Until recently, I had no idea that Mitt Romney was the Leonard Zelig of the the civil rights movement:
Romney has repeated the story of his father marching with King in some of his most prominent presidential campaign appearances, including the "Tonight" show with Jay Leno in May, his address on faith and politics Dec. 6 in Texas, and on NBC's "Meet The Press" on Sunday, when he was questioned about the Mormon Church's ban on full participation by black members. He said that he had cried in his car in 1978 when he heard the ban had ended, and added, "My father marched with Martin Luther King."
Mitt Romney went a step further in a 1978 interview with the Boston Herald. Talking about the Mormon Church and racial discrimination, he said: "My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit."
Yesterday, Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom acknowledged that was not true. "Mitt Romney did not march with Martin Luther King," he said in an e-mail statement to the Globe.
To be fair, here is a list of some things that Mitt Romney did do-
- August 23, 1963: Convinces Martin Luther King to conclude his "I Have A Dream" speech with "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!", instead of "I'm going to Disneyland!".
- December 14, 1966: Tells Ron Karenga that Kwanzaa sounds "less gay" than "First Fruits Festival".
- October 16, 1968: Offers Tommie Smith John Carlos his black socks to wear on their fists on the medal stand at the Olympics.
- July 14, 1970; Plays congas on The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
- November 19, 1970: Nails Angela Davis. Nine months later, Tagg Romney is born.
- June 13, 1982: Convinces Michael Jackson that he thinks he would look "really swell" as a white woman.
- March 3, 1991: Forgets that he is Rodney King's designated driver and King is forced to drive himself home.
- March 9, 1997: Kills Biggie Smalls for "disrespecting" him.
- May 13, 2005: Double-dog dares Michael Vick to top strapping a dog to the top of a station wagon.
The good news is that, should Romney not get the nomination, he'll be going back out on tour with Parliament Funkadelic. What? Who do you think wrote Atomic Dog?
Bow wow wow, yippie-yo yippie-yay.
Login Here
Share This
Spotlight


Support this site!
Keep
up with news
Advertise on Firedoglake
Send
us your tips
Make us your homepage
About TBogg
Advanced search
RSS/XML Feed
Mitt coined that phrase, “Bow wow wow, yippie-ya yippie yay”
Keep your mitts off my dashiki…
Mitt taught Denzel Washington everything he knows about acting.
Who can forget how Mitt and Berry Gordy started Motown Records? Berry wanted to with an all-polka sound for the label, but Mitt insisted they give an audition to this kid, Smokey Robinson.
I know, I know…too spellchecky, but it’s RaHSaan, not RaSHaan.
jesus, I’m obsessive…
And like Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Willard is often found blowing through two horns at once.
Unlike with RRK, no one pays to buy recordings of this.
I’m sure the Boggs can dig up a Soul Train dance line featuring Mitt,
Ann and all the soul bruthas and sistahs from the Massachusetts chapter of the Black Panthers.
Oh, and considering Mitt’s timeline, I almost positive that it was he, and not Les McCann who helped discover a female vocalist toiling away in Washington DC’s nightclubs in the 60’s.
I’m sure it was Mitt and not Les who heard her sing and pulled her into the recording studio following her gig and from there a legend was born.
The woman’s name — Roberta Flack.
Willard was also spotted at the LA Riots helping Rodney King write that immortal line “can’t we all just get along?”
bow wow wow yippee-yo yippie-yay
Tom, I think you have just gotten Willard a new “tag” (sorry) line …. bow wow wow yippee-yo yippie-yay
I remember that Chuck Berry said the Cadillac in “Maybellene” was driven by none other than his old pal Mitt. Because they were such good buddies, Berry was hurt to find the fine young Maybellene riding around with the Mittster, who had all the money. Mitt felt so much remorse, though, that he vowed to join up with the MLK march to prove he was an all around great guy. This was around 1959, so I may have a detail or two wrong, but the gist of the story holds true.
And, and - Mitt’s grandfather married all those wives, ya know, becuz they were ESCAPED SLAVE WOMEN!! Word.
