A Rear Admiral...

...as our brilliant President's private doc. Wish I had one. While installing some electrical outlets at a neighbor's place, having no cable meself, I sometimes slum to indulge Fox REAL news. Just happened to see this military Physician's report on the President's annual physical and laboratory exams. A thing of beauty to behold! Not only because of the detail-as when students present such to a consultant teacher on a first victim during rounds. From hair to toenails/heels---and no orifice ignored, ma'am. Like one sees in the overly involved books on physical examination, almost too much pedantic compulsion, an*l at times, ouch. Only thing left out was a hearing test, which given what I've seen of how he sometimes strategically ignores some folks, leaves the question open. Same with the laboratory studies, again very thorough, focusing on pulmonary/cardiac and neurological health. Usually one says "for his age" here, but this guy is in better shape than most much younger men, especially since he is a fan of greasy sliders, and not of any exercise, unless it comes with a golf cart. Cardiac ejection fraction of almost 70%---give us a break. And at the Chief's request, not apparently ever done before, he was administered the Canadian 30 question analog to our old MSE, as a quick assessment of cognitive capacity, and scored a perfect 30. Now, not as valid as a full 8 hour neuropsychological battery, but hardly without meaning, and providing lot's to stump the reporters. But regarding the biases of the press, we are still hearing about his (alleged) unkind comments of a week ago. It's only the chirping of crickets on this wonderful newsworthy story, which presents our President in a remarkably positive light, except perhaps for the diet, exercise and blood lipid values---all not really big deals. Rarely a report no matter where one looks, but the R word fake news pieces continue. There's lying by commission, and now by omission. Who doubts for a minute that if the cognitive test had clocked a 15 out of 30, we'd be hearing about it for the next century, or at least until it was pushed aside by calls for enactment of the 25th amendment---or worse? They hate/fear him so much, it just about kills them to validly place REAL positive news anywhere. Pathetic. The broad electorate sees it all. A-V.