I dunno. This whole thing seems sorta Primary Colors to me.
That link and that fact are in the OP.
Why? It’s never stopped them in the past.
ETA: have you no knowledge of the reputation of the Washington Times? The Moonies are about as credible as the Scientologists.
OK, so no one believes that the Clinton camp is the source of this mud-slinging? They are above that sort of thing, I suppose?
No one said they were. What we said was that the people reporting this have an incredibly shady reputation. They’re known for pulling this kind of shit all the time.
ETA: why are you so eager to believe that Hillary was behind it?
Of course not, but what do they gain from such an easily exposed lie? Also, the timing of the lie displays political naiveness such as I would never associate with the Clinton camp - it’s about 13 months too early. My judgement is that it comes from some Matt Drudge wannabe.
Eager? I am just reading what has been written. I’m not the one trying to explain anything away. 
I can easily imagine Hillary’s people digging for this info. I can easily imagine them wanting to leak it.
“Oh, but where should we leak it? I know! A conservative rag! That way, we can disavow any connection to it, and our true believers will buy that we had nothing to do with it!”
::glancing up at thread::
“See?!”
They crank up a meme. Memes survive whether they are true or not. Memes float around the internet in glurgey emails. Few bother to look up whether they are true.
“Hey Gladys, it says here that Al Gore claims he invented the internet! The nerve of that guy!”
And which side spread that little meme again?
Apparently, Clinton’s.
And that’s true, so: given that there is a meme floating around that Obama has been indoctrinated by strict Islam, and there is a separate meme floating around that this is a vicious lie from the Clinton camp; who gains?
Edwards! That bastard!
But there IS no info. Nothing has been dug up. Nothing has been leaked. The allegations are entirely fabricated. The connections to HRC come only from a dubious right wing rag and are highly weaseled even at that. Hillary would have nothing to gain from “leaking” information which could be so easily and quickly shown to be false. All it could do is backfire on her. This whole thing looks like a transparent attempt to swiftboat Obama (who clearly scares the shit out of the right) and then throw a bloody glove into Hillary’s backyard. It’s already working like a charm on the dittoheads and freepers but Hillary was never going to get those votes anyway.
So where’s the evidence that Hillary had something to do with it? I don’t see any.
After reading the Insight article, I’m compelled to mention that I find it so ridiculously sloppy that I frankly couldn’t care less who originated it.
This article has about as much verifiable data in it as your average Weekly World News UFO report. Let me get this straight: the persons who supposedly brought this to the publication’s attention are never identified by name, are vaguely referred to as being in HRC’s “camp” (whatever that is) without a hint of evidence that this might actually be so, and there is no indication whatever that HRC has anything to do with this other than happening to be the person whose “camp” these unknown people supposedly belong to.
Not to mention the deep silliness of what the article seems to be trying to suggest: that due to the possibility that Obama may have attended an Indonesian madrassa for parts of four years before he was ten years old, he is some sort of sleeper agent in a plot to surreptitiously put a muslim fundmentalist Manchurian Candidate in the White House.
Give me a name of someone willing to back up this accusation on the record; better yet, since the article claims that a background investigation has been conducted and vetted for accuracy, give me some kind, any kind of documented evidence that Obama is a practicing muslim and has deliberately hidden this fact, and then maybe I’ll pay some attention to this story.
What evidence would you expect to see, beyond the attribution in the article? 
Apparently not. Google the phrase “Gore claims he invented the Internet” and the name “Dick Armey” pops up all over the place. That would be, of course, Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey. If you want to learn more about the real history of that meme, here’s a pdf.
So I suppose you’re going to suggest that Lesbian Pagans for Satan is not part of the “Clinton camp”? Well, then, prove it!
As always, the Internet would not be what it is today without Al Gore’s support. That is, in fact, reasonably accurate and attested to by none less than Vince Cerf.
Personal pet peeve, that.
Nah, way too early for Hillary to dump that, especially if she could get caught. Six-seven months from now, maybe.
But she fights tougher, smarter, and WAY nastier than that. I expect her to chew these people up if they press.