Once again, 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney is explaining that the infamous "47 percent" remark he made during last year's presidential campaign was taken out of context, according to a recent interview in the Washington Post.

Romney explained in the same report: "Actually, I didn't say that. That's how it began to be perceived, and so I had to ultimately respond to the perception, because perception is reality."

The infamous remark that went viral was made at a press fundraiser in Florida back in May 2012. Part of the remark Romney made was: "And so my job is not to worry about those people -- I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to do is convince the 5 to 10 percent in the center that are independents, that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon in some cases emotion, whether they like the guy or not, what it looks like."  

In the same interview by the Washington Post, the former Republican nominee said that it was not directed at Obama's camp but to those still in the middle. "They've got a bloc of voters, we've got a bloc of voters, I've got to get the ones in the middle," he said.

Romney went on the offensive as well, telling the Washington Post that Obama had once made a remark similar to his that wasn't taken out of context. "And I think the president said he's writing off 47 percent of Americans and so forth. And that wasn't at all what was intended. That wasn't what was meant by it. That is the way it was perceived," Romney said.