Romney apologizes after report of bullying as a teen

You mean Obama the admitted bully?

 

Washington Post Changes Story, Doesn't Admit Error

On Thursday, Breitbart's Retracto, the Correction Alpaca asked the Washington Post to correct its anti-Mitt Romney hit piece wherein it included an inaccurate and misleading statement about his past. The error was exposed when Stu White contradicted WaPo's reporting in an interview with ABC.

The publication reported that White had "long been bothered" by the Romney bullying incident, when in fact, he wasn't witness to it, and wasn't aware of the story until contacted by the Washington Post. The Post changed its piece after we made our request without informing its readers of the change.

The original copy:

“I always enjoyed his pranks,” said Stu White, a popular friend of Romney’s who went on to a career as a public school teacher and has long been bothered by the Lauber incident. "But I was not the brunt of any of his pranks."

The changed copy, my emphasis:

“I always enjoyed his pranks,” said Stu White, a popular friend of Romney’s who went on to a career as a public school teacher and said he has been "disturbed" by the Lauber incident since hearing about it several weeks ago, before being contacted by the Washington Post. "But I was not the brunt of any of his pranks."

We appreciate the correction and would have appreciated it even more if the Washington Post had alerted its readers to the change.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/10/WaPo-Changes-Story-No-Correction

 

Washington Post Romney 'Bullying' Profile Contradicted By... Automobile Magazine

The Washington Post's controversial exposé on the young Mitt Romney just became more controversial. Presented as an investigative journalism piece, Jason Horowitz’s article contrasts sharply with a similar "flashback" article on Romney recently published in the June 2012 print edition of Automobile Magazine by author David Murray. Both articles chronicle anecdotal events in Romney’s teen years as told by classmates and friends. But while both quote some of the same people, the Washington Post article contains several inexplicable inconsistencies, omissions and false inferences.

The WaPo article focuses on the alleged John Lauber haircutting incident, including quotes from Romney childhood friend Phillip Maxwell: “’It was a hack job,’ recalled Maxwell, a childhood friend of Romney who was in the dorm room when the incident occurred. ‘It was vicious.’”

Apparently not so vicious, however, for Maxwell to relate the incident for the Auto Mag article. Auto Mag does, however, quote Maxwell giving crucial details notably missing from the Post piece: “’I'm a Democrat, so I won't vote for him,’ says Maxwell. 'But he'd probably make a pretty good President. He's very smart, very principled.’”

The Post neglected to mention these relevant facts, just as it neglected to mention Maxwell’s skepticism about Romney’s religion as reported in the Auto Mag piece: “‘He’s determined to claim the highest office in the land--to be the first Mormon to do it. He keeps that undercover because he doesn’t want to frighten people.’”

The Post also creates inferences about Romney that seem to be debunked in the Auto Mag article. Horowitz quotes Matthew Friedemann, the most vocally harsh critic on the Lauber haircutting, in a manner inferring that Romney was a snobbish kid who owned his own car: “When Romney left the campus on weekends, he never invited him. ‘I didn’t quite fit into the social circle. I didn’t have a car when I was 16,’ Friedemann said.”

Well, neither did Romney, according to his friend Gregg Dearth in the Auto Mag article: “’Mitt didn’t get a car at sixteen--ike many Cranbrook kids did.”’ And Romney did invite classmates home on weekends, according to Maxwell--a fact once again nowhere to be found in the Post article.

The Post article briefly mentions Dearth, but not to the degree--or to the effect--in the Auto Mag article, which quotes Dearth extensively:

"With his powerful father, 'He could have been an arrogant, stuck-up, snotty little brat,' says Dearth. ‘But he was a great guy -- an all-American kid with a great sense of humor, very self-effacing.’ And although it's been documented that Romney played a teenage prank or two -- including once impersonating a police officer in order to scare some female friends -- Dearth remembers Mitt as the most straitlaced kid in the neighborhood. ‘Those of us who tested the boundaries in high school still marvel at the self-discipline he displayed,' Dearth continues. ‘With a father who was then governor, Mitt knew where the line was and never crossed it. I think it was a sign of his deep respect for his dad and the way he was brought up. I often tell people he has more integrity than anyone I know. And I was raised a Unitarian.’”

