Brown campaign calls royal meetings a misstatement

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So, Scott is too busy dreaming about meeting kings and queens that he cannot vote for us mere mortals? (but he folds his laundry and babysat his daughters, two things that should make us want him as a senator).

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/06/21/senator-scott-brown-says-obama-should-transparent-fast-and-furious-controversy/3NA9drdOsnXYym1vngmVGL/story.html

US Senator Scott Brown’s campaign said the senator misspoke when he asserted in a radio interview this morning that he has held meetings with “kings and queens.”

The comments on WTKK-FM were roundly mocked by Democrats. Brown, in making them, was pushing back against critics who say his campaign has not been focused on serious issues, pointing out that he ran a radio ad about military base closings. He also said he was working on substantive issues on a daily basis, some that involve royalty.

“Each and every day that I’ve been a United States senator, I’ve been discussing issues, meeting on issues, in secret meetings and with kings and queens and prime ministers and business leaders and military leaders, talking, voting, working on issues every single day,” he said on the Jim Braude and Margery Eagan Show.

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Brown spokesman Colin Reed said in an e-mail that “Senator Brown was speaking generally about private meetings he has had with foreign and domestic leaders.”

He later acknowledged that Brown, who has made his reputation as a truck-driving everyman, has not met with any royalty.

“He misspoke when he said kings and queens,” Reed said

Here is the tumblr page for this statement. Have fun!
http://scottbrownsjubilee.tumblr.com/

[Wait Wut]

1. "He misspoke..."

Um...no, he lied. Misspoke means he spoke without knowing all the facts, or got something twisted, made a mistake.

He lied.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Misspoke = Lied.

Rush Limbaugh does that a lot, too.

[tanyev]

3. "You mean there is no King of Moldavia? I almost arranged a marriage for one of my daughters!"

[ProSense]

4. Scott Brown: Common man or confidante of kings?

Daily Kos:

Scott Brown: Common man or confidante of kings?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/21/1101912/-Scott-Brown-Common-man-or-confidante-of-kings

Scott Brown: Tool!

[GodlessBiker]

5. He's a legend in his own mind.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Ok let me get this straight

a back bencher, in the US Senate, is important enough where heads of state will come calling? Yup, it is possible... if the connections are there... but not the case here.