The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

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Not in My Back Yard
Mitt Romney made a campaign appearance yesterday at a charter school in inner-city Pennsylvania, but he received a hostile reception on the streets nearby, the Washington Post reports:

Residents, some of them organized by Obama’s campaign, stood on their porches and gathered at a sidewalk corner to shout angrily at Romney. Some held signs saying, “We are the 99%.” One man’s placard trumpeted an often-referenced Romney gaffe: “I am not concerned about the very poor.”

Madaline G. Dunn, 78, who said she has lived here for 50 years and volunteers at the school, said she is “personally offended” that Romney would visit her neighborhood.

“It’s not appreciated here,” she said. “It is absolutely denigrating for him to come in here and speak his garbage.”

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter addressed the protesters. “You want to have an urban experience?” the mayor said. “You want to have a West Philly experience? Then come out here and talk to somebody in West Philly.” Inside the school, Romney was doing just that.

Has anyone heard of a presidential campaign organizing protests against its opponent, as the Obama campaign is reported to have done here? It’s a new one on us.

And the hostile tone of the Obama-organized protesters is reminiscent of the false media caricature of the Tea Party. Imagine if an Obama opponent showed up outside one of his campaign appearances and told a reporter: “It is absolutely denigrating for him to come in here and speak his garbage.” The civility police would be demanding that Romney disassociate himself from such hate. In this case, the Obama campaign actually is associated with it.

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