Got it. - Micky Finn - Friday, Jan 28, 22 @ 9:13 am: I used to think Rezin was a moderate. The videos, with their blend of vigilante justice and public callouts, hit several social-media sweet spots; watching them makes me feel both rapt and queasy, particularly when the accusers anger feels disproportionate to the situation. These are just as good as, if not better than, jelly beans., Dear Deborah, Ive lost my phone and we need to talk., Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History, Restoring Valor: One Couples Mission to Expose Fraudulent War Heroes and Protect Americas Military Awards System. I briefly embedded with some in Iraq. - Oswego Willy - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:14 am: Its again pinging the stolen valor want, someone who has this idea hes been called to protect and serve, when in actuality a commercial with a highlighting a candidate at night with police vehicles, Sullivan should run for sheriff somewhere or ask Bailey, Irvin, Rabine, or Schimpf to appoint him director of ISP. They need to distinguish themselves, otherwise the campaign messages blend into each other for the GOP primary voter. My military doesnt have nothing to do with what Im doing for the county right now, he said. I note that several of the sheriffs do appear in street clothes, so maybe they checked it out and were warned beforehand. was an overdiagnosed condition cooked up by antiwar leftists; that accusations of war crimes in Vietnam were overstatedbut what captured readers attention was his exposure of military fakers. - Steve Rogers - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:20 am: When it takes 200 words to say something you could say in 20 words, you really have a communication problem. Is that a lie somehow? - 47th Ward - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:08 am: It always creeps me out when evangelicals go into to politics to save us. The yard was weedy; the windows were covered with aluminum foil. - Langhorne - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:15 am: === Im an outsider and a man of faith called to protect and serve.===. It had been passed by Congress as an effort to stem instances where people falsely claimed to have . =And then also the kids in schools and keeping them out of school= The lies that people tell shift with the appetites of the era. People who lie about having served often seem less interested in money than in belonging to an esteemed group. As to unAmerican, chomping at the bit to use military force against American citizens is unAmerican. - 47th Ward - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:15 pm: Last bit of free advice for Sully. Jesse talks about Donald Trump's speech to Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit, where he veered off into bizarre territory when he announced that he tr. If the blackout lasts into the regular season, Comcast subscribers also wouldnt have access to NFL Red Zone. - Ron Burgundy - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 12:13 pm: On the use of public resources (uniforms and marked vehicles) in the ad, I too find it distasteful and wonder if it might be unlawful. People falsely claiming to have served in Vietnam often used the war to explain some failure or trauma in their personal livestheir homelessness or their struggles with addiction. ===. So, calling out the National Guard means diminishing police forces in the members own communities. After The Hunt for Red October, everyone was a submariner, Don Shipley, who investigates fake Navy SEALs, told me. - Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:39 pm: Why do interviews with Republican candidates sound like 1980s exchanges between Gene Okerlund and Jesse The Body Ventura? Either promote yourself up or attack the leading candidate to drive him down. By last year, his videos had been viewed fifty million times. This ad, tho, this ad is definitely better than the Irvin ad, if only because it actually does capture your attention. Otherwise, he should correct the misleading language on his website.. - Steve - Tuesday, Jan 25, 22 @ 9:03 am: C-. Sullivan was recruited to be in the Army's Human Terrain System, which. (Other patterns Shipley has noticed: there is a disproportionate number of phonies in Georgia, liars tend to be junior enlisted men, and stolen valor is primarily a white problem.). (It doesn't help, though that, even then, he would make the distinction to reporters that he was a "real Marine," like in a March 1981 Washington Evening Star . He set up Google news alerts for key phrases: prisoner of war, Navy Cross. I started coming across these guys putting themselves in local media as heroes, Caffrey told me. - 47th Ward - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:25 pm: Im looking forward to seeing Governor Sullivan riding the CTA after he ends the mask mandate. On the Reddit boards, people will talk about what makes them