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    Post Hillary Clinton finds another way to avoid the press

    Hillary Clinton finds another way to avoid the press

    Her campaign launches a podcast with an on-payroll moderator whose first interview is the nominee herself.

    By ANNIE KARNI 08/12/16 03:21 PM EDT Updated 08/12/16 03:47 PM EDT

    One of Hillary Clinton’s first sitdown interviews since the Democratic National Convention was conducted by a self-described supporter who has been hired by the campaign to host the Democratic nominee’s official campaign podcast.

    “With Her,” which launched on iTunes Friday morning, promises an inside account “straight from Hillary [of] what life is like on the campaign trail.” The series is being produced by the campaign and hosted by Max

    Linsky, a founding editor of Longform.org and a co-host of the well-respected Longform podcast. The debut episode features Linsky’s 15-minute interview with the nominee.


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    The result is a casual conversation that steers clear of politics -- and it's the latest example of how Clinton is trying to control her storyline. She has been criticized for limiting press access by not participating in press conferences and being slow to grant reporters the level of access that has become common and expected of candidates vying for the Oval Office.

    Now, she has gone a step further, creating a safe space from which to present the image of herself that she wants voters to see.


    “You can call me whatever you want to call me,” a relaxed-sounding Clinton tells Linsky. “You can call me Hillary, you can call me Madam Secretary. You can call me, ‘hey you.’” (He settles for “Hillary.”)


    With 87 days to go to until the election, Donald Trump’s name does not come up once in the conversation. Nor is there any discussion of new emails that have once again raised questions about the relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton-lead State Department.


    Instead, Linsky appears more interested in getting Clinton to discuss the emotional and human experience of running for president. He asks her what was going through her mind after hugging her daughter on stage at the convention (spoiler alert: “such a rush of emotion”), how she keeps up her stamina, how she stays engaged with the people she’s meeting and what she thinks about before she goes to bed.


    Clinton chats about the iPhone ringtone she employs as an alarm clock, Facetiming with her grandchildren, and how she plans to end a day of campaigning in Miami with a meal of Cuban food and locally brewed beers.

    But getting new and specific details about life on the campaign trail can prove difficult with a guarded and practiced interviewee. “I usually get up, get dressed, get out the door,” Clinton explains of her morning routine.

    “I get a big briefing in my phone and a paper version and I go through that. There’s a regular routine for every day.”


    Linsky, a well-respected podcast host, told POLITICO that he was given no specific ground rules for his interview with Clinton. But his access to the candidate comes from being on the campaign’s official payroll.


    “She's taking a page from President Obama's playbook -- using in-house videos, blogs, photographs, etc. — to tightly control his message,” said Democratic strategist Lis Smith, a former top adviser to onetime presidential candidate Martin O’Malley. “Where she deviates — and where it should be troubling for the press and public — is that she has massive trust issues that could be addressed with more transparency, and she refuses to hold press conferences.”


    The new podcast is not the only way the campaign is trying to tell its own story by seeming to attempt an end-run around the reporters who cover it.


    For months, the campaign has been relying on its in-house videographer, Julie Zuckerbrod, to film closed-to-the-press meetings and personal moments Clinton and other top campaign officials share with supporters and staff. The most flattering moments are often turned into slick web videos and ads released by the campaign, rather than reported on by the press.


    In an interview, Linsky made it clear that he doesn’t consider his unique access to the candidate and the campaign a substitute for objective coverage of her campaign.


    “It’s not journalism,” Linsky said in an interview. “It’s a different thing, which doesn’t mean it’s not interesting, or true. But it’s a different mechanism and it’s newly important to make that distinction.”


    Linsky — who with his business partner Jenna Weiss-Berman co-founded the podcast production company Pineapple Street Media earlier this year — delivers a disclaimer at the top of his interview: “I’m not a journalist, and I’m not impartial. I’m a small business owner, a huge supporter of Secretary Clinton’s, and I’m thrilled her campaign is having me do this.”


    He said it was important to him for listeners to understand exactly what they were getting. “It’s being produced by the campaign,” he said. “I didn’t want there to be any confusion about what we were doing.”


    Clinton has participated in some independent podcasts interviews, as well. She recently sat down for an extended interview with Vox's Ezra Klein, and last April, she was a guest on POLITICO's own "Off Message" podcast. Since the convention, Clinton also sat for an interview with Chris Wallace on the adversarial Fox News.

