In a January 14 Washington Post article, staff writers Anne E. Kornblut and Perry Bacon Jr. joined other media -- including journalist Marjorie Valbrun in a January 13 Post op-ed -- in truncating a comment by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) on the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960s, omitting a portion of her remarks in which she referred to President John F. Kennedy. The Post wrote: " 'Dr. [Martin Luther] King's dream began to be realized when President [Lyndon] Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act,' [Clinton] said, adding that 'it took a president to get it done.' Critics read that as playing down King's importance in the civil rights movement." But as Media Matters for America has documented, Clinton's full quote was:
CLINTON: I would point to the fact that Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when he was able to get through Congress something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do, the president before had not even tried, but it took a president to get it done. That dream became a reality. The power of that dream became real in people's lives because we had a president who said, "We are going to do it," and actually got it accomplished........
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