Hillary Clinton's Illness Prompts Conspiracy Theories

The weekly standard ^ | By DANIEL HALPER

[Perdogg]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, perhaps the most famous current female political figure, has fallen ill. "In the course of a follow-up exam today, Secretary Clinton's doctors discovered a blood clot had formed, stemming from the concussion she sustained several weeks ago. She is being treated with anti-coagulants and is at New York-Presbyterian Hospital so that they can monitor the medication over the next 48 hours," a spokesman for the former first lady said yesterday in a statement.

Clinton's illness, and the fact that she has not been seen in public in the last three weeks, has prompted a slew of wild conspiracy theories.

"EXCLUSIVE! HILLARY CLINTON BRAIN CRISIS," the National Enquirer headline reads. "Only days after The ENQUIRER exclusively reported that Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON was at the center of a shocking brain cancer drama and was undergoing extensive secret medical tests, her reps went public with the news on Sunday night Dec. 30 that she was indeed hospitalized in New York City and disclosed that she was battling a blood clot that had formed following her head concussion earlier this month!"

[ChocChipCookie]

With the Clinton crew and the bunch that now occupy the WH, no conspiracy theory is too strange to contemplate.

[Bon mots]

How convenient; it always works out for Hillary.

[bgill]

I don't care if televise a clot removal, I'm not believing it.

[WinMod70]

My theory she had a stroke. The rest is just smoke and mirrors to allow time to she if she can recover to the point the public can’t detect any stroke related damage.

[House Atreides]

“In the course of a follow-up exam today,.....”
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Clever wording. Of course it doesn’t specify WHAT specific treatment the follow-up was for. The wording of Clinton’s press folks clearly want you to believe that it was a follow-up for treatment of a concussion.

And, a “followup” on a Sunday? Very strange indeed.

[yldstrk]

people didn’t buy the concussion story, so to prove it she arranged a hospital admission

[baddog 219]

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Wasn’t there a story yesterday, or the day before, that she was partying in someplace? Punto Gordo, or somesuch.

[xrmusn]

She probably is ill and if so, political feelings aside, hope for a swift recovery BUT from the woman who brought us Rose Law Firm, Vince Foster, ‘standing by’ WJC, coining the phrase “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy”, crying on cue (Lazio), jetting around the world on OUR dime and not really accomplishing anything, hiding for the 3 mos prior election, hiding after election, stomach flue, concussion, blood clot etc etc IF someone were to report her passing tomorrow I wouldn’t believe it until I saw her casket closed at grave side then lowered into the ground. Then I would be skeptical.

I have always been somewhat aloof, standoffish, prone to hide my true feelings but THIS ADMINISTRATION has brought out a side of me that even ‘scares’ me.

I used to think I was a decent, caring person but at this point I don’t really think anything can happen to this current crop of pols that would really bring anything but disdain and apathy.

[I cannot think of a name]

Anyone ever heard of the neurosyphilis form of tertiary syphilis?

Takes 15-30 years to develop.

Now who in the heck could have given her syphilis in the first place?

[BerryDingle]

She is being treated with anti-coagulants

Not good. Warfarin prevents new clots but is useless against pre-existing clots. It's hard to diagnose since her brains always been jello in a blender.

[annieokie]

You speak for many of us and you said it very well.

What we have with this administration is nothing less than a nest of VIPERS and vampires.

And yet Hillary will always have her followers that think she should be QUEEN, sickening.

[JimRed]

She knows too much and is a danger to the regime...

Arkancide, chapter two.

[paint_your_wagon]

Then I would be skeptical.

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I would need to see the ruby slippers on someone else’s feet.

[smoothsailing]

Obama has nominated another former Democratic presidential nominee to replace Clinton, Senator John Kerry.

Huh? What other former Democratic presidential nominee has Obama nominated besides Kerry?

[DManA]

Silly conspiracy theorists. It’s common for 65 year old women to forget to drink enough water and spend a month in the hospital recovering.

[opentalk]

MSM is reporting the blood clot is from an earlier concussion. They don't know this as fact..could be from inactivity.

[wideawake]

I understand that they successfully operated to remove the blood clot, but in order to get at it they had remove some of the corpus tripolitanum - a technical neurological term for the portion of the brain that stores memories associated with Libya and other North African countries.

[MarineBrat]