suspicious that someone is not a real vet, Kristiana Willsey, a folklorist at the University of Southern California who studies military narratives, said. When Rambo came out, everyone was a Green Beret. The hard part, Shipley said, is that nobody believes anybody anymore.. But Schimpf, a former state senator, actually welcomed Sullivan into the fray, saying, another robust campaign spreading the message that J.B. Pritzker is undeserving of reelection is good news for the Illinois Republican Party.. An Iraq War veteran was jumped and had his leg broken outside a Sacramento bar by two men who thought he was lying about being a marine. And I mean- with his money, he still absolutely has plenty of time to get the signaturesfor now. He did his job good, got along with people good. Jowers had worked for the sheriffs office for eight years, five of them as chief deputy. Im from a rural county in central Illinois, and it is this kind of talk that makes rural Illinoisans dislike anything north of I-80. *** UPDATE *** Another Sullivan press release. A tall man with a square jaw and closely cropped hair, he touted his eleven years as a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment, an lite special-operations Army unit. When I was a child several decades ago, I had to get vaccinated to attend school. The Facebook page for the Clyde Police Department was soon flooded with comments from angry people across the country: Hey Clyde PD, you have a POS Poser in your midst; Leroy Grant Foley those brand new cuff links will look good on you. Foley was placed on administrative leave. I feel like Bailey/Irvin/etc. We do have some military police in the Illinois National Guard. I am pretty confident that Sullivan will carry Menard County. - Three Dimensional Checkers - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:55 am: ===You cant use law enforcement officers in their uniforms, in their cars, in a political campaign ad.===. -. He has outlined the actions of a dictator. Hope leaves. ), Sterner had never intended to expose fakershe was more interested in the real heroesbut he kept running across them. Privacy Policy. Shipley tried to keep things more or less professional, but his fans could be less scrupulous. James Blanton (no photo) Anthony Colombo. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Operation Stolen Valor is a year-old federal law enforcement effort that has resulted in a dozen cases under investigation in the Pacific Northwest, with fraud totals of more than $1.4 million. That sure looks like an official police plate to me. Is that right? Has anyone looked into Chief Deputy Rick Jowers past? someone asked on Facebook. - Pundent - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:31 am: From stolen valor to stolen ad. Most stolen-valor cases dont involve master criminals but, rather, average men who want to be treated as if they were extraordinary. When I joined the military decades ago, I was required to get a regimen of vaccines, more when deploying overseas. - Lt Guv - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 12:26 pm: My phrase of the day describes Sullivan to a T. Not ready for prime time.. - Google Is Your Friend - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:40 am: - Candy Dogood - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:43 am: The downside to being a woefully unprepared and woefully unqualified candidate for Governor of Illinois is that it doesnt take very long for the fascism to come out, but that is at least good for the voting public to learn about. But, in his majority opinion in Alvarez, Justice Anthony Kennedy had suggested another way forward. In the period after 9/11, ninety-one per cent of Americans were proud of U.S. troops, according to a Pew survey, and the military was the most trusted institution in the nation. Im Jesse Sullivan. This pro-law enforcement ad might not be so, um, pro-legal. - Lincoln Lad - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 2:05 pm: The GOP pool of candidates will make this easy for JB. - wowie - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:39 am: Jesse Sullivan campaign slogan: Hey, guys look at me - Im still here. Some of the so-called valor thieves busted by Shipley and others fit Tom Cottones descriptiontheir lies about their military service are part of a larger pattern of deception. Lets go save Illinois. