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Posts Tagged ‘False Memory Syndrome’

Fact Check: Brett Kimberlin was SWATed – False

Fact Check: Brett Kimberlin was  SWATed – False

Brett Kimberlin’s group Velvet Revolution has offered a $10,000 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the attempted SWAT-tings of Mike Stack, Patrick Frey (Patterico), RedState’s Erick Erickson, and … Brett Kimberlin? Well that’s a new one. via Bloggers work to debunk Brett Kimberlin’s new claim that he was a SWAT-ting victim | Twitchy. Subsequent to inquiries I made this morning, I received the following email from the Montgomery county Maryland public information office: Good Morning, I searched our 911 call database for the above listed address. There was no call listed for 5/31, nor anything similar to what you described. I then searched each of our 6 districts for the entire day of 5/31 for a murder in progress, murder just [...]

“I Saw my Father March with Martin Luther King” Mitt Romney Speech Revisited 4 years later

“I Saw my Father March with Martin Luther King” Mitt Romney Speech Revisited 4 years later

Accurate Citations from Books and Articles, False Memory Syndrome, or Speech Writer Blunder? by Albert N. Milliron Mitt Romney’s speech on December 6th, 2007 called “Faith in America”, has a statement In the 26th paragraph containing the now controversial statement, “I saw my Father (The Late Michigan Governor George Romney) march with Martin Luther King.” Governor Romney made a similar statement on Meet the Press, when he said, “My dad marched with Martin Luther King.” Shortly following the speech, The Boston Phoenix reported it couldn’t find evidence that Romney and King ever marched together. Then Boston Globe reported Romney said his father had told him he had marched with King and that he had been using the word “saw” in a “figurative sense”. Romney [...]