Slop.

While I agree with you (he himself hasn't done anything blatant here), his spokeswoman saying he would like to hear more about the pitch is part of an ongoing issue I see with him: he feels the need to treat these people as legitimate and go out of his way to respect them, even when they're calling him the reincarnation of hitler and inventing new racial stereotypes to apply to him.

I mean, he's a lib isn't he? A socdem lib, but still a lib, "hearing everyone out and treating everyone with civility" is the cornerstone of liberal behaviour.