Witnesses were lying about Romney's dad marching with MLK (Washington Post fact-checker)

[antiimperialist]

Now the fact-checker is giving Romney four Pinochios, upgraded from two after these new findings. (The maximum number of pinochios possible, meaning a big lie).
You may remember that the Politico, whose Roger Simon has repeatedly praised Mitt Romney's physical attributes, was presented by the Romney campaign with two witnesses who claimed to have seen governor George Romney in a Michigan march with MLK. It turns out that King was in New Jersey at the time this event occured, making it impossible for both to have been together in Grosse Point.

After news reports challenged Mitt Romney's repeated accounts of his father marching with Martin Luther King, his campaign put a reporter from Politico in touch with eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen the former Michigan governor "hand in hand" with the civil rights leader. But their memories are almost certainly flawed as contemporaneous news reports show that King was addressing a meeting in New Jersey at the time the eyewitnesses supposedly saw him in Grosse Pointe, MI.

I don't blame Romney's campaign so much, because they are expected to be liars. But The Politico? An entity that is expected to deeply investigate every single allegation before posting it in their website? I'm not even disappointed in them, because I know they are supporting Mitt Romney for some reason.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/12/four_pinocchios_for_romney_on.html

[acmavm]

1. Yeah, Mitt & Co. are EXPECTED to lie. What I can't figure out is do they

figure that everyone is so damn stupid they'll believe it? Do they really expect not to get caught?

He's acting like a four year old caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

[papau]

2. A bank CEO Robert L. Allbritton owns the site, John F. Harris, the Editor in Chief, is formerly of

The Washington Post.

So why do we trust the site?

[oasis]

3. Simple Simon. (eom)