I posted yesterday regarding the story in Insight magazine on the alleged extent of Barack Obama’s Muslim background, and their added claim that the detailed check of that background was initiated by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The Hillary team responds today:

Clinton’s aides blasted the story as an attempt to tar both her and Obama. “We have no connection to this story,” said spokesman Howard Wolfson, noting the magazine is owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon-founded Unification Church.

“It is an obvious right-wing hit job by a Moonie publication and an attack on both Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama.”

So, take your pick.

Just to descend a tad deeper into deviousness (and we are talking Clinton here): if you wonder why any source in Hillary’s campaign would leak this story to a magazine like Insight, instead of, say, Salon or something, then consider the deniability factor. If indeed this was given to Insight by a Hillary-ette, then the campaign has succeeded (1) in propagating the toxic story on Obama and (2) in being able to tell fellow Democrats (who would look askance on the move) that it’s just a nutty right-wing smear-job. Presumably, the source would have insisted on confidentiality, so the Insight reporter’s hands are tied.

(Don’t you just look forward to having the Clintons back in the White House?)

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Oh, and somehow it’s still news that she’s running: “I’m in. And I’m in to win.”

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