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A day after MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry issued a tearful on-air apology
to Mitt Romney for joking about his adopted black grandson, the former
Massachusetts governor accepted it as "clearly heartfelt."
“I
recognize that people make mistakes," Romney said on "Fox News Sunday."
“And the folks at MSNBC made a big mistake. They’ve apologized for it.
And that’s all you can ask for.”
On
her show last week, Harris-Perry showed the Romney family Christmas
card: a photo of the family and his grandchildren — including Kieran, an
African-American child adopted by one of Romney's sons. Harris-Perry
and her guests then joked that it was the 2012 Republican nominee's
"token" attempt at diversity.
On
Saturday, Harris-Perry apologized. "Showing the photo in that context,
that segment, was poor judgment," she said. "Adults who enter into
public life, implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their
families, especially their children, should not be treated callously or
thoughtlessly. My intention was not malicious, but I broke the ground
rule that families are off-limits. For that I am sorry."
“People
like me are fair targets," Romney said on Sunday. "If you get in the
political game, you can expect incoming. But children, that’s beyond the
line. And I think they understand that."
He added: “I think it’s a heartfelt apology. And for that reason, we hold no ill will whatsoever.”
Also
Sunday, Romney, who managed the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City,
said he's confident the upcoming games in Socchi will be safe from a
terrorist attack.
"I'm
convinced, the case of a nation like Russia, they have the resources to
do their very best to protect people from that kind of attack," Romney
said.
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