Johnson is a reporter for the AP, without question marks, but it was an odd way to treat a leading presidential candidate. And Romney’s campaign manager is from his days in the Bay State statehouse — and she’s not the only one of his core staff who has been with him since before presidential campaign days. He has Washington lobbyists and veteran politicos around him too, as everyone who is running for president tends to, but they are not running his campaign. That was his point, and it wasn’t silly. Regardless, isn’t it Johnson’s job to report what the candidate says, what the facts are, and let the readers laugh if the contention is preposterous?