My School Days
By Mitt Romney

NEW YORK - (The Borowitz Report) - Today, presumptive GOP nominee Mitt
Romney released the following open letter to the American people:

Dear Friends:

This week, The Washington Post reported an incident from my high school
days in which I bullied a gay classmate by pinning him to the ground and
cutting his hair off. This story revealed a side of Mitt Romney that
may have been surprising to many of you: the Mitt Romney with an
irrepressible and hilarious sense of humor.

Some of you may say, “Hold on, Mitt – isn’t holding a kid down and
cutting off his hair going a little far?” Well, the merry prankster in
me tells me you can never go too far when it comes to giving the
greatest gift of all: the gift of laughter. And I certainly remember
many of us laughing long and hard about what I did to that Nancy-boy.
Was it cruel? Perhaps, but it’s not like I tied him to the roof of a
car or anything.

The Democrats have already tried to seize on this incident as evidence
that I don’t like gays. That is a lie. I have nothing against gays.
Except for the poor ones, of course. And as any of my high school chums
can tell you, I did not go out of my way to pick on gay kids. I was
also a total douche to many heterosexuals.

The fact is, boys will be boys. Who among us hasn’t shoved a crippled
kid down a flight of stairs? That’s something else I did in those
mischievous days, but the mainstream media isn’t reporting it because
they want to turn this into an anti-gay thing. The fact is, when I was
in high school I played pranks on everyone – blind kids, deaf kids,
dwarves and Jews. Although come to think of it, I don’t think our
school accepted Jews.

Now that I’ve put my actions into better context, I hope you’ll see this
incident with the gay kid for what it was: innocent good fun. And I
hope when you vote in November, you won’t judge me as the teenager who
bullied one gay boy, but rather as the adult who fired thousands of people.

Vote for me,

Mitt Romney