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How Bernie Sanders Die-Hards Echo Clinton Conspiracy Theories
The Atlantic ^ | September 16, 2016 | Clare Foran

Posted on 09/18/2016 7:03:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It’s not just conservatives pushing the idea that the Democratic nominee is sicker than she admits.

Some conservatives are hard at work spreading conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s health in an attempt to disqualify her from seeking higher office. Video footage of the Democratic nominee stumbling as she abruptly departed a 9/11 memorial on Sunday, combined with news that she had contracted pneumonia, has fueled rumors on the right that Clinton may be concealing a far worse medical condition. But it’s not just conservatives indulging in wild speculation. At least some die-hard supporters of Bernie Sanders are echoing, and in some cases amplifying, unproven claims that Clinton may be covering up serious health problems.

For a contingent of Sanders supporters who remain convinced the primary was rigged and distrust the media and the Democratic establishment, it isn’t much of a leap to believe Clinton has been dishonest about her health. Some have even raised the possibility that she’s gone to great lengths to conceal the truth: In a video posted to Facebook on Monday that has been viewed 11,000 times, Sanders supporter Adryenn Ashley suggests that Clinton may have used a body double after leaving the memorial to conceal health problems. “I think she’s way, way, way sicker than just pneumonia,” Ashley says in the video....

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: 2016demprimary; clinton; conspiracytheory; feelthebern; hillary; hillary2016; pneumonia; sanders

1 posted on 09/18/2016 7:03:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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What conservative has done more to spread “conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s health” than Hillary Clinton has done?


2 posted on 09/18/2016 7:05:25 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Some conservatives are hard at work spreading conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s health...

are echoing, and in some cases amplifying, unproven claims that Clinton may be covering up serious health problems...

They're not conspiracy theories. There is plenty of evidence that empirically shows there is something wrong with her.
3 posted on 09/18/2016 7:06:11 PM PDT by Voluntaryist
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Exactly!!!


4 posted on 09/18/2016 7:06:43 PM PDT by Voluntaryist
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We should never forget that with many of Bernie’s Bunch it is likely that they think the problem with Clinton is that she’s somehow “right of center” ... too capitalistic.

This is what happens when you let people define the “center” by what of the old extreme left is no longer considered by the current left to be extreme anymore.

Indeed, if Sanders is now somehow palatable what could be left that’s too far left yet?


5 posted on 09/18/2016 7:08:48 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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She’s sick, She’s evil, and She’s an F’n lying sack of ...


6 posted on 09/18/2016 7:16:47 PM PDT by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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When the attorney handling the class action suit (DNC/Lil Debbie fixing the primaries for the Hilldog) was found dead in his own bathroom, did that case die with him? What is the status if that case and is there a new attorney?


7 posted on 09/18/2016 7:23:15 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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When the attorney handling the class action suit (DNC/Lil Debbie fixing the primaries for the Hilldog) was found dead in his own bathroom, did that case die with him? What is the status if that case and is there a new attorney?

It's on hold until the DNC picks a replacement attorney at their new attorney initiation ceremony on Halloween

8 posted on 09/18/2016 7:40:59 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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“Stumbling”? Ha ha.

Actually not a lie, though - one does tend to stumble if on your feet when you have a seizure.


9 posted on 09/18/2016 7:51:24 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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Well, I took the time to read the article. I assume the writer is paid by the word, because she couldn't live if paid on the quality of the product...

There's no need to shovel through the dreck. She allows as we have an interest in the health of any potential POTUS. Quite magnanimous.

She also allows as Her Thighness has past medical issues, and a medical episode recently, which she assures us is pneumonia. Any speculation is conspiracy mongering, she says, against the 'good name' of Hillary and the MSM.

She also allows as it would be understandable if Hillary was hesitant to explain. She does not mention we wouldn't be having this discussion if we had to rely upon Hillary or the press. Just ask James Woods...

So we have a candidate who's a consistent, chronic, pathological liar...and a press who refuses to report anything that might reflect poorly upon her.

There's not a shred of credibility in the lot of them. So entertaining so called "conspiracy theories" isn't reckless, it's contingency planning!!!

10 posted on 09/18/2016 7:55:02 PM PDT by gogeo (Black Lives Matter to Donald Trump.)
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