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Nice Irish ballot name, good hair and a nice jawline. It almost reinforces what the actual veterans say in Irvins ad. Its very weird that Baileys home-grown true believers and Sullivans glitzy national consultants have both decided to let Irvin define the issues in this race. The YouTube channel quickly grew popular with veterans, police officers, and firefighters. - Demoralized - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:18 am: Correction - We do have mandates for certain state workers in congregate care settings. Conclusion: Be Careful. With the US Supreme Court about to finally rule against abortion, Illinois voters need to know where their politicians stand on the most important issue of our lives. Many years ago, I worked for an employer in a congregate setting that required certain vaccines as a condition of employment. Ill say anything to get yer vote. - Mama - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 6:28 pm: - Zoomer - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 9:35 pm: Yet another beacon of optimism and open-mindedness shining his wisdom as a light upon us all. In Foleys public filings, he listed the neighboring house as his residence. I came out swinging so hard at these guys on the Internet that I brought on flocks of these junior G-men who have nothing to do but patrol Walmart and accost people, he said. What year is it?) Last summer, Bart saw something odd at a nearby house. The role of patient is well defined in our society, he said. I proudly served our nation in uniform doing counterinsurgency work in Helmand Afghanistan with the US Department of Defense, Sullivan declared in his campaign announcement speech near Petersburg. Which branch? without prevaricating, then the answer is No. Open the bag the first one out would be the candidate would save a lot of money not to mention popcorn. Three weeks later, Military Phonies published the results of its investigation, concluding that Foley was indeed an Army veteran but that his career was much less lite than he had claimed. Jowers released a statement, apologizing for misleading the community and claiming that he had distorted his record because he had been upset and angry at a certain personpresumably Foley. He said, A Silver Starthats, like, never given out, Amber told me. I am concerned that he may not have received [the medals] but is implying that he has, she wrote. He made one little mistake and look what happened. But when Shumways wife, Marcia, Googled Jowerss siblings, she discovered that they had died more than a decade after his military service. Grabbing popcorn, this might be fun to watch (hey, I didnt cause it). Theyll be, like, You were over there in 1992, right? Because, if I say yes, hes caught a phony. I asked him how often these encounters happened, and he gave a rasping chuckle. They would send them harassing e-mails, or theyd get a phone number and post that up on YouTube, and people would be calling it really late.. The detectives who investigate fake stories of military service use many tools, including shame. *** UPDATED x1 *** Rate Jesse Sullivans response ad to Richard Irvins attack spot, Multiple dead, more than 30 hospitalized after blowing dust leads to accidents on I-55. - Arsenal - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 10:06 am: ==Sounds a lot like the Irvin Campaign commercials. Elsewhere in the news . - Henry Francis - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:07 am: A man of faith, called to serve and protect. Just before my visit, one of the familys cats was killed by a raccoon. In 2015, Eric Lindinger, a Gulf War veteran, had a job that involved a lot of cross-country driving. Be sure to wear a mask on public transportation. - Arsenal - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:41 am: D. Dont continue to talk about your opponents attack. Its a really bad habit and Ive seen it fatally backfire more than once. What? Basically, there were three of usmyself, Jug Burkett, and a couple out of Missouri, Doug Sterner, who calls himself an accidental stolen-valor researcher, told me. Sullivans campaign pushed back hard on the out-of-state angle, insisting he was a Petersburg guy who had made lots of influential business friends in California and other states. - Retired and Still in Illinois - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:48 am: The idea of using the NG in this manner is ludicrous. Its a D, Sullivan is a phony to his want. I am not a veteran. . (His best-sellers are not about war, however. I sent Schimpf everything I had from the Sullivan campaign along with my own self-directed research. - Da big bad wolf - Friday, Jan 28, 22 @ 8:42 am: If police who are trained have trouble finding the criminals how are people in the National Guard supposed to do that? The better move would be to change the subject. Culture shapes lies, too. He talked about his sniper training and the bullets hed taken for his country. You cant use law enforcement officers in their uniforms, in their cars, in a political campaign ad. - walker - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 3:07 pm: This guy might have some talents. People lie about their service in YouTube clips, Facebook posts, and text messages; researchers have exposed a man who claimed on a dating site to have been on the SEAL team that took out Osama bin Laden, and another who posted photographs of himself wearing a Green Beret