NBC News chief health correspondent Robert Brazell is puzzled by the government’s statement regarding the health of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:
“All we have is a statement from her office. The hospital isn’t saying anything and the statement from her [office] says that she had this blood clot that stemmed from the concussion and she’s being treated with blood-thinning drugs,” Bazell continued. “The problem is that usually when blood clots come from concussions, they can’t be treated with blood [thinners.] So either it’s not really related to the concussion and she’s got a blood clot in her leg or something, or there’s something else going on that we’re not being told. And right now, we’re just sort of seeking that clarification and hoping for the best as she’s being observed.”
If the clot is in the leg, how can it be related to the concussion, as the State Department says? If the clot is related to the concussion, supposing the concussion itself isn’t a delaying tactic to keep pushing Clinton’s Benghazi testimony down the calendar, it can’t be treated as the State Department statement says it’s being treated.
Clinton may well be ill — she did have a blood clot in her leg in 1998 — but there is no reason to suspend our experience and believe her at this point. The Clintons collectively and Hillary Clinton herself have not earned the benefit of assumed truth-telling. They have earned the suspicion due from a career of telling lie after lie in any and every circumstance. From the Rose law firm records that mysteriously turned up in the White House residence after being missing for years, to making a killing on cattle futures, to Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sex with that woman…I never asked anyone to lie” riff to Hillary’s “I remember landing under sniper fire” lie, straight to Chelsea Clinton’s becoming a “journalist” at a national network despite having neither experience nor a personality, there is simply no reason to take any statement from any Clinton or anyone who works for them at face value.
In Hillary’s case, the pattern of evading her obligation to testify about Benghazi had been long established before the latest health scare. She blamed a movie for what was obviously a terrorist attack, with the bodies of the slain resting behind her. She set up a committee of hand-picked apparatchiks to “investigate,” and that committee quite conveniently determined that mistakes were made, just not by any actual people. Four people were supposedly fired over their roles in the Benghazi attack, but surprise, they’re still on the job and they owe their paychecks to Clinton who has kept them around. Through State spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, Clinton floated the possibility that she may never testify along with floating the idea that she had no legal obligation to testify (she does, if Congress says she does, but her Accountability Review Board was set up so that she was not required to testify on its findings). All of that was before the flu, which became a concussion, which is now a blood clot.
Update: The doctors explain:
Doctors treating Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday said that she suffered a blood clot in a vein between her brain and skull behind her right ear but predicted that she would make a full recovery.
Ok then.
– abduction from the hospital will be the next excuse in order.
By “Aliens” of course.
Please don’t call them aliens. They are undocumented space people.
Love it!
How many more sick days does she have?
Clearly trying to get admitted before Obamacare kicks in.
Wow – All I had to do after missing a day of school was a note from my mom or dad. Ms. Drama Queen is taking extraordinary steps to avoid explaining to Congress and the American people what happened in Benghazi and why. What is so scary about telling the truth Ms. Drama Queen? Afraid we might find out something that may change our minds on whether we judge you fit to run Clown Act TWO following Clown Act ONE? Unless you die (and REALLY die) I can see no reason why you should not be compelled to give your version of Benghazi.
Sitting too long can cause blood clots. But if she got clots after the concussion for this reason you’d think that they would have mentioned it. I think they’d also say the clots formed in her legs.
Given the size of her legs, can you imagine the size of her blood clots?
“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”
― Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir
All true except the last one – we no longer pretend to believe them.
Nobody cares what we believe any more. When elections can be stolen at will, our opinion no longer matters. It’s time to fish or cut bait.
Everything is relative.
Hillary is a paragon of veracity compared to the Liar in Chief, since there is an outside chance that some aspects of her life might have been more or less truthfully disclosed. Like maybe, her pre-school years.
You ought to read Binesh DeSnooza’s 1995 expose “Hillary: The Early Early Years” to lift the fog from your eyes and learn of the mysterious disappearance of Lavrentiy Beria’s daughter from the public eye at approximately the same time Hillary appeared at Miss Molly’s Kindergarten near Chicago’s ‘Progressive’ hive.
Might she have Phlebitis?
She would join an august group. To wit: Richard Milhouse Nixon.
If so, the Gods may be having Their way with her.
I think she’s on an extended period, the menopause, the pause that refreshes.
She’s 65. That ship sailed most likely 15-20 years ago.
I’m still working on the original concussion. Normally when someone at this level sneezes, they spend 3 or 4 days in the hospital for tests and observation, yet she never made it to the emergency room for fainting and a concussion?
The blood thinners aren’t for any sort of blood clot related to the concussion; they’re for the blood on her hands.
Think Lady MacBeth.
The fall was from being falling down drunk, they blood clot is from her memory of tripping Nixon.
Ah, I still think the best lines here are too tasteless to post, even about The Hildabeast. I’ll just say, back in the Clinton Daze, the lies came one at a time. Now in the Obamanation they come so thick and fast there is no point at trying to parse them individually. This is not accidental, it is a strategy.
