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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently contracted a stomach virus during a trip to Europe, which in turn left her dehydrated. Over the weekend, it reached the point at which Clinton fainted, struck her head, and suffered a minor concussion.
At least, that's what they want us to think. The right has its doubts.
Do you hear that faint sound? It's the grumbling of conservative pundits who are now churning out a theory that Hillary Clinton is lying about her concussion to avoid having to testify about Benghazi. Clinton had a concussion recently, her team said Saturday.
And The Daily Caller's Jim Treacher isn't sending the Secretary of State a get-well card until she proves she was really hurt. He writes: If she has a concussion, let's see the medical report. Let's see some proof that she's not just stonewalling. If it's true, then we can all wish her a speedy recovery. But it's ridiculous to expect us to take her word for it.
Treacher added that if Mitt Romney was expected to produce his tax returns, it's not "paranoid" of the right to seek the Secretary of State's "medical report." I'm not altogether sure how they're comparable -- and didn't Romney end up hiding nearly all of his tax returns? -- but when it comes to conservatives and Benghazi, logic disappeared a long time ago.
In fairness to Treacher, I should note that he's not the only one who wonders whether Clinton pulled a Ferris Bueller to get out of the congressional hearing. As The Atlantic noted, Fox News commentator John Bolton and conservative blogger Lucianne Goldberg have raised related suspicions.
Of course, after the David Petraeus conspiracy theories fell apart, the right's credibility on off-the-wall Benghazi conjecture isn't exactly strong.
For the record, Clinton's illness will not deprive lawmakers of answers -- the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee will continue with their hearings, as planned, and hear testimony from William J. Burns and Thomas R. Nides, both deputy secretaries of state.
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Black Helicopters Rule!
It's too bad the black helicopters and the blue-helmeted international troops aren't around to start rounding up these morons and sticking them in the FEMA camps where they belong so we can starve them to death.
And no, that's not a snark. I really do wish we could deal with these people - permanently.
TC in LA, #1.1
That's it! I'm fashioning a tinfoil hat to wear from now on! Whatever white noise has gotten into these people, I do not WANT to catch it!
Speaking of crazy, did you see the link I put on the other blog from today, about the funeral protests? OMG, Tin foil time.
I swear things get more and more Strangeloveian everyday....
Sorry guys but when an administration makes it a practice to lie/spin/fabricate politcally fortunate information on a regular basis, and hide embarrassing stuff... you'll forgive the suspicions. This last one was a doozy...
http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/17/epa-inspector-general-audits-agencys-use-of-secret-email-accounts/
"when an administration makes it a practice to lie/spin/fabricate politcally fortunate information on a regular basis, and hide embarrassing stuff..."
lie - WMD's
spin - it's ok we were wrong because saddam was a bad man.
fabricate politcally(sp) fortunate information - aluminum tubes, yellowcake
on a regular basis - eight straight years, every day, all day
hide embarrassing stuff - we had absolutely no advance warning of 9/11
WE WILL NOT FORGIVE !
please stop shooting yourself in the foot, the floor is getting slippery.
note: your condition is known as PEBKAC.
You're blaming Bush for the Obama administration for being serial prevaricators?
no, just you. and i prefer the term liar when applied to you.
Shooter
I just looked at that article OOOhhh a scandal, the EPA adminsistrator may have a non-government email account OOOHHHH Black Helicopters!
Your GOP puts us into wars over false claims and all you got is a (maybe) email account LOL You guys can't win an election without stealing the vote from people and that is all you got?
As Barney said "On what planet do you spend most of your time?"
oooooo! crazy town!!
Remind me again; after planning to rig the electoral college the right is getting right with reality by doing, what?
Crazy town needs to start charging rent.
Though it is an impossible task to point it out, some of our brethren on the far Right of our political scale would do well to recognize the core element of hate that motivates their rhetorical swill regarding people, places and things!
I sneezed! Am I trying to give the whole of Europe a cold, or was that France during the paranoid policies of Metternich?