    Her in-house podcast project has been months in the making and is being overseen by Katie Dowd, the campaign’s digital director. The campaign, Linsky said, has been interested in launching its own podcast since Clinton was a guest on BuzzFeed’s popular “Another Round” podcast in October, 2015. That interview provided her with a funny, conversational platform that showed off a looser side of Clinton, and led to original insights, like the admission that Clinton doesn’t physically produce any sweat.

    Weiss-Berman, Linsky’s business partner, at the time produced the audio for BuzzFeed’s podcasts and stayed in touch with the campaign.


    After starting their own podcast company, Weiss-Berman “came to the campaign with the idea,” said Linsky. “They’d been saying they want to do a podcast. She raised the idea of doing a campaign journal, and to give a 360-degree view of a presidential campaign. That was what they were into, too. They thought of podcast listeners as an audience writ-large that they’d like to meet. It’s a group of people they’re trying to reach.” It’s also another vehicle to collect voter information. At the end of the broadcast, Clinton tells listeners to text “podcast” to her campaign number, where their information can then be collected for future updates from the campaign.

    A campaign official said that the podcast “will come out periodically to show the unexpected and excited nature of campaign life. It will highlight Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff’s experiences and stories from the campaign trail.” The campaign did not respond to requests for comment about whether that would come in lieu of interviews with independent news outlets.


    Linsky hasn’t taped his second episode yet, but promised that listeners will hear “from all facets of the campaign, other big names. But we’d also love to talk to someone in the field, and try and get all the way up and down the campaign.”


    Linsky and Weiss-Berman are being paid by the campaign, but Linsky said his interview was not substantively edited after the recording earlier this week in Miami. And even if it’s not journalism, Linsky said he’s just asking the questions he’s personally interested in learning about. “What we’re trying to do is provide this window into the campaign and focus on how it feels,” he said. “That’s what I’m interested in.”

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    Staged interview.

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    Fox News host claims Hillary Clinton had a SEIZURE on camera in latest claim about her 'secret' health issues - despite onlooker in the clip denying it happened

    Right-wing conspiracy theorists say video shows Hillary Clinton having a seizure

    Video was recorded in June during a event in Washington muffin shop

    Clinton 'responded with an exaggerated motion' to reporters in the clip

    Fox News host Sean Hannity said this week that it looks 'seizure-esque'

    He also mentioned an old photo being used to suggest Clinton is sick

    Picture has been circulated by Donald Trump supporters on social media

    It shows Clinton slipping as she walked up a set of stairs in February

    Right-wing blogs wrongly claimed it is 'evidence' she is in bad health

    Clinton has long defended herself from similar health-based allegations

    By LIAM QUINN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
    PUBLISHED: 14:12 GMT, 13 August 2016 | UPDATED: 14:53 GMT, 13 August 2016


    A person who was filmed in a video that has been seized upon by right-wing groups to suggest Hillary Clinton 'had a seizure' on camera has hit back at the outlandish claims.

    Lisa Lerer, a reporter covering Clinton's campaign for the Associated Press, was on hand for the latest moment conspiracy theorists have latched onto in an attempt to discredit the Democratic nominee.

    In the video, which was shot on June 10 at a muffin shop in Washington DC, Lerer was one of the reporters who 'shouted' questions at Clinton about a meeting she had recently had with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

    In Lerer's words, Clinton: 'perhaps eager to avoid answering or maybe just taken aback by our volume [she] responded with an exaggerated motion, shaking her head vigorously for a few seconds.'
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    One of the people filmed in a video of Hillary Clinton that right-wing groups claim shows candidate
    'had a seizure' on camera has hit back at the outlandish claims






    In the video, which was shot on June 10 at a muffin shop in Washington DC, Clinton 'responded
    with an exaggerated motion', after being asked questions by reporters


    'Video of the moment shows me holding out my recorder in front of her, laughing and stepping back in surprise,' she wrote for the Associated Press.

    'After the exchange, she took a few more photos, exited the shop and greeted supporters waiting outside.'

    However, almost two months after the 'innocuous' incident took place, it was being broadcast and analyzed by right-wing host Sean Hannity and a 'Fox News Medical A-Team'.


    By devoting a week of his show to the conspiracy theory, the host exposed it to more mainstream attention than ever.

    Hannity, who has publicly endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump and previously supported the debunked Barack Obama 'birther' movement, told his hand-picked panel of medical experts Clinton's movement in the video appeared 'seizure-esque'.

    'This looks like violent, out of control movements on her part,' the Fox News host said.


