Reply #18: I just had an Al Gore flashback

[Rosemary2205]

Somewhere along the line he had a woman stand up in the audience and told us all the poor old woman had to live in her motor home and spent her days picking up cans in order to pay for her medicines. She likely had talked to a staffer at the venue, the story was compelling and in the heat of the campaign they went with it. Human nature wires us to want to believe heartbreak stories. Likely no one even thought of vetting the woman's story before they decided to have her stand up and use her example. Later we found out that woman was a UAW retiree with a great pension, cadillac pharmacy bennies, and the RV was quite expensive and luxurious and was for travelling not her primary residence.

Hillary lies, A LOT, but my guess is that this is just one of those cases where the campaign thought they were using something real (a cop told them about this afterall) and got bit. And quite frankly, if they thought the story was true (a cop told them about this afterall) then "exploit for political gain" isn't the case - illustrating a broken healthcare system would be the case.