As predicted, Karl Rove’s recent remarks about Hillary Clinton’s blood clot episode back in December, 2012, has officially become a topic of intense Truther-style speculation on Fox News Channel. You might recall how Rove cleverly speculated that Clinton might’ve suffered some sort of traumatic brain injury due to the blood clot: “Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she’s wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what’s up with that.”
He tried to walk it back, but in classic Rove style leaving enough wiggle room to park an elephant. Through that gap, the neo-Birther campaign emerged.
Charles Hurt wrote in The Washington Times:
In any event it was an awkward MRI moment that should have gotten the former first lady checked into a rubber room for further evaluation.
And, if she really wants to be president, the American people have a right to know what the results of that MRI showed.
The “show us the birth certificate” conspiracy theory of the 2016 campaign has begun, this time with medical records. Republican strategist Brad Blakeman carried the crazy-torch on Fox News Channel… READ MORE