Clinton Collapses but You Should Focus on the Media

The video is from CNN. It is titled "Video shows Hillary Clinton leaving 9/11 event early". Now I have not discussed Clinton's health, though I know many have, because at her age (68) it is not uncommon to take pills. Specifically, she has had a number of coughing fits; but, certain pills have a tendency to dry out one's throat. Some of the pills I myself take require additional hydration. This video is different, it is not of her leaving, it is of her collapsing.

Here is what we do know. Hillary Clinton in 2012 fell and hit her head. Not long after she suffered a blood clot in her head and had to take blood thinners. My father suffered a blood clot and ended up on the same thinners so I am familiar with them. To be clear, I may not like the Clintons but I wish them no ill will and do hope that her collapse today was just heat exhaustion as her camp has claimed; but, I do have an issue of how the media is discussing it.

CNN talked about it; but, rather than discussing her health issues, they tried to make it about Trump. That is insanity, Watch the video, she did not stumble, she collapsed. Prior to that she could barely stand while leaning against a concrete bollard.

When Clinton suffered the clot in her brain, the media first reported that it was probably in her legs because she had a history of them in her legs and they said that you would not give blood thinners to someone with clots in their brain.

MedicineNet - Hillary Clinton Hospitalized With Blood Clot.

It turned out that was a lie and she did have a clot in her head.

The Guardian - Hillary Clinton's doctors say blood clot is located between her brain and skull.

Not long ago Trump had a bad week in the press and numerous articles were written about it under that title. You will probably not see that type of article on Clinton. In the last week she has had to deal with a bad performance at the Commander in Chief forum, a continued failure to hold real press conferences (almost a year now), her falling in the polls, her calling a quarter of Americans racist, sexist, xenophobic and more, and now she collapses at the 911 memorial. That is a bad week; but, for me the issue is the media and whether they will point that out.

UPDATE

As I was writing this a new article was posted on Politico.

Politico - Hillary Clinton has pneumonia, doctor says.

Apparently the Clinton camp is now claiming that it was discovered by her doctors on Friday that she has pneumonia and that it is the cause of the coughing fits and the fainting. Wait a second, previously we had been told that the coughing was nothing more than her allergy to Donald Trump, what changed? Was she lying then or is she lying now or did she never stop lying about her health. I personally do not buy the pneumonia story, I have had pneumonia. She was perfectly fine when she arrived at the 911 memorial and then collapsed in 80 degree weather. 80 degrees is nothing. 80 degrees is what they recommend you keep your thermostat at during the night. Whatever her health problem may be, the fact is that the media has been lying about it being an issue for a month. The media lies to push their agenda. What happens next week should be even more interesting.

I feel I should add these pictures, pictures that I had to get from conservative sites because they didn't want to post them in the mainstream media.

I didn't think much of it at the time; but, it has new meaning today.

This last video is from 2011, prior to her falling at home and hitting her head which we are told resulted in her brain clot.

My basic belief has not changed. If it happens once, it is an anomaly. If it happens twice, it is a coincidence. If it happens three times, it is a pattern. Today marks the fourth identified time, if you count when she injured her arm, it makes five.

New York Times - Clinton to Have Surgery to Repair Elbow Fractured in a Fall. This fall was in 2009.

I may have ignored the rumors before and not written about them; but, I knew about them. I read all the biggest alternative sources on both the left and right, I merely prefer not to use them as sources and instead check out the sources they are drawing from. Questions about Hillary's health are now front and center. If the media ignores them and doesn't follow up next week it will merely demonstrate how biased and untruthful they are yet again.

UPDATE 2

While I prefer to focus on the media, this fainting spell raises questions I did not wish to get into. First we were told she had coughing fits because of allergies then it was reported that she was coughing up some green mucus. Okay, sounds like a cold, people get sick especially with all the people she is around. If they had just come out and said she had the flu or a cold this story would have died weeks ago. It certainly would not be the first time a candidate got sick on the election trail. Instead she said it was just an allergy and made a jump that it was an allergy to Trump. To tell the truth it was a pretty good joke and a good response. It would have worked as well if she said she was a little sick and blamed that on Trump.

