CNN BUSTED Claiming Clinton Health Accusations are Debunked, While Considering Trump Health “Fair Game”
Alex Griswold – Mediaite Reports
An eagle-eyed viewer sent me this amusing tip this morning: these are two CNN chyrons, literally less than a minute apart.
Alright, so raising questions about Hillary Clinton‘s health is terrible and those claims are “debunked.” However, raising questions about Donald Trump‘s health is just good-old fashioned “scrutiny”?
I should interject here and say, no, I don’t actually believe the Trump campaign’s bizarre claim that Hillary Clinton is secretly brain-damaged, or Matt Drudge‘s not-terribly-subtle insistence that she’s hiding some sort of illness. But it seems to me that Clinton health trutherism and Trump health trutherism are two sides of the same coin, but only one is being treated as off-limits.
I also don’t believe questions about Clinton and Trump’s health ought to be off-limits necessarily. As The New York Times pointed out this week, both have fallen far short of the usual medical disclosures made by presidential candidates. John McCain, for example, opened up his entire thousand-page medical history to reporters to pore over. Trump and Clinton only released short letters from their personal physicians saying they were in good health in 2015, and neither have provided regular health updates throughout a vigorous campaign as Mitt Romney and Ronald Reagan did.
So the claims about Hillary Clinton’s health are “debunked,” as CNN put it, only by virtue of that letter from her physician. But when Trump released a similar letter, his received an immense and unprecedented amount of scrutiny.
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Its fair game to ask both to release their health records. Although I don’t go as far as Drudge, I do think there is something wrong. Her left eye appears out of sync with her right. Since that can indicate something serious, releasing her records can do a lot to put those fears to rest. Given Trump’s stamina, I doubt his records would show anything serious that can’t be managed by a competent physician.