Anyway, the modern conspirators are daft, and damaging to a peaceful, free and liberty-minded people! -Kevo
Set crazy to setting 11
Clinton could pony up her whole medical history and it wouldn't make a bit of difference they are going to keep throwing their whiny baby food at the wall because even if non if it sticks it still stinks up the joint...
Oh yeah I almost forgot
I am a liberal and demand my GIFTS & FREE STUFF!!! (we were all supposed to get those gift bags for voting right?)
got both of mine.
President Barack Hussein Obama for four more years.
Senator Elizabeth Warren for, at least, six years.
i'll check the tracking number on yours.
Diplomatic Flu is the term for this. Look old Hilary is a one smart cookie. After Bengazhi, she let Susan Rice take the bullet and here she slyly side steps testimony. Slick Willie's moves have obviously rubbed off or on her!
I was trying to figure it out the other night at the gym where through no choice of my own I am exposed to Faux news on one of the multiple screens (mercifully with no sound). There in the middle of the wall to wall coverage of Newton was Faux Nooze going off on BENGHAZI!
Seriously ? Still at it ?
Here's a news flash you twits. The election is over . Benghazi ain't going to help Mitt win or anybody else for that matter .
The stench of loser sticks around manufactured scandals.
Put this one to bed . Fast and Furious
It is never over with the black helicopter crowd.
I'm waiting to hear about Santa's redistribution of goods: COMMUNIST IDEA!!!
India
You just made me realize something (don't ask how I got there) but these people would complain about heaven...well unless it was a segregated gospel themed gun range and even then I think they would have issues with it
Dragoon, #8.2,
I agree. LOL
Even if she were dumb enough to give them what they ask for, it still would make no differance. They don't believe President Obama's BC. Why would anybody think they would believe anything else? I doubt they believe the death certificates of 20 children and 6 adults. Such hate from that party. Forgot. She volenteered to testifiey.
Such hate is right. Did you see the link I posted on the other blog today? I think it's Mixed Blessings. They are protesting the funerals of these poor victims.
Once again, re-read Richard Hofstadter's analysis of these people from 50 years ago:
Hofstadter on the pseudo-conservative (i.e. what is today's movement conservative)
"It can most accurately be called pseudo-conservative -- I borrow the term from the study of The Authoritarian Personality published five years ago by Theodore W. Adorno and his associates -- because its exponents, although they believe themselves to be conservatives and usually employ the rhetoric of conservatism, show signs of a serious and restless dissatisfaction with American life,
traditions and institutions"
“Their political reactions express rather a profound and largely unconscious hatred of our society and its ways -- a hatred which one would hesitate to impute to them if one did not have suggestive clinical evidence ... The pseudo-conservative, Adorno writes, shows 'conventionality and authoritarian submissiveness' in his conscious thinking and 'violence, anarchic impulses, and chaotic destructiveness in the unconscious sphere…… The pseudo conservative is a man who, in the name of upholding traditional American values and institutions and defending them against more or less fictitious dangers, consciously or unconsciously aims at their abolition.'"
I hope Ms Clinton is in tip top shape come 2016. It would be interesting to see how hard the insane posse would go after her as far as Libya is concerned, because it would look very bad for them to grill a popular lady at a time they poll below scurvy with women.
Calm, please.
Vince Foster. Billing Records. Lesbian.They are just testing new fodder for 2016.
They will just dust off the file that they had for Bill and change the innuendo a touch
Travelgate! White House furniture! Lincoln Bedroom!
BTW, was she REALLY born here?
John Bolton has always been a black helicopter person, which is one reason I was glad Obama won the election. Romney wanted him in his cabinet, though I forget what post he promised him. Something to do with defence, as Bolton worked under the real genius, GWB. I am not kidding when I say I sweated that election out largely because of Romney's choices, such as John Bolton.
John Bolton has always been
a black helicopter personthe dumbest piece of $hit to ever walk upright .A consistently vile blot on western civilization.
