Tumbling on the heels on that last story is this item from the No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Department: it turns out that Andy Martin, the original promoter of the Obama Muslim smear, has now decided to smear… that’s right, the person who called him out in the Washington Post: Danielle Allen.

Here’s some highlights from the ridiculous press release that Martin put out today. If you have any questions about the talents, intelligence, or reliability of Prof. Allen, I happily direct you here and here and even here.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled buffoonery:

“In so far as my contact with the Post,” Martin will state, “Mr. Mosk accurately reports my role and, as far as I can remember, correctly reports our interview.

“But Mosk produced an incomplete form of journalism. He writes a long article about Danielle Allen, but she is a very suspicious character to say the least. Mosk uncritically swallows Allen’s story.

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“Ms. Allen’s role is left hanging. She literally appears out of thin air. She claims to have accumulated masses of information, done research, and yet had no visible impact on the campaign until Mosk identified her on June 28th. Very, very strange. What impact has she had to justify her sudden appearance in the Post?

“Perhaps she is Obama’s new ‘Manchurian Surrogate,’ spoon feeding the mainstream media Obama’s perverted and distorted version of the truth about his religious roots.

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“In conclusion, I thank the Post for correctly reporting my own role, and not stooping to the demagoguery of the New York Times. But, unfortunately, while reporting correctly on me, the Post has unveiled Obama’s new ‘Manchurian Surrogate’ for the media, Danielle Allen, an Africa-American [sic] woman who appears to have been rolled out by his campaign to undermine truth-tellers about his religious roots. Allen is apparently using taxpayer subsidies to conduct Obama’s political research. Ms. Allen has a lot of explaining to do.

“With all due respect to Mr. Mosk, how he found the secretive Ms. Allen now becomes the story. Why she never surfaced until June 28th, and how she surfaced, and when, are equally unanswered questions. Has the Post been inadvertently duped? Was the Post knowingly used by the Obama campaign to propagate more religious disinformation?

“I would be remiss if I did not end with a plug for my new book…”