Liberals surrounding Hillary are getting desperate as she is seemingly dropping like a rock in the first "post-'pneumonia'" polls. As we pointed out earlier this morning, the most recent polling numbers show that Trump has opened up a 5 point lead in both Ohio and national polls after Hillary's "medical episode" this weekend. (see "Trump Soars In Latest Polls: Sees 5 Point Lead In Ohio And Latest LA Times National Poll").

With every weapon in the liberal arsenal being utilized at its full capacity to slow the rise of Trump, the Hillary campaign is finding that traditional attacks, like painting Republicans as a bunch of "racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic" hillbillies, or "basket of deplorables" if you prefer, are not working this election cycle. But rather than look internally for what may be causing voters to reject Hillary, the campaign has instead decided to lash out at the media which they claim is not performing well against its explicitly stated goals of destroying any and all republican candidates at any cost.

But one network, MSNBC, has remained loyal to Clinton throughout while pointing out that the rest of the "political news media lost its mind.” Per The Hill, apparently Lawrence O'Donnell of MSNBC thinks health is "low on the list of voter concerns."

“This is the day historians will see as the most important day of 2016 because it’s the day the political news media lost its mind,” liberal MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell said Monday night, a day after a wobbly Clinton was filmed receiving help to get into her van. He then launched into a 16-minute-long diatribe about how a candidate’s health is low on the list of voter concerns.

While we appreciate the enthusiasm from O'Donnell, empirical evidence, to which we tend to lend "slightly" more credence than the opinion of political commentators, from recent polls seem to suggest he's wrong in his assessment of voter concerns.

Meanwhile the Clinton camp is also calling out the "fanatical attitude" of the press in their coverage of Hillary's "medical episode" on Sunday...something they say "most politicians" would "get a pass on."

“There's a near fanatical attitude amongst the press over anything having to do with Hillary Clinton that most politicians get a pass on,” one Clinton ally told The Hill.



“Some of this is because their bosses are desperate to create a 50-50 race because that drives more clicks, and some are terrified of right-wing accusations of bias. This is where false equivalency comes from and it's helping to keep Trump in the race.”

Just so we're clear, Hillary staffers are suggesting that Donald Trump would get a pass if he were recorded collapsing in public while being dragged nearly unconscious into a van? Respectfully, we're not sure that's an entirely accurate assessment.

Still others have attempted to paint the "unfair" coverage of Hillary's health issue as a reflection of the undercurrent of rampant sexism plaguing America.

And some see sexism in how Clinton’s health has been covered, arguing that Trump is older, eats a lot of junk food, and has only released an over-the-top note praising his perfect health from a doctor of questionable standing.



“Can’t a girl have a sick day or two?,” reporter Christiane Amanpour lamented Monday on CNN. “Don’t get me started, because when it comes to overqualified women having to try 100 times harder than under-qualified men to get a break, well we know that story.”

“I hope you drill into [Trump’s health disclosures] with the same detail as you’re drilling in with ours,” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Monday under tough questioning from MSNBC anchor Kate Snow about Clinton’s health.

Yes, we're sure that the disproportionate coverage of Hillary's "medical episode" has everything to do with the media's desire to protect Trump's love of "eating a lot of junk food" and nothing to do with the fact that he has never been dragged unconscious into a getaway van at a public event.

But if the media is engaging in a coordinated effort to avoid discussing Trump's health then someone should spread the word to CNN ASAP:

Finally, we would note that while the Clinton campaign struggles to point out a pro-Trump bias in the media (as laughable as that may be) the only factual evidence we have of a political party attempting to "collude" with the media comes from the DNC's own emails. A fact which we previously pointed out in a post entitled "Leaked DNC Emails Confirm Democrats Rigged Primary, Reveal Extensive Media Collusion."