Let's get the sex stuff out of the way NOW.

Oy. Here's another story that could open me up to charges of sensationalism. But the accusation has garnered enough traction on the right that we might as well discuss it here.

The accusation is that Hillary is having a lesbian affair with an attractive Muslim woman named Huma Abedin. Covert History provides your best first step if you want to research the claim.

Seems to me that if the tale were just a baseless smear, the GOP would wait until after Hillary gains the nomination before discussing it in public.

Some believe that this is the story Ron Rosenbaum refers to when he says that the LA Times is sitting on "a potentially devastating sexual scandal involving a leading Presidential candidate."

Now, as I say it’s a rumor; I haven’t seen the supporting evidence. But the person who told me said it offhandedly as if everyone in his world knew about it. And if you look close enough you can find hints of something impending, something potentially derailing to this candidate in the reporting of the campaign. Which could mean that something unspoken, unwritten about is influencing what is written, what we read.

Mind you, Rosenbaum may have directed these words at any leading candidate on either side -- although he specifically exempts Edwards. By my reckoning, that means Clinton, Obama, Giuliani, Romney, or Thompson. One of those five.

I'm in favor of getting all potential sex scandals out of the way right now -- on both sides of the political aisle. The general election should turn on other issues.

Oh -- and before you leap to any conclusions, see this post countering Rosenbaum. Seems to me quite likely that someone could be using Mr. Rosenbaum to spread a false tale. Perhaps he could give us a few more details regarding his source?

His readers presume that the candidate must be a Democrat, because the MSM is so effing liberal that they would never hesitate to smear a Republican. Unreal! These days, the LAT is about as "liberal" as the NY Post.

BigHeadDC "confirms" the Hillary-Huma accusation via an anonymous source at the Justice Department. Keep in mind that BigHeadDC once plagiarized one of my own stories -- word for word -- and then placed those words into the mouth of an anonymous "DC insider." After I made a stink about this shoddy behavior on the part of writer Rob Capriccioso, his name stopped appearing on the BigHead site, although I think that he's still the BigHead head.

By the way, the National Enquirer (which arguably has a little more credibility than does BigHeadDC) has published a separate allegation that John Edwards had an affair with a woman he met in a bar 18 months ago.