The president of the National Press Club is disputing suggestions that the woman who facilitated Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.'s speaking engagement Monday did so out of a desire to hurt Barack Obama politically.

A New York Daily News columnist wrote Tuesday that club member Barbara Reynolds, who as head of the speaker's committee was the club's point person for Wright's appearance, is actually a Hillary Clinton supporter. The opinion piece raised the possibility that Reynolds had ulterior motives in bringing Wright to Washington since the pastor "couldn't have done more damage to Barack Obama's campaign if he had tried."

But National Press Club President Sylvia Smith said she doubts politics had anything to do with it.

"I can't imagine that it would have been (to hurt Obama)," she said. "That would be a pretty convoluted conspiracy theory."

Smith said Reynolds actually suggested inviting Wright as a speaker two years ago, but that the club declined since he "wasn't newsworthy."

She said she thinks somebody other than Reynolds suggested inviting Wright this time around, and that Reynolds was only assigned as point person because she has connections with Wright and his Trinity United Church of Christ. She stressed that Reynolds was not the deciding factor in the invitation, and that Wright was brought in because he was making news.

Daily News columnist Errol Louis wrote that Reynolds -- a journalist and minister who teaches at the Howard University School of Divinity -- claimed in a blog on her Reynolds News Service Web site that she voted for Clinton in the Maryland primary as "my way of saying thank you" to Clinton and her husband for the Bill Clinton presidency.

"I don't know if Reynolds' eagerness to help Wright stage a disastrous news conference with the national media was a way of trying to help Clinton," he wrote. "But it's safe to say she didn't see any conflict between promoting Wright and supporting Clinton."

The column was swiftly picked up by bloggers who repeated the assertion that Reynolds was somehow in cahoots with Clinton.

Clinton's campaign has not responded to a request for comment.

The personal blog where Reynolds expressed her Clinton support could not be found online as of Tuesday afternoon, and Smith said she doesn't know whom Reynolds supports.

"It doesn't matter (which candidate she supports)," Smith said. "I do not believe Barbara Reynolds has a political agenda ... Even if she did, he's a newsmaker that we'd want at our podium. It's irrelevant."

Reynolds did not return repeated requests for comment from FOXNews.com.

Wright's used his raucous appearance Monday to taunt reporters and claim the controversy surrounding him was an attack on the black church. It prompted Obama to denounce Wright's statements Tuesday as "ridiculous" and "appalling."

Though Reynolds primary allegiances are not clear, she has expressed strong support for Wright and his church. In a blog entry on her Web site from March 17, Reynolds condemned the media for "brutally" trashing him and urged Obama not to "burn the bridges" in distancing himself from his former pastor.

"Pastor Jeremiah Wright is no weird, anti-American hater and separatist cult leader. He loved his country enough to serve in the U.S. Marines ... the Jeremiah I know is a sought-after preacher in seminaries across the country," she wrote.

Click here to read the column on Wright in The New York Daily News.

FOXNews.com's Judson Berger contributed to this report.