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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: nascarnation

I agree about the swollen hands.


161 posted on 08/08/2016 5:24:44 PM PDT by Borax Queen (Who is John Galt? President Trump.)
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To: Mariner
Can we just retitle all this as

The Decline and Fall of the Rodham Empire?

162 posted on 08/08/2016 5:40:46 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Time will tell which side is right about Hillary’s health issues.


163 posted on 08/08/2016 5:42:49 PM PDT by stranger and pilgrim
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To: ilovesarah2012
against sensible legislative efforts to put the company on a level playing field with mom and pop retailers.

Nonsense.

They were on a perfectly level playing field.

What they have done with their "sensible legislative efforts" is make it impossible for mom and pop retailers to compete with Amazon and big on line retailers.

My two cents is disregard this blog as the writer is dealing out more baloney then the deli.

164 posted on 08/08/2016 5:47:40 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: prairiebreeze

JFK was a medical mess. Addison’’s was among the least of his problems.


165 posted on 08/08/2016 5:49:32 PM PDT by riverdawg
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To: Mariner

Weigel is the WaPo’s latest attack dog, smear article, taking over somewhat from Dana Milbank and E.J. Dionne.

We were warned about him months before he moved in.

The Wash. Post has become rabid in its negative coverage of the Trump candidacy and campaign. Objectivity was flushed down the toilet with gusto, and the letters to the editor seem to have come from insane asylum inmates.

But then again, it is the Wash. Compost.


166 posted on 08/08/2016 6:10:10 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Mariner
Dave Weigel is a new Clinton spearcatcher, trotted out by the Hillary Washington Post SuperPAC to try to defuse Ol' Short-Circuit's goofy juice problems.

I'm not sure why young Dave thinks that anyone would believe a lying sack of dogMitt who propagandizes for the Washington Post SuperPAC.

Eat Mitt and sod off, Swampy Dave.

167 posted on 08/08/2016 6:23:32 PM PDT by kiryandil (Hillary Clinton is not sophisticated enough to understand the Bill of Rights, either.)
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To: Mariner
WaPo ridicules the conspiracy theorists and Trump, but at no time to they directly address the facts, nor do they ask Clinton or her Campaign pointed, direct questions on Clinton's health.

That's because it's Dave Weigel's job as a Clinton campaign "jernalist" @sslamprey to suck the festering boils off Her Thighness' posterior.

168 posted on 08/08/2016 6:25:16 PM PDT by kiryandil (Hillary Clinton is not sophisticated enough to understand the Bill of Rights, either.)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run

Thanks for the link.


169 posted on 08/08/2016 6:33:51 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be defeated.)
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To: cpdiii
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.
All true . . . and yet after further reading I find myself grudgingly respecting FDR’s foreign policy up to at least the Battle of Kirsk (sp) in, IIRC, 1943.

The reality of American polity was that in America in 1941, as in Britain in 1938, war with Germany polled 80% against. And the reality is that, starting in May, 1940 with the Fall of France, FDR pushed as hard as he could to keep Britain out of the grasp of Hitler, and to get US production on a war footing. That included Britain’s sending America virtually all its secret technology, short of Ultra. And the US put much of it into production. Churchill was lying when he said, “Send us the tools, and we will finish the job;” Britain was on the back foot in a serious way and had no prospect of defeating Germany without US troops.

The US had critical shortages of all military equipment upon the advent of Pearl Harbor, not because the US wasn’t producing such - its production was ramping up geometrically at that point - but because whatever we had, we sent to shore up Britain and the Soviet Union. The current book, 1941, says that the free-world consensus was a horrified expectation, upon Hitler’s invasion of the USSR, that Hitler would defeat Russia the way he had taken France.

Harry Hopkins - whom I considered an unmitigated horror story - was the one who turned that situation around. He was in lousy health, death warmed over, throughout the war. Hopkins was in Britain when the Germans invaded Russia, and it was he who flew to Moscow to get the pulse of the situation. He found Stalin fighting mad over Hitler’s betrayal, and believed Stalin when he said Russia would fight for a year at least and, given foreign aid, would not be defeated. Upon hearing from Hopkins that the USSR would be a viable opponent for Hitler, FDR attended a ceremony at which some partially assembled P-40s were about to be formally shipped to British forces in Africa - and amazed the attendees by ordering that the planes be unwrapped, assembled, and flown to Siberia.

Without the aid the FDR sent to Stalin Hitler would, if not as quickly as he would have liked, have taken the Caucus oilfields which he most coveted and which would have made him that much more powerful. In the event, Hitler never did gain that prize. And without “der Ostfront" . . . do you seriously think that Germany would have been defeated before the (in 1941, speculative) advent of the A-bomb?

From the Fall of France, FDR was cutting corners to get American industry converted to military production. The first Packard-built Merlin ran in August, 1941 (Packard had to translate the drawings from British to American before they could even begin to make engines). It took time to manufacture the requisite machine tools for the production scale necessary. By the end of 1943, production capability was such that actual production figures were selected, not settled for. Without that 18-month ramp-up of production before Pearl Harbor - well, "for want of a nail . . .”

The real thing to fault FDR on is that he continued and exacerbated the policies which failed to cure the Depression under Herbert Hoover - so the economy was still the pits until Britain started buying war materiel. Given Cooledge economic policy, the economy might have been 50% larger by 1939, which would have helped tremendously. Compare with the situation in America before the Civil War; if the secession crisis had come to a head in 1850, the South could have won - because the North’s economy was so much smaller then than it was in 1860.


170 posted on 08/08/2016 6:40:51 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: maggief

Great data. She is brain damaged beyond belief!! ! concussion cuts your IQ, 40 points. She is a blithering idiot!!


171 posted on 08/08/2016 7:07:50 PM PDT by WENDLE (Hillary supplied Al Qaeda WITH WEAPONS!!)
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To: Crucial

“Democrats use junk science and old photos to advance global warming.”

EXACTLY!!! Ask those nitwits what the temperature of the Erf is “SUPPOSED” to be!!!!!


172 posted on 08/08/2016 7:18:27 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Mariner

OK here is Todd Madison again with some device in his hands, at the last night of the DNC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f—sakIve2Q


173 posted on 08/08/2016 9:09:13 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: sima_yi

yes she did!


174 posted on 08/08/2016 9:43:09 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: ToxicMich

That pic is representative of the many times she fell, as they listed the times she fell. Perhaps, the other ones did not havepic, but are sourced. Drudge did post a pic with her arm in a sling.


175 posted on 08/08/2016 9:48:52 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Mr. Douglas

Plus, if you listen to the audio of the video, her response after the strange head movements are not in line with the discussion. She completely loses track of where the conversation was and goes off about ‘food’.


178 posted on 08/08/2016 9:54:14 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: PghBaldy; All

This link has a photo from a FR member of another African American man on her detail. Notice the lapel pen again:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3457054/posts?q=1&;page=851

Scroll down a bit for the photo of the second man.


179 posted on 08/09/2016 5:09:50 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: ColdOne
The very fact the Washington Post tries to debunk these rumors tells us much of those rumors might actually be true. And that's something the MSM does not want to admit to.

Remember, I believe she's scheduled to be at a fundraiser being held by Apple CEO Tim Cook on August 24, 2016. Given that Cook knows what it's like to deal with a close friend in declining health in Steve Jobs, the Clinton campaign better put a lid on these rumors or even Tim Cook is going to start asking questions in private about Hillary's personal health.

180 posted on 08/09/2016 5:15:16 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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