But I have to tell you, I called up the Re-Animator and he said he can get me two corpses that will claim that the meeting actually did take place.
Posted on 12/22/2007 7:04:49 AM PST by Leisler
Mitt Romney continued to cite a 1967 book reference as proof his father marched for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. even as the author insisted he has no evidence to back up the claim.
“In 1963, George Romney did participate in Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Freedom Marches’ in Grosse Pointe,” said Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom yesterday, citing the book titled “The Republican Establishment: The Present and Future of the GOP.”
But Stephen Hess, a senior fellow of the Brookings Institution who wrote the book with Washington Post columnist David S. Broder, said the reference to Romney’s father, the late Michigan Gov. George Romney, marching with King was “meant totally symbolically.”
“The point we were making was that the issue of Mormonism had to do with its civil rights record. Did he walk with Martin Luther King? Today I have no idea,” Hess said.
The book, lacking footnotes and references, says in a chapter about George Romney, “He has marched with Martin Luther King through the exclusive Grosse Pointe suburb of Detroit and he is on record in support of full-coverage Federal open-housing legislation.”
But two members of the Grosse Pointe Historical Society said yesterday King never set foot in Grosse Pointe in 1963 and they woud have known if George Romney marched with him.
A member of the committee that invited King to appear at Grosse Pointe High School on March 14, 1968 - the only time historians say King appeared in the Detroit suburb - says George Romney wasn’t at the event and there was no “march” at that time.
“Dr. King was flown into Detroit and rushed into Grosse Pointe under heavy security, gave his address and then left very shortly thereafter,” said Russell Peebles, 88, who was a member of the Grosse Pointe school board’s Human Relations Committee, which invited King to speak. “George (Romney) was not in the audience. He certainly wasn’t on the stage.”
Romney claimed in his widely watched speech on religion earlier this month in College Station, Texas, and in a Sunday appearance on ‘Meet the Press’ that he “saw” his father march with the leader of the civil rights movement. In Iowa today, as his campaign tried to wriggle out of questions, Romney parsed definitions of the word “saw” and claimed his use of the term was “figurative.”
Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics called Romney’s parsing “Clintonian,” adding, “He just thought no one would ever check.”
I can link to the source of that photo.
Here.
Well done! (not the Photoshop job, that was terrible, but the trap you set!)
But I have to tell you, I called up the Re-Animator and he said he can get me two corpses that will claim that the meeting actually did take place.
and 148 is also photoshopped?
Well with Walter's help we can all be there just like Mitt.
Missouri - The “Show Me” state :-)
We can't all be pros. ;)
Hard to tell. LOL
I'm not a graphic designer and it was obvious to me too.
Yeah, but you fooled some people on a well-known web forum! That's resume material my friend!
Seriously, if I were you, just for fun I would follow to see where else that photo ends up.
I think I understand, thousands of people marched in Grosse Pointe and all but two are dead.
(No, my real name is not Mitt Romney.)
There are quit a few more sources than just that book which back up Romney. Go to http://thepage.time.com/romney-campaign-on-george-romney-and-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/
Even Time Magazine is now backing up Romney.
And when it got even more popular Mitt Romney tried to pretend he'd been marching in the streets with Dr. King himself.
No they're not. Martin Luther King was not there at Grosse Pointe on June 29.
Reminds me of someone else who remembered the black church burnings as a child.....
Great I won’t have to rely on the Re-Animator then....
MLK was not at the Grosse Pointe event of June 29.
How many times do the Mittmen need to be told that?
Was he taking pointers from Romney's church?
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