Barack Obama Medical Records:
The Unreleased Medical Records and
The Mainstream Media Double Standard
“No presidential candidate should get to the point that he has locked up his party’s nomination without public vetting of his health.”
–New York Times, on John McCain in May 4 2008 “Missing Records”
Many were the words written about John McCain and his medical records. That he delayed in releasing them, that his health records were crucial to the public’s right to know.
After McCain released nearly 1200 pages of medical records–the Arizona Senator not only had war-related injuries, but also bouts with skin cancer–the Mainstream Media complained that reporters were not given enough time to go through McCain’s records: they were given three hours to look through them.
Three hours is far less time than it would take those same reporters to go through Barack Obama’s medical records that have been released.
Because there are none.
The Obama campaign has stated that no medical records will be released. Instead, a one-page undated letter from a doctor will have to satisfy reporters on that issue.
The Mainstream Media’s curiosity has been satisfied: there have been no calls for Barack Obama to release medical records.
The New York Times on Barack Obama in May:
The letter is the first publicly released information about Mr. Obama’s medical history or current condition. The six-paragraph, one-page statement summarized the senator’s health for the last 21 years and was signed by Dr. David L. Scheiner, who said he has been Mr. Obama’s primary care physician since March 23, 1987. The undated letter was released less than a week after Senator John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee, released his medical records.
A spokesman for Mr. Obama said his campaign would not make Dr. Scheiner available for a telephone interview.”
–New York Times, May 8 2008, “Obama’s Doctor, Praising His Health, Sees No Obstacles to Service”
Legion were the stories written assuring readers that “Barack Obama is in excellent health”. That’s great, then why not release the records?
Other presidential candidates have assured the MSM that they were in “excellent health”, too.
It depends where your starting point is. I would say, yes, if you’re looking at the history of say, presidential candidates or candidates for high office. In the past, White House physicians have been known to lie; candidates for president or nominees have been known to evade the truth, distort the facts, or lie. You’ve got Woodrow Wilson with a stroke and his wife allegedly running the affairs of the country; you’ve got Franklin Roosevelt who may or may not have been told how deathly ill he was in his last term, and certainly nothing was told to the country about it; you’ve got Kennedy every which way not acknowledging that he had Addison’s disease; you had [Thomas] Eagleton who had to leave the [Democratic] ticket in ‘72 because he didn’t tell [George] McGovern about his past history of electric-shock therapy and depression; and there was [Paul] Tsongas in the mid-1990s and the fact that he had a recurrence after they had maintained that he was cured of cancer.
–Lawrence Altman, Covering Candidates’ Medical Records
Barack Obama stands alone in the last three elections as the only candidate to not release medical records to the public.
What other candidates released their records in the last three elections? What possibly might be in the unreleased medical records?
Continue reading: Obama Medical Records: MSM’s Don’t Ask, Obama’s Don’t Tell Policy
by Mondoreb
Source: Obama Medical Records: MSM’s Don’t Ask, Obama’s Don’t Tell Policy
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5 users commented in " Obama Medical Records: Obama Refuses Release, Media Refuses to Ask Why "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI don’t get it, why doesn’t the “media” seem to care about Obama’s medican records? Why don’t they make a fuss over this like McCain’s? Why is Barack allowed get by with this? What is wrong that the American public will not demand it? Am I missing something?
Imagine John McCain getting away with
1. Not releasing a valid birth certificate;
2. Not releasing university transcripts;
3. Not releasing university theses;
4. Not releasing medical records.
Our objective and impartial media would be enraged.
But since the above applies to a Democrat, that same media is suddenly not interested.
Have you tried to find McCain’s medical records? I invite you to try now. No luck? How about his High school and Academy transcripts… I’ll wait. No luck there either?
You have been used. You ignorance about Privacy Laws have been manipulated. How did they know you wouldn’t even try and test what was said, by “Looking up McCain’s records first?”
They could count on your biases blinding you. Wake Up!
http://www.rbs2.com/privacy.htm
when the goverment take your house and make you move into a house of 1 bedroom 1 bath from your 4 or 5 bedrooms and 4 or 5 baths because your are just 2 people—when they go into your bank account and take out money—when your saving are all taken away to share with people who were lazy—when you are no longer able to put money into the system(s.s and taxes) you will be cut loose and allowed just to fade out of being any good. —good luck—think it can’t happen—ask people from Poland, germany, the Jews……You only learn be asking…Wake up, don’t just lay down and d
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There is a reason why he has not released any of these records. It’s because his whole life is a lie. And now, almost 2 years on, we are living the Obama Alinsky nightmare. He needs to be impeached now. 2012 is too far off.
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