Let’s just blame Putin for Hillary Clinton’s coughing fit
Sep 7, 2016, 5:40 AM | Updated: 11:56 am
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stops her speech to cough at the 11th Congressional District Labor Day festival at Luke Easter Park in Cleveland on Monday. (AP)
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I was watching the live stream of Hillary’s Clinton’s Labor Day speech in Cleveland. And what followed was truly painful as she began coughing.
She coughed for 3 minutes and 40 seconds.
And the cough came back later that day on the plane as she talked about Donald Trump and Russia with reporters.
She had to cut the presser short. It was bad enough that NBC and CNN picked up the story.
CNN’s headline was “Hillary Clinton coughs and a nation listens.” They even ran a “Non-partisan guide to coughs,” where I learned that, according to doctors, a cough is “the body’s way of responding to irritants.”
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Good to know.
But then by Tuesday she was fine and said it was just her semi-annual allergy attack. She upped her antihistamine load and went on to give a 40-minute speech in Tampa without coughing.
I don’t know if she has a health problem, but I do know the internet is scrambling to update its cough mashups and conspiracy theories because that’s how the clickocracy makes a living.
I expect to read any time now that Putin has hacked her antihistamine, and that Martin Shkreli is trying to quadruple the price. And I wouldn’t put it past either of them.
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