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Apr 3, 2013 · Fact Check. Did Senator Dianne Feinstein Say 'All Vets Are Mentally Ill'? The claim that Senator Feinstein said 'All vets are mentally ill and the government should prevent them from owning...
- Claim: Sen. Dianne Feinstein called All Veterans Mentally Ill
- Who Is Kurt Nimmo?
- Who Is Burt Prelutsky?
- Did Feinstein Really Say All Veterans Are Mentally Ill?
- Our Rating: False
- Our Fact-Check Sources
Facebook user Charles Kwang shared a post that accused California Sen. Dianne Feinstein of labeling all veterans mentally ill "in some way" during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting in June. Kwang also included an apparent excerpt from a Los Angeles Times story about the hearing in his post caption. "Times Columnist" Burt Prelutsky allegedly wrot...
Freelance journalist and author Kurt Nimmo has written for InfoWars, a far-right conspiracy website; media bias and fact check site The Australian National Review; and Zero Hedge, a far-right libertarian financial blog,according to a profile on Muckrack.com. Nimmo is credited as a photographer and multimedia developer on the website for Counterpunc...
Conservative commentator Burt Prelutsky began his career writing for several television shows popular throughout the '70s and '80s, including "M*A*S*H," "Hobson's Choice" and "McMillan & Wife," according to IMDB.com. More recently, Prelutsky has written for conservative outlets WorldNetDaily, Carteret County News-Times and the Tea Party Command Cen...
Feinstein introduced the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013following mass shootings in Newtown, Massachusetts; Aurora, Colorado; and Tucson, Arizona. The legislation would have reinstated and expanded upon the 1994 ban that expired in 2004 by restricting the sale, transfer, manufacture and importation of semi-automatic weaponry and ammunition-feeding devi...
We rate this claim FALSE because it is not supported by our research. Feinstein did not call all veterans mentally ill during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Misleading claims about Feinstein's statements allegedly quoted writers Kurt Nimmo and Burt Prelutsky from the Los Angeles Times. But neither author wrote about Feinstein for the Times.
Muck Rack: Kurt NimmoInternational Movie Database: Burt PrelutskyAmazon.com: "Another Day in the Empire" by Kurt Nimmo- Politics NOW Reporter
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Sep 24, 2018 · A quote allegedly from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., saying veterans are mentally ill and shouldn't own firearms is fabricated. On Sept. 16, Facebook user Len Stanchick posted a combination...
Apr 17, 2013 · Q: Did Sen. Dianne Feinstein say all military veterans are mentally ill and should not be allowed to own guns? A: No. She said veterans should not be exempt from her proposed assault weapons...
A graduate of Fairfax High School, [1] Prelutsky was a film critic for Los Angeles Magazine from 1961 to 1971, writing acerbic reviews that gained him a reputation as "the fastest barb in the west." He also wrote a weekly column for the Los Angeles Times ' magazine, West. [2] In the late 1960s he wrote several episodes of the Dragnet TV series.
- American
- January 5, 1940, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- 1963–2018
- December 17, 2021 (aged 81), North Hills, California, U.S.
Feb 17, 2021 · The synopsis: After surviving an abusive childhood, Feinstein overcomes personal loss — she is widowed at age 45 — and repeated electoral defeat to become a pioneer for women in politics and...
Apr 11, 2013 · It is as repulsive as Burt Prelutsky’s original slanderous misrepresentation of Diane Feinstein’s dialogue during the hearing. You don’t have to like Feinstein to be offended when she is treated in the fashion Prelutsky treats her. I’ve suddenly developed a major mis-trust of the L.A. Times for even printing such a piece.
