When Did Hillary See MLK?

WaPo and Books and Articles About HRC | 12/23/2007 | Me

[pjsbro]

On March 4, 2007, at the 42nd Anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, Mrs. Clinton recounted how as a young girl she had the great privilege of hearing Dr. Martin Luther King speak in Chicago: “ The year was 1963”, Clinton said in her speech. “My youth minister from our church took a few of us down on a cold January night to hear someone that we had read about, we had watched on television, we had seen with our own eyes from a distance, this phenomenon known as Dr. King.

At Selma, Hillary said she had seen MLK in 1963, so she would have been 15 or 16 at that time. But authors Don Van Natta, Jr. and Jeff Gerth, (“Her Way”, 2007) seem to think that Hillary was then 17, which would have put her at a King speech in late 1964 or 1965. A Washington Post article a few weeks ago had Hillary at an MLK speech “on a Sunday night in 1962”. Carl Bernstein, the former WaPo writer in his book “A Woman In Charge”, says Hillary saw King in the the fall of 1961 (Hillary would have been 14 at that time). And the Boston Globe also recently had Clinton with King in the spring 1962.

So when was it? Was Hillary at King’s speech on that “cold night in January” 1963, or the spring of 1962. Was it 1965 or the fall of 1961?

Why can’t these “journalists” get their facts straight? Don’t they read each others accounts? Why hasn’t the media looked into these details, which are strikingly different in each account?

[pjsbro]

The amazing thing to me is how all these so-called journalists can't get simple facts straight. To me the whole story of HRC's going to hear King was totally fabricated.

Recall that Romney was raked over the coals by media and bloggers when he said he "saw" his father march with Dr. King.

[pjsbro]

According to the Chicago Historical Society MLK first came to speak in 1964

How do you know this?

[PLD]

That was then and this is now Hillary..In the mean time when was it you started working for the commie party...Was it when you met or saw Martin which by the way some say was a commie too..

http://www.martinlutherking.org/thebeast.html

While looking up things on King I ran across this..Could it be that Hillary knew him from the commie friends they both knew..I never could understand why a person like King had a holiday named for him..

[Will88]

“So Hillary was in Selma liestening to MLK and Bubba was in Arkansas watching the KKK burn churches?”

I’m guessing it was closer to the time Bubba and his buddy were riding in the back of buses in Arkansas to show solidarity with Rosa Parks.

[I still care]

From what I understand this youth minister was later fired by the congregation.

I don’t know the specifics, but I do know if my child was being taken without my knowledge to be brainwashed and radicalized, I would raise the roof at this church.

[BigFinn]

The Clinton’s have trouble with the word “is”, Romney has the same problem between see & saw.

[Plains Drifter]

This is the face of an innocent woman/sarc.

[popdonnelly]

Hillary, all of us your age saw Dr. King. So why are you making your seeing him a big deal?

[wardaddy]

good lord..............the fawning worship of race hucksterism

how inspiring

*I knew Charlie Evers.....does that count?

oh yeah...and Hodding Carter and Pat Derian too?

[TYVets]

Not only did HRC hear Dr. King speak, she was introduced to him by after the program by her youth minister.

I am sitting here wondering did she kiss his ring.

[pjsbro]

So how come the media has ignored Hillary’s fable but pounced on Romney’s tale?

[Quix]

Awwwww

[don’t]

give the ‘poor’ bw*tch a break . . .

She probably channeled him during a break in the lesbo orgies at Camp David.

[Quix]

She was reportedly still a Goldwaterite then, anyway!

Maybe we should ask her how many rocks she threw at MLK given her sensibilities

and still the same personality then.

[plain talk]

So when was it?

So who cares? She says she saw him.

[petitfour]

Now stop that name-droppin’!!!!

My daddy filmed the Selma march for national news outlets. I don’t know if he covered King anywhere else. Do I get points for this? I don’t want to say what else he filmed for fear that some of my points will be taken away. He was a businessman!

[pjsbro]

If she says she saw him but she really didn’t, is she saying things that are untrue?

[Dad yer funny]

B I N G O ! . . . indeed

Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton

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[CyberAnt]

But .. what Romney meant was that the day MLK marched in Selma, Romney’s dad WAS MARCHING IN MICHIGAN - IN SYMPATHY WITH MLK’s CAUSE.

So .. the media picked up on the statement but NEVER BOTHERED TO CHECK OUT THE FACTS [and even if they know the real facts - they never include them] .. WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT THE DRIVE-BY’s ALWAYS DO.

And .. NO! I’m not supporting Romney. But he wasn’t making a “false recollection”.

[Popman]

Who gives a damn?

I can't agree more

This "who" saw "whom" on what day 30 years ago is pretty stupid IMHO for both parties

Is it REALLY that important in todays political climate ?

Do people really care if Hillary actually saw MLK from afar in 1963 or 1961 or 1964 or if Mitt saw his Dad march with MLK in June or July or at all?

I think the MSM makes more of this than necessary to deflect the candidates from responding to real issues that affect us today, especially the GOP

Some here are sucked right in with their game

[pjsbro]

Do you think people should people give a damn if this whole Clinton-MLK story was made up?