The Clinton Scandals

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There is still plenty of conspiracy theory going around, Daniel..

These days we don’t live with the constant threat of tuberculosis and yet, from the way a certain segment of the rightwing fever swamp is treating Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, you’d think she was Fantine from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables.

Matt Drudge, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, some ghoul named Steve Malzberg – who probably can’t help it that he’s a dead ringer for 90s make-believe car salesman Joe Isuzu – and even Republican nominee Donald Trump have seized upon Clinton’s seasonal allergies and resulting cough as a sign that she is trembling at death’s door, barely able to function.

“People don’t cough like that,” Malzberg insisted on his Newsmax.com podcast last week. “People don’t have coughing fits ‘all the time’, in public, that go on and on and on and on and on and on. Not unless there’s something going on that’s not right.”

Please allow me to disabuse you of that notion, sir. Plenty of people “cough like that”, myself included. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 19.1 million adults over 18 were diagnosed with seasonal allergic rhinitis – also known as “hay fever” – in 2014, along 6.1 million children.

I cough at all the wrong times. Thank God I'm not Hillary Clinton | David Ferguson | Opinion | The Guardian