Dr. Drew, Ben Shapiro Discuss How Legacy Media Censored Questions About Dems’ Health

Drew Pinsky, commonly known as Dr. Drew, spoke with Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro on the latest episode of the “Sunday Special” and discussed the media’s silence on the health questions surrounding President Joe Biden and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. 

Dr. Drew, who was heard on the radio and seen on network television for decades, revealed to Shapiro how the higher-ups at HLN and CNN started to censor him beginning in 2016. 

“What lines did you cross at CNN and HLN that made you persona non grata over there?” Shapiro asked. 

The doctor said that he was a regular guest on Don Lemon’s CNN show during the 2016 presidential election and was frequently asked about Donald Trump’s state of mind. 

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He told Shapiro that CNN also asked him to give his analysis of then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s health. Dr. Drew said there were multiple things in Clinton’s public medical records that concerned him and he addressed them in a 30-second clip.

“I had lots of questions about what her doctors were doing,” he said. “So I did 30 seconds on why I thought there were concerns about her medical care, not that she was unfit for office, not that there was anything wrong with her physically or mentally, just that these medical records made me very concerned.” 

Dr. Drew said his analysis of Clinton’s health questions was picked up by news outlets and aggregators, including Drudge Report, the next day. After his comments on Clinton’s health, Dr. Drew said “the highest echelons at CNN” started telling him to “Shut up.”

He added that following his comments on Clinton’s health, he “was never allowed to speak again on that network.” 

Shapiro chimed in saying that in 2008, when Republican John McCain was running for president at 72 years old, it was perfectly fine for people to raise questions about his health. But in 2016 and 2020, speculating about Clinton after she appeared to collapse getting into a van and about Biden as he struggled to speak, “was considered completely out of bounds.” 

“You were not allowed to talk about [Biden’s] age … and then for three long years, we were told that you’re not allowed to ask anything about what’s going on with him,” Shapiro added. 

Dr. Drew said that medical students train by watching videos of people who show signs of Parkinson’s “like Joe Biden,” adding that it’s not a diagnosis of Parkinson’s, but rather “describing what we’re seeing.” 

“We’re seeing Parkinsonism,” he said.