It’s actually kind of fun to watch those few remaining intellectually honest lefties (Kirsten Powers, for example) try to:
- swallow the lies whole, and choke on them,
- attempt to publicly rationalize why it’s OK for Hillary to lie outright, or
- express actuall skepticism at the shallow much being peddled
Kirsten Powers can’t keep up with all the lies. She just stares wide eyed with a smirk most of the time. UGH
She may very well be ill, she looks worn out.
For the sake of argument, say it is all legit. She is too ill to carry out the demands of the office. Is there someone currently in charge at State? Who is it?
There is a story Hillary has to tell, an accounting of what went on. I was told you never take responsibility without having authority. If you take responsibility without authority, you are just a fall guy. It seems part of the authority-responsibility relationship is the accountability due those who trusted you with the power to act.
Failures are good learning opportunities, so they say. Maybe this should be approached as a learning opportunity or we may do the same things that end up the same way. I know, it is almost as idealistic as a liberal’s utopia to think a politician would fess up and do the right thing. I keep hoping.
Maybe this could explain her “injuries.” http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1641.htm
I’m sure they are waiting for a diagnosis of loss of memory and she won’t be fit to testify.
Ain’t dat wotchu gets wen you gets wakked onduh hed?
Milk of Amnesia. Dey awtuh giv huh summa dat.
Utterwize, she ain’t gunna rememba nuttin bowt no Ben Gazi.
Not even duh spot we berreed him.
(I shaw howp I didn’t wak huh too hod! Mr O sed jus a itsy wak.)
It’s from a plane crash in Iran where a Navy Seal was also killed. The KGB released a story that confirmed she was in a plane that crashed in Iran.
the crash story is in European newspapers.
Those newspapers are not anymore reliable than ours.
I think it’s a ploy to avoid testifying on Benghazi. And the next thing is a story will come out that she is to ill and had a stroke or something. Either she will take the blame or she will throw Obama under the bus for her political gain
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/latest-hillary-clinton-confirms-brain-crisis
They say brain cancer.
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Or perhaps she has been abducted by aliens, that is, her mothership returned to carry her home, and this delay is to surgically alter and train her replacement for a quick testimony and retirement ceremony.
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Or perhaps they will simply insist there never was a Hillary Clinton, she was just a vast right wing fantasy from the start. I think Bubba might testify to that on a stack of interns.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Very good,Josh,especially the part about her being a vast right wing fantasy. More like a vast right wing NIGHTMARE,eh? Which we all hoped would disappear after Clinton left office with her. Alas! After all the open dishonesty,immorality and corruption of the Clinton administration, Obama appoints HER, of ALL people, to be SecState. Almost as brilliant as his casting Crazy Uncle Joe as veep. Nothing like dragging the detritus of the past into the present.
Now they have at least stipulated it’s a clot in her head – the Enquirer got that much right!
Give it up.
Clinton is going to testify at the benghazi hearings. Short of actually dying, there is no way for her to avoid it.
We heard all this same rubbish after petraeus quit.
a sad silly littany of medical excuses that magically render the Hildabeast incapable of appearing on Capitol Hill at a most convenient time. Will be *very* interesting to watch MSM extolling her health in 2015 when she’s running as the oldest first term POTUS candidate since Reagan, who really was in good physical health.
With her being Slick Willie’s wife, the two of them may suddenly decide they want to move to Mexico or Canada or Australia or Switzerland or the French Riviera,and she will be whisked out of the jurisdiction of the US government forever before you can say “She’s escaping!” Maybe Belgium, the super rich pay fewer taxes there. I’m sure that Soros or some other Leftist billionaire or Russian or Chinese kleptocrat will be happy to help make their move a pleasant one.ANYTHING to let all the blame fall on her and NOT on their comrade in the White House.An impeachment of Emperor Zero would be an end of the world cataclysm,in their eyes.
“Clot Behind Right Ear” Clinton, will be “infirm” until 2015. Or various stages of “encouraging signs of improvement!!” Now, all together…ah one, ah two, ah three AWWWWWWW!Funny, she’ll be fully recovered for Democratic Primaries.Kabuki Theatre! Pray. Amen. Wait a minute! Didn’t the CCCP in China just go thru the same thing with recent central committee chairman selection, too? Hummmm!
Blood thinners for a brain clot???? Not the usual treatment.
To see the real truth about Hillary, please see the following article:
http://www.eutimes.net/2012/12/clinton-injured-us-navy-seal-killed-in-secret-us-mission-to-iran/
One thing is for sure – This should make her health a major issue for the 2016 elections. After suffering major head trauma and now having a blood clot, she’s a just a ticking Alzheimer’s/demetia time bomb waiting to go off. We all know what that does to football players; why should Ms. Clinton be any different? We can’t risk our POTUS succombing in the middle of her term to any kind of mental instability.
You know this would be the narrative if Ms. Clinton were a Republican.
We need to absolutely go there and do so mercilessly if she runs.
IT’S IMPOSSIBLE FOR HILLARY O HAVE A BLOOD CLOT.
She has ice in her veins.