The Campaign Spot

Glen Johnson vs. Mitt Romney

In this exchange at a Staples, AP reporter Glen Johnson is factually right — if Romney doesn’t have lobbyists running his campaign, he has them as unpaid “senior advisers” —  but strikingly snippy. Romney’s press guy Eric Fehrnstrom takes him to task for being unprofessional, and I generally think it’s a bad idea for campaign correspondents to yell out objections during a candidate’s remarks.

Okay, I admit, when Code Pink protesters disrupted the NRA candidate forum, I did yell, “taser her.” But that was an effort to the other, higher-caliber options for dealing with disruptive folks at their events…

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