Posted on 09/06/2016 8:25:22 AM PDT by RightGeek
Hillary Clinton said this morning that she was not distracted by "conspiracy theories" about her ill health, and that attacks were not rooted in fact. However, the Clinton campaign's propaganda arm is in full swing as the mainstream media attempts to dismiss any health concerns by claiming that pollen counts were high where she spoke. The only problem with this is, in fact, pollen counts were low to moderate in Northeast Ohio (and what about the previous 10 coughing fits?)
As we detailed yesterday, Hillary suffered a coughing fit that lasted for over four minutes during her speech yesterday, prompting a fresh round of speculation about her ailing health.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H133cTro1NQ
And then, the presidential candidate then had yet another coughing fit while on her plane with journalists, which conveniently meant that she didn’t have to answer any questions.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZJBHrX-T8
"Alt-Right fanatics and conspiracy theorists" immediately questioned her health - is she ok? And concerns over Hillary's "worst coughing fit ever" was raised by MSNBC.
But as Paul Josepth Watson reports, MSNBC regurgitated claims by Hillary’s campaign aides that, “Allergens were high in Northeast Ohio on Monday,” before asserting that there is “no evidence to indicate she is unwell.”
The problem for that propadandist line is - It was a complete fabrication.
As numerous websites that track daily allergen levels confirmed, grass pollen was low, tree pollen was low and ragweed pollen was moderate.
Allergens were not “high,” as Hillary’s campaign and MSNBC claimed.
Watson further notes that prevaricating over pollen counts was also a convenient way of avoiding the fact that Hillary has had the exact same coughing fits on innumerable other occasions over the past year.
This year alone Hillary has had numerous counghing fits, and despite what one physician described as an “outbreak of vituperation and anger” against those with opinions about Hillary Clinton’s health, WND.com notes that more doctors are expressing concerns during the 2016 race to the White House.
“There is absolutely no credible evidence to backstop any of these claims,” CNN claims... but as WND.com reports, many physicians, based on publicly available information have raised concerns. Among them are:
“You go back to the history of our presidents and we’ve had many presidents up until Lyndon Johnson who’ve concealed their health during their campaigns, and it had dire effects for our country, going from Kennedy to Roosevelt, to Woodrow Wilson whose wife ran the White House for some time – so we have issues here and I think both candidates should be very forthcoming and perhaps have an impartial panel of physicians review the data and make that kind of decision before Americans go to the polls,” remarked Lahita.
Finally, there is The Huffington Post's take - which calls any health-related questions 'sexist'...
Gender bias “absolutely” plays a role in the conspiracy theories around Clinton’s health, even if it’s not the primary motivating factor, Fenster said.
“Every part of his critique of her has a gender component to it,” he said. “I think that’s true with the health conspiracies. It’s very much mocking her as an ‘old lady.’”
>>It IS clearly pinkish, but it doesn’t look pink colored when it is first handed to her. ???<<
It looks pink in the views where her hand is behind the glass. The pink tinge is very likely due to her hand showing through the plastic glass. I don’t think they’re dumb enough to hand her water that looks doctored. That said, as I explain in my next comment, it might very well be doctored.
What surprises me is that HRC still keeps them at arm’s length even though they’ll be carrying her water voluntarily. Why is that?
Also why does she only have a bag under her right eye?
Yep, lots of pollen on aircraft,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
mark
She’s allergic to TRUTH.............and garlic............
If it were “seasonal allergies”, wouldn’t there be a clear record of her being afflicted in the past? Surely there’s video footage of her time as First Lady, NY Senator or SoS where she had a cough attack due to these same allergies, no?
So if you google the doctor’s name you get nothing but Neurologist. And if you dig a little, you get sleep disorders. But if you use Bing you get this:
Dr. Oladotun Okunola, MD is board certified in Clinical Neurophysiology and Neurology.
He has special expertise in 9 areas:
Alzheimer’s Disease
Epilepsy
Essential Tremor
Insomnia
Migraine Disorders
Movement Disorders
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Narcolepsy
Parkinson Disease
So, pick one. I think we have seen evidence of Parkinsons and/or Epilepsy.
Excellent point.
No liberal reporter can report facts, though.
And keep their job. Ask Dr. Drew Pinsky.