    Lisa Lerer, a reporter covering Clinton's campaign for the Associated Press, said where she saw
    'evasiveness', conspiracy theorists saw 'seizures'



    Fox News host Sean Hannity has dedicated a week of his show to 'Hillary's Health', including many
    segments about Clinton's response in the video (right)


    Hannity also referenced an old picture that was wrongly circulated by right-wing websites recently that showed the Democratic nominee slipping while walking up a flight of stairs.

    A host of anti-Clinton blogs and websites falsely presented the image as proof the 68-year-old candidate is in poor health.

    However, the picture that they claimed to be new, was taken at the top of a staircase in South Carolina on February 24.

    Right-wing blog American Mirror started its conspiracy-theorizing post by stating Clinton's health should be 'a major issue of the 2016 campaign'.



    Right-wing websites are circulating an old picture of Hillary Clinton slipping while walking up a flight
    of stairs (pictured) to question the Democratic nominee's health ahead of the election


    It then went on to wrongly say the photograph in question is, 'the latest evidence', to support its conspiracy - despite the picture being almost seven months old.

    The blog post was then shared by the Drudge Report, a more well-known right-wing website, along with the headline: 'Hillary conquers the stairs'.

    The website also linked the incorrect story to other 'incidents' with Clinton in the past, such as the time she tripped while getting on a plane in 2012, when she fractured her elbow after slipping over in the White House in 2009, and when she was treated for blood clots in 2012 and 2013, to try to add more weight to the health conspiracy.

    CNN host Brian Stelter attempted to correct the blog posts after the surfaced on Twitter.


    The photograph is falsely being presented as some form of proof Clinton (pictured) is in poor health





    CNN host Brian Stelter attempted to correct the blog posts after the surfaced on Twitter on Sunday

    'This photo is from February 24. She slipped. But it's suddenly getting a lot of right wing media attention today,' Stelter tweeted.

    'Pro-Trump accounts shared the out-of-context pic last night. Then American Mirror wrote a "SHOCK PHOTO" blog post.

    'Now it's the lead on Druge Report - "PHOTOS REVEALED." Huh? "Clinton slips" pics were published in February.'

    Clinton has long insisted she is in good health in an attempt to put an end to the conspiracy theories, and in September 2015 she took the extraordinary step of releasing a letter from her doctor proving her fitness.


    The conspiracy theories linked the photograph of Clinton slipping to when she fractured her elbow in
    2009, and had to wear a sling (pictured)



    The right-wing theories also referenced previous treatment Clinton had for blood clots in 2012.
    Pictured, Clinton leaves hospital in January 2013 after treatment


    Doctor Lisa Bardack, from New York, detailed the candidate's health history, including previous treatments for concussion, complete family history of heart disease, an analysis of blood clots, and a thyroid gland examination, according to the New York Post.

    Doctor Bardack found Clinton's cancer screening tests were normal, as were her electrocardiogram and her blood lipids.

    Right-wing websites and outlets have regularly attempted to push conspiracy theories designed to undermine Democratic candidates in recent years - such as the 'birther movement' that questioned where President Barack Obama was born, and former President Bill Clinton had a 'body count' of questionable deaths linked to him.

    Both theories, along with many others, have been proven to be false.


    Fox News host claims Hillary Clinton had a SEIZURE on camera in latest claim about her 'secret' health issues - despite onlooker in the clip denying it happened

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    Hillary Jabbed With Seizure Drug? Dementia Fits Treated by Mystery Man With Syringe??

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    Barry Soetoro Esq - Posted: Saturday, August 13, 2016 16:35


    WHO IS THIS MYSTERY MAN FOLLOWING HILLARY WITH AN INJECTOR PEN? DOES IT CONTAIN DRUGS TO KILL HILLARY’S FREQUENT DEMENTIA SEIZURES AT TV EVENTS?

    HILLARY CLINTON’S MEDICAL RECORDS LEAKED. THEY SHOW HILLARY DIAGNOSED WITH SUBCORTICAL DEMENTIA (!) BY DOCTOR LISA BARDACK FROM MOUNT KISCO (NEXT DOOR TO CHAPPAQUA, NY).

    WATCH HILLARY LOSE CONTROL OF HER HEAD AND NECK ON TV. SEIZURES ARE GETTING WORSE.

    HOW MUCH LONGER CAN HILLARY HIDE THESE DEMENTIA SEIZURES? SHE’S FLIPPING AROUND LIKE A FISH ON NATIONAL TV!

