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Armed with junk science and old photos, critics question #HillarysHealth
The Washington Post ^ | August 8th, 2016 | By David Weigel

Posted on 08/08/2016 12:41:01 PM PDT by Mariner

The first week of August was a rough one for Donald Trump's campaign; by coincidence, it was also a busy one for Trump supporters, who see a media coverup protecting Hillary Clinton. Over the weekend, the Trump campaign released a Web ad that mocked Clinton's admission that she "short-circuited" by giving a misleading answer about the investigation into her emails.

"She took a short-circuit in the brain," Trump said at a Saturday night rally. "She's got problems. Honestly, I don't think she's all there."

At the same time, the Drudge Report, WorldNetDaily and a small army of would-be Twitter sleuths tried to build the case that the Democratic nominee for president has serious health issues and only they had noticed. Clinton's age and health had been subject to parody by some conservative media, but the new speculation was completely serious.

None of the evidence, often shared (or sent to reporters) with the hashtag #HillarysHealth, held up. In every case, a Clinton moment that had been captured by the media was reinterpreted and wrenched out of context. The highest-profile #HillarysHealth discovery came at the American Mirror, an obscure conservative news site with what it packaged as a scoop — "SHOCK PHOTO" — but had been aggregated from Twitter.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; clinton; crookedhillary; davidweigel; drudge; drudgereport; hillary; hillary2016; hillaryhealth; hillaryhealthphoto; hillaryshealth; hillarywpsuperpac; madison; toddmadison; wnd
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To: ReaganGeneration2

I for one hope she doesn’t take care of her health first.


101 posted on 08/08/2016 2:12:30 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Mariner

>Now the media meme will be that this story has been debunked! Anyone who talks about it henceforth is a Conspiracy Theorist! And general whackjob.

Weak meme bro. Won’t fly with that video. She’s going to have to explain it.


102 posted on 08/08/2016 2:16:21 PM PDT by RedWulf (End Free trade.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yep, starting sometime this week the meme will be “this has been debunked” and “conspiracy theory”.


103 posted on 08/08/2016 2:21:41 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: AmusedBystander

The article says that picture is from February in South Carolina and the stairs were slippery. They don’t seem to bother that woman in stiletto heels behind her.

And the head bobbing video doesn’t look any better after their explanation of an exaggerated reaction to a surprising question from the reporter.


104 posted on 08/08/2016 2:22:10 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Mariner

This health thing is quite scary, but no matter how bad it gets, the leftists won’t care. They idolize their fascist, gun-grabbing womyn and “Weekend at Bernie’s.”

They wanted to put brain-damaged and for awhile, nearly dead Gabby Giffords into the same office or even higher, vegetative state or not. I’m not talking about a few individuals — en masse they wanted to. She “earned” it, they said.

They kept her in just long enough to get her cushy lifetime pension, then pulled her out. They made it seem like she was responsive and coherent by posting fake Tweets, Facebook postings, and press releases.


105 posted on 08/08/2016 2:22:47 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

My two cents:

Trump’s Criticism of Jeff Bezos as a Tax Dodger is Half-Right | Tax Justice Blog

http://www.taxjusticeblog.org/archive/2015/12/trumps_criticism_of_jeff_bezos.php#.V6j4inTD_qA


106 posted on 08/08/2016 2:24:01 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Mariner

“Secret Service Assistant Special Agent in Charge Todd Madison rushed to her side”
==
When did the Secret Service start outing their agents by name?


109 posted on 08/08/2016 2:29:17 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Borax Queen

I think this is the worst video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxIp8YBww3Q


110 posted on 08/08/2016 2:29:52 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: Mariner

Just to remind the wapo, nyt, lat et. al. that it was You’All that covered Hillary hitting her head and not able to make the Benghazi hearings stating how bad her injury was.

Remember that, iceholes?

5.56mm


111 posted on 08/08/2016 2:31:31 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: uncbob

OH my... Sick psycho, anyone?


113 posted on 08/08/2016 2:35:41 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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To: IronJack
"According to the Washington Post, Che Guevara is in excellent health too, and his death is just a rumor." tickle me che photo: Tickle Me Che Che.gif Iraqi defense minister photo: Iraqi Minister baghdadbob.jpg "As the photograph documents, comrade Che is also in fine fettle, and was up soon afterwards playing jai lai." Obama defense minister Josh Earnest
114 posted on 08/08/2016 2:36:58 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: TigerClaws
They are also giving wide exposure to the photograph showing Hillary can’t walk up steps without help.

I have been on thousands of flights on aircraft. Never once did I fall down when I stepped into the aircraft. Even when I had had to much adult beverages, way to much.

The lady, and I use that term loosely, obviously has a balance problem or motor problem with her muscles probably associated with traumatic brain injury.

This may or may not also affect her cognitive functions. President Roosevelt was crippled by polio. His muscle motor functions were severely compromised. His cognitive functions were unfortunately 100%. Even today we live with his horrible decisions at Yalta and Tehran post WWII. His decisions set the stage for world strife after our supreme victory in WWII. We still live with his bad decisions today. His decisions set the stage for the Korean War, the Vietnam War etc. We won the Korean War and actually the Vietnam War, but we lost both in Washington DC thanks to liberal progressives and the media.

115 posted on 08/08/2016 2:39:35 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND ROUGHNECK MUDMAN GEOLOGIST PILOT PHARMACIST LIBERTARIAN , CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: Mariner

Hillary could be clinically brain-dead and hooked up to life-support equipment, and the WaPo would deny it


117 posted on 08/08/2016 2:42:34 PM PDT by Smedley (It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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To: Mariner

The Compost and other left wing mediots will be doing everything to prove that the moribund Clintoon is as healthy as a world class Olympic Triathlon athlete.

The Never Trumpers will agree with them and blame Trump and us for any observations of her frailness.


118 posted on 08/08/2016 2:44:09 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.))
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120 posted on 08/08/2016 2:45:04 PM PDT by tomkat (PC > we kill it, or it kills US)
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