‘He Blamed Grammar!’ Fox Panel Roasts Walz’s ‘Evasive’ Answer to CNN Question on Misrepresenting His Military Record

Friday’s Fox News panel on Outnumbered roasted vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s “evasive” answer about his military record during his CNN interview with Kamala Harris that aired the previous night.

Walz has faced criticism for once claiming he served in combat during his 24 years in the National Guard. During the interview with Dana Bash, Walz blamed embellishments surrounding his record on “grammar.”

“We were talking about, in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war, and my wife, the English teacher, told me my grammar’s not always correct,” Walz told Bash about his past statement.

The Thursday interview on CNN was the first time Harris has sat down for an interview since running for office. The Harris campaign has previously stated that Walz “misspoke” when he said he carried a weapon “in war.” Below is a transcript of the exchange:

MOLLY LINE: Yeah, she got all this critiquing running up to this that she was bringing him along as a protector, as the teddy bears the guy that was going to jump in and save her. And I don’t think he helped at all and potentially created the biggest challenges for the campaign going forward in that his answers were evasive and he could ask the most predictable questions that he could have thought he might have gotten very, very predictable going to his integrity and his forthrightness on the issues of accusations of stolen valor. Specifically, that question was about one thing that he said on a much broader controversy that he has failed to correct regarding deployment and could have, and it was also handed the answer. She’s like, did you misspeak? He could have said, I misspoke. I just care so much about this issue of gun safety in our kids. Instead, he goes into a long thing and the answer and so it’s still unanswered. It’s still out there, along with some of the other issues, that his forthrightness has been questioned.

TOMI LAHREN: And he blamed grammar…I think a lot of folks are still trying to figure out. What bothers me, just a quick point, as somebody who’s from the Midwest is that I felt like he tried to play off his non-answers as that he’s just a plain speaking guy from the Midwest. As somebody who is from the Midwest that bothers me because people from the Midwest can give you definitive, decisive answers. We can take actual accountability. Don’t play it off like you’re just somebody from the Midwest. He was happy and jolly. That, to me is insulting as a Midwesterner. And I don’t think that it’s going to pass with a lot of other Midwesterners are not happy with that.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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