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Well, Terrell finds out that the folks at the blog Military Money Matters determined that actor Val Kilmer was not misquoted by Chuck Klosterman in a feature done in 2005 for Esquire magazine. Editor in Chief David Granger responded to the blog, saying, “The quotes attributed to Mr. Kilmer in Mr. Klosterman’s story are absolutely accurate.”
Kilmer is, of course, contemplating a run for governor in 2010 as a Democrat.
Kilmer said of those who were sent to Vietnam, “Most guys were borderline criminal or poor, and that’s why they got sent to Vietnam. It was all the poor, wretched kids who got beat up by their dads, guys who didn’t get on the football team, couldn’t finagle a scholarship.”
Here is the full response from Esquire, with the emphasis in the original response from Granger.
The quotes attributed to Mr. Kilmer in Mr. Klosterman’s story are absolutely accurate. The interview was recorded and every quote used in the story was checked by our research department to insure that it was printed precisely as spoken.
It should be noted Mr. Kilmer did not dispute the validity of the quotations when the article was first published four years ago, nor did he dispute them when the article was reprinted in Mr. Klosterman’s fourth book, nor did he dispute them when the story appeared in Ira Glass’s anthology The New Kings of Nonfiction.
Sincerely,
David Granger
Editor in Chief
Esquire
It appears that Kilmer’s claims that he was misquoted are being disputed, with audio evidence of the conversation.
