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Dec. 22nd, 2007 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayne"I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
--Mitt Romney
"He was speaking figuratively, not literally."
-- Eric Fehrnstrom, spokesman for the Romney campaign, responding to questions raised by the Detroit Free Press
As it happens, Russet's father DID march with Martin Luther King. How can you speak figuratively about a purported fact? Is "figuratively" now the polite term for a lie?
--Mitt Romney
"He was speaking figuratively, not literally."
-- Eric Fehrnstrom, spokesman for the Romney campaign, responding to questions raised by the Detroit Free Press
As it happens, Russet's father DID march with Martin Luther King. How can you speak figuratively about a purported fact? Is "figuratively" now the polite term for a lie?