So her coughs were blamed on allergies; but, then we were told after the fact today, after her fainting, that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday. Oddly enough the same day she held a fundraiser with Barbara Streisand. Apparently she didn't care if she exposed others to her "pneumonia". In fact, she cared so little about exposing others that about an hour and a half after fainting today she left her daughters house and both put her hands on and took a picture and claiming she felt great. Huh? Why would she expose a young girl to pneumonia? That's right, they didn't claim it was pneumonia until she got back to her own home; but, they also said she has known she had pneumonia since Friday, three days ago.

The media's response to all of this is to deflect and talk about Trumps health. I have even read an article that said Roosevelt had polio and was a good president. What? Everybody knew about Roosevelt's polio and most people had family or friends at that time who had suffered through it prior to the vaccine being created. As for Trumps health, come on, the guy sleeps only 4 hours a day and is a workhorse. Even those who were on his show and are not voting for him will say the guy has incredible stamina.

Now lets look at possible outcomes. What if the media pushes for her medical records and it turns out she has something serious? Does she stay in the race? What if people buy the pneumonia story and it happens again in a week or a month or the day before election day, would that be fair to her supporters.

Not long ago I wrote about how there were people in the media testing the balloon that if one of the candidates died they could delay the election. At the time we were assuming they meant Trump but I still said any delay in the elections would be wrong.

UPDATE 3

Sorry kids, I hate updating posts. As my readers know, I read papers from all over the world each day. Just a fact. It is early and the morning and I was just reading an English paper. I will post the link then quote it.

Mail Online - Clinton cancels West Coast trip due to pneumonia after collapsing at 9/11 memorial - as doctor reveals she was diagnosed on Friday. 

The article says the following, "Earlier on Sunday, Bardack said that Clinton 'has been experiencing a cough related to allergies'. On Friday, during follow up evaluation of her prolonged cough, she was diagnosed with pneumonia." Wait a second, no. Her physician said yesterday that her cough was related to allergies and hours later said it was pneumonia which had been diagnosed on Friday, three days ago. Either the reporter has made a grave mistake or foreign press heard different things.

If Hillary truly has pneumonia and just suffered a fainting spell, why is she not in a hospital?

Questions for the Media

I may find Hillary attacking Trump supporters as a bunch of bigots despicable; but, the fact is that she is a politician and they are rarely anything other than self-promoting. She also made fun of Sanders supporters so at least she is consistent. I have a bigger problem with the media attacking voters and they have been doing that for months. What I do not see is any consistency in regards to this election.

Hillary supports Israel 100% in her own words. Now I support the right of Israel to exist; but, I have some problems with them. She does not. She does not have a problem with the wall that separates the Palestinians from Israel though she claims to be against the United States having one. She seems to be for open borders, yet, Israel bases citizenship of being Jewish. She claims to hate those who distrust Muslims, yet, again she supports Israel 100%. Why hasn't the media in this country brought this up? Let us not forget Hillary's calling Trump supporters Sexist. Hmm, she supports Israel 100% but seems to know nothing about the Jewish religion. Women are not even allowed at the Wailing Wall in Israel.

I have conservative friends who think President Obama hates this country and is the worst president in history. I view this as an emotional response and tell them that it is not about the person, it is about who controls them and the agenda. I have not supported either party in all the time I have written this blog, I do not support either party still. The two parties are owned by he same people that own the media, or should I say, the same interests.

The media's response to both Sanders and Trump was basically the same, dismissive. They were dismissive of their supporters and their agenda. Hillary Clinton took money from the big banks and now a tech billionaire is spending $20 million to go after Trump. Think that money comes with an expectation? A million would have done that. The tech industry is in favor of open borders to bring down wages and has been caught illegally colluding to keep wages down. They have also been illegally using a visa program to allow in foreigners to take jobs away from Americans who were already doing the jobs.

