Actually Mitt's dad DID march with MLK in Detroit. There's a thread on it. So maybe Mitt 'apologized' (clarified?) too soon.
"He spoke damn clear English. The plain sense of the passage is clear from the preceding and succeeding sentences."
"I said that his speech was misread. The lack of intelligence rests in the reader, not the speaker. Just because a fool misreads something someone writes or says doesn’t mean the fault rests with the speaker or writer... You have to be a Mitt-hater to read them the way you do."
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You know, the salesman is always right theory. Mind your betters, little person, unwashed...and so forth.