The latest discussion of Hillary Clinton’s occasional coughing took an ironic turn on Tuesday night when Newt Gingrich broke into a cough of his own during an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show.
Hannity and Gingrich were batting questions back and forth about the length of Clinton’s coughing fit at a campaign rally in Cleveland over the weekend, with the former House speaker concluding that “it’s a little disturbing.”
When the discussion turned to Donald Trump’s recent visit to Mexico moments later, Gingrich spluttered and choked up.
“Now you sound like Hillary!” Hannity said. “Can I get you a drink of water? By the way, yours didn’t last 4 minutes and 20 seconds―thank God!”
“No, I’m in good shape,” Gingrich said. “At least I’m in better shape than Hillary.”
“A three-second cough does not equate to a four-minute-and-20-second cough,” the conservative pundit and amateur pulmonologist explained.
Newt peddles the Hillary cough story and then — starts coughing via @AndrewKirell https://t.co/uk7v189u1D pic.twitter.com/ngKV8Yy32B
— Colin Jones (@colinjones) September 6, 2016
Both men acknowledged that their voices sometimes get worn out during periods of extensive travel and public appearances.
“I fly so much, my throat dries out,” Gingrich said.
“It does,” Hannity agreed. “You have to keep hydrated big-time.”
While Hannity has devoted significant airtime to questions about Clinton’s health, spending an entire week of his Fox News show on an “investigation” into what could be ailing the former secretary of state, Gingrich has avoided buying into what he called “junk medicine” discussed by “television doctors” until now.
“I would be very cautious and I would recommend to doctors for professional reasons to be very cautious before you start analyzing people,” Hannity said when asked about Clinton’s health during a mid-August interview on Fox.
h/t Daily Beast
I’d laugh, but this crap isn’t really funny anymore. The hypocrisy and double-standards have reached such high levels they are, once again, gaining consciousness. It’s my belief that it’s turning into a hive mind with incredible telepathic capabilities, capable of overpower and controlling anyone dumb enough to utter the words “Trump for President” 3 times in front of a mirror in a dark bathroom (or anywhere else for that matter)… Not that you need that anything even remotely close to “power” to take control over any idiot who utters those words. Heck, a half-dead mosquito could probably do it.
Ass-hole and Ass-whole.
“No, I’m in good shape,” Gingrich said. “At least I’m in better shape than Hillary.”
Well that made me cough, choke and splutter - on my first sips of coffee. What a joke. I’m three years older than Newt, and I’ll guaran-fucking-tee you I’m in better shape now than he is, or ever has been. And it wouldn’t surprise me if Hilary was too. So STFU!
Maybe if they each had a little 4:20 cough now and then they wouldn’t be such insufferable pricks all the time… Maybe.
No, you dirty asswhipe, that just proves there is no god!