uniform on his wedding day. - Joe Bidenopolous - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 12:58 pm: Everyone knows this, including Republicans, who will have no chance of claiming theyre anything other than pro-life for the general election. They would track down the guys family, his mother, his wife. Kevin Prohaska. Yeah, I was wondering about that. Shipley studied how to make a video go viral. Citizens leave. On day one, I would end those. Last night I got a robo-poll that I would presume was commissioned by the Sullivan campaign. Sullivan would be a great choice as his experience lends itself to faith, protection and service to those in need. - Red Ketcher - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:34 am: 1969 Ft. Thanks for telling us who you are Jesse. Traditionally many are local and state cops in their day jobs so Sullies deployment takes real cops off their street to do his manhunt. Capitol Fax.com - Your Illinois News Radar Jesse Sullivan hires - Huh? You always want to put a pretty young lady in a video if you can swing it. He started telephoning suspected liars, baiting them into telling ridiculous stories, and exposing them. Well, he doesnt, I would end those on day one. Schimpf was born on an Air Force base in the Metro East, graduated from Annapolis Naval Academy, then graduated from law school and served 20 years in the US Marines, serving as the chief American adviser to prosecutors in Saddam Husseins trial. The Silicon Valley angle took hold in segments of the mainstream media. Upon being shot at there was always someone back from Overseas who immediately opened up. Hes a young, handsome made-for-TV candidate and already has way more money than any of his opponents could ever likely hope to raise. By day, he managed an apartment building in Pueblo, Colorado; in his spare time, he maintained lists of medal recipients and wrote eighty-one books, the majority about military history. Tuesday, Mar 29, 2022 - Posted by Rich Miller, * The spot begins with county sheriffs complaining about anti-police rhetoric, career politicians, etc. It wasnt illegal to lie about a medalit was only when you pinned it on your lapel that you broke the law. Now, with just days to go, he's trying anything he can to grab voters' attention in a last-minute hail mary. . And you look at the corrupt war zone that we have, a thousand murders in Cook County? A D, I guess? Hes been surprised by how many older women watch, too. When a liars story starts to spin wildly out of control, Shipley cocks an eyebrow. Same can be said for his extensive experience in public health and mental health. Sullivan on governor's race: 'It's not about left vs right, this race And he said, There are places out there that will research things like this., On January 13th, Amber filled out a form on Military Phonies, one of a number of Web sites dedicated to exposing people who invent or inflate their military service. The Armys unclassified handbook on the Human Terrain Team says its leaders were active duty or retired military officers. - Pundent - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:56 am: Wouldnt the first step be a fundamental shift in the Guards focus and training? - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:11 pm: - lenoard - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 1:22 pm: I have an idea take all the republican candidates fo r Governor put them in a sack shake it up really good. Support Renewable Energy Credits. - JS Mill - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:35 am: He is against it and would likely go Missouri on us. I was raised in the church, as a person of deep faith. (Alvarez had also falsely claimed to be a professional ice-hockey player and to have been married to a Mexican movie star.) Within a few days, Foley resigned. History has shown that doesnt work. Burkett began FOIA-ing with abandon. Richard Irvin wont say where he stands on this issue. Jesse Sullivan said he would absolutely use the National Guard to hunt down violent criminals, calls pandemic mandates unAmerican, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan, Multiple dead, more than 30 hospitalized after blowing dust leads to accidents on I-55. - well - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:48 am: Its a decent message for the primary, but it loses a lot of points because of how illegal the ad is. - Flyin' Elvis'-Utah Chapter - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:22 am: Only one of you guys get to play Clint Eastwood. In 1782, when George Washington awarded ribbons and badges to valorous Revolutionary War troops, he was already worrying about pretenders. A few of Military Phonies half-dozen volunteer researchers are registered private investigators, which allows them access to specialized databases. Bart Kendrick, whose family has lived in the county since the nineteenth century, takes particular notice of