{"id":307,"date":"2007-12-21T12:12:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T16:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/21\/romneys-mlk-defense\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T12:12:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T16:12:39","slug":"romneys-mlk-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/romneys-mlk-defense","title":{"rendered":"Romney’s MLK Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

The media has forced Romney to personally address the question of whether or not his father actually “marched with Martin Luther King” as he asserted in his “Faith in America” speech at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, a claim which he also reiterated on Meet the Press<\/a> with Tim Russert. A Detroit Free Press article <\/a>says there is no evidence that George Romney, the former governor of Michigan EVER “marched with Martin Luther King.”<\/p>\n

Frank Lockwood at the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette reports<\/a> that Romney told the Boston Globe in 1978, “My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.” It never happened according to long time Detroit civil rights activist Arthur Johnson<\/a> who was with King at the Detroit March in 1963.<\/p>\n

Romney’s defense against this misrepresentation is to parse the word “saw,” meaning he didn’t actually “see” his father march with MLK; rather he “saw him in the sense of being aware of his (George Romney’s) participation in that great effort.”<\/p>\n

But this just digs the hole deeper. Romney chooses to make the story about what he did or didn’t actually see, as if what he claims to have seen actually did take place. The real story is that what Romney claims to have seen, which he now claims not to have actually seen with his eyes, could not have been seen because it NEVER took place.<\/p>\n

The Boston Globe reports<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Susan Englander, assistant editor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University, who is editing the King papers from that era, told the Globe yesterday: “I researched this question, and indeed it is untrue that George Romney marched with Martin Luther King.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While meeting with reporters on Thursday Romney chalked his misrepresentation up to “a missed word” and getting the story “slightly wrong.”<\/a> Sleight of hand is more like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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