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The Mainstream Media Bet the Farm on Hillary–and Lost, by Charles Hugh Smith

The chilling part of Hillary’s exit from the 9/11 ceremony last Sunday is that if there hadn’t been the videos showing her being shoved into the SUV, the MSM would still be pretending nothing was wrong with her health and deriding all who questioned it as “conspiracy theorists.” From Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com:

The MSM has forsaken its duty in a democracy and is a disgrace to investigative, unbiased journalism.

The mainstream media bet the farm on Hillary Clinton, confident that their dismissal of every skeptical inquiry as a “conspiracy” would guarantee her victory. It now appears they have lost their bet. Let’s do something radical and be honest for a moment: the mainstream media has smoothed the path to Hillary’s coronation in countless often subtle ways.

MSM “Opinion” hacks have unleashed unrelenting attacks on legitimate inquiries with accusations of “conspiracy” and obsequious kow-towing headlines such as “Can we please stop talking about Hillary’s health?”

Suggestions that the Clinton Foundation engaged in “pay to play” during Hillary’s term as secretary of state are glossed over; yes, it looks bad, the MSM reluctantly admits, they they hurry to add that no impropriety can be proven in court.

Given the foundation is run by attorneys who obfuscate the meaning of the word “is,” do you really think they’re going to leave tracks that can make it to court?

The Democratic National Committee’s corruption was downplayed, and the mainstream media’s pathetic lack of inquiry was of a piece with old Soviet “news”: a scapegoat or two is cut out of the leadership photo, and the DNC corruption machine moves on untouched.

This Is How Much It ‘Costs’ To Get An Ambassadorship: Guccifer 2.0 Leaks DNC ‘Pay-To-Play’ Donor List

Consider the subtle Orwellian play of The New York Times sidebar headline after Hillary’s collapse on 9/11: “Hillary leaves 9/11 event early.” Oh really? This was the substance of what happened, that the candidate “left early”?

All through the primaries, when Hillary won the NYT et al. splashed huge headlines declaring her victory. When Bernie won, headlines read “Hillary gains ground,” not “Bernie wins another primary.”

Rampant election fraud in the Democratic primaries was left uninvestigated, calling to mind the way Too Big To Fail banking fraud was left untouched by the mainstream media, which happily swallowed whole suspect official pronouncements that “subprime is contained” even as the financial system was veering into complete collapse in 2008.

There is an easy way to identify bias that we can all play at home: substitute “Sanders” or “Trump” for “Hillary” or “Clinton”. If Donald Trump collapsed on the sidewalk and had to be tossed in the van like a sack of rice, do you think the mainstream media would be bleating, “can we please stop talking about Trump’s health?” Please don’t even try to claim that oh, yes, the MSM would rush to run that headline.

Do you honestly think CBS would edit out a reference to Bernie Sander’s fainting “frequently”? Get real, people: the MSM only edits out negative stuff on Hillary.

To continue reading: The Mainstream Media Bet the Farm on Hillary–and Lost

Don’t Have to Worry About Pneumonia Anymore… from The Burning Platform

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/09/14/dont-have-to-worry-about-pneumonia-anymore/

Hillary Clinton’s Illness Revealed, from VidZette

From VidZette.com via YouTube, a plausible speculation about Hillary Clinton’s health:

 

Video of the Day – Clinton Campaign Manager Refuses to Answer Questions on Pneumonia Timeline, by Michael Krieger

It’s often not the original deed but the subsequent cover-up that proves the perpetrators’ undoing. That’s how it may play out with Hillary Clinton’s near face plant off the curb at the 9/11 ceremony. From Michael Krieger at libertyblitzkrieg.com:

The strangest thing about today for me has been the complete lack of transparency from the Clinton campaign following yesterday’s extremely disturbing and bizarre events.

Hillary Clinton collapsing into the arms of secret service as she was shoved into a van was unquestionably the most significant moment of the entire campaign season thus far. As such, you’d think her people would hold a press conference providing very detailed specifics about the pneumonia diagnosis and, most importantly, why it was hidden from the public.

None of that happened, which makes the whole thing even shadier than it already was.

As The Hill reports:

Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook repeatedly dodged questions about whether he and other top campaign officials knew that the Democratic nominee had been diagnosed with pneumonia before she fell ill in public over the weekend.

Way to make people feel better about the whole thing.

In an interview with MSNBC on Monday, anchor Kate Snow asked Mook five times if he knew about the diagnosis, which the Clinton campaign made public Sunday only after video surfaced of her stumbling and needing assistance getting into a van.

“I’m not going to get into details about who knew her medical information,” Mook said on Snow’s third run through the question. “But she made a determination with her doctor that she’d power through this. She didn’t want it to affect anything and obviously this on Sunday, when she got overheated, it was clear she needed some downtime.”

Snow followed up twice more, noting that as campaign manager, Mook is responsible for Clinton’s schedule. The Democratic nominee has cancelled a planned Monday/Tuesday West Coast swing for fundraisers and speeches as she recuperates at home in New York.

The Clinton campaign has been criticized for its handling of information about the nominee’s illness.
Last week, the campaign sought to shame journalists for reporting on her coughing fit at a campaign event.

And after Clinton left the 9/11 memorial early on Sunday and video emerged of her becoming wobbly on the street, it took 90 minutes for the campaign to release a statement saying she had “overheated” and retreated to daughter Chelsea Clinton’s apartment.

