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Clinton campaign warns media to tread carefully
The Hill ^ | September 8, 2016 | Amy Parnes

Posted on 09/08/2016 6:56:55 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is working the refs hard when it comes to reports about her health.

While Clinton responded to a fit of coughing this week with humor, saying she was “allergic” to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, her aides and surrogates played the role of bad cop.

Campaign spokesman Nick Merrill took to task an NBC reporter who wrote about the coughing spell, posting on Twitter that the writer should “get a life.”

The five-paragraph story, by Andrew Rafferty, was titled “Hillary Clinton fights back coughing attack” and reported that the “frog in Clinton’s throat on Monday was one of the most aggressive she’s had during her 2016 run.”

Jon Favreau, a former speechwriter for President Obama, asked via Twitter if “anyone on NBC, or anywhere else,” was willing to defend the piece.

The pushback signaled that Clinton’s campaign intends to sharply counterattack news organizations that take questions about her health seriously.

“They’re trying to work the refs a little bit as they try to push back on the mainstream media’s willingness to pick up on some of this stuff that’s usually left to the fringes,” Clinton surrogate Jim Manley explained.

The Drudge Report and other conservative media sites have largely driven the coverage of Clinton’s health, following the concussion she suffered in late 2012 and years before she announced her intention to run again for president.

But Manley said the Democrat’s camp has seen the coverage “bleeding to the mainstream media” in recent weeks.

After Trump insinuated recently that Clinton wasn’t healthy, the campaign responded forcefully, ripping Trump allies for concocting fake documents from Clinton’s doctor.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; hillary; hillarycampaign; hillaryhealth; hillaryshealth; hrc; media; msm; sickhillary
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1 posted on 09/08/2016 6:56:55 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

LMAO.


2 posted on 09/08/2016 6:57:53 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Or what...?


3 posted on 09/08/2016 6:58:06 AM PDT by madison10
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To: madison10

well 6 questions what a joke and they were all softballs


4 posted on 09/08/2016 6:59:55 AM PDT by jneesy (I want my country back and Trump is gonna give it to me)
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To: COUNTrecount

rich


5 posted on 09/08/2016 7:00:11 AM PDT by thinden
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To: madison10
Or what...?

Exactly!!

6 posted on 09/08/2016 7:02:46 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (In Today's America Feelings Are The New Truth)
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To: COUNTrecount

The released FBI documents revealed she used her poor health as an excuse for her bad behavior. This isn’t “fringe” news.


7 posted on 09/08/2016 7:03:10 AM PDT by PJammers (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: COUNTrecount
ROFL! Somebody needs to post that on Scott Adams' Twitter feed!

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays

8 posted on 09/08/2016 7:03:14 AM PDT by kiryandil (Hillary Clinton is not sophisticated enough to understand the Bill of Rights, either.)
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To: madison10
Or what...?

Her Thigness, Madam Hillary Benghazi's Ministry of Propaganda will recommend action against YOU, up to an including joining her "list".

9 posted on 09/08/2016 7:03:38 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (KAINE-Voting For Hillary Will Put American Women On Par With Women In Iraq, Afghanistan = Sharia Law)
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To: madison10
But Manley said the Democrat’s camp has seen the coverage “bleeding to the mainstream media” in recent weeks.

That's clumsy Clinton code for "Watch your Ass!!"


10 posted on 09/08/2016 7:04:12 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)
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To: COUNTrecount
And yet this same 'media' attacked Marco Rubio because he took one drink of water during the debates.


11 posted on 09/08/2016 7:06:10 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: thinden

She threw in a patriotic 9/11 bit, of course, omitting the fact that her HINO could have killed bin Laden a year before the Twin Towers were attacked as bin Laden stood exposed on a mountain in the cross hairs of our military, but Bill didn’t do it. Maybe he was busy with an intern. That failure to act caused the deaths of over 3,000 Americans. She should NEVER reference 9/11 and remind us of one of the worst failures of any president in our history.


12 posted on 09/08/2016 7:06:41 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: kiryandil

ROFL! Somebody needs to post that on Scott Adams’ Twitter feed!

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Here’s the photo link, post away.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrsbJgSW8AAzcVX.jpg


13 posted on 09/08/2016 7:06:47 AM PDT by deport
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To: madison10

Non Denial DENIAL

Hillary is SICK, and a crooked, Cheating Liar.


14 posted on 09/08/2016 7:06:58 AM PDT by wetgundog ("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
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To: TADSLOS

Or “Back on the plantation, ye slaves of mine! Else I shall kick you out of the house and into the cotton fields with the others.”


15 posted on 09/08/2016 7:07:49 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: COUNTrecount

... the “frog in Clinton’s throat on Monday was one of the most aggressive she’s had during her 2016 run.”

She better get used to it. It is not yet time for it to come out of her.


16 posted on 09/08/2016 7:08:25 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: COUNTrecount

So Hillary is now threatening the media?

Oh yeah she is sooooooooooo tolerant.

What a fruit cake!


17 posted on 09/08/2016 7:09:05 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: COUNTrecount
Clinton campaign warns media to tread carefully

Or there will be another ARKANSIDE!!!!!!

hillary witch photo: Hillary Clinton Hil_WWW.gif

18 posted on 09/08/2016 7:09:18 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: deport
I'm not on Twitter - yet.

But I'm thinking about it... :)

19 posted on 09/08/2016 7:10:05 AM PDT by kiryandil (Hillary Clinton is not sophisticated enough to understand the Bill of Rights, either.)
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To: TADSLOS

One of SERVERAL Mel Brooks’ masterpieces!
Harvey Kormann was the true FRONT of Blazing Saddles, and Mel wanted it that way.
A “genius confluence” on display!

Best Line: Can’t you see, this man is a NI...?


20 posted on 09/08/2016 7:10:29 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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