vehicles. Theyve got your back, but whos got your video? All rights reserved. A short list of Lt. Gov candidates will appear soon or has everyone said, Thanks for asking but no.. On day one, I would end those. How to Spot a Military Impostor | The New Yorker That began to change in 2004, after an Arizona man was featured in a local newspaper as a highly decorated veteran who had, among other improbable exploits, assisted in the capture of Saddam Hussein. Adding Welp, they removed the ad. And it needs to be an all hands on deck situation, whereas the current governor wants to look the other way and make it a political football and all that. Some Callahan County residents were ready to forgive him. and Sullivans former supervisor emphasized the personal risk Jesse faced, saying: The location the HTS team (and Jesse) was assigned to in 2012 was extremely hostile and volatile the patrols the HTS team participated in were often targeted by insurgents with improvised explosive devices, rifle fires, and mortars., Lt. Gen. H.R. - Buford - Tuesday, Mar 29, 22 @ 9:14 am: Seeing as they already removed it, must of not been great. So clueless, its offensive. (On StolenValor.com, exposed liars are secured targets.) In a forum called Special Forces Brothers, which is associated with Guardians of the Green Beret, fifty-seven hundred current and former Green Berets help vet claimants. It will be interesting to see if Davison can help Sullivan's campaign. Join the priesthood, or start a church if youre a person of deep faith, just dont push your faith on me and tell me its to save me. In 1998, Burkett self-published Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History, which he wrote with the investigative journalist Glenna Whitley. I said, Well, thats the Air Force design of the Medal of Honor. A decade ago, Shipley began posting YouTube videos debunking false SEAL claims. Article: What is Stolen Valor? He lied till the end, Shumway said. When he shared his anxieties, Cottone told him that, if a person was lying about his service, he was often lying about more substantial things, too. It has since been revealed that during his time as a student at St. Louis University back in 2006, he founded the magazine One World. Instead, people called Bart a stalker. Jowers withdrew from the race and resigned his job with the sheriffs department. Adding Check out the front license plate on the car on the far left. Dont Fire Back until given command. Stolen Valor Valor Thieves' Gallery. But, six years later, in United States v. Alvarez, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Xavier Alvarez, a water-district official in Southern California, who had been convicted of lying about receiving the Medal of Honor. Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right. - Trolling Troll - Thursday, Jan 27, 22 @ 11:30 am: Wasnt one Carhartt Billionaire enough for Illinois? Hes losing. Do County Sheriffs police vehicles not count for some reason? GOP candidates for governor debut TV spots blaming Pritzker for crime rise Foley promised to professionalize the sheriffs department. Shipley admits that he sometimes broke the platforms rules against releasing individuals personal information, but he contends that he was deplatformed for political reasons: he had been digging into the background of Nathan Phillips, a Native American veteran who appeared in a viral video with a student from Covington Catholic High School. But one thing I learned from that experience was that many if not most are also civilian police. So far, GOP gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan has failed to break through the noise, drowned out by MAGA candidate Darren Bailey and flailing one-time frontrunner Richard Irvin. - Red Ranger - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 11:52 am: If youre explaining, youre losing. Theyre always loaded questions, Lindinger told me. - Ron Burgundy - Monday, May 9, 22 @ 1:33 pm: To add, of course Sullivans attempt to introduce himself - and overplaying it - left him wide open for an attack like this from an opponent with the credentials to make it. One issue mentioned by others is the ethics of using uniformed police with their government funded vehicles in the ad. Foleys apparent lie about his residence offended Bart. Instead, the campaign claimed, Sullivan led a small team consisting usually of another human terrain analyst, possibly a social scientist depending on the mission, and an interpreter, which would, embed with a military unit. Sullivan, was responsible for translating military objectives into collection priorities, executing the collection mission, reporting back, and advising the military decision-making process.. I am hoping Pritzker is patient enough to let the gop nominee get into the small government shtick and then pound them into dust over the recent gop big government intrusion moves.
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