Campaign officials say she never lost consciousness, and insist that she was alert and continued working on the drive to Chelsea’s apartment. They say that once she got there, she hydrated and played with her grandchildren.

Yeah I’m sure she was working in the car ride to Chelsea’s. She literally looked like a corpse going in. This strategy of layering lie, upon lie, upon lie is certainly not a good one.

Meanwhile, Tim Kaine also refuses any semblance of transparency. As The Washington Post reports:

DAYTON, Ohio — Tim Kaine, the running mate of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, declined to say Monday when he first learned of Clinton’s pneumonia diagnosis but said that the pair had not talked about her health for nearly a week prior to Sunday’s commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York.

Why is everyone on team Hillary trying to conceal as much as possible when the public obviously deserves detailed information?

To continue reading (and for the video): Video of the Day – Clinton Campaign Manager Refuses to Answer Questions on Pneumonia Timeline

It’s Time to Bring Back Bernie, by Charles Hugh Smith

There’s nothing anomalous about Hillary lying about her health. She lies about virtually everything, which is why, argues, Charles Hugh Smith, she should be replaced with Bernie Sanders. From Smith at oftwominds.com:

This tells you everything you need to know about how Hillary will operate as President: there will be no honesty, transparency or truth, ever.

Hillary’s bid for the presidency is no longer defensible; it’s time to bring back Bernie Sanders as the Democratic nominee.

The issue isn’t Hillary Clinton’s health per se; what is indefensible is her response to legitimate questions of the American public regarding her health.

Hillary Clinton has disqualified herself to be President of the United States because she is incapable of telling the truth about anything. There is no such thing as truth or transparency in the Clinton persona and campaign; everything is an ongoing experiment in perception management.

First one narrative is floated; if the narrative shifts the public perception positively, it is defended to the death, and anyone questioning it is instantly accused of being a conspiracy theorist from the “vast right-wing conspiracy” that has been Hillary’s favorite defense for 30 years.

If this tried-and-true attack fails, then the questioners are accused of being sexist, partisan, etc.

If the first trial balloon narrative doesn’t gain public perception traction, it’s quickly dropped and another explanation is unleashed on a willing-to-accept-anything-as-“fact”-from-Hillary mainstream media.

So when the “overheated” explanation in 79-degree weather doesn’t get traction, then it is dropped in favor of pneumonia, which mysteriously puts most sufferers in bed but Hillary declares that she feels great.

This process of replacing explanations and narratives, interspersed with attacks on anyone who questioned the previous narrative, is repeated until the perception management result is satisfactory. Hillary is clearly incapable of honesty–the word has no meaning, because all communication is aimed at concealing or obscuring the facts of the matter and defending what is visibly indefensible as if perception management is the same as the truth. It is not the same, but Hillary is incapable of discerning the difference.

This reliance on attacking the questioner to delegitimatize what is a legitimate inquiry also disqualifies Hillary. The American public has a legitimate interest in how Hillary Clinton benefited from the Clinton Foundation’s hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions from overseas donors during her stint as secretary of state.

The American public also has a legitimate interest in the health of presidential candidates. John F. Kennedy’s poor health was masked by a compliant media in the early 1960s, but that sort of duplicity is no longer condoned. The American public wants an accurate accounting of the candidate’s health.

As you view the clip of Hillary collapsing, study the body language of her multiple handlers. I’m not referring to the Secret Sevice agents; I’m referring to her private handlers and aides. Note their extreme defensiveness about anyone seeing what was happening to Hillary. Their way of propping her up doesn’t look like it was the first time they had to prop her up; their actions were practiced, automatic.

They are accustomed to propping her up and masking her true condition from the public. Study the clip; it’s all there, in plain view.

Their hyper-wary posture was not just an attempt to shield the candidate from anyone seeing a moment of weakness; their over-protective watchfulness for “eyes on the candidate” is 24/7. Their only job is to mask the truth of Hillary’s condition, whatever it may be.

To continue reading: It’s Time to Bring Back Bernie

The Race for President is (Probably) Over, by Scott Adams

Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, thinks that Hillary’s fainting spell today dooms her presidential run. From Adams, on a guest post at theburningplatform.com:

If you are following breaking news, Hillary Clinton abruptly left the 9-11 memorial today because she was reportedly “overheated.” Her campaign says she is fine now.

You probably wonder if the “overheated” explanation is true – and a non-issue as reported – or an indication of a larger medical condition. I’m blogging to tell you it doesn’t matter. The result is the same.

Here’s why.

If humans were rational creatures, the time and place of Clinton’s “overheating” wouldn’t matter at all. But when it comes to American psychology, there is no more powerful symbol of terrorism and fear than 9-11 . When a would-be Commander-in-Chief withers – literally – in front of our most emotional reminder of an attack on the homeland, we feel unsafe. And safety is our first priority.

Hillary Clinton just became unelectable.

The mainstream media might not interpret today’s events as a big deal. After all, it was only a little episode of overheating. And they will continue covering the play-by-play action until election day. But unless Trump actually does shoot someone on 5th Avenue, he’s running unopposed.

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2016/09/11/the-race-for-president-is-probably-over/

Two Videos of Hillary Clinton Fainting at 9/11 Ceremony

The real conspiracy theory concerning Hillary Clinton’s health has been on the part of the mainstream media, denigrating anyone who brought the issue up and suppressing any speculation. That conspiracy has now been exposed and discredited. From YouTube:

With this and the “basket of deplorable” comment, it’s been a tough weekend for Hillary.