For those not up to date on this one:
In his "faith" speech, Mitt Romney uttered the words: "I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
http://origin.sltrib.com/news/ci_7771063On MTP, two weeks ago, he repeated this to Tim Russert: "My dad marched with Martin Luther King."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CwJj1BfS2ANow this would be an interesting piece of Mitt Romney family history, only thing is,
it's a complete and total lie. His dad never marched with Martin Luther King. It's completely fabricated, like most of Romney's soul.
When the press asked him about it this afternoon, he hemmed and hawed and gave a Nixonian performance:
"You know, I speak in the sense of I saw my dad become president of American Motors. I wasn’t actually there when he became president of American Motors, but I saw him in the figurative sense of he marched with Martin Luther King. My brother also remembers him marching with Martin Luther King and so in that sense I saw him march with Martin Luther King.”
Later he said, “I can’t even give you the time frame. I just remember that we talked about it. My brother also remembers my dad having spoken about the fact that he did not do political events on Sunday but that he decided at the last minute that he was going to break that self-imposed rule and participate and I think he did so on a Sunday as I recall.”
He added, “You know, I’m an English literature major as well. When we say, ‘I saw the Patriots win the World Series, it doesn’t necessarily mean you were there — excuse me, the Super Bowl. I saw my dad become president of American Motors. Did that mean you were there for the ceremony? No, it’s a figure of speech."
"If you look at the literature, if you look at the dictionary, the term ‘saw’ includes being aware of in the sense I’ve described,” he said. “It’s a figure of speech and very familiar and it’s very common and I saw my dad march with Martin Luther King. I did not see it with my own eyes but I saw him in the sense of being aware of his participation in that great effort.”http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/12/20/politics/fromtheroad/entry3636089.shtml If John Edwards or Hillary Clinton had done this, it would be front page sirens on the SludgeReport.
Is Drudge even reporting it?
*****CRICKETS*******
This fits into a real pattern with Mitt Romney. He lies that he never attended a Planned Parenthood Event, then video of him at one surfaces. He lies and says the NRA endorsed his run for Governor, whe no such endorsement happened. He lies about growing up hunting, and then backtracks and gives a lame explanation about being a "varmint" hunter.
The press demolished Al Gore by twisting his statements about the origins of the internet.
This is far worse, this is nothing but bald faced lying, and habitual bald faced lying, at that. Will the press harp on this over and over, as they have when they wanted to destroy a Democrat's character?
Time will tell.