Four Pinocchios for Romney on MLK ("Well, it was somebody who certainly looked like him.")

Washington Post ^ | December 23, 2007 | Michael Dobbs "The Fact Checker"

[greyfoxx39]

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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.

[i_dont_chat]

Yes. Fred Thompson.

[dfwgator]

Fred is the only one that I don’t detest.

[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

[P-Marlowe]

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.

...and God said, "Have you considered my servant, Fred?"

[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

[scrabblehack]

I saw this one in Reader’s Digest (supposedly by Twain...it may be appropriate for Broder et al.)...”the historians have cast a great deal of darkness upon the subject. If they continue at this rate, we will soon know nothing at all about it.”

[Fitzcarraldo]

Forrest Gump for President!

[P-Marlowe]

It is funny how MSM is working overtime against Romney. Every word uttered by Romney is evaluated by 300 paid MSM "reporters".

A lot of this stuff is coming out of the blogs and places like Free Republic.

We had 8 years of a "Liar in Chief". We don't need one on our side.

IF Romney has been lying about his political resume (and he has), then we need to get the truth out now... before we see a November 2008 meltdown.

[tompster76]

No. This stuff is coming from DNC / MSM and reported in places like FR. One liberal ragtag from NH (Concord) was used as a credible source, now this. lol

Wall Street Journal:
“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.”

[2nd amendment mama]

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?

Never let FACTS get in your way. If you had bothered to go to the source and read the whole article you'd have found this.....

Romney did show up at a smaller march the following Saturday in the exclusive Grosse Pointe suburb of Michigan to protest housing discrimination. But contemporaneous news reports show that King had left the Michigan area by then, and was traveling in the Northeast. On Friday, June 28, he was in Suffolk, VA, according to an Associated Press report published in the Washington Post. On Saturday, June 29, he addressed an AFL-CIO meeting at Rutgers University in New Jersey, according to the Chicago Tribune. (Cited by the Boston Phoenix here.) He spent the following day in Brooklyn, arriving by car in Harlem on Sunday evening, according to the New York Times.

[bad company]

so what is the story here?

There is no way the dems are going to let Obama be their candidate. This will most likely suppress the black vote in the main election. If Hillary doesn't carry the black vote she'll lose huge. To change this the old "Republicans are racist" gambit will have to be played to the hilt. To have a Republican frontrunner whose Republican father supported civil rights is a story that must be killed with fire.

[tompster76]

Yes, but this is not a fact. There are other, conflicting MSM reports from the 1960’s and these 2 independent eye witnesses who say otherwise. Besides, there were plenty of marches and not everything AP or New York Times says is true (or is it?).
Funny how AP and NYT are now the highest authorities if FR.
This is another DNC/MSM attack. They are clearly in panic.

Wall Street Journal:
“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.”

[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.

[2nd amendment mama]

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt - it's Mittbots when confronted with FACTS. Are you so jaded by Mitt's conspiracy theories that you put on a tin-foil hat by everything that the AP or the NYTimes prints? Oh, I guess they printed that MLK was at those places in 1963 so that when "Myth mispoke/lied in 2007 there would be a record that he was lieing.....sheesh!

[SERKIT]

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

[tompster76]

“To have a Republican frontrunner whose Republican father supported civil rights is a story that must be killed with fire.”

Yes, this looks to be the case. In 2006, DNC had special operation derailing black republican candidate in PA (or was it OH). 2 assistants for senator Chuck Schumer were caught stealing the black candidate’s SSN and later convicted. Schumer denied involvement. Now they have similar operation. The fact that Romney’s father worked closely with MLK would be an absolute disaster for DNC/Hillary in a general election. It would be difficult to use “Romney is racist” attacks against him now.

Hillary had similar comments how she saw MLK (sometimes at age 14, in other stories she was 17 etc) but MSM is not interested in that. DNC will work on this and I’m sure they soon find witnesses who saw Romney in KKK meeting at the time of alleged MLK meeting.

This is the story DNC must push. Otherwise, they are doomed.