"Gimme a big ol' gulp, Yogi!"
Nope...he died several years ago.
The first thing that I thought of was that I never heard the term gay in high school during the 60’s.
Actually, the guy is dead - liver cancer. His family is not happy with this story, which they describe as "factually inaccurate" and "used to further a political agenda". The story does mesh nicely with the week's Obama campaign theme of special rights for gays, and keeping Obama in power is (to liberals) more important than human decency.
Agreed. There were no openly homosexual kids in my high school either. Years ago, this subject was not talked about. Nowadays, in this “Glee” generation, it’s actually cool among some to say you are gay or “bi-sexual”, but not years ago. So it’s hard to believe that Romney and the guys were expressing “homophobia” and all that.
And why is the MSM reporting something that happened almost 50 years ago anyway? What does this reveal about Romney and character issues, or what his goals as president would be? Will we hear corresponding embarrassing incidents from Obama’s youth???
"Gimme a big ol' gulp, Yogi!"
Oh my gosh! Cut a hippie homos hair.
In basic training we scrubbed a dirty-neck with Lava soap and a scrub brush.
Guess I’ll not be running for public orifice.
I had a homosexual friend in high school in 1967 or 1968, that was in Texas.
Being naturally conservative I was extremely hostile to bully’s, and was something of an anti-bully enforcer from 1st grade through the rest of my life. Romney would not have liked to have me catch him and his posse attacking an individual.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/10/Washington-Post-Hit-Piece-Implodes
This WAPO hit piece is going down in flames. CBS interviewed the source, Stu White, who said that he didn’t witness the incident and didn’t even know about it until WAPO told him about it. Yet, WAPO said he ‘has long been bothered by the Lauber incident.’ Also, Lauber’s sister is saying that she doesn’t remember anything like that happening at all. Lauber, (the supposed victim) is now deceased. I believe that the media were given their marching orders to find or manufacture a ‘homophobe’ hit piece on Romney to come out the day after Obama’s gay marriage thing. The story itself is not ‘homophobic’ IMO.
I was in elementary school in the 60’s and teasing about gays using various slurs (though not much the term ‘gay’) was common then, so I expect it was in a private boys’ high school as well.
Certainly many gays have recounted such harassment in school from that era.
Sounds like Romney went overboard trying not to be the goody-two-shoes son of the governor when, by being an observant Mormon, almost by definition that’s what he was.
But that’s not a reason to reelect Obama!
“Does the guy that had his hair cut have a job, a house, and a pension?”
He actually had a pretty amazing life, I think it may be covered at the end of the article.
It’s very sad that this fellow died so young, but it sounds like he was vying for “most interesting man in the world”.
He did some fancy schmancy equestrian work in England. Was a merchant seaman. Became a chef at some fancy restaurant, and even did contractor work of some kind (food?) in Iraq.
I might have messed up some of the details, but that’s the flavor of it.
Maybe he just did all these things to try and escape the humiliation he still felt over Romney’s prank.
But I was bullied a lot in school (A LOT - and by people who were JUST LIKE ME in every way, sex, color, class, ethnicity, religion) and I’ve never done anything particularly interesting.
In 1965 “Gay” still meant mirthful and carefree.
I don’t ever remember anyone being bullied because of being homo or “strange”.
The school toughs always chose weaker kids to bully who were not able or allowed by their parents to fight back.
http://olehgirl.com/?p=10586
Why aren't we talking about Hussein's dismal record? The devaluation of the dollar....unemployment....budget/housing crisis, etc.
The LSN are shills for Hussein ...as someone on Fox said last night....they are *stenographers* for him.
Jimmy cracked corn and _ _____ ____.
So now we have a bogus event/story that Romney apologized for, that will be the next story - why did he apologize for something that didn’t happen.
It was 1965 when homosexuality was sometimes called “The love that dare not speak it’s name” as opposed to now when it’s “The love that won’t shut the hell up.”
That’s okay, we’ll just have a look at Obama’s transcripts
That he was a dick to one of his classmates when they were kids. Yeah. Somebody decided that was a serious issue.
In all the discussions about ‘bullying’, I never see anyone ask, “who else is being bullied besides the gays”.
It’s like there is no one else that had to deal withh assholes in junior high and high school.