Romney Univision tantrum part of pattern, including 1981 arrest for disorderly conduct

[ProSense]

Romney Univision tantrum part of pattern, including 1981 arrest for disorderly conduct

by mikepridmore

As mentioned here, there is a trending twitter theme about the temper tantrum a Republican said Mitt Romney threw at the recent Univision taping. Here is the Buzzfeed snippet.

Romney took issue with the anchors beginning the broadcast that way, said Salinas, and he refused to go on stage until they re-taped the introduction. (One Republican present at the taping said Romney "threw a tantrum.&quot

Five years ago Romney got caught in a lie by Glen Johnson of AP and angrily approached Johnson after the presser was over. As Keith Olbermann noted later, Johnson was completely correct about the fact that Romney was telling a bold-faced lie. Eric Fernstrom tried to end the presser abruptly and afterward accused Johnson of being unprofessional. Yes, pointing it out when Romney tells a lie is... "unprofessional." The embed code of that video has been disabled by request (wonder whose request that was?) but here is the link. Note the anger on Romney's face when challenging Johnson.

More below the squiggly orange fold.

As I wrote earlier here, Mitt Romney lost his cool multiple times during the time he was in charge of the 2002 Winter Olympics. There was one incident where he blew up at a teenager charged with directing traffic:

Romney found himself stuck in a huge traffic backup on the road to the men’s downhill ski area, because some buses had not received the proper security-clearance placards and were being prevented from proceeding. Romney, who had organized the Salt Lake Olympics, jumped out to take charge. He started directing traffic, over the objections of a sheriff’s deputy, Kodi Taggart; she later filed a report on Romney’s interference. And he lit into an 18-year-old volunteering as a security officer, Shaun Knopp. Knopp told reporters that Romney had asked “who the fuck” he was and “what the fuck” he was doing and had then told him, “We got the Olympics going on, and we don’t need this shit going on.” Romney denied this at the time, saying he had not used such language since high school. “I would not, have not, and never would use the f-word,” he said. The worst word he used with Knopp, he said, was “H-E double hockey sticks.”

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In the days after the incident, the state’s top law enforcement official decided against an investigation. But the officer in charge of security at the downhill site, Weber County Sheriff’s Office Captain Terry Shaw, said a police sergeant from Colorado working under his command had corroborated Knopp’s account, and Shaw demanded an apology from Romney.

This incident put Romney at odds with those in public safety positions:

Police were angered that Romney denied shouting the expletive and were further miffed when Romney later offered a partial apology to a sheriff's captain but not to Knopp.

''There were a lot of people in public safety who were extremely angry,'' said Peter Dawson, a lawyer today who served as an intern in a communications center at the time. ''The general consensus was, 'I hope he doesn't need any help from us because we aren't going to respond very quickly.'.''

Romney also had "clashes" with others while at Salt Lake, times when he seemed more menacing, and times that bring to memory previous stories like his attack of a fellow student.

Romney tolerated little dissent from trustees who aggressively questioned his decisions. While his many admirers in Salt Lake City viewed him as pristine, amiable, and self-effacing, he developed an alternate image among a group of dissenters: petty, vindictive, and self-aggrandizing.

His chief foe was Ken Bullock - no relation to Romney's friend and COO Fraser Bullock. Ken Bullock served on the organizing committee and also was executive director of the Utah League of Cities and Towns.
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Garff, the organizing committee chairman whose association with Romney went back to childhood, believed Romney inappropriately tried to silence Bullock.

''Mitt saw him as an agitator,'' Garff said, ''and I saw him as a watchdog who needed to be heard.''

Romney showed little sympathy for another trustee who criticized his performance. When Lillian Taylor, a small-business consultant, questioned why the committee continued to retain a pricey law firm that had acknowledged losing documents related to the scandal, Romney, who at the time said he had no problem with her raising the issue, sat silently while the board's attorney aggressively dismissed her complaint.

Yahoo News notes four other episodes, including a 1981 arrest for disorderly conduct:

In 1981, Romney was putting the family boat into Lake Cochituate, an hour outside of Boston, when a park officer told him he couldn't because the license looked painted over. If he launched, he'd face a $50 fine. "I was willing to pay the fine," Romney told The Boston Globe. But the officer returned as Romney put the boat in and, visibly angry at being ignored, handcuffed Mitt, who was "dripping wet in a bathing suit," and booked him for disorderly conduct. Romney contested the arrest in court, threatened to sue, and got the arrest dismissed and sealed.

