{"id":12255,"date":"2012-02-09T03:02:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T03:02:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-11T22:02:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T22:02:27","slug":"Mitt-Romney-is-Patrick-Bateman-from-American-Pyscho-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=12255","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney is Patrick Bateman from \u201cAmerican Pyscho\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you noticed that Mitt Romney from the 1980s has a rather strong physical, professional, behavioral and chronological similarity to the character of Patrick Bateman played by Christian bale in \u201cAmerican Pyscho\u201c? While Bateman did drugs, fucked and killed women- Romney fucked and killed companies employing thousands of people, while acting like the ideal mormon man.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who is Patrick Bateman and why are you comparing him to Mitt Romney?<\/strong>
\nPatrick Bateman is the fictional lead character in the Bret Easton Ellis novel, American Psycho, and it\u2019s subsequent film adaptation.<\/p>\n

Why compare Patrick Bateman to Mitt Romeny?<\/strong>
\nThe Wikipedia biography of Mitt Romney highlights many things about Mitt Romney\u2019s life that are similar to the fictional life of Patrick Bateman (privelege, investment banking, extreme wealth), but further investigation shows many other small similarities, from vanity to psychotic tendencies. This blog will highlight some of those similarities for the fun of all.<\/p>\n

Harvard Business School, also known as HBS and one of the graduate schools of Harvard University, is a renowned business education school. This is a list of some of the more famous graduates of the MBA and executive program:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Patrick Bateman (MBA Harvard Business School) is a fictional character, the anti-hero and narrator of the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and its film adaptation. Here is a time-line of his life:<\/p>\n

October 1, 1960 \u2013 October 23, 1962: Patrick Bateman is born.
\n1980: Bateman graduates from Phillips Exeter Academy.
\n1984: Bateman graduates from Harvard University.
\n1985: Bateman has a short discussion with his estranged brother Sean about his future.
\n1986: Bateman graduates from Harvard Business School.
\n1986-?: From the time of his graduation, through the end of American Psycho, Bateman works at Pierce & Pierce.
\n1996: Bateman shows up at Victor\u2019s club in Glamorama with \u201cstrange stains\u201d on his suit.
\n2000: Bateman enters therapy with a Dr. M. This appears in the American Psycho 2000 e-mails. In these emails, he is divorcing Jean, to whom he has been married for at least five years, and has a son. He has apparently started his own brokerage firm and seems to be even richer than he was in the original novel. His tastes are even more rarefied. His homicidal tendencies (or thoughts) seem to have cooled a little with the birth of his son, but have not disappeared completely.
\n2003: Ellis kills Patrick Bateman by writing an extraordinary account of the serial killer being trapped in a pier fire.<\/p>\n

Top 5 Harvard Business School Alumni<\/strong>
\n1. Michael Bloomberg<\/strong>, businessman and Mayor of New York City
\n2. George W. Bush<\/strong>, 43rd President of the United States
\n3. H. John Heinz III<\/strong>, former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania
\n4. Robert Kraft<\/strong>, Owner of the New England Patriots and Chairman and CEO of the Kraft Group
\n5. Mitt Romney<\/strong>, former Governor of Massachusetts and 2008 presidential candidate<\/p>\n

Honorable mention: Patrick Bateman \u2013 a fictional character, the anti-hero and narrator of the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and its film adaptation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Palmer – “Simply Irresistible”<\/strong>
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