The Federalist:
On Tuesday, the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza wrote a piece headlined, “Can we just stop talking about Hillary Clinton’s health now?” In the fiery post, he said any and all questions about Clinton’s health are “absurd” and “ridiculous.”
Within about 20 seconds, observers reminded him that he wrote at length about Sen. John McCain’s health when the Republican senator from Arizona was running against President Barack Obama in 2008.
So on Wednesday, Cillizza wrote a piece headlined, “Why I wrote about John McCain’s health in 2008 (and don’t think we should write about Hillary’s health now).”
The piece is embarrassingly bad. You know things aren’t going well when the phrase “conservatives … seized on” is used in the very first paragraph. What did they “seize on”? Well, they seem to have noticed that he wasn’t terribly consistent in his anger about coverage of potential health problems for politicians. They pointed to his piece from 2008 about McCain’s medical history.
He describes his piece from eight years ago and says, “The basic thesis of the piece was that McCain and his team pulled off a political masterstroke by releasing so much documentation (1,100 pages!) when they did — the Friday before the Memorial Day weekend.”
“Hypocrite! Hack! Biased! Liberal!” he rhetorically exclaims. But no, he says, you have it all wrong. He says his participation in the McCain health beat versus his strenuous objection to writing about Clinton’s health is nothing more than an “apples and oranges” comparison.
See, Cillizza explains, if McCain were elected, he would have been 72 years old. “That fact alone made his health a major issue in the context of the campaign.”
So that’s the orange. The apple, if you will, is that Hillary Clinton would be 69 years old if she were elected. Why, that’s all the difference in the world! One would have been 72. The other would have been 69! Case closed. That’ll show you, conservative seizers!
I wish I were joking. I am not joking. It was so bad that it elicited this funny tweet from McCain’s daughter Meghan.
.@TheFix I actually thought this article was a parody.
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) September 7, 2016
Cillizza adds other things. See, McCain openly joshed about his age and his wounds from being a prisoner of war, whereas Hillary Clinton is notoriously tight-lipped about anything that could ever be construed as negative information about her. So that’s another reason, in the mind of this journalist, that one should be covered and one should not be.
jerk
Red Headline at Drudge:
Seems this Hillary Health Issue will not just go away because she tells the media to shut up.
Another point from the ”facts of History,” is that, John McCain is, after 7.7 years, STILL with us!
Do you think Hillary can be propped up another 7.7 years?
I look at her health trajectory and say, No.
She is already merely parroting whatever a handler puts in her ear.
She’s not even ”herself” anymore.
@Nanny G: All those lefties believe that if 91% of scientists no matter their specialty believe in man made global warming, then it is true. Shouldn’t they believe that Hillary is very ill if 1% believe that?