I had to reflect when seeing it last night that it is a hard color to wear well, at least for Caucasians. Bush has one close to this shade, and it is hideous on him.

It was certainly NOT an ambush. Johnson is not some random individual with an agenda who wandered into Staples to come after Romney.

Seeing the full tape somewhere yesterday, and I do not remember if Keith played it all, Johnson is a member of the press corps following Romney and is on his plane with him.

When Johnson heard what he thought was an untruth, he called Romney on it. That seems appropriate to me.

It just seems odd because so many supposed reporters are now besotted lackeys who never ask important or hard questions of the candidates to whom they are assigned.

All Romney needed to do was clarify what he meant, which it took him some time to do.

In the full tape it is clear that it is Romney who keeps it going and even comes back after Johnson after initially walking away.

It was also reported that later on the plane Johnson was invited up front to discuss it some more as Romney could not let it go.

What I was not clear on was whether of not Romney knew that he was being taped. Certainly in this day and age where it is hard for even a minor celebrity to go to the bathroom without a cell phone taking a photo, he should have known that it was possible.

What I found inappropriate was the Romney goon who then came back after Johnson in Staples.

That said: I actually think that Romney believes that having a lobbyist as a non paid advisor means that the man is not running his campaign and from his perspective he was speaking truthfully.

I also believed Bill Clinton when he said “I did not have sex with that woman” because he is of a generation where having sex means getting to home plate and a blow job is merely making it to third base.

We may all use the same words but we do not all mean the same thing by them.

Ray, I don’t think Johnson ambushed Romney; Johnson is the AP guy assigned to Romney’s campaign and has been following him around for quite a while. I think it commendable that a member of the MSM is calling a candidate on his bullshit. But I do agree that it was an unprofessional way to go about it.

Anyway, I would like to see Keith do a special comment about the ugliness of the Dem campaigns, particularly Sen. Clinton. They have injected race into this thing since Obama won Iowa. Granted, most were via her surrogates, but it has been ridiculous. I do not believe the LBJ vs. MLK comment was racist or the “fairy tale” comments was racist. But the drug references and disenfranchising voters in Nevada really sickens me. Starting with Andrew Young, “Bill’s blacker than Obama, he’s dated more black woman…” to Bob Kerry calling him a “potential Muslim Manchurian Candidate to Hillary’s comment on the Today show, “Obama hasn’t done the “spade” work when it comes to experience…” to finally Bob Johnson having to apologize for comments he supposedly didn’t intend. I am not saying Obama is a saint or his surrogates haven’t taken advantage of some of these comments, but Hillary is still winning Nevada (and all the big Feb. 5th states) by double digits or near double digits. I do not understand why she feels the need to fight so dirty. In my opinion, this race stuff has got to stop. It would be a very brave thing for Keith to do a special comment about this, but I feel it would be too much to go against the powerful Clintons AND his image/reputation as mainly speaking out against Bush and conservative politics/corruption.

And for the record, Hillary’s senior campaign advisor, when asked by Chris Matthews after the Nevada debates, ADMITTED to lobbying.

That said, Johnson, the AP reporter, *was* unprofessional in the way he approached Romney. It was an ambush, not a question. If it’s unacceptable for Fox Noise to do that sort of thing, it’s equally unacceptable for a respectable organization like the AP.