Another Post inconsistency appears through witness Stu White (emphasis added):

“I always enjoyed his pranks,” said Stu White, a popular friend of Romney’s who went on to a career as a public school teacher and said he has been “disturbed” by the Lauber incident since hearing about it several weeks ago, before being contacted by The Washington Post. “But I was not the brunt of any of his pranks.”

After nearly 50 years, Stu White only heard of the Lauber incident a few weeks before the Post contacted him for his impressions of it. Yet “investigative journalist” Jason Horowitz does not ask the basic journalistic question of “who” told Stu White of the incident--and “why” suddenly now, after 50 years. Does WaPo just dismiss this as miraculous coincidence?

Isn’t that perhaps the most crucial element to the Post story--the question of why Obama’s epic same-sex marriage announcement seemed to have been timed so precisely with someone tipping off Stu White after 50 years, and with the Post's publication of its gay-bullying hit piece on Romney? White's anonymous informant and the Post's piece seem hardly coincidental.

To summarize: two current articles based on interviews with some of the same former classmates. But they present two differing and largely inconsistent portraits, with Horowitz's Washington Post either failing to investigate, or deliberately omitting, crucial and relevant information revealed by Murray in Automobile Magazine about Romney's character in high school. It would seem that the Post’s investigative journalism standards leave much to be desired.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journa...g-Profile-Contradicted-By-Automobile-Magazine


Hmmm, starting to sound like another Dan Rather/Bush AWOL story.

 

You have to admit...it IS reflective of what it is PinkSlip wants to do for America, and how he succeeded in business. Knock us down, bully us, cut almost everything whether we like it or not, and outsource the rest.

 

Oh you mean all the pinkslips at the GM dealers and factories shutdown and moved production overseas by the bully Obama?

 

You mean the same GM that PinkSlip advised all of us to let fail?? The one that's thriving and number one now? That one?

 

Who cares if the family is aggrieved, eh? And who cares that the portrayal of John is factually correct? Keep your eye on this - the only thing that matters is whether or not Romney bullied a kid because he was queer. Nobody seems to be denying that much. Not even Romney.

 

I'm trying but you seem insistent on voting for him anyway.

What kind of man would claim his dog had fun strapped to the roof of a car for several hours?

The same kind that would lead a gang to torture a kid because they thought he was gay.

Seventeen is not six. Romney was not forced into being a bully. He was the head bully. ...

 

Not fail, go through a structured bankruptcy. Learn the difference. Of guess what they ultimately did, went through a structured bankruptcy except Obama saddled the taxpayers with BILLIONS of debt and stock losses. Thousands out their jobs, hundreds of thousands of investors, retirement funds, pensions funds out their money all so Obama could play boy industrialist and placate the unions.

Or did you mean the buy who successfully saved AMC Entertainment, Aspen Education Group, Brookstone, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Clear Channel Communications, Domino's Pizza, DoubleClick, Dunkin' Donuts, D&M Holdings, Guitar Center, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Sealy, The Sports Authority, Staples, Toys "R" Us, Warner Music Group and The Weather Channel just to name a few. In fact a 70% success rate in turning companies around and growing them.

So how is Obama's green investments doing?

 

The same guy who I saw doing it the other day with his dog sitting back there wagging his tail. The same guy who was pulling his champion show horses down the highway the other day. And the dog wasn't strapped to the top of the car, his travel crate was.

Ahhh better get up to speed, already proving to be a phony story. Go read the threads here about it.

Ahh ROTFLMAO, it was Obama who was the bully according to his own writings in his book. And his victim was a girl, what kind of persons shoves a girl around?

