12 September 2016

A song for Hillary: Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu

Johnny Rivers, best known for Memphis and Mountain of Love (2013 performance), does the honors in 1973. Like Hillary Clinton, who’s five years younger, he’s still alive, still performing, still drawing standing room only crowds.

Clinton’s problem is not pneumonia — she’ll recover, and she’s playing it smart by not jetting off to California to raise money — but her, and her campaign’s, penchant for secrecy, and for blithely maintaining nothing’s amiss when clearly something is (she had a hell of a cough, but waved off legitimate questions with “Oh, it’s nothing, just allergies”). What she should do now is issue detailed health updates twice a day, giving the press more than it wants, proving she has nothing to hide.