The other three events mentioned in the Yahoo News article included Putting Rick Perry in a "Vulcan neck pinch," Sparring with party rockers LMFAO, and yelling at a radio host over his gay marriage record.

There is also the attack on his classmate in 1965 when Romney was in prep school. That story is here.

And those are just the stories we know about.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/22/1135276/-Romney-tantrum-part-of-pattern-including-1981-arrest-for-disorderly-conduct

Ouch! Mitt's "campaign is filled with people who spend their time avoiding him or resisting him"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021361146

FLASHBACK: MAY 1ST ROMNEY FIRES FOREIGN POLICY SPOKESMAN BECAUSE HE IS GAY.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/125194152




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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I don't think this is a guy who should have access to the nuclear launch codes.

Nope.

[mbuch64]

21. No doubt about that. Reminds me of the film The Dead Zone.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. Yup. The Greg Stillson character.

[Ken Burch]

24. Just think what he'd be like on COFFEE!

[porphyrian]

2. . n/t

[Cha]

3. Rec for Exposing romney.

[treestar]

4. Whoah, Rmoney sounds worse than McCain

[ProSense]

5. Much worse because

Mitt is also "petty, vindictive, and self-aggrandizin(g)." He thinks rules are for other people. I mean, listen to how he whines and listen to his wife.

[kardonb]

17. much worse

The Mittster acts like a spoiled-rotten 2year old throwing a temper tantrum because he can't have his way .
Is this what we want in the White House ? definitely NOT !!!

[arcane1]

6. I really really hope he sets set off by something Obama says in a debate, intentionally or not

He has to be on edge right now, with a bruised ego over the crappiness of his campaign. I want to see him LOSE IT!!

[Thor_MN]

22. The debates should require sampling to prove that drugs like valium are not being used...

[Whovian]

7. I hope this compilation gets picked up by other sources such national news.

recommended highly!

[Faygo Kid]

8. And we thought McCain was an angry, bad candidate

He was, but Romney is worse.

They are about tied for abysmal VP selections.

[fasttense]

36. It's his sense of royal privilege that comes out.

How dare you question the king? The king can not be interrupted. The King can not be questioned. The king must be bowed down to.

[iemitsu]

42. not exactly king but the white horse prophet.

he believes that he was chosen by the mormon god to take this election and reform america into a mormon enclave from which the LDS church could dominate the world.
its easy to see why he would be frustrated with polls that suggest he is not winning.
he has gotten every thing else he ever wanted.
its his turn for the whitehouse.

[Gregorian]

9. We don't need another dangerously unstable person in charge of this country.

But many conservative voters see this kind of scapegoat behavior as the kind of guy they want.

Emotional train wrecks. This is the best America can offer? Scary.

[progressivebydesign]

10. It's a pattern. A DUer posted that their father had a run-in with Romney when he was younger.

and it pretty much mimicked the same personality defect. Entitled, spoilt, angry, and petty.

[Angry Dragon]

11. The rich know all about entitlement because they are full of it

Willard is one scary bastard

[Initech]

12. An adult actually said "H-E double hockey sticks?" Is he actually a four year old?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. Two recent instances on camera where Romney came close to throwing a fit

and there are several others at Youtube. I could not in a million years imagine seeing Obama handle the public or the press in this hostile manner.

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[Glimmer of Hope]

16. He is unhinged in the first one. Wow.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. The last few seconds of the second one - I thought he was going to get physical

when he ended his little press conference and went out of his way to come up behind the reporter and continue the argument.

[laundry_queen]

39. Wow.

He's loony. I can't believe he walked around and them came back to confront the reporter. Just wow.

[Glimmer of Hope]

14. There was also the incident on the plane with the rapper.

What was that all about?

[pamela]

15. I bet one of the Romney boys will write a tell-all some day.

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Those boys are strange. They tell stories about their Dad that are just horrible and yet the boys tell them as if they were heart-warming. "Dad hosed off the sick dog, hahaha..." "Dad tripped my wife 'cause she was beating him in a race, yukyukyuk..." If these are the stories they tell in public, can you imagine what the private stories are like?

