No fair answering your own question while I was off getting the link! ;)
So this isn’t just a matter of “one spokesman (Madden) didn’t get the straight story or Mitt’s true view on this before relaying it to Huffington”. That Madden generally spoke out of turn. That is an argument that some of Mitt’s supporters are using.
Sorry about answering my own question. I felt kind of lazy for asking you about it. So I went and dug it up.