This low: he accused the secretary of state of lying about her concussion, saying that she had the equivalent of "acute Benghazi allergy". He wasn't the only one. I'm used to the true crazies casting wild accusations about Hillary Clinton – but this is a test case of how deep the rot has gotten. Krauthammer has a first class mind, but being on Fox News too long can bring you to Instapundit level. Sorry, actually Instapundit is one rung lower in wingnut hell. Even now, even after Clinton is revealed to have a blood clot, Glenn Reynolds retweets the following:
The "chick" remark is particularly special. Then he links to Althouse:
BENGHAZI: What’s Happening to Hillary? Only a clod would say the clot is a plot! “The suppression of information — the site of the clot — suggests 2 radically different theories: 1. fakery/exaggeration to evade testimony, or 2. something horribly serious. I read Sepkowitz to exclude the middle ground.”
Here is Althouse's full wingnut position:
With all that assurance that Hillary Clinton would testify, later that day, we heard the news that Hillary Clinton had entered the hospital with a blood clot. We weren't told the site of said blood clot. Was it her brain (recently concussed)? Was it her leg (where she had a blood clot back in 1998)? The former is a big deal, the latter, not so much. Why not specify the site, since it make such a big difference, medically? Oh, but we're told we must not display any skepticism, any hint of suspicion that the SOS is trying to avoid having to testify about Benghazi. The woman is ill. Only a clod would say a clot was a plot.
Look: skepticism is fine. By all means get a medical record (I'm still waiting for Palin's after all). Public officials have to cope with that level of scrutiny. But when someone is admitted to hospital with a blood clot, the idea that she didn't have a concussion at all seems perverse – especially when the Benghazi fuck-up has been investigated and already shown to be a failure of State Department foresight, not some strange, weird plot, devised by Fox News, desperate to find some last minute strategy to derail Obama's re-election.
But this is what conservatism now is: total denial of reality in favor of an entirely new Fox-driven universe. Well, it gets ratings.
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