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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAFA writer uses supermarket tabloid as a "source," says Hillary Clinton faking clot.
Mix far-right politics and holier-than-thou religion, and you get the American Family Association.
Naturally, the American Family Association is promoting conspiracy theories about Secretary of State Hillary Clintons medical condition. Today, the AFAs Sandy Rios argued that Clinton is lying about the blood clot that was located between her brain and skull and about her earlier health problems. Citing the tabloid The National Enquirer, which says Clinton has brain cancer, Rios concludes that Clinton isnt sick at all but rather orchestrating a lie straight from the Saul Alinsky playbook!
Rios finds a clue in the fact that Clintons doctors are both women and they have these very strong female names and therefore must be playing along in the blood clot deceit. She claims that the doctors have refused to make statements and have not been allowed to ask questions. (The doctors did in fact release a statement to the press.) The self-proclaimed pro-family activist even argued that Clinton isnt telling the truth about her supposed health condition since she looked happy (gasp!) after she left the hospital.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-clinton-blood-clot-alinskyite-feminist-lie
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)or it might have been clown school
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Another Benghazi head who does not understand what she is talking about. Even McCain has went on with important things. Hillary could run circles around many of us and not even be thinking hard. Has Sandy Rios looked into the fifty odd attacks on the Bush watch. Investigate the lies about the WMD's never found in Iraq. This site describes itself as Christian values site, please don't force their Christian crap on me, my Jesus did not push hate.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)general term.
I once had a "mass" many years ago. I was told it could be a tumor or could be blood. Turned out to be blood.
I saw the National Enquirer headline in a grocery store and immediately thought of my "mass." Of course, my experience was over 30 years ago. Surely the nature of a mass is more quickly identified now.
But when I saw the headline, I wondered whether National Enquirer had somehow seen or received a report on Hillary Clinton's medical documents, maybe in the hospital, maybe online some how. Were they hacking? Were they eavesdropping on phone conversations? Did they pay a hospital orderly?
Or were they just guessing? And might they be right? Maybe Hillary Clinton is not well. What do we know.
In any event, I wonder whether National Enquirer violated any laws to get the information they claimed to have.
Is this a Rupert Murdoch scandal? We all have a right to privacy in our medical records. Check out HIPAA.
The HIPAA Privacy Rule provides federal protections for personal health information held by covered entities and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information. At the same time, the Privacy Rule is balanced so that it permits the disclosure of personal health information needed for patient care and other important purposes.
The Security Rule specifies a series of administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for covered entities to use to assure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information.
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/index.html