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| Tucker Carlson: What's with the Hildebeest's Cough ? |
| 2016-06-30 |
| [Daily Beest] If all else fails, the people dreading a Hillary Clinton presidency can comfort themselves with her coughing fits. The presumptive Democratic nominee's occasional coughing on the stump--a staple of this year's campaign reports in various right-leaning media outlets--has been a conservative meme for nearly a decade. There’s even an anti-Clinton Twitter feed, @hillarycoughing, that has been active since February chronicling the frontrunner's supposed respiratory tic. Her 70-year-old Republican rival, Donald Trump, trailing consistently in the latest polls, sometimes refers to the 68-year-old Clinton’s alleged lack of "strength and stamina"--apparently, the cough is evidence of same--and fired Trump campaign manager-turned-CNN political analyst Corey Lewandowski has used Clinton's coughing bouts to question her health. "My own feeling is you have a 68-year-old woman running for president who has intense coughing fits in public, and I think the question is, What's that about?;" said Tucker Carlson, editor of the conservative Daily Caller, which has highlighted the former secretary of state's cough. "I'm not a physician. I couldn't hazard a guess. But as of this morning, she's likely to win. So I'd love to know. It's a legitimate question." Carlson, a cohost of Fox News's weekend Fox & Friends, told The Daily Beast: "Having covered presidential campaigns for 25 years, I've never seen anybody cough that much. It doesn't mean it's a problem, but it raises obvious questions for a person who is likely to be the next president of the United States...In the 19th century, it was a sign of consumption...She coughs like a romantic poet." The fanatical coughing coverage began as early as May 20, 2007, when the Drudge Report posted the headline, "HILLARY COUGHING, WHEEZING AT COMMENCEMENT," about her speech to graduates of New Orlean's historically black Dillard University when the former first lady was a New York senator launching her first presidential campaign. It has continued through this past Monday, when Drudge posted the headline "HILLARY COUGHING FIT RETURNS!" to characterize a video clip featuring the candidate emitting four dry little coughs during the raucous Cincinnati rally at which she appeared with Sen. Elizabeth Warren. In a story about the conservatives' coughing fixation this past April, The Washington Post noted that Matt Drudge, the agenda-setting web site's namesake, was happy to minimize Clinton's commencement cough nine years ago, reasoning that "the campaign trail is long and tough." He exhorted the candidate on his radio show: "Hillary, dear, take care of yourself. We need you...Take a few days off, what's this frenetic pace?" He added: "She was professional. She kept going. She finished the speech." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Flies trying to escape. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-06-30 23:51 |
| #5 Hairball |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2016-06-30 18:41 |
| #4 It is undoubtedly canine infectious tracheobronchitis, otherwise known as kennel cough. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2016-06-30 18:35 |
| #3 She is obviously choking on all her lies and distortions. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-06-30 15:46 |
| #2 Why would you want the good Doctor to come within one time zone of that life form ( term used generously)? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2016-06-30 13:52 |
| #1 They're her "tell" for lying? Nah, not frequent enough. I'll go with heart issues (Assuming Dr. White has made an examination confirming she has one.). |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-06-30 12:56 |