CNN: 'The new birthers'

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(CNN)From Donald Trump and his top surrogates to the right-wing media and its engine rooms of outrage in the blogosphere, Hillary Clinton's opponents are ramping up efforts to sow doubt over the candidate's health.

The campaign -- which goes back years -- has escalated to shouting over the summer, as Trump spiraled in the polls while mostly failing to connect with voters outside his base demographic. Now, as the race enters a crucial phase, there has been a growing push to fundamentally undermine Clinton's candidacy.

Much in the way "birthers" (Trump was among the most prominent) sought similar ends by questioning President Barack Obama's citizenship, the "healthers" are using junk science and conspiracy theories to argue that Clinton is suffering from a series of debilitating brain injuries.

In an interview on "Fox News Sunday" this weekend, former New York City mayor and Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani first accused the mainstream media of hiding evidence, then encouraged doubters to "go online and put down 'Hillary Clinton illness.'"

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/22/politics/hillary-clinton-health-conspiracy-theory-explained/index.html

[malaise]

1. No one on the planet is sicker than Don the Con

He's a raving lunatic

[spanone]

5. jeff sessions....another raving lunatic along with rudy, pierson et al

This is a FUCKING United States Senator......

BRIANNA KEILAR (HOST): And we're back now with Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama. He is a key adviser to Donald Trump. I wanted to talk about something a little bit different now, Senator Sessions, and that is something that we have heard several Trump surrogates suggest recently, which is that Hillary Clinton, they are suggesting, is ill. You have Rudy Giuliani, you have Katrina Pierson, who is the spokeswoman for the campaign suggesting this. These are high-level surrogates. Do you think that Hillary Clinton's health is really a problem?

JEFF SESSIONS: Well, the questions are being raised. I don't know the details of it and I'm not going to attempt to give a medical opinion on it but I can say one thing for confident and surety, Donald Trump is a strong vibrant force. This is a leader who can move the ball. Hillary Clinton is low energy compared to him. It will be business as usual. Nothing significant will happen under her leadership over the next four years. Extending the Obama leadership. Donald Trump can turn this country around. He can break through the log jam in Washington. And get some things done that should have been done long ago.....

SESSIONS: All I can tell you is I'm not a doctor and I'm not diagnosing it. But she's not even doing press conferences. She's doing such a few events compared to Donald Trump. She is apparently taking more time off and resting and not working. We need a leader that's working 24 hours --

http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/08/22/cnn-anchor-disproves-trump-surrogates-clinton-health-conspiracy-theory-his-own-words/212578

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Sessions one of the jerks blocking Obama at every turn. . . . . nt

[Takket]

2. once you name it, you get attached to it

[unblock]

3. the old liars.

[lindysalsagal]

4. This is the best they can do? Really? They've got nothing else?

Pathetic. This won't get them one more vote they don't already have.

just stupid.

[Person 2713]

11. Hey the birther thing was a big stretch for anyone sane too

And just as stupid

[Moostache]

6. When you scream in an echo chamber, the noise gets exponentially higher...

That's the only explanation I can come up with that explains why these fools believe their inflamed and agog base of zealots is enough to win elections with no other demographic at all.

Its like an entire campaign of people sucking freon out of air conditioners to get high and confusing passing out cold with being really fun...not that I would know how to identify people like that at all...

[lame54]

7. Because Orange is such a natural healthy look for people

[niyad]

8. somewhere, I saw them referred to as "deathers"

[niyad]

9. I heard someone I know casually going on and on about HRC's supposed ill health the other

day, talking to another conspiracy nut. I pointed out that the sites he reads are all crap. has not spoken to me since. as you can tell, I am crushed.

[madinmaryland]

10. "the deathers". In more ways than one...

They want her to die, whether it be by an illness or by a second amendment remedy.

Sick fucking assholes.

[loyalsister]

12. Sheeesh

What do we expect? How many people over the age of 50 have not experienced some physical decline. Hillary and Trump are at and beyond "age of onset" for all kinds of age related complications. It's completely natural and ordinary. The best answer is "so what? She probably wears reading glasses, too."

Both candidates are at an age that most people want to be retired. I don't get the outrage over something that should have been expected.

[deurbano]

13. Since they have a crap candidate and are wrong on all the issues, they have nothing left but

manufactured scandals and crises.

[hibbing]

14. Another case of the liberal media n/t

[hay rick]

15. It's Trump's campaign that has one foot in the grave and

the other on a banana peel.

[lastlib]

17. "Does she abuse children and animals? I don't know. The question has been raised..."

Straight out of the Joseph Goebbels propaganda playbook.

Let's play their game. Does Jeff Sessions molest farm animals? I don't know. The question has been raised. I think that, clearly, he needs to come forward and give convincing proof that he does not.