 

So none of these companies would not have survived if it weren't for the PinkSlip master huh? He personally saved all these companies huh? Really? Somehow I doubt that is the case. Somehow I suspect that other people may have been involved with your suggested scenario.
How come I don't hear about PinkSlip spouting off about all these tremendous successes? Why is it the most recent one he is trying to claim credit for is the GM scenario? I suspect, respectfully, that you're a bit off in your propaganda there.

 

If it's so phony...then why is it that Romney's friends and Romney HIMSELF have yet to say it's untrue and never happened??

Let me quote Mitt when asked about it...

"I don't remember that incident"

Just out of curiousty Flip...how many incidents were there???

 

The only incident we know of for sure is Obama bullying a girl, so what does that say about his character?

 

I know all I need to know about him. He's a corporate outsourcer. He's been running for POTUS for several elections now (I guess because all his wealth bores him so he wants the ultimate power too). H'e republican. He approves of multiple wives. He's speaking at the Jerry Falwell of "kill them all in the name of the Lord" University tomorrow. He hates gays. He pisses on poor people. Quite enough, thank you.

 

I don't care what it says about his character...I don't like him either...Obama and Romney are one in the same...

 

I'm sure you libs don't have a clue how silly you all look taking this accusation so seriously. It's comical for sure. No wonder Barack Obama got elected. There are idiots amongst us.

Who really thinks this 'event' trumps Obama's 20 yr relationship with Rev Wright, raise your hand!

Hilarious...

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Did Obama ever apologize for doing illegal drugs?

 

Allow me to reiterate....

Six is not seventeen.

And a "slight shove" is not a gang holding down a kid while their leader forces a haircut on him because they think he's gay.

And admitting it in a memoir is far different than trying to keep it secret, denying it, feigning no memory of it then a "well I was just a kid faux apology."

Try again. Your guy has a mean streak that goes well beyond just abusing kids and animals....abusing kids and animals. Gee, that trait is shared by one demographic....

serial killers.

 

Obviously you don't judging by your statements. You just want to believe things about him facts be (*)(*)(*)(*)ed. Pitful way to choose a President but that's what you choose to do.

Once again showing a shallow ignorance of the man.

Oh well I see it not possible to have a rational and informed discussion of the man, I'm sure there are plenty of other leftist out there who just want to engage in petty ad homimem barbs with you.

 

And 16 is not 65.

Yeah except the story about Romney is falling apart while we have Obama admitting to his bullying in his own words.

Try again he didn't abuse animals but your guy did abuse a girl and ate dogs.

Maybe you should switch sides then.

 

And 17 is not six. At the age of seventeen Romney committed a felony assault and battery, conspired to commit felony battery, and did so as a hate crime. Old enough to be charged and convicted as an adult.

Nope, sorry. Every detail that comes out supports the story. Romney led a gang of bullies in an attack on a kid for being "different."

One six year old pushing another is not "abuse" but a seventeen year old forming a gang for the purpose of committing a battery on a younger kid is abuse and is a crime.

Why? so I can be a "conservative", like you?

Sorry. My dog rides inside the car and I'm the guy who steps between you and your victims.

 

Was it the support of Jerry Falwell gang of "We hate the homos" crowd that PinkSlip is gonna be hangin' with tomorrow that bugs you, or just the fact that the truth hurts?

 

You are arguing with a guy who would dismiss the actions of a full adult yet judge a person for what he did as a six year old. Its hilarious these people think they even have a point.

 

I would bet that nearly every six year old boy bullied a girl while at school. You would have been no different. Obama was a normal kid. If the story about Romney is true, he isn't normal - normal adults don't go around assaulting gay kids.

 

My 2 year old nephew has gotten into the habit of shoving other kids occasionally. I guess he will grow up to be a career criminal.

Its funny the same people who are defending Mitt's actions because he was only 17 or 18 have been saying that Trayvon deserved what he got because he was a thug. How old was Trayvon again, may I ask?