Set Ups? Planted Questioners? They all do that kind of thing:

According to Dan Schnur, however, such tactics are typical for campaigns -- and not just Clinton's. Schnur was John McCain's communications director in the 2000 campaign and now teaches at University of California, Berkeley and The University of Southern California.

"I don't think in either party I've ever seen a campaign that holds question and answer events that doesn't arrange for some questions," says Schnur. "That's not to say every question is prepared. That's not to say the candidate knows every question coming. But it's pretty standard practice."

Schnur says campaigns approach reporters in a similar way -- suggesting that if they ask a candidate about immigration, for example, they might get a newsworthy response. Opposition campaigns also send operatives to pose particularly difficult or slanted questions -- which is what Clinton seemed to think Randall Rolph was up to when he asked his question about Iran.

But if all campaigns use these sorts of tactics, why is Clinton being singled out?

"Every candidate faces one double standard or another, especially if it reinforces the preexisting impressions about that candidate," says Schnur. "There is already a suspicion among the first concentric circles of politics that Hillary Clinton is over-programmed, so this becomes a bigger story for her than it would for (Barack) Obama or (John) Edwards."