Classic!
He was also overheard one afternoon saying, “Not panthers, lions. You want to be known as lions. The Black Lions! The afro is the mane!”
Why just today Mitt was walkin tight and holdin his dick on the campaign trail. Sayin “shit mothefucka”.
Was he ordering iced tea by chance?
And the Romneys have been hiring flacks ever since
But I thought Mitt discovered Otis Redding and taught him how to sing and write songs like “Dock of the Bay.”
Hey yo, all those giveaways from Oprah are really from Mitt. Thanks Mitt.
“There IS CERTAINLY NOT any stopping us now,
We are in forward MOTION!!”
Mitt will explain tomorrow that no one’s EYES are
literally ON THE PRIZE. ‘S a metaphor, you understand.
Mitt was there when Jimi Hendrix died.
And it was Willard, not Don McLean, about whom Roberta Flack sang “Killing Me Softly With His Song”.
I believe that Romney’s ancestors also convinced ol’ Honest Abe to sign the emancipation proclamation, and bought Frederick Douglass out of slavery.
Wow, things sure are different here at TBoggLake.
Mitt helped Malcolm X by suggesting, “By any means necessary,” when Malcolm had wanted to write, “If they’ll let us.”
And wasn’t that Mitt’s dad who was on the balcony with Jesse the day MLK was shot?
I think that’s him off to the left …
http://www.newsmakingnews.com/.....emotel.jpg
Mitt’s street name is Why T
He discovered Smokey Robinson, Otis Redding, Martha and the Vandellas, the Temptations, the Supremes. Also, for the appropriate audiences, Lawrence Welk, the Everly Brothers, Glenn Miller, and Johann Sebastian Bach.
AKA Mitt Doggy Dog. Word.
First son is Tye-Tee?
I don’t have to tell you whose gun was borrowed to make this!
Rahsaan Romney assaulted the Marin County Courthouse to free “Soul Brother” George Jackson. He didn’t really mean to kill the judge, though.
This was not too long after Rahsaan, Huey and Eldridge founded the Black Panther Party.
Sorry, just got a note from Rashaan. That would be “Soledad Brother” George Jackson.
I can only assume that Mitt — while nosy-Nate Tipper Gore was chasing foul-mouthed rappers and the like — never thought his greatest muscial discovery would ever take off.
I think Tagg is the ” [high?] Yella” one.
http://panachereport.com/chann.....es/nwa.jpg
Mitt descended from the Mothership and gave Dr. Romneystein the term Chocolate City, vowing to return one day.
if i’m not mistaken in ‘64 mitt convinced a bold young boxer named cassius clay to change his name to muhammad ali. at that time he himself went by willard x as he considered romney his slave name…
“Mitt helped Malcolm X by suggesting, “By any means necessary,” when Malcolm had wanted to write, “If they’ll let us.””
Wow, I thought Haley wrote that Malcolm initially wanted to use the term “Mother may we.”
And Tbogg, Osama bin Beckham and the Startled Prairie Dog all took their direction from Mitt when authoring and carrying out the IslamofascistNationalParksDeptFlight93MemorialProfJaques conspiracy to remove “THE COMMENT”. I know….I “saw” them all talking about it.
“And Tbogg, Osama bin Beckham and the Startled Prairie Dog all took their direction from Mitt when authoring and carrying out the IslamofascistNationalParksDeptFlight93MemorialProfJaques conspiracy to remove “THE COMMENT”. I know….I “saw” them all talking about it.”
Hmm, that seems pretty far-fectched Mrs. Bogg. I don’t think the prairie dog is muslim.
It’s in the water. That’s why it’s yeller. [/firesign]
Oh, and as for the Prairie Dog, perhaps the one with the monocle and mustache would be more appropriate for conspiracy mode.
omg you guys are killing me with these Mittbits. 2 fuckin funny. Never since Colbert at the pressers dinner has been such righteous ridicule.
Mitt was a three time ABA All Star with the Indiana Pacers. He encouraged Darnell Hillman to cultivate his gigantic Natural.
Seconded.