Romney Caught In New Fibs

[William769]

(Boston, Massachusetts) Mitt Romney, who earlier this year had to backpedal on his hunting exploits, is explaining himself again after claiming an endorsement he did not receive and saying he witnessed his father in civil rights marches he could not have seen.

"It's a figure of speech," Romney said Thursday after media inquiries into the Republican presidential contender's statement during his recent religion speech that he watched his father, the late Gov. George Romney of Michigan, march with Martin Luther King Jr.

Romney, who was in high school at the time, later said he only heard of his father marching, and some historians have questioned whether his father, in fact, did march with King. The Romney campaign provided books and news articles it said supported his statement.

Romney said it was akin to him stating, "I saw my dad become president of American Motors." He told reporters in Iowa, "I wasn't there when he became president."

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[joeybee12]

1. I'm still waiting for Mittens to be caught in a "truth"!

[GodlessBiker]

2. Teenage children throughout the country now can use Mitt's lingo to their advantage.

[frogcycle]

3. Craig Crawford took the opportunity on Countdown

in discussing this to raise again the myth that Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet, referring to him as the "champion serial exaggerator" or some such.

I would like to rip Crawford's lungs out. That has been debunked so many times, Gore is not running for anything, and yet Crawford feels the need to characterize Romney's actual misstatements by likening them to rightwing misquotes of Gore, all to get himself more air time. Fuck him.

[William769]

4. It had to have been a deflection tactic about what they were discussing.

[tridim]

6. That pissed me off too.

It was especially lame since Bush's current lies are the obvious comparison.

[tridim]

5. As Colbert says, the truth has a well established liberal bias..

Mittens is just doing what he has to do to impress his base, which apparently is to blatantly lie his ass off. He's a true "Bush Conservative".

[Jim__]

7. Not only did Romney never see his father march with MLK, his father never marched with MLK.

At least according to Times online:

Mr Romney's claim appeared unfounded after a longtime Michigan civil rights activist told a Detroit newspaper that George Romney never marched with Dr King in the city in 1963. When Mr Romney joined a demonstration in Grosse Pointe days later, Dr King was not there.

[yellowcanine]

8. Good, The more 'splainen he has to do, the more credibility he loses. We should call him Forrest

Gump. He seems to want to be everywhere history was made.