Hillary Clinton Feels Faint, Media Gets Vapors
Well, now we know what the news cycle is going to be like for the next few days: Clinton falls ill during 9/11 memorial service in New York.
The Stupidest Man on the Internet, Jim Hoft, has already tweeted ten times about this, and is yelling hysterically in all-caps at his crummy blog, because he sees it as proof that his relentless promotion of conspiracy theories about Hillary’s health is being vindicated.
Here’s the video that’s all over right wing blogs and media.
Hillary Clinton 9/11 NYC pic.twitter.com/q9YnsjTxss
— Zdenek Gazda (@zgazda66) September 11, 2016
Clinton showed up outside her daughter’s apartment in New York a little bit later, looking fine, and the Clinton campaign has released a statement about it:
Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and thirty minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen. During the ceremony, she felt overheated, so departed to go to her daughter’s apartment and is feeling much better.
This, of course, is not going to satisfy the media, and they’re already making a lot of noise about transparency. I agree — I’m sure this was nothing more serious than hyperventilating in the 80+ degree heat, but I think Hillary should get a report from her doctor about this incident and release it as soon as possible.
However, let’s not pretend that will put to rest the right wing conspiracy theories.
We now have a statement from Hillary’s doctor; on Friday she was diagnosed with pneumonia. So we can look forward to a huge pneumonia-gate fake controversy.
Statement from Clinton’s longtime physician, Dr. Lisa Bardack, M.D.: Clinton has pneumonia, has been advised to rest pic.twitter.com/HIPcAnhRbY
— Ruby Cramer (@rubycramer) September 11, 2016