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(27,315 posts)
Thu Apr 19, 2012, 02:21 PM Apr 2012

More fibs from Romney about the Red Sox

After so many lies, one more, and this one stupid and told in 2006.

http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/talkingpolitics/archive/2012/04/19/romney-s-fenway-fib.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PHXTalkingPolitics+%28Talking+Politics%29

Romney's Fenway Fib
by David S. Bernstein
Earlier this week Red Sox season-ticket holder Mitt Romney gave a national network interview at Fenway Park. This led someone to bring to my attention that Romney, who was governor at the time, was there at Fenway Park for the historic championship-clinching Game 4 of the 2004 World Series. Or at least, he told Air Force pilot he was:

When he told me he was Massachusett's governor, I politely asked him to leave the flight deck, declaring the cockpit off limits to all Red Sox fans. He laughed and made a few cracks my way, regarding the Yanks, and we hit it off pretty well. I asked him if he was at Fenway when the Sox finally won the World Series, and with a huge boyish grin he replied, "Yes I was."

No, he wasn't. I could go to a lot of trouble proving to you that Romney was actually in New Hampshire campaigning for George W. Bush that day, but it doesn't really matter because -- as every New Englander has been screaming while reading this post -- Game 4 was played at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri.


Link to the original article http://web.archive.org/web/20060616113147/http:/newsday.typepad.com/news_jay/2006/05/driving_miss_da.html
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More fibs from Romney about the Red Sox (Original Post) Mass Apr 2012 OP
Anyone remember Al Gore? gratuitous Apr 2012 #1
The Least Interesting Man In The World On: Baseball Initech Apr 2012 #2
It's not like he's going to the New England vote anyway sadbear Apr 2012 #3

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. Anyone remember Al Gore?
Thu Apr 19, 2012, 02:35 PM
Apr 2012

As vice president, he went down to Texas several times to inspect hurricane damage. During one of the year 2000 election debates with Bush the Stupider, Gore mentioned one trip with James Lee Witt. Oh boy, did the popular media have a field day with that one! Ho, ho, ho, Gore was with Witt on other trips, but not that particular one. Wotta liar that Al Gore is! And on and on. Sure, it had nothing to do with the subtance of the point Gore was making, but the Republicans and the media just couldn't get over this glaring factual error.

Fast forward to 2012: Will Romney pay a similar price for this mistake? Magic 8 Ball says, "You Gotta Be Kidding."

Initech

(99,881 posts)
2. The Least Interesting Man In The World On: Baseball
Thu Apr 19, 2012, 03:20 PM
Apr 2012

"I've never made it past first base - and no that isn't a metaphor for sex. I really have never made it past first base."

Stay boring my friends.

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