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
