Hillary Clinton’s Health Scare: 9 Unanswered Questions

After Hillary Clinton’s “health scare” on Sunday, even the Washington Post’s prominent politics blogger did an abrupt
about-face, declaring that the Democrat nominee’s health just became a “real issue in the presidential campaign.”
And the Post’s Chris Cillizza wasn’t alone in his admission that he was, essentially, wrong to dismiss with extreme
prejudice earlier concerns about Hillary’s health raised by a number of people. There was NBC’s Andrea Mitchell —
who jumps to Clinton’s defense at virtually every opportunity — contributing to a stunning report acknowledging that
the medical condition of the former secretary of state has now moved “from the fringes to the center” of the 2016 race
for the White House.
But the reluctant explanation by Hillary’s personal doctor that the candidate was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday
before the 9/11 commemoration ceremony at which Clinton fell ill didn’t tell the whole story…and neither did the
mainstream media reports that followed.
The NBC News piece, titled “Hillary Clinton’s Health Scare: 9 Unanswered Questions,” raises serious concerns about
the honesty and forthrightness of the campaign. Why try to hide salient facts, especially in light of Clinton’s severe
coughing attacks?
“Clinton’s campaign appears to have, at best, withheld information from the public and — at worst — misled them by
aggressively batting down ‘conspiracy theories’ that her coughing fit was anything more than allergies,” wrote the five
NBC reporters, including Mitchell, who contributed to the scathing analysis.
Indeed, sounds like a familiar theme relating to Hillary’s terrible polling on trustworthiness, and only fuels widening
speculation that Clinton is sneaky and deceptive.
But as hard a turn as many in the media have suddenly taken with regard to #HackingHillary and the now expanding
coverage of long-simmering health concerns, there’s a critical factor missing in the newfound disquiet about the
Democrat nominee — a key question overlooked relating to the revelation that Hillary has pneumonia.
Over the course of the last couple of weeks, Clinton’s doctor, Lisa Bardack, has said her patient was suffering from
allergies, then a respiratory infection, and now pneumonia. That pneumonia diagnosis, according to Dr. Bardack, was
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made this past Friday. Really?
What kind of physician, what kind of family, what kind of campaign staff would let a 68-year-old woman with
pneumonia continue with a stressful schedule and fly between events — flying is generally discouraged for people
with pneumonia. Between the diagnosis and the near-collapse at the 9/11 event in New York City, Clinton appeared at
two fundraisers, ran a national security working session, and held a press conference.
And what kind of person with pneumonia — generally a highly contagious illness caused by nasty bacteria or viruses
— would expose aides and reporters to pneumonia in a closed airplane cabin?
Then, there was the photo op with Clinton outside her daughter’s Manhattan apartment where the “overheated”
Hillary apparently recovered from the incident on Sunday — a scene on the sidewalk where a little girl was okayed by
the Secret Service to approach the nominee, who put her arm around the child and waved at the gathered crowd.
The Daily Mail headline in its coverage of the event: “Why did Hillary hug a child while suffering from pneumonia?”
What kind of woman with pneumonia runs the risk of infecting an innocent child like that?
Unless, of course, that woman, her doctor and her handlers know, or believe, Hillary Clinton doesn’t have the kind of
pneumonia that’s contagious.
Among the “conspiracy theories” that, until now, have been dismissed with a disdainful flip of the hand by know-it-all
media types is the suspicion that Clinton is suffering from Parkinson’s disease. But given what we’ve just seen in New
York and what we’ve just heard from Hillary’s doctor, that suspicion may become stronger still.
The reason? The particular kind of pneumonia that can be a complication of Parkinson’s is not contagious because it
doesn’t result from a bacterial or viral infection. It’s not contagious but it is dangerous.
The condition is called aspiration pneumonia, and if that’s what Hillary Clinton has, it could help explain why she’s
been increasingly plagued by coughs that make it hard for her to swallow and catch her breath.
From the website BioMed Central:
“Aspiration pneumonia is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Clinical
characteristics of PD patients in addition to specific alterations in swallowing mechanisms contribute to higher
swallowing times and impairment in the effective clearance of the airway. These issues may render patients more
prone to dysphagia and aspiration events.”
Dysphagia means difficulty swallowing, as the result of disease.
And as a result of the Clinton campaign’s shifting stories and lack of transparency, the current characterization of the
candidate’s health is, itself, difficult to swallow.
CNN reports that Clinton will apparently take her doctor’s advice and take a few days off from the campaign trail. “Late
Sunday night a campaign spokesman said a Clinton trip to California was being scrubbed, including several highdollar
fundraisers and television appearances by the candidate.”
More careful scrutiny of Hillary Clinton’s medical condition is certainly warranted. More probing questions by the press
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whose job is, supposedly, to hold politicians’ feet to the fire are certainly justified.
And the explanation of exactly what kind of pneumonia is supposedly sidelining the Democrat nominee would be
welcomed by all Americans, Democrat or Republican or otherwise, who want to know the truth about the woman who
has a very hard time telling it.
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