Skyler Gordy who had a confrontation with Mitt Romney on a Vancouver to Los Angeles flight says Romn
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Skyler Gordy, seated on the bed, and his unidentified comic foil, standing, explain Gordy's rumble with Mitt Romney on a flight from Vancouver.

Skyler Gordy who had a confrontation with Mitt Romney on a Vancouver to Los Angeles flight says Romn
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Skyler Gordy, seated on the bed, and his unidentified comic foil, standing, explain Gordy's rumble with Mitt Romney on a flight from Vancouver.

The rapper who recently got into a well-publicized spat with former (and future?) Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on an flight that had pushed back from gate in Vancouver, British Columbia gives his side of the confrontation, blaming Romney for starting it but saying he holds no hard feelings.

In a video on TMZ.com, Skylar Gordy describes the disagreement starting when he reclined his seat in order to get comfortable.

Gordy, the grandson of Motown founder Berry Gordy, seems blissfully unaware or just doesn't care that when a plane is preparing to take off your seat must be in the upright position and the tray table must be stowed, but never mind.

The way Gordy, aka Sky Blu, one half of rap group called LMFAO, describes it, Romney first asked him to put his seat up in the firm voice of someone used to being in authority. Then when Gordy appeared to ignore him, Romney got physical, grabbing him by the shoulder.

 

Gordy says he then confronted Romney:

"I just react. Boom. Get off me, you know. And I didn't take it any further than that. I just wanted the man not to touch me; that's it."

Gordy adds a detail I hadn't seen before. He said Romney's wife Anne screamed. That sure help soothe any nervous fliers on that flight. The police came and briefly detained Gordy (he wasn't arrested contrary to reports) and he made a later flight.

Romney's spokesperson has said that it was Gordy who got physical with Romney. It's telling that neither man pressed charges.

Romney, who ran the Salt Lake City Winter Games in 2002, was in Vancouver for the opening of those games. Gordy's group had performed in Vancouver.

In the video, Gordy is accompanied by another young man who acts as his comic foil. They appear to be in a hotel bedroom with two full-size beds.

Gordy says:

I have no hard feelings agains him. I'm sure he was a good dude.

COMIC FOIL: Will you vote for him?

GORDY: No because I'm a Democrat, he's a Republican.

COMIC FOIL: Could you guys be drinking buddies?

GORDY: If he drinks.

That would be a no. Romney's a tee-totaling Mormon.