{"id":16629,"date":"2016-08-21T00:30:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T00:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16629"},"modified":"2016-08-21T00:30:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T00:30:28","slug":"she-plays-a-doctor-on-tv-news-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16629","title":{"rendered":"She plays a doctor on TV news shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Katrina Pierson blamed an earpiece for an earlier gaffe.<\/p>\n

I don’t think she can rely on that dodge for this one.<\/p>\n

Pierson is a Texan who serves as a spokeswoman for the Donald J. Trump presidential campaign. She told a TV interviewer recently that the Afghan War began on President Obama’s watch.<\/p>\n

Oops! Uh, no, Ms. Pierson. It began on President Bush’s watch, right after 9\/11. She said she misunderstood the question and couldn’t hear it properly because of chatter on her electronic earpiece.<\/p>\n

OK, whatever you say.<\/p>\n

Now, though, she has diagnosed a medical condition in her hero’s Democratic opponent for the presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n

Pierson said Clinton suffers from dysphasia, a rare brain disorder.<\/p>\n

Double oops!<\/p>\n

You see, Pierson isn’t a doctor. She is a failed congressional candidate. She is a flack for the Republican presidential nominee. She now has tossed a lead weight on the innuendo being tossed around about Clinton’s physical health and taken it to a new depth.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/08\/18\/trump-spokeswoman-diagnoses-hillary-clinton-with-dysphasia-despite-not-being-doctor\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, though, Trump won’t disavow her “diagnosis.” He won’t take her to the proverbial woodshed. He will allow such nonsense to bounce around throughout social media.<\/p>\n

Sometimes politicians — and their spokespeople — tend to speak about matters of which they have no direct knowledge.<\/p>\n

Do you remember when Terry Schiavo, the comatose patient whose family sought permission to let her “die with dignity,” was in the news? A senator, Bill Frist, offered a medical diagnosis that sought to support his contention that Schiavo should be kept alive.<\/p>\n

Let’s understand that Frist, a Tennessee Republican who’s no longer in the Senate, is a noted transplant surgeon. However, he never examined Schiavo, so he was unable to offer anything close to a precise diagnosis of her medical condition.<\/p>\n

Now we have someone else — with even less knowledge of medical matters — going on the air and saying some truly thoughtless, careless and ridiculous things about a major-party candidate for the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n

I have a simple request of Katrina Pierson: Don’t talk about things about which you know nothing.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O4mB714-8K0<\/p>\n

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