Let us consider the media's response to Presidential debates. For the last few weeks they were questioning whether or not Trump would debate Clinton. Wait a second, they had no problem with the lack of debates in the Democratic primaries and Hillary's failure to hold more or even give many press conferences. Lets not forget that the few Democratic debates that were held were held at the same time as Major league football.

You may think I am talking about a liberal media bias, I am not. I am talking about a corporate media bias. You might assume that the media is liberal because of it's social bias. I find that a distraction. The media is distinctly corporate in it's interests. Rather than doing in depth investigations into the markets that the banks rigged, they are apologists for them.

The media is currently attempting to say that Trump supported the war in Iraq, he didn't. He did say that if we did go to war we should take the oil and says so today. You can make of that what you will; but, more importantly who did support the war? Clinton admits she voted for it. The media fails to expose how they were complicit with the military and the Bush administration in propagandizing in favor of it. In case you forgot, there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The media loved the war and made lots of money from televising it. How many war protestors did they put on television or even report on? They dismissed them too.

I am biased against the Clintons and the Bushes, that should be clear. I think they are all traitors to this nation. I supported BOTH the Occupy Movement and the Tea Party. I am neither left nor right as those terms have lost all meaning. In the end I am pro-American society. I am for the people of this nation. I am a Roosevelt progressive who believes in civil service to protect us from politicians hiring only their friends and supporters, who believes in giving people an assurance of a minimal level of support when they cannot take care of themselves and who believes that working against the best interests of all Americans is traitorous. Like Benjamin Franklin I am in favor of public schools, the post office and building public infrastructure to benefit all. The Democrats and Republicans voted in measures to privatize all these things and put control over who gets the contracts into the hands of politicians. Remember it was the Clintons who deregulated the media. I do not support the status quo, I do not support either party, I believe a capitalist oligarchy is just as bad as any other oligarchy. I am against Oligarchies, I am pro-democracy. The media supports the status quo, they support parites and they support oligarchy in America. They support the control of the many by the few.

I forgot something else, the media never talks about same sex marriage in Israel. They will not allow it in Israel which she supports 100%. They will allow people of the same sex who married in other countries, like the United States, to live together and not contest their marriage; but, no state in Israel will support or recognize a same sex marriage in Israel. She failed to mention that at her LBGT speech where she accused Trump supporters of being homophobes and the media has not mentioned that either.

Clinton Attacks Trump Voters

Hillary Clinton has come out and said that half of Trump supporters are "Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it."  This was not an off the cuff remark, it was on her teleprompter. She meant it and thought about it prior to saying it in public. Now, I could easily go back and point out that I wrote about how disgusting it was that Romney said he would only represent the people who voted for him if he had won against Obama, I wrote about that at the time; but, I want to make a better point. It has to do with how little many politicians and our business leaders think of democracy in the first place.

NBC - Hillary Clinton: Half of Trump Supporters Belong in 'Basket of Deplorables'.

While the media is focusing on the name calling, there was something more telling in her speech that is not being discussed.

New York Times - The Latest: Trump Campaign Objects to 'Deplorable' Language.  The next two paragraphs are quotes from the article.

"Hillary Clinton is encouraging supporters at an LGBT fundraiser to "stage an intervention" if they have friends considering Donald Trump.

She says, "That may be one conversion therapy I'd endorse," referring to a type of counseling designed to urge gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender children to change their sexual orientation. Clinton stressed during the New York City event Friday night that she wants to end the practice.

Clinton says, "Friends don't let friends vote Trump." She says that while some Trump's supporters are "deplorables," others are frustrated by hard times and merit sympathy."

The point the media missed was her disdain for democracy, for the power of the vote of the people. Now I have never liked or respected the Clintons or the Bushes; but, I have seven years worth of posts here and none attack voters or their right to choose who they will. I have also never told my readers who to vote for. What I have said is who I would not vote for.

There are racists in this country, not because they do not like open borders; but, because they don't like "minorities". There are people who are sexist in this country; but, not because they support Trump. They are sexist because they think women as a gender are less capable. There are people who distrust all Muslims; but, not because of their religion, instead because of how some within the Muslim community have committed terrorist actions such as blowing up the twin towers or mass shootings in Florida and California.

