This week’s revelation that Rupert Murdoch will host a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s Senate re-election campaign put the punditocracy in a tailspin. But it should not have come as much of a surprise.

Yes, the former first lady used to complain that her husband was under attack from a “vast right-wing conspiracy” that surely included the conservative media mogul’s News Corp. And yes, when she ran for the Senate in 2000 his New York Post did all it could to derail her.