From these glimpses we've gotten of Mitt's temper, combined with the horrible/heartwarming stories the boys tell, I bet Mitt is one mean, abusive son-of-a-bitch as a father. The boys seem programmed, like members of some really mean cult. Some day, one of them is going to realize this isn't normal. When that happens, I bet we'll hear the stories that no one in the family thinks are funny.

[reformist2]

27. It'll be blondie. Probably isn't even Mitt's. ;)

[pamela]

33. That made me chuckle.

I didn't even realize there was a blonde one and I've seen pictures of all five. They all just morph into the same cult-like blandness. I feel kind of sorry for them though, because I honestly do think Mitt was probably abusive to them-verbally and physically. Like I said before, anytime your pleasant memories are as horrific as the Romney boys describe, the bad memories have to be much, much worse.

[treestar]

35. +1

Those sons are passively aggressively trying to damage this campaign. I thoroughly believe they don't want him to be President. They'd have to put up with even more ego.

[laundry_queen]

40. I mentioned that in another post

his kids probably don't even realize these stories are not what NORMAL parents do. They ARE programmed to think it's funny, all in good fun, etc and if they don't go along, they are ridiculed, shamed, told they have no sense of humor, are too sensitive, are babies, etc. My dad was like Mitt and he was abusive. My only saving grace was that his IQ was several dozen points lower than mine and by the time I was a teen I could talk circles around him and he knew it. My dad would've been absolutely insufferable if he had been smarter and had an education. Can you imagine growing up with a dad that has an ego the size of Jupiter? And made millions AND was some kind of leader in the church AND was a governor AND was a success by most measurements? Kill me now. Those guys must be incredibly damaged.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. We already know this guy can get physical with the hair cutting incident....

Then there's the dress up he did pretending to be a cop, a gangster and a firefighter with an axe.

He's nuts.

[tinrobot]

20. The debates should be fun...

Hoping he throws a fit after getting one too many questions he doesn't like.

[Tx4obama]

23. Here are a couple Univision Romney TANTRUM links

Romney Threatened To Cancel Univision Forum If Organizers Didn’t Allow Him To Bus In Supporters

Mitt Romney packed the audience for a Univision forum earlier this week, BuzzFeed’s McKay Coppins reports, busing in local supporters “after exhausting the few conservative groups on campus.” The campaign threatened to “reschedule” the event if organizers did not allow the “rowdy activists from around southern Florida in order to fill the extra seats at their town hall.”

Romney also refused to come out on stage after the hosts introduced him by noting that he “had agreed to give the network 35 minutes, and that Obama had agreed to a full hour the next night.” Univision re-taped the introduction after Romney allegedly “threw a tantrum.”

-snip-

Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/22/893531/romney-threatened-to-cancel-univision-forum-if-organizers-didnt-allow-him-to-bus-in-supporters/

Additional article, with photo, here:
How Romney Packed The Univision Forum
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/how-romney-packed-the-univision-forum

[kestrel91316]

26. kick

[reformist2]

28. "sparring with party-rockers LMFAO".... LOL!

All the crazy stories about Mitt seem to be converging and reaching critical mass!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

29. Compilation of recent moments of testy behavior

[Mrsvandelay]

30. He's going to blow!

Just wait until debates. He will blow!!

[renate]

34. the debates will be fun, that's for sure

Welcome to DU!

[mojo2012]

31. This stuff needs to get out

Any of these folks, Martin Bashir, Chris Mathews, Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow or Lawrence O'Donnell could probably get their researchers on this stuff - it's amazing stuff!
Even to John Kerry who's helping President Obama with the debates. Besides getting Romney off his script, they could get him to lose his temper !

[gateley]

32. He was smart enough to not totally lose it, so I don't think that's really too explosive. I'd love

to see one where he's a screaming banshee and cussing like a sailor.

[femrap]

37. ...

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WASF. BYE.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. If anyone could see Behind bewsh's friendly facade,

seeing behind rMoney's is even easier!

The Narcissistic entitlement, vacancy behind the eyes when attempting to ape the behaviors of normal, conscience driven people, and his extensive experience as a professional Liar is a huge WARNING SIGN that this is a seriously pathological person. And he's creepy as hell.

[ann---]

41. Robme is a pathological liar