DJ/rappers Redfoo (Stephen Kendal Gordy) and Sky Blu (Skyler Gordy) (Uncle and Nephew respectively).
BS! I don't believe Romney 'loudly' asked him anything nor do I believe he did anything more that tap him on the shoulder. The guy is BSing, IMO!
Posted on 02/19/2010 9:42:38 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
BOSTON (AP) - A rap star says former Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney first touched him—and not the other way around—during a confrontation aboard an Air Canada flight that was preparing to take off from Vancouver, British Columbia.
Sky Blu, whose given name is Skyler Gordy, says in a video posted Friday on TMZ.com that he was trying to go to sleep when he leaned his seat back on the Vancouver-to-Los Angeles flight Monday.
He says Romney loudly told him several times to straighten it and then grabbed his shoulder.
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Do we need to send the Epic Bearded Man to come over and adjust your attitude Gordy?
The brothers and sisters sure have been in the news lately for unruly behavior. Must be that hope n change is not working out as they had planned.
A rap star says former Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney first touched him—and not the other way around
He better come up with some kind of defense. He is most likely a two strike offender already.
No, he lost any chance of my vote with this conduct.He aint got what we need for the white house.
It looks like both of them would have had to resort to hitting each other with purses; had had the situation escalated.
I haven’t heard anyone ask “Where the hell were the flight attendants?”. They should have made him put his seat up for takeoff. A passenger shouldn’t have to be the one that enforces the rules.
Wasn’t this during the approach to take off when regardless of your color, creed, or political affiliation, ALL are required to have their seats upright?
I understand that many here in FR have Romney Derangement Syndrome, but if putting a hand on somebody's shoulder to get their attention that they are doing something illegal and dangerous to other passengers equals 'assault' in your mind, then you have been sufficiently wussified by the American Left to pass the liberal wussy test.
It depends on the kind of touch Romney made first. No court will sustain an assault charge for a moderate touch on the shoulder to get someone’s attention, particularly when the reason for it was to call attention to a safety rule violation. But if Romney whomped the guy harder than reasonably necessary, then it’s assault (and, I must admit, possibly deserved!).
Exactly. It’s not so much whether Romney was right and justified or not, it is more a revealing glimpse into his personality. Most Americans simply don’t go around acting, insistently, upon that sort of hall monitor impulse.
Poor rap singer’s got a grievance because someone asked him to put his seat up.
DJ/rappers Redfoo (Stephen Kendal Gordy) and Sky Blu (Skyler Gordy) (Uncle and Nephew respectively).
BS! I don't believe Romney 'loudly' asked him anything nor do I believe he did anything more that tap him on the shoulder. The guy is BSing, IMO!
“Most Americans simply don’t go around acting, insistently, upon that sort of hall monitor impulse.”
As I understand it, the rapper’s seat was reclining into Mitt’s wife’s lap. If I was flying with my wife and this happened, I’d do exactly what Mitt did.
Stefan Kendal Gordy is the son of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy & his nephew (Berry Gordy’s grandson) is Sky Blu Skyler Gordy
Ha! Irish Setters too, but I wasn’t going to get into that...
Now...who do I believe...Gov. Romney or a RAP ARTIST????? I’ll go with Romney.
Bull. If Romney touched him at all, I’m sure it was just a tap on the shoulder to get his attention.
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