Exactly. This whole story is ridiculous.
It’s not ridiculous if you figure that he wanted enough of the story to told to buttress support for Obama on the left, but not enough of it told to hurt him with Jews. Just the right amount of “cool” street cred, knowing that seemingly the vast majority of Jewish voters in the country blatantly will flout their own interests (economically and those of their ties to Israel) in order to vote for a social lib.