One more trait of the Clintons that drives their critics batty, but that their supporters don’t even blink at: their habit of planting questions they want asked at campaign events, be it now at an Iowa campaign stop or in her Senate campaign of 1999.

Now, if holding a conference call with reporters and having your staffers pose as reporters – as FEMA did – warrants outrage (and it did), will we see comparable reaction to this bit of news?

I don’t quite get why campaigns or federal agencies do this sort of thing. If you have information you want to make sure is out there, then just come out and say it at the beginning. Unless it’s a real snoozer, you’ll get follow-up questions…