SUBSCRIBE to Next Media Animation: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NMAWorldEdition<br /><br />Mitt Romney is being attacked by liberals after the Washington Post ran an article about how he bullied a gay classmate who didn't fit in at his high school.<br /><br />Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NMAtv<br />Webpage: http://www.nma.tv/<br />Twitter @nmatv: https://twitter.com/#!/nmatv<br />Tumblr: http://nmatv.tumblr.com/<br /><br />Five of Romney's classmates from the exclusive Cranbrook prep school, including classmates who participated in the bullying, say Romney led other boys as they held down the classmate — who had returned from spring break with bleached blond hair — while Romney gave him a haircut. Romney taunted another closeted gay student by yelling "Atta girl!" in English class, the story says.<br /><br />Romney apologized after the article was published for pranks he led that "might have gone too far," though he says does not remember that particular incident.<br /><br />"Back in high school, I did some dumb things, and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, obviously I apologize for that," Romney told Fox News. "I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school, and some might have gone too far, and for that I apologize."<br /><br />The timing of the Romney bullying story raises questions, as it comes just after Obama endorsed gay marriage and North Carolina passed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions.<br /><br />Implicit in the story is the idea that Romney bullied the student because he was gay. Anti-gay bullying campaigns are prominent among gay rights groups in the US.<br /><br />Romney says he "certainly" did not "believe the fellow was homosexual." "That was the furthest thing from our minds back in the 1960s," he said.
