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By Eric Schulzke - Politics DailyUpdate 2: Some writer here takes great umbrage at the memory of this woman. It seems entirely possible that she herself confused the memory, and possibly saw GR walking with someone else. The vitriol in this writer's comments are almost unaccountable. It would be one thing if Romney were claiming an heritage that is substantively untrue. But he could have made the same statement with slightly changes in language to make precisely the same point -- I have an honorable and treasured family history on civil rights, one that we take great pride in. Instead, this incontestable point gets lost in ...
Gotcha? What Romney Really Saw
By Eric Schulzke - Politics DailyDavid Knowles has latched on with bulldog ferocity to a legitimate question on Romney's statement that he "saw" his father march "with" MLK. But sometimes a memory can be confused in detail, but yet be emphatically accurate in substance. It is possible that these very real events -- and the bold leadership of Mitt's dad at this critical moment in history -- got a little muddled in family memory, such that MLK's physical presence at these events somehow crept in. This doesn't worry me in the least. It is, as Knowles points out, very common for such details to become conflated over time, and we ...
Romney, Saw 2, Update
By David Knowles - Politics DailyA quick, follow-up post regarding the game of linguistic limbo Mitt Romney is currently playing with the word "saw." As I chronicled yesterday, Romney is facing scrutiny over his claim, "I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."Subsequent reporting has uncovered the fact that George Romney, though a supporter of the aims of the Civil Rights movement, never actually marched with King. Faced with the evidence, Romney's campaign proclaimed that their man was speaking figuratively, not literally. ...
Romney, Figuratively Speaking
By David Knowles - Politics DailyMitt Romney is fond of recounting a proud moment from his family's past. In his big "Faith in America" speech at the George H.W. Bush library, Romney declared, "I saw my father march with Martin Luther King." Days later, to contrast the Mormon church's foot-dragging on racial equality with his own family's more progressive attitudes, he told Tim Russert, "My dad marched with Martin Luther King."Well, from today's Detroit Free Press comes word that the Romney Sr./King Jr. alliance may have been a tad exaggerated. On Wednesday, Romney's campaign said his recollections of watching his father, an ...
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