Tagg Romney apologizes to president for 'take a swing' remark; Twitter doesn't forgive

Brett T. | 7:27 PM on October 23, 2012

Celebs, media figures and practically everyone else was lined up earlier this week to take their own shot at Tagg Romney, who had joked on a North Carolina radio show that hearing his father called a lair during the second presidential debate made him want to “take a swing” at President Obama. Lawrence O’Donnell, certainly among the top 10 of MSNBC’s toughest hosts, urged Tagg to “take his best shot.”

Tagg Romney and the president had their chance to duke it out last night as the candidates’ families gathered on stage following the final debate, but reports are that Tagg apologized and the president graciously accepted. Now that the brawl to end it all is a no-go, leave it to Twitter to hash out whether this threat was ever real.

Impressed Tagg Romney manned up and apologized for the crack about wanting to swing at Obama. Class move.

— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) October 23, 2012

@morningmoneyben Or he could have not made a crack about wanting to hit the president. No class in an apology for something so classless.

— Jasmine Guillory (@thebestjasmine) October 23, 2012

Roseanne Barr had urged Homeland Security to come down hard on “punk ass ho” Tagg and have him detained, but the Secret Service seems to have taken a pass.

@TPM @rickklein It's good that he apologized but everyone should stop calling Tagg #Romney's threat a joke. Tagg was clearly not joking.

— Chris Strosser (@rescuetruth) October 23, 2012

@rescuetruth you think it was an actual threat? of course it was a joke.

— Rick Klein (@rickklein) October 23, 2012

@rickklein I don't think Tagg ever planned on actually going through with it, but I think he really wanted to punch the president.

— Chris Strosser (@rescuetruth) October 23, 2012