Hillary, amidst a packed day on Friday, sat down with CNN's Chris Cuomo for an interview that played throughout the day of 9/11 on CNN. Great! It was a touching and sincere interview. She was impressive.
Now that Hillary's diagnosis of pneumonia has been made public, these are the images CNN chooses to accompany the "story" of her interview and her appearance at the 9/11 ceremonies at the World Trade Center yesterday.
So I need to ask WTH???? (Fifth-graders - the H stands for "heck." Grandma S4H says that is an OK word.) Why not these pictures before she had a fainting incident yesterday and why now?
She was a Senator from New York serving her constituents when these photos were taken. OH! And where is Donald Trump in the September 12, 2001 pics? Nowhere!
But now that this diagnosis is out there all over the interwebs, let's make these photos available so we can make it look like Hillary got sick long ago while serving as a Senator. There is implication in the choice to use these photos now.
Shame on you, John Berman an Christine Romans. Juxtaposing these pictures with the pneumonia story creates a false narrative.
As an educator, I am well aware of Gardner's multiple intelligences. It is a theory, but I will concede that for some, perhaps for many, a visual image creates more impact than the spoken or written word.
That being the case, why would a news organization pair photos of a candidate looking distressed and wearing a mask with a story about her having been found to be battling a respiratory infection?
Oh wait! I know! I get it! You want to attach a deeper meaning!
Somehow, going to Ground Zero (on more than one occasion) is now connected, visually, to the diagnosis which appeared, coincidentally, on 9/11.
Serving her constituents made her too sick to serve. I get it. So please stop!
She developed a case of pneumonia that is being treated. She has a minor incident of feeling faint. It can happen to the strongest among us.
Hillary went many hours more than General Petraeus when she testified last year before the Benghazi committee without fainting.General Petraeus fainting at a hearing on Afg. Hillary, our next President, is a warhorse. #Hillary'sHealth pic.twitter.com/mreuYC5jyO— Molly (@Plantflowes) September 11, 2016
Stop trying to make Hillary Clinton look sicker and weaker than she is. Media malpractice. Very disappointing. While we're at it, lose the snide, John Berman. It comes off like a know-it-all ninth-grader at a debate contest. Unbecoming.
Hillary has seasonal allergies. See this from last year when there were 17 Republicans and she blamed her cough on Republican histamines. Many have allergies. Nothing exclusionary about that.
I agree with this >>>>. Recently a friend asked if I could believe that she gets coughing fits in church. Well, yes. I can. When did a cough ever keep me out of church, school, eventually out of work? Never! That is how you keep your grades and your job. You go in sick. A cough got me my only A- in a doctoral program. The halls at Columbia might as well have been the Alps for the echoes generated. It was not the actual cough that did it. It was the fatigue. My inability to clear that highest bar that particular "bronchitis semester." My research was sub-par - my par. I did work full-time and teach part-time throughout. Never missed a day. Could not afford to. I kept my jobs. Coughs happen. So do bronchitis and pneumonia.
Hillary did, wisely, cancel a trip west. We can help her make up for the fundraisers by kicking in a few extra contributions. Let's do this!
Get well, Hillary! We love you and need you. We have the wheel for now!
