Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit has again promoted a false a story about President Obama. Hoft claims:

Barack Obama played the victim card and compared himself to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a fundraiser in Manhattan last night.

Hoft was so upset about the false story he was promoting, he re-tweeted a reaction to the story that said, “The rest of us compare [Obama] to Hitler, Stalin, & Lenin.”

Hoft links to a Politicker NY story that reports:

Before leaving, Obama likened himself to one more figure. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I think that we forget when he was alive there was nobody who was more vilified, nobody who was more controversial, nobody who was more despairing at times,” he said.

Except, that isn't what happened.

The transcript of Obama's remarks show that he wasn't comparing himself to King, but was paying tribute to King's fight for civil rights -- using that as an example to the audience of why all Americans should fight in the face of adversity towards a larger goal:

I'm going, on the 28th, I'm going to be at the dedication of the new King memorial, which I've flown over and it looks spectacular. And now that King has his own memorial on the Mall I think that we forget when he was alive there was nobody who was more vilified, nobody who was more controversial, nobody who was more despairing at times. There was a decade that followed the great successes of Birmingham and Selma in which he was just struggling, fighting the good fight, and scorned, and many folks angry. But what he understood, what kept him going, was that the arc of moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. But it doesn't bend on its own. It bends because all of us are putting our hand on the arc and we are bending it in that direction. And it takes time. And it's hard work. And there are frustrations.

And if everybody here is reminded of that fact, then I'm absolutely confident that America's arc is going to be bending in the direction of justice and prosperity and opportunity.

So I hope you will join me. Thank you.

Hoft continually promotes false stories like this, apparently insistent on defending his title as the dumbest man on the Internet.