Tagg Romney's 'apology tour'

Barack Obama whispers to Tagg Romney after the final presidential debate. Never, ever apologizing for anything is a big thing in the Romney family. You've got No Apology, Mitt's seminal work of campaign pablum, which ties in with Mitt's campaign trail outrage at the international "apology tour" he falsely claims President Barack Obama made. But now, son Tagg Romney is having to make a little apology tour of his own, because it turns out that even if you're a rich white dude and the president is black, you don't just get to say you wanted to take a swing at him without raising some eyebrows.

First, Tagg apologized to the president in person, after the third debate. This must have been especially galling since it was Obama winning the second debate that made Tagg want to start swinging to begin with. But there he was, after an even worse defeat for his father, having to apologize. And now the rest of the world gets to hear about the apology, via, of course, "sources":

Sources tell ABC News that on stage after the debate last night, Tagg apologized to the president for the remark, a mea culpa the president quickly accepted.

Sources may have been concerned that if that apology was kept private and all the world knew was that Mitt Romney raised a son who thinks macho posturing about punching the president is appealing, it might just confirm the widespread understanding that his family is a pack of entitled assholes. But the thing is, Tagg had to apologize, and the president had to accept the apology. But the rest of us don't have to think that because Tagg did the bare minimum he had to do, that changes who he and his family are.

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