC spokesman Eric Schultz.