By: Ben Smith

Largely staying out of the controversy around Jerome Corsi’s book has been his publisher, Simon & Schuster, whose Threshold imprint is run by GOP operative Mary Matalin . The house doesn’t seem to have suffered any collateral damage, or provoked public complaints from any of its prominent liberal authors — largely because the Obama campaign has chosen to drive the outrage toward Corsi himself and, when possible, toward McCain.

A series of Simon & Schuster authors — including Michael Moore, Alexandra Pelosi, and Paul Begala — didn’t respond to questions about Corsi’s book yesterday.

One, however, did: Hillary Clinton.

"Threshold has absolutely nothing to do with the people at Simon & Schuster who have published her books," said Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines. "As for the book itself, I guess if at first you don’t succeed, lie lie again."

In a similar situation in 2005, Al Franken vocally criticized his publisher, Penguin, for publishing Ed Klein’s "The Truth About Hillary."

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