Clintons statement exposed a deeper belief she holds and she is not alone in it, it is the belief that the majority cannot be trusted to rule themselves. She sees the average citizen as stupid, racist, sexist and protectionist. She knows that the vast majority of military people support Trump and this is how she views them too. Hillary said something else very interesting, she said that Trump supporters wanted to go back to an America that will never return. Yes, Sanders and Trump supporters want to go back to an America that was the leading manufacturer in the world where jobs were available for the average person without a degree, the ones who have been ignored and are found contemptible by Wall Street.

Democracy, the Economy and the Media

Forbes - Robert Shiller Unwittingly Helps Write The Obituary Of Economics As A Profession.  Forbes is a magazine that is read by people with money just like the Wall Street Journal or Bloomberg. Their focus tends to be on the stock market and their advertisers sell high end products like Rolex. The article claims that Economics is a dying profession because Mr. Shiller believes income inequality will become a greater problem down the road. The article claims that concern over income inequality is foolish and that people therefore don't need good jobs because if products are cheap enough your lifestyle improves. That did not happen during the industrial revolution. People who lived in poverty in the cities during the industrial revolution were worse off than they were when they had family farms. It was only after the monopolies were broken up and the progressive movement began restraining oligarchic businesses that the middle class really emerged. Things may have been cheaper during the depression; but, lives were not better. Still, let me poke you in the eye and tell you it doesn't hurt.

Yahoo - Reuters - Clinton slams Trump for commenting on Fed policies.  This is a quote from the article, "Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton criticized Republican rival Donald Trump on Tuesday for making comments about the Federal Reserve's monetary policies, which she said should be off-limits for U.S. presidents and presidential candidates." There you have it, she believes the President should not talk about monetary policy, maybe that's why she never does or maybe it is because of all the money she made from the banks to pay for this election. I wonder if the people who supported Sanders agree with her because he talked about it.

YouTube - [Full HD] Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Commander in Chief Forum 9/7/16 NBC September 7 2016.  In case you missed it, here is the complete Trump Clinton Forum. I watched the whole thing, the moderator was fine, Hillary did not do well and Trump did pretty good. It is only about an hour long so if you care about who is the next President you might want to watch it.

Vox - Stop asking what motivates Trumpism. Start asking what should be done about it.  The author seems to believe that Trump supporters are upset because blacks and women are doing better than in the past while white men are not. That is not the problem that they see, they see all the good jobs going overseas and this country being robbed by the wealthy who pay less taxes now than under Reagan.

What the Media Really Thinks About Soldiers

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (the reporters who exposed Watergate) once reported that Kissinger had said, "In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy." While Kissinger has not denied this, others have attempted to do so for him.

Here is a question for you, how many of the talking heads in television or Washington news people have children in the military? How many Wall Street executives have children in the military? How many congressmen, governors or state representatives have children in the military? Not to many, in fact almost none. In fact, in 2013 Pew research reported that only 20% of all congressmen had been in the military.

Pew Research Center - Most members of Congress have little direct military experience.

Now as I have said previously, I am a pacifist and I do not believe in the draft. I personally would not tell anyone to join the military. I do not believe that the children of congressmen or any politician need to join the military. I ask the question because it tells us how little skin the media and politicians have in the game when young Americans are sent to fight and die for this country. I personally had five family members in the military serving in multiple theaters at the same time in the last 15 years or so.

If you ever wonder why the Veterans Administration is not fully funded or why military families are not taken better care of or why military pensions are so small, it is because the politicians and their families don't understand nor care about them, they are tools for getting elected. Sure, all politicians say how much they respect the military and the fine young men that protect this country, just apparently not enough to take care of them.

As for the views of the military, well, among  active service personnel Trump is favored 2 to 1 over Hillary if you include people who don't intend to vote and 3 to 1 if you only look at likely voters. Trump also leads by very large numbers with officers.

Military Times - Military Times survey: Troops prefer Trump to Clinton by a huge margin.

