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ONE PINOCCHIO: Some shading of the facts. TWO PINOCCHIOS: Significant omissions or exaggerations. THREE PINOCCHIOS: Significant factual errors. FOUR PINOCCHIOS: Real whoppers.

[Arthur McGowan]

“It was certainly somebody who looked like him.”

They all look alike!

[jim35]

God help us all, is there no candidate on our side who’s worth voting for? Well, a candidate who can actually win, I mean.

[P-Marlowe]

After news reports challenged Mitt Romney's repeated accounts of his father marching with Martin Luther King, his campaign put a reporter from Politico in touch with eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen the former Michigan governor "hand in hand" with the civil rights leader. But their memories are almost certainly flawed as contemporaneous news reports show that King was addressing a meeting in New Jersey at the time the eyewitnesses supposedly saw him in Grosse Pointe, MI.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. - Mark Twain's Autobiography

[tompster76]

so what is the story here? Liberal MSM reporter tells a witness that "you are wrong..MLK was elsewhere" what is the witness supposed to say? Who says MSM reporter with an agenda has it right instead of the witness who actually was there? In anycase, MLK and Romney worked together in many ways so this is totally non-story.

There are 2 witnesses saying they saw MLK with Romney's father. Some MSM references from 1960's say the same. It is funny how MSM is working overtime against Romney. Every word uttered by Romney is evaluated by 300 paid MSM "reporters".

Funny they could care less what loser GOP candidates say.
Democrats know it. Here's an interesting statistic: Since the beginning of 2007, the Democratic National Committee has released 102 direct attacks on Mitt Romney. Rudy Giuliani has warranted 78; John McCain 68; Fred Thompson 21. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/kstrasselpw/?id=110011021

[Graybeard58]

The date in question was June 29th, 1963. That's my birth day and Marty was at my house for the party, the Romneys were no where near, as they weren't invited.

[SERKIT]

It seems Romney and Hillary have the same memory flaws, and the same flawed 1960’s acid flash-backs!

[meandog]

"Say what...Mitt said what?"

[popdonnelly]

Is Romney saying that his dad was for civil rights this big a deal? I mean, it’s not like he said, “I did not have sex with that woman”.

If you don’t like Romney, come up with something substantive.

[Scarchin]

THIS is the best Romney haters can do?

YAWN

[torchthemummy]

While I think it is fair that Romney gets criticized for, at a minimum, exagerating, and at a maximum, lieing, I can't help but feel that the source of this article, Michael Dobbs "The Fact Checker", is probably a Washington Post columnist in good standing with the rest of the LMSM.

So congratulations, Romney loathers, the Washington Post, along with the Globe and the Times, are on the case. What "fact checking" has Michael Dobbs published about the Democrat candidates?

As far as I am concerned, Romney can hold his head high in regards to his family being on the right side of the civil rights issue when it counted.

[Perchant]

I wonder which one of the candidates constructed this straw man.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Does a candidate get a pinochio any time one of his supporters says something wrong?

If so, Fred’s in trouble.

[ReignOfError]

It is a fact that George Romney as an early and outspoken proponent of civil rights, and that he led civil rights marches in support of Dr. King, though not in his physical presence.

So why can’t Mitt just say that, admit that his memory might have been flawed, and carry on? The more he keeps this story alive, the more of his time is spent focusing on something fundamentally unimportant.

Politics lesson #1: When you find yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGING.