Sam Donaldson: Don't Compare Me to Heckling Reporter

The Daily Caller says reporter reporter Neil Munro's interruption of President Obama is no different than Sam Donaldson's interactions with Ronald Reagan, but Donaldson himself is having none of it. In an email to the Huffington Post, Donaldson says he never heckled, rather he called out questions in open situations. "Never once did I interrupt a president in any way while he was making a formal statement, a speech, honoring awardees or in any other way holding the floor," wrote Donaldson. "I really resent his trying to tie his reporter’s actions to mine."

But more than just rudeness, Munro scored some major irony points for his question, "Why do you favor foreigners over American workers?" It turns out that Munro is a foreigner, too—Ireland-born but now working in the United States on a green card. Which leads New York to speculate that "if you asked Munro how he got his current job, he wouldn't say that the Daily Caller had favored a foreign reporter (him) over an equivalent American one; he'd point instead to the "few good articles" he wrote while at National Journal in the aughts." (More President Obama stories.)