Salon.com > Wingnut trifecta http://www.salon.com Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:10:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The wingnut trifecta http://www.salon.com/2013/01/03/the_wingnut_trifecta/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/03/the_wingnut_trifecta/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:08:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13160348 Right-wing claims that Hillary Clinton faked illness to avoid testifying about the Benghazi tragedy would be funny if they weren't so ugly. It's the wingnut trifecta, smearing our most popular past Democratic president, Bill Clinton, along with our current president, Barack Obama, and the current 2016 front-runner, all with one shot. Imagine birtherism crossed with the worst of the hateful anti-Clinton lies, like the "Vince Foster was murdered" claim. That's Hillary-health trutherism.

But so far right-wingers claiming that Clinton somehow faked her concussion have gone virtually unchallenged on Fox News and right-wing sites like Newsbusters and the Daily Caller. Everyone from Charles Krauthammer to Sean Hannity to Laura Ingraham and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton have gotten into the act. Even after reports that Clinton also suffered a dangerous blood clot between her brain and skull, Bolton not only failed to apologize, he suggested that she was dodging Benghazi questions in order to protect her 2016 chances.

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