Tyrannosaurus Romney, "alleged bully".
Posted on 05/11/2012 8:38:01 PM PDT by Qbert
The ombudsman is being bombarded by input from readers, via e-mail and phone calls, about the story that Post reporter Jason Horowitz wrote on Mitt Romney’s teenage years at the prestigious Cranbrook School in Michigan.
The story leads with an anecdote about Romney and some of his friends in his dormitory tackling and pinning to the ground an unpopular classmate and forcibly cutting off his bleached-blond, longish hair. The boy, John Lauber, was frightened and in tears, Horowitz explained, and the boy turned out to be gay.
The rest of the deeply reported story provides extensive context to Romney’s years there, what the school was like, where Romney fit in the boys’ hierarchy, and the fact that a lot of people liked the son of Michigan’s then-governor, George Romney.
Conservative Web sites have criticized the piece on several grounds.
The first is that The Post changed the text of one paragraph from the online version published on Thursday to the print version published on Friday without telling readers. It’s a description of how one of Romney’s high school friends, Stu White, felt after hearing about the hair-cutting prank. White was not present at the prank.
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The Post changed the story after talking to White again and discovering that White only learned of the prank in recent weeks after being told of it by a Cranbrook classmate.
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This part of Horowitz’s story is tangential at best. It is only about how one person, who was not an eyewitness, felt about the incident.
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“Our intention with this story and future stories about both Mitt Romney and President Obama is to give people the fullest possible portrait of the men who are running for president. We will continue to explore their biographies, their decision-making, and their full lives.”
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caught with their draws down...again
“Our intention with this story and future stories about both Mitt Romney and President Obama is to give people the fullest possible portrait of the men who are running for president. We will continue to explore their biographies, their decision-making, and their full lives.”
Can you ‘feel’ the ‘truth’ and ‘love’???
Might as well just change the title of the “Ombudsman” to “Flak-Catching Shill.”
Our intention with this story and future stories about both Mitt Romney and President Obama is to give people the fullest possible portrait of the men who are running for president. We will continue to explore their biographies, their decision-making, and their full lives.”
About four years too late as it relates to Obamaumau
The fact that he could not deny it, and apologized, spoke volumes, you don’t forget if you were that violent toward people or not.
Who is Hussein?
B*llsh*t! It was nearly 50 years ago. The kids relatives say they never heard about it and he would have told them. He probably doesn’t remember because it didn’t happen. He wouldn’t say it didn’t happen because we don’t remember every little thing we did 50 years ago. Even if it did happen he probably thought it was harmless fun. In today’s hyper-sensitive PC environment libs are trying to make a big deal out of it but at the time it would have been very forgettable, at least for Romney and his buds.
“There is currently no evidence that the facts not yet disproved are false. As this story progresses, we are confident that facts for which there is no evidence will remain undisproved. Just ask Dan Rather.”
More like the “Obamudsman.”
“This part of Horowitz’s story is tangential at best.”
Tangential, misleading coloring that was added to the gossip story and it was removed only after public exposure of errors.
What a white wash of a sham put-up hack job. WashCompost did macaca on george Allen, then attacked candidate McDonnell for a college paper, now this hit piece coordinated-with Obama’s coming out on gay marriage. Part of their DNC-enabling bias.
Lot of takedowns in the conservative blogosphere and elsewhere...
http://theothermccain.com/2012/05/11/bullygate-what-did-jason-horowitz-know-and-when-did-he-know-it/
I will tell you that an attack of this violence and enduring result of cutting someone’s hair off, would have been a big deal in 1965. No one could forget doing something of this nature, Romney didn’t forget, he apologized because he evidently was out of control as a group leading bully, and felt that he was nailed by the accusation, a normal person would plainly had been astounded at the idea that they could have done such a thing, and would have angrily dismissed it as absurd and insulting.
I doubt that they will ever uncover an example of Mitt dealing with violence while alone though. We can all see Romney as a bully at the head of his followers asserting himself on the weak, none of us can see him as a guy willing to stand up to a fist fight.
"Tangential, misleading coloring that was added to the gossip story and it was removed only after public exposure of errors."
Yep.
(Good links, btw.)
I want to read an interview with OBAMA’S DRUG DEALER!;)
"I will tell you that an attack of this violence and enduring result of cutting someone’s hair off, would have been a big deal in 1965. No one could forget doing something of this nature..."
I'm no Romney shill by any means, but if the leftists can forgive Ted Kennedy for watching his secretary drown, Bill Clinton for his sexual harassment settlement (and possible rapes), and Barack Obama for his long-term associations with a racist anti-Semite and a Hamas supporter...
No witnesses, a denial by the family of the said victim and no memory from anyone else involved is a solid story for the Wash Post??
The media will always be the media, but this guy is a stain on our conservative movement, I can react to revelations about him while simultaneously having a negative reaction to democrats when they are shown as trashy losers, killers, dopers, rapists, and worse.
I can handle all kinds of stories at once.
I guess I’m about his age, and I sure remember stuff. In fact I was peripherally involved in a very similar hair cutting incident. I went to a private school, and I heard that something was up in a dorm, and I went over there. There were a bunch of guys that I knew there, and I asked what was going on, and I got the “Oh nothing” answers and I left, not wanting to be involved. In fact, they were going to shave some kid’s head, and ended up just cutting a swath up the back ( as it transpired. ) We all got called in and were told that we faced punishment up to and including expulsion, and when the teacher ( I do remember his name ) finished his statement, I spoke up and said, “I just want to say I didn’t have anything to do with this.” He said, “Why we have you down here as the instigator of the whole thing.” ( Because I was seen coming and going, you see. ) All the other guys vouched for me though, and I was off the hook. Later I saw my wrestling coach, and the only thing he wanted to know was how I got all those other guys to lie for me.
... so yeah, I’m sure he remembers the whole thing.
I don’t like Romney, I will not vote for Romney in November.
However, this story is totally bogus. They have no witness to this event, the family denies it happened and no one else remembers it.
Romney is a lib. he will apologize for Skippering a transatlantic slave ship if he is so accused. That is his nature.
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