#11.4
A blot...a blight.. either one works for me. Vile is good, too. Dumb...yep. Crazy....
yep.
It always makes me chuckle when one of these paranoid idiots dreams something up.
Then watch it race through the fever swamp that is the wingnut hive brain.
"Fever swamp that is the wingnut hive brain" -- masterful description. I will cherish it forever! May I have your permission to use it? I promise to credit the source.
What a surprise. Who didn't know this was coming?
Sorry but if they're not bitching, they're not happy.
Agree, but I envision Susan Rice, or any grown-up, bitching about actual problems.
R-wingnuts prefer the childish WHINE that goes on & on with never a resolution. Think John Mcain, Lindsey Graham, Charles Krauthammer, S the Hammity.
Lefties are sooooo mean they want to take all my toys (guns, money, jobs). Just not their ideas!
Better to bitch about make-believe problems than to contemplate why God isn't solving the real ones.
It wasn't really a stomach virus! Susan Rice poisoned her in order to help cover up all of her (Susan Rice's) wrongdoings over Benghazi. Who/why could anyone possibly trust either of them after their many dastardly deeds? (I was waiting for someone to suggest this fake-illness nonsense.)
potato
Seriously? Is this a joke?
Ya know, if the Right didn't have conspiracy theories...it wouldn't have anything at all.
I love me a good conspiracy, but these guys aren't even original. They keep pulling from the same binder of stale plotlines. In this case, see 46a.
It's a concussion, not a coma.
How long did they think she wanted to stall for? There could have been better choices for excuses if she were just making stuff up.
I'm sure the Secretary of State is heartbroken not to get a get-well card from a third-rate wingnut blogger that no on has ever heard of...
Do they really care if they "learn" anything about Benghazi? They simply will make up out of whole cloth whatever they want their poor bamboozled voters to hear and I'm betting they would rather keep the issue in their back pockets to pull out in case Hillary runs for prez.
They're right obviously Hillary is faking this illness to hide her evil plans about Benghazi just like how Obama invented Patreus' affair scandal to keep him from testifying about Benghazi that really in no way kept him from testifying about Benghazi......
These people are bat crap crazy. CRAZY. Really highlights how poor our mental health system in the country is. Such a shame there are people stupid enough to believe anything close to that. Very disappointing.
Cynical citizen, #21
It is troubling, really troubling, that there are no background checks on the mental health of these people in our congress, who are crazy as a s%$thouse rat and still legislating our laws.
Rick Perry just now got the great idea to arm all teachers in Texas. He was nearly our president. The T-party wanted him.
Talk about dodging a bullet.
Which brings up the question: Is being a conspiracy hypothesist (not enough reliable data for a theory) and a "wingnut hive brain" (Polite Radical's term) a contagious disease? Perhaps "paranoid" is too mild a diagnosis. It seems like these folks feed off of each others' pathology, each one competing with the other and upping the ante. Credibility has no meaning for them.
The good thing about the internet is that it opens up wider communication to everyone. The bad thing about the internet is that it opens up wider communication to just anyone.
On the other hand, Jim Treacher is a ridiculous tool.
Oh, wait, that was the first hand...
Temper, temper.
If the standard is what Romney revealed about his taxes, I believe the equivalent disclosure here is that Secretary Clinton needs to bring a note from Epstein's mother to Congress next time she appears there.
The fringe media-types only have to be somewhere in the vicinity of being correct once out of 500 times and that's good enough for those weak-minded enough to buy into what's being sold. Sad.
She works for the American people first and foremost not Obama.We pay her.You get some tough questions about Benghazi so you call in sick.The boss might look bad if you told the truth.These critters in D.C. are slippery as an eel in a tub of W-D40.
Oh thank you for your original insight. You must be a member of the not-so-exclusive club of hive brain wingnuts. Perhaps it is your own experience calling in sick to avoid tough questions that you know so much about what someone else's motivation is? Do you have your all-knowing, all-seeing crystal ball working overtime?