Now, in case you don't know, it is practically impossible to become an officer without having a Bachelors degree. In fact, is is very difficult to find any industry where all the managers are required to have college degrees, you don't need a college degree to be a stock trader or even a politician.

So when you read in the media that Trump supporters are all racist and ignorant, remember they are talking about our military personnel to.

Media Morons, Don't Call People Stupid or Racist for Not Liking Hillary.

Facebook - Mike Rowe - Hillary, Stop Insulting Voters. So this guy named Mike Rowe said that he was tired of people saying that Trump supporters were uneducated and therefore not reasonable or intelligent. He talked about how there were a lot of people who couldn't afford college but still built their own businesses and were successful. He defended those who did not go to college from those who call them idiots and scum. He missed the point, it is not merely an attack on them, it is a justification for elitism.

Mr. Rowe was the star of a show called "Dirty Jobs", it was about the hard working decent people who do the dirty work that is needed for us to have a decent society. Attacking people for being American seems to be in vogue this year by the elitist scum. You know that the people who die in wars fighting for this country rarely graduate college? Calling them undeserving of having an opinion is disgusting. Then again, elitists have referred to the army as stupid cattle in the past. You are good enough to die for them; but, not choose your leaders.

I love simple questions so I shall ask one. If we all live this life, whose opinion is meaningless and be ignored? What does your IQ need to matter? They used to say that women and blacks should not be allowed to vote because they were incapable of understanding things. If uneducated whites (no college degree) does not matter than why do you believe the democrats value the opinion of uneducated women, blacks and Hispanics?

I don't believe in parties, I believe in beliefs. I believe in communities getting together, we call that socialism. I believe in people helping one another.

They Just Don't Get It

The media wants to make this election about personalities and that is not what it is about. We have been lied to for a long time and the lies are running thin. Forbes and Bloomberg tell us that the more extreme the income inequality, the better off we are, I have posted links to their articles where they say just that. We are told the talking point that the wealthy are the "job creators"; but, all the jobs are being created overseas and not here. We are told that wanting to control immigration is racist, yet, we need to have passports to even visit Mexico. The truth is that few if any Americans favor open borders, yet, those statistics are never reported.

If you can, tell me what Hillary Clinton's policies are. You cannot because she does not make policy speeches. In fact, she doesn't even give press conferences (it has been almost a year since she last did). Some on the right believe the media has a liberal bias, I do not. I believe that the fact that Bill Clinton deregulated the media allowed it to become a monopoly where six companies control 90% of all the media in America and that media is multinational and corporatist.

Telling young people that things are improving just isn't convincing when in many cities it costs $2,000 or more to rent a one bedroom apartment and the only jobs they can get pay $8 an hour. You cannot tell kids that things are looking up when over half of the people under 30 have to live at home and many of them have college degrees; but, still cannot get jobs or even pay their student loans. These are the things that this election is about, not whether or not Trump likes his stakes cooked well done.

If all the media was state owned you would expect it to be pro-government. If all the media was owned by China, you would expect it to be pro-China. The media is owned by multinational companies and is pro-multinational corporations. It is not too difficult to see if you just look and read what their spin is. Hillary Clinton does not need to spin the media, they spin for their own reasons in her favor and the reason is that they do not want change.

MSN - The New York Times - Hillary Clinton Gets Gored.  The New York Times has made it very clear that they support Hillary in the past, now they claim that questions about her honesty are unfair and even questioning what the Clinton foundation is unfair. This newspaper has also said that fairness itself is unfair and that they feel no need to be unbiased when it comes to this election. How then can we trust or believe anything they say.

It was the younger people who first began complaining about the 1%, they also were the first to point out how the trade agreements were taking away jobs from America. If you think they stopped believing those things than you do not understand the Trump or Sanders revolutions.

The Guardian - Luxury camp at Burning Man festival targeted by 'hooligans'.  Someone once told me that I should respect my superiors, I told them that they were not my betters. That was while I was working in government. The media should be careful in dealing with the younger generation as they do not believe them.