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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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; hillary; hillarycampaign; hillaryhealth; hillaryshealth; hrc; media; msm; sickhillary
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To: TADSLOS

:: But Manley said the Democrat’s camp ::

[Inside joke] That’s Hanley!


21 posted on 09/08/2016 7:13:14 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: COUNTrecount

> “The fact of the matter is there is no truth or factual evidence to debunk”

Clinton was gagging for five minutes on stage.


22 posted on 09/08/2016 7:13:56 AM PDT by Ray76 (Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo!)
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To: COUNTrecount

1992 - 2016

The earpiece facilitates instructions from the Muslim Brotherhood. She needs to continue to push their false narratives.

23 posted on 09/08/2016 7:16:07 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba ( Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Ohhh! Hillary “warned” us not to talk about it! LOL Stupid Hillary.


24 posted on 09/08/2016 7:16:29 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: COUNTrecount

She is used to the press snapping to attention and taking her marching orders.

I suspect though if that were happening here we would not be reading about this in The Hill.


25 posted on 09/08/2016 7:16:48 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: COUNTrecount

This whole thing really is making me think of the Star Trek TOS episode “Patterns of Force”, with Hillary resembling John Gill to a great extent.


26 posted on 09/08/2016 7:19:03 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: COUNTrecount

Full blown panic now. If I’m a lower level Clinton staffer I might consider bailing out before too long. You don’t want to be around her on the night of November 8 when the country hands her a stinging defeat.


27 posted on 09/08/2016 7:21:49 AM PDT by dowcaet (.)
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To: COUNTrecount; All

CAN WE JUST STOP TALKING ABOUT HILLARY-STRIGOI'S HEALTH NOW?

Chris ("Yes Huma Yes") Cillizza
Omega male in training at
The Washington Compost

28 posted on 09/08/2016 7:27:26 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: UCANSEE2
And yet this same 'media' attacked Marco Rubio because he took one drink of water during the debates.

Yep. I remember that. Usual hypocrisy.

29 posted on 09/08/2016 7:29:27 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: COUNTrecount

clinton isn’t called “Stinky” for nothing.


30 posted on 09/08/2016 7:30:12 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: COUNTrecount

Clinton campaign warns media to tread carefully

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ROFLMAO....yeah right witch...what are you going to do about it? Kill them off like you do with everyone else???

...and another one bites the dust...


31 posted on 09/08/2016 7:30:53 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence; Trump/Pence 100%)
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To: COUNTrecount

“Excellent!”


32 posted on 09/08/2016 7:31:46 AM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: COUNTrecount

People can see she’s obviously sick. Covering it up/not talking about it only allows people to fill in that gap with their own speculation about what is wrong with her.


33 posted on 09/08/2016 7:32:10 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: COUNTrecount

34 posted on 09/08/2016 7:32:19 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: COUNTrecount

FABULOUS!!....


35 posted on 09/08/2016 7:32:56 AM PDT by AFret.
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To: SteveH
Omega male in training

Snicker.

36 posted on 09/08/2016 7:40:49 AM PDT by bkopto
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37 posted on 09/08/2016 7:41:10 AM PDT by red-dawg
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To: COUNTrecount; All
Clinton campaign warns media to tread carefully

STOP TALKING ABOUT HILLARY'S HEALTH-- NOW!!

YOU PATHETIC PEASANTS

38 posted on 09/08/2016 7:41:27 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: realcleanguy
I am sure Alt-Right will have lots of creative fun, making fun of sick, old, decrepit, Crooked Hillary Clinton making threats about bringing up her obvious for all to see; massive, ongoing, never-ending, deteriorating health issues.

Alt-Right, have at it; she's all yours! P.S. Don't forget to deal with CHEATING Hildabeast's earwig earpiece!

39 posted on 09/08/2016 7:42:02 AM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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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.”

(snicker...)


40 posted on 09/08/2016 7:43:50 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory.)
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