One day, back in prep school, entitled jerk Mitt "Willard Scissorhands" Romney decided he didn't like a classmate's haircut (he also may not have liked that the classmate was gay). So, Willard decided to swoop down on the poor kid, just like he was a company that needed to get trimmed back:
“'He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!' an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.
"A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. [...]
“'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.'” (my emphasis)
Of course, at first, Romney claimed not to remember the incident. Then he made one of those non-apology apologies ("If I happened to offend...") -- while laughing. This comes a day after President Obama's support for same-sex marriage, and Romney saying he's holding fast to his "marriage is between a man and a woman" position.
They say as the twig is bent, so grows the tree, and little trust fund bullies grow up to be big entitled bullies (a.k.a., vulture capitalists and Rethuglican presidential candidates).
BONUS: Wait, there's more:
"One former classmate and old friend of Romney’s – who refused to be identified by name – said there are 'a lot of guys' who went to Cranbrook who have “really negative memories” of Romney’s behavior in the dorms, behavior this classmate describes as 'evil' and 'like Lord of the Flies.'
"The classmate believes Romney is lying when he claims to not remember it. 'It makes these fellows [who have owned up to it] very remorseful. For [Romney] not to remember it? It doesn’t ring true. How could the fellow with the scissors forget it?' the former classmate said."
(Image: "Hmmm... I think you could use a haircut, my good man!")
