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epicsurvivorDavid Bernstein writing in The Phoenix presents an interesting piece of research.
It is very similar in nature to Albert Gore, Jr.’s much distorted claim to have been the inventor of the internet. And, while no one is suggesting that Governor Romney is a liar, it will be interesting to see if the media will ask him for some “clarification” before the Iowa Caucuses, or the NH Primary. If not, then I would expect this issue to become viral on the internet.
While the late George W. Romney, a four-term governor of Michigan, can lay claim to a strong record on civil rights, the Phoenix can find no evidence that the senior Romney actually marched with King, nor anything in the public record suggesting that he ever claimed to do so.
Nor did Mitt Romney ever previously claim that this took place, until long after his father passed away in 1995 — not even when defending accusations of the Mormon church’s discriminatory past during his 1994 Senate campaign.
Asked about the specifics of George Romney’s march with MLK, Mitt Romney’s campaign told the Phoenix that it took place in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. That jibes with the description proffered by David S. Broder in a Washington Post column written days after Mitt’s College Station speech.
Broder, in that column, references a 1967 book he co-authored on the Republican Party, which included a chapter on George Romney. It includes a one-line statement that the senior Romney “has marched with Martin Luther King through the exclusive Grosse Pointe suburb of Detroit.”
But that account is incorrect. King never marched in Grosse Pointe, according to the Grosse Pointe Historical Society, and had not appeared in the town at all at the time the Broder book was published. “I’m quite certain of that,” says Suzy Berschback, curator of the Grosse Pointe Historical Society. (Border was not immediately available for comment.)
Berschback also believes that George Romney never appeared at a protest, march, or rally in Grosse Pointe. “We’re a small town,” she says. “Governors don’t come here very often, except for fundraisers.”
In fact, King’s only appearance in Grosse Pointe, according to Berschback, took place after Broder’s book was published.
That was for a March 14 speech he delivered at Grosse Pointe High School, just three weeks before King was assassinated. But there was no march, and George Romney was not there.
Security concerns would have made a march impossible, even had one been planned. King was personally driven directly to the high school by the sheriff, as described by accounts at the time.
This 1968 Grosse Pointe appearance is the one that Romney spokesperson Eric Fehrnstrom initially insisted, in email exchanges with the Phoenix, was the event in question. Fehrnstrom cited the Broder column and “the Romney family recollection.”
Of the many contemporaneous and historical records of the Grosse Pointe speech, none make any mention of George Romney’s attendance. It is unlikely, if not implausible, that his presence would have gone unnoticed: not only was he governor of the state, he had just, weeks before, dropped out of the race for President.
And, Mitt Romney would not have known about the event, let alone had a chance to “see” it. He was at that time in the middle of his two-year mission for the Mormon church in Le Havre, France. By his own description and others’, he was cut off from virtually all contact with his family; and at the time, King’s Grosse Pointe appearance was no more than local news.
It was seared. Seared into his memory. Heh.
UPDATE: ROMNEY CAMPAIGN SAYS “TOGETHER” MAY MEAN DIFFERENT CITIES, DIFFERENT DAYS
A spokesperson for Mitt Romney now tells the Phoenix that George W. Romney and Martin Luther King Jr. marched together in June, 1963 — although possibly not on the same day or in the same city.
Oh, yes, of course. That’s what I mean when I say “together.”
Hehee, good try Mitt.
UPDATE 2: John Gibson on FNC says, “This is a convoluted explanation. There is no ‘figuratively’ in politics. Save your ‘figuratively’ for your golf buddies on the golf course.”
Filed under: Election 2008, romney
Now that is just ridiculous.
That’s remarkably similar to the pandering comment by J Effing Kerry…”can I get me one of them hunting licenses?”
He’s still competitive in the race, yet he starts attack ads, and now pandering to show his civil rights bona fides. What’s next, a Howard Dean melt down?
And nuke and I attended different high schools together.
I remember that Robert D. It is seared in my memory
Murtha may be put under oath about Haditha comments
Well…nuke and I were riding different model motorcycles, on opposite sides of the planet, at the same time as one another, and nuke will vouch for me on that.
/seared i tellsya’
And I’ve been on the planet, too.
I know, I can vouch for that!
/pixel proof
Still feeling kind of puny. I think it is an allergen.
Gonna grab a little soup, then I have to go to some folk’s house for a little get together.
Don’t think I will stay very long.
It’s true. It’s true.
When something gets seared, you just can’t forget it.
have fun! drink some eggnog for me
/lactose intolerant
Eggnog!!
Be right wit ya……..
That should be on a T-shirt or bumpersticker.
Spout away beto, my inlaws are Mormon and my wife is a Jack Morman.
I don’t know why that “a” keeps sneaking in there.
As far as Mitt is concerned, speculate all you want. What I see out of the Mormons I know, there’s not a lot of difference between them and any Christian. They don’t have horns, tails or forked tongues. They believe in taking care of the flock, but don’t push their views on others. (any more than any other religion) This is just my narrow view, I like them.
And no, I’m not Mormon.
my view on Mormons…..
Mark 9:40
For he that is not against us is on our part.
I got no problem with them
Well said nuke.
Can’t debate you beto, I’m unarmed against a scholar.
And please beto, don’t take that to mean I don’t want to hear what you have to say.
I reckon we will all find out the truth when we meet our Maker.
Wow, demanding! What neighborhood do you live in anyway?
Me neither.
But they do anyway. But I just tell them no thanks. And I offer them a glass of water and thank them for dropping by.
Well, the one’s that scairt me the most, in Austin, were the one’s that wanted me to get right with Eeyore.
Well if anyone came to my demanding, they’d get a taste of my religion real quick. We don’t get many here, but when we lived near town the JW’s would come all the time to chat about the latest wildlife rescue we’d done. And the young Mormon boys on the bicycles were always polite. If they’re not being polite, I’d complain to the nearest LDS church.
You know what you get when you breed a JW with a Unitarian?
I used to hate that silly assed birthday party, with grown folks dressing up as the characters and frolicking in the park.
You get some one who knocks on your door for absolutely no reason what so ever.
/rim shot
Ya know, sometimes it’s best just to say g’nite……..
New link over in the sidebar “the roll”
AP Raw News, check it out
Why is that, Robert D?
They lied to you beto, taqiyya I tellsya’!
/mine are
Interestng, nuke.
Had to do a double-triple-quadruple take on the link about moveon an the USO working together to send the troops phone cards.
yeah, me too. I posted a new thread on it.
dang, they’re running late
Where did Robert go?
I guess he meant it when he said g-nite??
Back to the Mormon’s, one of my best friends lived across the street, and they were LDS. They never talked about it, and they were just regular folks like the rest of us.
Each summer two missionaries came to town, and did the bicycle, white shirt, and black pants work, every day, all day long. They really got around, as it was a small town, and you saw them all the time. Once a month they got a day off, and could be just regular kids, and would go with us to our favorite swimming hole out in the woods, play whiffle ball with us. I never knew there was a big difference in beliefs, as they were just good, decent folks.
Well I hope my Unitarian joke didn’t offend. It was an oldie.
Them’s the rules.
That’s why you see them bookin’down the road.
BTW, the college bowl season is officially under way.
Lakota Indians want an independent nation.
LOL! Well, by Romney’s definition of “together” I guess I’ve pretty much co-authored every best-selling book on the NYT Best Seller List.
I’ve since read accounts from older folks that are pissed off at the press because they remember George Romney and MLK Jr. marching together.
really?
that’s interesting. Yesterday, the Romney campaign admitted that Mitt had not seen his father marching with MLK.