The Jonah Goldberg takedown is an old and tired genre, but Alex Pareene breathes new life into it and makes it pleasurable again.
TPM Reader WB has another angle on whether it’s credible that Mitt Romney doesn’t remember this incident from high school …
I think the question of whether Romney remembers this incident is a really interesting one. I do think it is possible he doesn’t remember the event, but in many ways that is a more troubling proposition than assuming that he’s lying about not remembering it.
Romney on alleged bullying incident: “I’ve seen the reports, I’m not going to argue with that.”
Benjy Sarlin has the story of what happened to the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth during Mitt Romney’s time as Massachusetts governor.
I’ve seen other publications refer to these incidents from Romney’s childhood years as ‘pranks’. I was in high school. I pulled pranks. These alleged incidents don’t strike me as remotely things I’d describe as pranks or hijinks. As reported, they come off as vicious and disturbing, even the sort of stuff that was seen as pretty unaccepted in a very, very different era. Read More
Bachmann renounces her Swiss citizenship.
In all seriousness, I find it stunning that someone could have run for president only months ago and did not disclose this or think it would be a problem.
The unsolved 1990 art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is such a good story that it deserves a great ending — and it just might be getting one.
The Romney campaign is asking old prep school friends to speak out in his defense, say he didn’t beat up gay kids, etc.
TPM Reader BK thinks Obama’s marriage move will shore up critical elite media support …
I wanted to offer a few brief thoughts on some of the potential upside of Obama’s pro gay marriage declaration, apart from any moral, polling, or fundraising calculations. Let me preface this by saying that I’m allergic to any narratives about liberal media bias and “elite” media conspiracy. That said, I think this move inevitably shores up considerable sympathy (if not exactly “support”) and regains some luster with a demographic crucial in 2008: the media, maybe particularly television.