Why did Romney lie about his father and MLK?

Question

Now Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, has added another entry to the lexicon of political euphemisms for the blatant fib.

When he said that as a boy he “saw” his father march with the civil rights leader Martin Luther King — a claim debunked yesterday — Mr Romney now says that he used the word “saw” as a figure of speech. Mr Romney said: “If you look at the literature, if you look at the dictionary, the term ‘saw’ includes ‘being aware of’ in the sense I’ve described. I did not see it with my own eyes, but I saw him in the sense of being aware of his participation in that great [civil rights] effort.”

Mr Romney, who seems to be having several “figure of speech” moments on the campaign trail, said in a key speech this month that he had watched his father George Romney, the late Michigan Governor, march with Martin Luther King.

Answer 1

Romney says things he believes will get him elected. He's just that transparent.

Answer 2

ok so shall we get this immediately. the daddy of Mitt Romney did not sign up ?????????????? there are a number of those that for the duration of no way actual marched side by potential of side with MLK yet declare to have walked arm in arm MLK. The word is " I walk arm in arm with MLK" yet they're merely supporters. It would not exchange something.

Answer 3

he didnt lie. There are countless articles and books citing George Romney marching with MLK. There are also witnesses who saw them.

"To see" has 9 different definitions. You want to try to narrow that down to claim that Romney is lying when his usage easily falls within the other definitions. Simply because he didnt physically view the march doesnt mean it didnt happen. If it hadn't happened, George Romney would have been refuted when he ran for President in 68.

Any honest person will admit how involved Romney's father was with the civil rights movement. To try to claim Romney is lying about it because you want to use narrow definitions is quite petty.

Answer 4

Because he looks at his supporters, and undecideds as potential Bain Capital acquisitions. He needs to woo voters in the only way he knows how. I'm sure he's a great business man... In fact, his company, Bain Capital has acquired Clear Channel Communications. Clear Channel stations are what 50% of America hears on the radio, AM and FM. Clear Channel is powerful enough to destroy the Dixie Chicks when they go against Bush. CCU is what disabled Howard Stern on public airwaves, once he spoke out against Bush. Why?

Clear Channel (CCU) executives. They have given $42,200 to Bush, vs. $1,750 to Democratic opponents. Clear Channel CEO Lowry Mays and his sons led the campaign giving in 2004.

Mays himself gave $12,500 to the Republican National Committee in September. He gave $2,000 to Bush in July. President Mark Mays and Chief Financial Officer Randall Mays each gave $2,000 to Bush last year, as well.

The executives and Clear Channel's political action committee gave 77% of their $334,501 in federal contributions to Republicans. That's a bigger share than any other entertainment company, [source from] *non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics.

Then there is the issue of CCU owning a large portion of the billboards you see on highways. It's hard to get approval for your advertisement on theirs, if they don't agree with your views. On the other hand, in Los Angeles, they put up a billboard that crossed out "LA" and replaced it with "Mexico". The Spanish station doing the advertising, actually feels that the area they broadcast to, IS Mexico, and tells it's viewers as such. You guessed it, the station, Noticias 62 IS a Clear Channel station.

In the case of Clear Channel's - "Support Our Troops" rallies, they were actually an extension of the Karl Rove strategy to force peace advocates to appear to be opposing our troops by not supporting the Iraq war. Furthermore, since the support for the war was lukewarm, Rove knew that the rallies had to be packaged as gatherings to show backing for the young men and women who would do the fighting. Clear Channel fulfilled this strategy, although the numbers attending their thinly veiled pro-war rallies paled in comparison to the hundreds of thousands who attended peace marches and events. And here we are today, stuck with blithering idiots, who can't separate support for troops, from people angry about occupational wars.

Mitt Romney founded Bain & Co. in 1984, and today it's spinoff -- Bain Capital -- is the third largest private equity firm in the country. Today [couple days ago actually] they bought ClearChannel, a company that owns over 1100 radio stations and 30 TV stations. This is why media consolidation issues are so important.

One rich guy who wants to be President can buy a media empire overnight, so he more easily tell you sweet sweet lies. And if you try and debunk them, the 1100+ stations will drown you out in the propaganda he decides is correct. If you don't see a problem with that, God help us.

Answer 5

You know that Mitt thought daddy was bonkers at the time of MLK was marching. Simply trying to rewrite history with a bad lie.

Answer 6

Mitt Romney is a liar and the cooperate media is going way too soft on him

Answer 7

Why are you so worried about Romney? Is it because you think he can win? If you don't, then why even worry?

Answer 8

He'd send his mother down a river to get a vote. Yet there are idiots out there who will vote for him.

Answer 9

Because he was a raised ,believing you can take away something or add something if it will help your cause. Isn't that what his faith is?
Did they not add John Smith to the Bible?

Monkey do. What Monkey see/

Answer 10

That's not a lie. If I said I saw my mother have a good time working in the garden club, does that mean I had to actually go to her garden club meetings and see her enjoying herself? Maybe he should have phrased it differently, but I think its a little absurd to go after him for that.