    HILLARY CLINTON WANTS CONTROL OF YOUR HEALTHCARE, BUT HILLARY IS HAVING BLACKOUTS, SEIZURES AND MEMORY LOSS! HILLARY’S BRAIN IS BROKEN. HILLARY BELONGS IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL OR PRISON. SHE WAS ALREADY CRIMINALLY INSANE BEFORE THE SEIZURES.




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    Bombshell: Hillary Clinton has Dementia According to Leaked Medical Records

    Tuesday, August 9, 2016 17:33

    Yesterday, August 8, the Hal Turner Show published what it claims to be Hillary Clinton’s medical records, from her personal physician, Dr. Lisa R. Bardack.

    According to Dr. Bardack, Hillary has a form of dementia called Subcortical Vascular Dementia, and that since a concussion in early December of 2012, her black-outs, uncontrollable twitching, memory loss, and brain seizures (Complex Partial Seizures) have worsened and increased in frequency. Neither the dementia nor the seizure is curable, but instead is progressive, i.e., will worsen.




    I can confirm that there is a Lisa R. Bardack, M.D., who is the Director of Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System at CareMount Medical. Her specialty is internal medicine. Her office address is 90 S Bedford Rd, Mt Kisco, NY 10549; phone number is 914-242-1370.

    She is highly regarded and is the recipient of two awards:


    • Best Doctors in America, 2011-2016
    • Castle Connolly Top Doctor: 2016


    According to an ABC News report on December 31, 2012, Dr. Lisa Bardack was one of Hillary’s attending physicians when she was hospitalized after sustaining a concussion from hitting her head when she fainted because of dehydration from a stomach virus.

    It was Dr. Bardack of the Mt. Kisco Medical Group and Dr. Gigi El-Bayoumi of George Washington University who discovered a clot during a routine follow-up MRI. Brain scans showed a blood clot had formed in Hillary’s right transverse venous sinus — cerebral venous thrombosis — which is a rare and potentially “life-threatening” condition. A transverse sinus thrombosis is a clot arising in one of the major veins that drains the brain. It is an uncommon but serious disorder in that the backup of blood flow could have caused a stroke or hemorrhage, leading to death.

    What is Subcortical Vascular Dementia?

    According to the National institutes of Health (NIH):

    Binswanger’s disease (BD), also called subcortical vascular dementia, is a type of dementia caused by widespread, microscopic areas of damage to the deep layers of white matter in the brain.

    The damage is the result of the thickening and narrowing (atherosclerosis) of arteries that feed the subcortical areas of the brain.

    Atherosclerosis (commonly known as “hardening of the arteries”) is a systemic process that affects blood vessels throughout the body. It begins late in the fourth decade of life and increases in severity with age.

    As the arteries become more and more narrowed, the blood supplied by those arteries decreases and brain tissue dies….

    The symptoms associated with BD are related to the disruption of subcortical neural circuits that control what neuroscientists call executive cognitive functioning: short-term memory, organization, mood, the regulation of attention, the ability to act or make decisions, and appropriate behavior.

    The most characteristic feature of BD is psychomotor slowness – an increase in the length of time it takes, for example, for the fingers to turn the thought of a letter into the shape of a letter on a piece of paper.

    Other symptoms include forgetfulness
    (but not as severe as the forgetfulness of Alzheimer’s disease), changes in speech, an unsteady gait, clumsiness or frequent falls, changes in personality or mood (most likely in the form of apathy, irritability, and depression), and urinary symptoms that aren’t caused by urological disease….

    The outlook is poor: Subcortical Vascular Dementia, which Hillary has, “is a progressive disease; there is no cure.

    There is no specific course of treatment for BD. Treatment is symptomatic.
    People with depression or anxiety may require antidepressant medications such as the serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) sertraline or citalopram. Atypical antipsychotic drugs, such as risperidone and olanzapine, can be useful in individuals with agitation and disruptive behavior. Recent drug trials with the drug memantine have shown improved cognition and stabilization of global functioning and behavior. The successful management of hypertension and diabetes can slow the progression of atherosclerosis, and subsequently slow the progress of BD. Because there is no cure, the best treatment is preventive, early in the adult years, by controlling risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes, and smoking.

    Needless to say, if the medical records are genuine, Hillary’s dementia and brain seizures absolutely disqualify her from being President.

    Note: The Hal Turner Show is a radio show of a man named Harold Charles “Hal” Turner, 54, whom Wikipedia describes as a “white nationalist, Holocaust denier, and blogger from North Bergen, New Jersey”.

    A paid FBI informant, in August 2010 Turner “was convicted for making threats against three federal judges with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.”


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