IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOUR DEFINITION OF “SAW” IS …
FITSNews – December 21, 2007 – You know at least when Bill Clinton was obfuscating over the meaning of the word “is,” we were talking about something non-political. Specifically, blow jobs. Which as far as we can tell never hurt anybody.
In Mitt Romney‘s case, however, he’s using the infamous “Clinton Dictionary” to try and get out of something a little more serious, specifically his demonstrably false claim that his father marched with Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can CLICK HERE to watch the video of Romney’s latest “Adventure in Bullshitting,” which we recommend only if you want to study what not to say when you get caught telling a bald-faced lie.
UPDATE – This actually gets better. Romney told the Boston Herald back in 1978 that “my father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.” You can read the quote for yourself in this Boston Globe article.
By BelowMe December 21, 2007 at 11:05 am
lame. I’m not sure how his comment was a “bald-faced lie”. Attacking someone over semantics is a pretty petty. See Websters Dictionary for the definition of “to see” which includes “to have experience of or to come to know.”
This all out assault on Mitt from you Hucksters ain’t gonna work. You can take your bible in to the voting booth but it’s not going to stop the Romney Express, baby. Huckster is in a death spin in the polls now that everyone is realizing that he is a retard.
By Don Johnson December 21, 2007 at 2:18 pm
You Romney supporters are getting almost as fanatical as Ron Paul supporters.
The semantics of “saw” vs. “my father and I marched” or whatever boils down to one thing. He said it happened. It didn’t happen. That was easy. If it didn’t happen, and even if you “came to know” something didn’t happen, it’s still a lie. If other people repeat the lie, it’s still a lie.
It’s like Tom Cruise telling me (and millions of others) that phaetons came to Earth and inhabit his brain. OK, he’s crazy, but that doesn’t make it true. No matter how many books L. Ron Hubbard sells.
I mean, how hard is it to tell the truth? It’s amazing that this kind of stuff keeps happening. There are historical records, people.
By Mincing Words December 21, 2007 at 3:50 pm
belowme,
so you are saying that mitt used the word “saw,” commonly known to every english-speaking person as meaning “to see,” as “to have experience of”? so it would translate like this: “I “had the experience of” my father walking with MLK.” well guess what? even if that was what mitt had intended, it’s still crap because his dad didn’t walk with MLK. or is there some alternative definition of “walk” that you and mitt use?
i don’t really prefer one candidate over the other at this point but i despise all liars, and mitt has proven himself to be one, just like al gore and his invention, the internet.
By Hmmm... December 21, 2007 at 5:37 pm
See, I think what Mitt meant to say was that he saw his daddy walk with MILK. And he knows that daddy didn’t spill a drop, because he walked with MILK, too. See?
Mincing Words: The internet? Is that thing still around.
By BelowMe December 21, 2007 at 8:55 pm
you jokers better get on board the Romney express before it is to late. Otherwise, we will have to send you all to reeducation camps in Utah after the general election.
By Borat December 22, 2007 at 1:25 am
AWESOME!!! Let’s not address the candidates’ positions on important issues. Instead, let’s twitter about stupid controversies manufactured by liberal journalists and do-nothings like Bill Folks.
HIGH FIVE!!!
By Gillon December 22, 2007 at 10:33 am
…and then there was Mitt’s erroneous claim that he was endorsed by the NRA in the 2002 Massachusetts governor’s race. I guess that was another “semantical slip”. The pattern continues…
By Foolish Mitt December 22, 2007 at 8:06 pm
I find the Romney flap/story interesting in that Romney’s father appears to be waaaay more progressive (in 1963) mind you, than the base he is courting today. Why would Romney have even brought up this story, now, when it can only hurt him with the Rank and file GOP, even if 100% accurate?
By truthseeker December 24, 2007 at 8:29 am
I saw Mitt Romney and his dad marching with Gandhi years back.
Afterwards, I overheard them discussing water-boarding and other torture techniques.
MItt is trying to buy the election and he has almost done it – if he just did not have to go and talk about his ideas and what he believes in- he would win.
By O Baby! December 25, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Obama 2008!!!