Friday, September 16, 2016

Cheap Journalism

It's articles like this that will ultimately be the downfall of MSM.

There's enough well-chosen loaded language in here to be a gun. This is cheap journalism. It not only cheapens the integrity of what was supposedly once a half-way decent profession, but it cheapens society at large because it comes from a contemptuous view of the general population.

Some conservatives are hard at work spreading conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s health in an attempt to disqualify her from seeking higher office.Video footage of the Democratic nominee stumbling as she abruptly departed a 9/11 memorial on Sunday, combined with news that she had contracted pneumonia, has fueled rumors on the right that Clinton may be concealing a far worse medical condition. But it’s not just conservatives indulging in wild speculation. At least some die-hard supporters of Bernie Sanders are echoing, and in some cases amplifying, unproven claims that Clinton may be covering up serious health problems.



For a contingent of Sanders supporters who remain convinced the primary was rigged and distrust the media and the Democratic establishment, it isn’t much of a leap to believe Clinton has been dishonest about her health. Some have even raised the possibility that she’s gone to great lengths to conceal the truth: In a video posted to Facebook on Monday that has been viewed 11,000 times, Sanders supporter Adryenn Ashley suggests that Clinton may have used a body double after leaving the memorial to conceal health problems. “I think she’s way, way, way sicker than just pneumonia,” Ashley says in the video.

This is very carefully scripted language, designed to attack the attackers. We will make a statement and stand by it. It all professions and occupations there are whores, people for sale. Whether it's money, power, fame or all  of the them. At the very least Clinton's reputation for credibility is suspect. At its worst we all know what it is. And that applies to the entire Clinton clan.

As for Clinton's health problems, anyone with a modicum of medical knowledge and experience knows that what that video and many others have shown is not the result of pneumonia or dehydration. You can pump it, twist it and stomp on it anyway you want, but there is a clear way to prove us incorrect. Release her entire medical records since her first fall, not some phony job recommendation letter.

Despite what the PC crowd wants to shove down your throats, there are pure questions in life. Here's a couple: Do you want to have a heart attack? Do you want to lose a loved one? Do you want to have a serious auto accident anytime soon? This isn't about Trump and his medical record or his BMI. If there is a more fallacious indicator in medicine than the BMI, bring it forth. This is an inflexible net so widely cast that it catches hundreds of people who are nowhere near obese, in many cases in their zeal to find sleep apnea which is another way over diagnosed condition today. In fact, at a time when jobs are hardly robust, this is an indicator that frequently knocks many hardworking poorer people out of their employment. In some cases permanently. So lets hear about how much these elites care about the poor.

A comparable situation--and if you're a true feminist, where are you?--is the number of women put on thyroid medicine with the diagnosis of hypothyroidism. If there's some young enterprising good PI attorneys out there, there's a good market for you. Clinton we're told has hypothyroidism and has been on the standard treatment for such for many years.This is not a person known before all this erupted for her healthy lifestyle and for being an exercise junkie.

Then they try to pass off what are most likely questionable lipid numbers. The LDL before this one was 118, this one 103 and her previous  HDL was 64, this one 56 with no evidence of being on a  statin, again most likely for very good reasons. We don't know her height and her current correct weight, but her current appearance suggests she herself might have a tough time passing the BMI parameter that is used to determine obesity.

So let's see if we can put this together. We have a 68 year old women soon to be 69 with a long
standing diagnosis of hypothyroidism, with a serious medical history of what could only be called vascular disease, with no previous history of following a spartan life style, on no lipid-lowering medicines with lipid numbers many healthy athletes don't have. And that leaves out her questionable blood pressure number 100/70, again absent any blood pressure medicines. And where are serial the follow-up MRIs and neurological exams.

We're not suggesting she could qualify to play linebacker in the NFL, but she is hardly petite. Maybe the renown metabolic specialist Dr. Bill Clinton could come back on the Charlie Rose show and enlighten us about her dietary regimen because nowhere in that job recommendation was there mention of a neurologist being consulted. And even if she had an auto-immune form of thyroid problems and had the gland removed, there are too many holes in this letter job recommendation letter. It's a good tale, but that's all it is, a tale.




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