Rap star says Romney first touched him on plane

[liberal N proud]

BOSTON -- A rapper with the Grammy-nominated club act LMFAO says former Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney first touched him - and not the other way around - during a confrontation aboard an Air Canada flight that was preparing to take off from Vancouver, British Columbia.

Sky Blu, whose given name is Skyler Gordy, says in a video posted Friday on TMZ.com that he was trying to go to sleep when he leaned his seat back in the coach section of a the Vancouver-to-Los Angeles flight Monday. He says Romney loudly told him several times to straighten it, as is required until takeoff under commercial flight regulations.

Then, he says, Romney reached forward and grabbed his shoulder.

"I just react - boom - get off me, you know," Gordy says in the video, taking a swing through the air as he speaks. "And I didn't take it any further than that. I just wanted the man not to touch me; that's it."

Gordy says that Romney's wife, Ann, screamed and that the plane returned to the gate before two police officers escorted him off. After being detained briefly, he was allowed to buy a ticket for another flight.

Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom had no comment...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021902219.html?wpisrc=nl_pmheadline

The other side of the story!

[ShortnFiery]

1. It's not hard for me to believe that the same man who cruelly straps his Irish Setter ...

suffering a bout of diarrhea to the roof of his station wagon, would also be capable of behaving like an asinine "control freak" with strangers. :shrug:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1638065,00.html

Ladies and Gentlemen, we may just have President Mittens come 2012? :puke:

[hwmnbn]

2. This is how passengers behave in first-class???

Hell, we can do that in coach for lots less money!

[ShortnFiery]

4. Yes, if Romney really wants to get his control freak on, there's several "inconveniences"

that us peons must "buck up" and tolerate in coach. He could set all the misbehavers straight. :evilgrin:

[provis99]

5. read the article. It was in coach.

[npk]

11. I guess Romney spent all his money on his failed campaign.

Couldn't afford first class.

[ShortnFiery]

18. That's amazing that Mittens would fly coach. Hum, no wonder he was testy.

Still, I'm always on my best behavior when I fly. I don't get why Romney would not get the flight attendant to intercede if the guy was blowing him off? I guess he thinks that he's always "in charge." :shrug:

[gateley]

13. The article states it was coach -- which is what is most surprising to me, that

Romney was in coach.

It's the Flight Attendant's responsibility to make sure all the seats were in the proper position. Did Sky put his seat back after the check?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. I like the part about the wife screaming.

It's got a great Blazing Saddles "Excuse me while I whip this out" quality to it.

Only thing that could make this story better is if it was Chuggo.

[KonaKane]

9. "HELP, OFFICER!! A Black man talked back to my husband!"

.

[MidwestTransplant]

6. A bad touch?

[ShortnFiery]

21. Hey, show me on the doll?

:spray: :rofl:

[BurtWorm]

7. The plane is the most sensitive part, too!

:o

[KonaKane]

8. That sounded so erotic, on first blush

"Touched by Larry Craig". It had that foot tapping feel to it.

[nosmokes]

10. there's no doubt in my mind Romney put his mitts on Gordy first,

otherwise an arrest would have been made.

And WTF made that asswipe chair monitor?

I'll bet dollars to doughnuts he wouldn't have shit to a white man.

[WVRICK13]

12. Typical White Wealthy Man

I too bet he would not have said shit to a white man in a suit. Maybe Mitt can get a job as a flight attendant since he has the practice.

[arbusto_baboso]

19. His being mormon makes it worse. Mormons love their made-up "authority"...

and love to bully others with it.

I used to be mormon. I know whereof I speak.

[Glimmer of Hope]

14. Why was Mittens so frickin rude? Respect and politeness will get you farther dipshit.

[Number23]

15. Mitt Romney flies coach????

:wtf:

[liberal N proud]

16. Maybe they couldn't get in first class

Had to fly with the rest of us peasants.

They wanted to make sure they were in Vancouver for the cameras.

[TheCowsCameHome]

17. OFFS, Mitt only wanted to offer him a kitchen job at his summer estate

Give him a break.

[MadBadger]

20. MOral of the story...dont put your fuckin seat back douche

:hide:

[classysassy]

22. I remember

Mitts father a decent man, was gov. of michigan before the southerners took over the republican party.