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stay classy MSM...
"The Washington Post on Friday found itself the subject of growing criticism for running an article on Mitt Romney’s high school pranks, including one in which he allegedly hacked off a fellow student's long, bleached hair while the boy was being held down by school bullies.
The Post piece implied that the Romney incident had haunted the student, John Lauber. Thirty years later he bumped into a witness to the event and described it as "horrible."
Lauber died of liver cancer in 2004. His family attacked the article. His sister Christine told ABC News that she knew nothing about the bullying incident and that the story had factual inaccuracies.
“If he were alive today, he would be furious,” she said. “Even if it did happen, John probably wouldn’t have said anything.”
Betsy Lauber, another of John’s sisters, said the family was upset the incident, that allegedly happened 47 years ago in 1965, is being used to further a political agenda.
Ben Shapiro, writing on Breitbart.com pointed out that the Washington Post had quietly changed its own story after it had claimed that Stu White, a high school friend of Romney’s, had long been bothered by the Lauber incident. White told ABC News that he had not been present and had not been aware of it.
The Washington Post story reports: “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.”
ABC News, says: “White was not present for the prank, in which Romney is said to have forcefully cut a student’s long hair and was not aware of it until this year when he was contacted by the Washington Post.”
"It was irresponsible of the Post to run the hit piece in the first place, especially given its obvious bias; to retract a critical phrase and replace it without noting the retraction is just as bad," wrote Shapiro, who called the piece “unconscionable.”
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