August 21, 2016

What do you do when you can't win based on policy, intelligence, skill, record, temperament or talent? You try to take down your opposing candidate by creating false conspiracy theories about them. Case in point, Trump's latest attempt to insinuate that Hillary Clinton has some sort of mysterious health condition that renders her unable to be President.

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been earning double pay this week by making the rounds and continuing to push this stupid story and today's explanation on Fox News was excellent.

RUDY GIULIANI: She doesn't need to campaign. She has The New York Times, she has the [New York] Daily News, she has ABC, she has CBS, she has NBC. She has an entire media empire that constantly demonizes Donald Trump and fails to point out that she hasn't had a press conference in 300 days, 200 days, 100 days, I don't know how long. Fails to point out several signs of illness by her. All you got to do is go online. All you have to do --

SHANNON BREAM (HOST): Which her campaign and a number of people defending her saying there's nothing factual to the claims about her health, and that that's speculation at best.

GIULIANI: Go online and put down 'Hillary Clinton illness' and take a look at the videos for yourself.

Yes, because everything on the internet is 100% true. For example, if I type in "Rudy Giuliani" the first hit I get is: "Rudy Giuliani forgot 9/11 while stumping for Trump." Next is: "STASI: Rudy Giuliani’s 9/11 blunder shows he’s lost his mind"

And if I just type in "Donald Trump IS" in the google search bar, it populates with the following suggestions: "Donald Trump is: a rotten sweet potato" or "Donald Trump is no Ronald Reagan"

The internet also has thousands of pages with *proof* that Elvis Presley is alive, Aliens are real and talking dog videos.

If it's on the internet, it is definitely real.

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