Maybe she is bleeding in her mouth. That would explain dark red lipstick to hide the bleeding.
The press pool. The great mass of the unwashed.
What a terrible way to waste your life, sitting in the cheap seats!
Andrea Mitchell looks like she is ready to put on her “Huma kneepads” and drop to her knees before Hillary....
Okay, here’s a theory that fits the facts, including a fact not previously commented upon.
The epiglottis is the little flap at the back of your throat that closes off the passageway to the lungs when you’re swallowing food or liquid. It opens when you’re breathing, thereby allowing air to flow in or out of the lungs. Essentially it protects the lungs from contamination by food and liquid that could introduce bacteria into the sterile lung environment.
Now, all of us have probably experienced the coughing fit you experience when something “goes down the wrong pipe” while you’re eating, drinking, or even just talking at times. That “wrong pipe” is the lung passageway and it happens because the epiglottis failed to do its job and you ended up aspirating something into the lung passageway.
As a person ages, the epiglottis’s function can deteriorate resulting in a lot of mishaps where something, especially thinner liquids, gets misdirected to the lungs. The cough is the body’s way of expelling the threatening substance and any bacteria coming along with it.
Interestingly, other than being careful when drinking water, tea, coffee, etc., the first medical option is to “thicken” any thin liquids you regularly consume. The thickener that is added to water, tea, coffee, Kool-aid, soda pop, etc., helps the epiglottis recognize the incoming substance and function properly, by closing and shunting the liquid down the esophagus to the stomach where it belongs.
So, now let’s look at the facts.
1. Hillary coughs for a prolonged period. Anyone who has experienced aspirating a liquid knows that it takes several coughs to regain composure, sometimes a minute or more.
2. Hillary passed on the bottled water and took a glass of water instead. If the above theory is correct, the water had the thickener added and was being held nearby for the very purpose it was used. She needed water to clear her throat, but the bottled water without the thickener could aggravate her problem. (I doubt, by the way, that the thickener is pinkish. I believe that was just her hand showing through the glass.)
3. Her excuse was allergies. As others have indicated, autumn is a good time for the allergic, and besides, a high pollen count on a plane?
4. The new “fact” not previously mentioned: Watch the video again and notice that Hillary was clearly swallowing regularly in the first minute, much more than normal. We swallow the natural moisture in our mouth regularly, okay, yes, our spit. You can see her discomfort increase as she obviously got some down the wrong pipe early on and then keeps swallowing trying to clear it. But there’s no clearing it; you have to cough, and the longer you wait, the harder and longer the cough is probably likely to be. (I’m speculating on that last bit, but it seems reasonable.)
So, assuming this is a correct theory as to what’s making her cough, should it matter?
Other than tagging her with another lie or two (she has a health problem, and she’s blaming it on allergies), yes, it could lead to life-threatening pneumonia for one thing. Maybe more. I don’t know.
One more thing I hadn’t considered. Conceivably, another health issue could be responsible for the deteriorating performance of the epiglottis. That could make the health implications far more serious, depending upon the issue involved.
All in all, a good reason for reporters to follow up, no?
Well...drinking thick or thin water down the correct pipe will not fix water going down the wrong pipe, yes?
Is she drinking something to numb her throat?
I would think the proper solution to getting water out of the lung passage would be to cough it up...not try drinking more water?
Look at the smug, smiling faces of the fawning idiot traitors who worship this scum? They’ve arrived and have been blessed by her presence. Sick bastards—but there’s no bias.
Why weren’t others affected by the pollen? It seems only Hillary was coughing. Another lie from Clinton.
It’s natural to want water when you feel the tickle in your throat that makes you feel like you’re going to cough. In her case, you could be right that more water won’t help. I don’t know. We do know she has a persistent cough and that’s typical of people who have a poorly functioning epiglottis.
What I’m pretty certain of is that if she has the problem I’ve described, drinking un-thickened water could easily aggravate the problem.
Incidentally, on further reading, a stroke can cause malfunctioning swallowing and a high incidence of aspiration. And sometimes the problem persists. Other neurological conditions can also affect swallowing too.
By the way, a couple of terms that eluded me while writing the first post: “spit” = salvia, and “passageway to the lungs” = trachea.
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