Today is proving a bountiful harvest of erroneous, propaganda-laden opinion pieces about HRC and her medical issues. In the first literary-medical autopsy performed earlier today, Mixing medicine and politics: the gender flap, disclosed many flaws in an opinion piece which basic failing was not to distinguish Hillary Clinton apart from the female gender.

There came to my attention, courtesy of a comment made in response to the article, a search of The New Statesman blog, although it was not the one referred to in the comment. Never mind, it's there in all its magnificent political obfuscation.

Hillary’s health and the age of disinformation

In the 2005 Doctor Who Christmas special, the British prime minister – an older woman called Harriet Jones – reneges on a promise to let a bunch of aliens leave the planet in peace. After she orders their ship to be shot down, David Tennant’s furious Time Lord tells her that he could bring down her government with a word – or, rather, six words. As she stands defiantly in front of him, he goes to her closest aide and whispers: “Don’t you think she looks tired?”

I admit not going to medical school with Dr. Who, and in fact have never watched a single episode. The "aliens" in the above paragraph could well be represented by the deplorable (good word, huh?) corporatists, who do not "come in peace" but are parasitically eating us alive. Now I wish I could someone as powerful as the Time Lord (whomever that might be) to whisper the threat “Don’t you think she looks tired?”, causing Her Heinous to stand down.

For the past few months, the “alt right” – a loose collection of bloggers, websites, internet wing nuts and other Trump-supporting flotsam – has been attempting a similar trick on Hillary Clinton. In 2012, the Democratic presidential nominee hit her head, and since then rumours have swirled about a more serious health problem. With appalling timing, the Clinton campaign finally responded to these rumours last week, only for their visibly sick candidate to need bundling out of a 9/11 memorial event on Sunday into a waiting people carrier.

Amendments to the above paragraph
Many of those with serious concerns about Hillary's health are not just "Trump-supporting flotsam" but also Progressives and Democrats (I do not conflate the two nouns)
In 2012, the candidate did not merely hit her head, she suffered a significant concussion, which even by Slick Willie's admission took her 6 weeks to get through it--if indeed she has ever gotten through it.
The writer conspicuously avoids mention of another potentially life-threatening event occurring after the concussion: dural sinus thrombosis (DST).
The Clinton campaign responded appallingly late responded to the swirling health crisis, not because they wanted to, but because they had to. Clinton does nothing to speak about issues, other than I'm not Trump. Instead she had planned to hide out in her palatial cave until her coronation.
Agreed: the visibly sick candidate left early. Disagreed: she did not go away into a waiting people carrier. She went away in a black ambulance fitted with retractible steps so that less-than-nimble Hillary could mount them.

The initial explanation that Clinton “overheated” later gave away to an admission that she was suffering from pneumonia. But by this time, opinionators had already rushed to fill the space created by years of stealthy narrative-building.

But no, it was heat exhaustion. No, no, it was dehydration. No, no, no, it was "the Flu". No, no, no, no, it was "non-contagious pneumonia"--yes, that's it--we'll go with that one since the rubes voters don't know any better.
The "opinionators" rushed in with stealthy narratives--as if the Clinton machine hasn't been doing this for decades?

Conspiracies R Us:

WikiLeaks posted about a “metal or glass object [falling] from Clinton’s right hand” in a tone that conveyed the impression this was very sinister. It later tweeted, and then deleted, a poll inviting followers to guess whether Clinton was suffering from an allergy problem, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis or a head injury. Scrolling through Twitter, I chanced upon a lively meme industry devoted to suggesting that a bulge in Clinton’s trouser leg at an earlier event “proved” she wears a catheter.

So, Hiding Hillary has actually admitted she has allergies as does her physician. Not very conspiratorial.
Hillary definitely had a head injury, a serious one--that is not Conspiracy Theory. Could she have Parkinson disease (PD)? I don't know and don't think so, but it might explain many of her medical issues. Lots of us want to know what that snake in Hillary's pant leg really is. At it wasn't just seen at "an" earlier event, implying the snake has only been noticed once.

Unsurprisingly, Bush’s close adviser Karl Rove was one of the early promoters of the “Clinton has brain damage” meme. Of course, he denies using those words; but in May 2014 he said to the New York Post: “Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury?

Citing Karl Rove for authority on anything except political corruption is a non-starter. He shot his mouth off about many things. Most people give him no creedence about his medical opinions. But that's only one messenger. The prism glasses are not just for people with TBI--true--but they also are used for TBI patients.

Now, here is material worthy of yesterday's fish wrap:

if Hillary Clinton is concealing a serious illness, it’s positively presidential: FDR hid being in a wheelchair for years, and JFK had Addison’s disease and back problems so severe they required surgery.

Funny things about her choices. FDR was one of America's finest President--certainly the greatest in the 20th Century. His illness was polio, a disease which does not affect cognition. JFK's Addison's disease, if treated, does not affect cognition. The only time Addison's would affect cognition would be if the individual were semi-comatose. So JFK had back problems and surgery. So what? Most people don't think with their backs, except perhaps hapless Helen Lewis.

Finally a citation with some merit but misapplied:

Throughout all this, the remaining chunk of the US media that hasn’t lost its goddam mind during this election chewed over the biggest dilemma of modern political journalism: how do you report wild speculation without implicitly endorsing it?

The U.S. media surrendered their "goddam mind" to the corporations for whom they toil. What they write is dependent not on newsworthiness but the wishes of the corporate masters. Until recently these toadies have been in the bag for Hillary because the Masters told them to be--or else.

And here is the key answering the plaintive question toward the end of this protect-poor-Hillary-at-any-cost claptrap: how do you report wild speculation without implicitly endorsing it?

How do you do this. Simple. Have Hiding Hillary subject to an examination of her medical records followed by physical examination by the appropriate independent specialists to either refute or affirm "the Conspiracies".