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Getting the dial tone. Dr. Drew On Call is ending after five seasons on HLN, the network announced Thursday, August 25, with the news coming not long after hostDr. Drew Pinsky's controversial comments about Hillary Clinton's health.

Dr. Drew On Call is a current-affairs series that launched in April 2011 and is hosted by the board-certified physician and reality TV mainstay. Its final episode will air Thursday, September 22.

In a statement, CNN exec Ken Jautz said that he and Pinsky "have mutually agreed" to end the series. "Dr. Drew and his team have delivered more than five years of creative shows, and I want to thank them for their hard work and distinctive programming," Jautz said. "Their audience-driven shows, in particular, were innovative and memorable TV."

The decision follows Pinsky's comments made on the McIntyre in the Morning radio show's August 17 episode about the Democratic presidential candidate, who suffered a concussion in 2012 after hitting her head following a bout with a stomach virus. Donald Trump and some conservative pundits have claimed recently that the former Secretary of State and Senator is in poor health.

"Based on the information that she has provided and her doctors have provided, we were gravely concerned not just about her health, but her health care," Pinsky, 57, said. "She's receiving sort of 1950s-level care, by our evaluation."

"When she hit her head [in 2012], she had to wear these prism glasses when she came out," the former Loveline host continued. "That is brain damage, and it's affecting her balance. Now clearly, it hasn't affected her cognition, but tell us a little more about that. That's profound."

Pinksy continues to host a podcast and makes frequent appearances on MTV's Teen Mom franchise.

This is a time of transition for HLN, as Nancy Grace who has been with the network for more than a decade is leaving in October when her contract expires.

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Hillary Clinton? A bigot? That makes no sense. It's absurd. Hillary Clinton has spent much of her career working to improve race relations. She is the furthest thing imaginable from a bigot. So what in the world is Trump doing here?

Trump is employing the technique of the reverse attack. When he is faced with a legitimate criticism of himself, he attempts to deflect away the criticism by attacking Clinton for the exact same shortcoming that plagues Trump, regardless of whether it actually applies to Clinton.

Trump faced serious and legitimate criticism for his own appalling racism, so he responded by making the false accusation that Clinton is racist.

Trump also pulled the reverse attack on the issue of being mentally unfit to be president. Questions about temperament are a legitimate criticism of Trump due to all his outrageous behavior and statements.

Trump has accused Clinton of being a "bully" when obviously it is Trump who is the bully. The examples go on and on. So does it work? Is the reverse attack effective?

Well, it certainly is not the best way to overcome a criticism. An ideal response would be to clearly show that the criticism is inaccurate, say, by listing specific qualifications to be president. But when there are no good responses to a criticism, the reverse attack comes into play.

The objective is to create confusion. The bigger the mess, the better. This way, the focus of attention shifts away from the devastating criticism because everyone becomes caught up in the food-fight. This is Trump's playbook. He is the circus ringmaster who creates all sorts of spectacles to divert attention away from his own disqualifying inadequacies.

While the reverse attack is devious indeed, it ultimately falls short. Once the technique is understood, the reverse attack is easy to identify and the truth becomes clear. After all, the reverse attack is rooted in lies because the target of the attack simply does not possess the same flaws that plague the attacker. It is a flat-out lie to say that Clinton is a bigot.

Trump's attacks create a spectacle but after a while all the fighting becomes tedious and we recognize its futility. After we sober up, we see very clearly that Trump is not offering any solutions whatsoever. He has no policies. He has no good ideas. He has no strategy.

Shockingly, Trump's circus act has carried him to the top of the Republican ticket for president. The polls indicate that Trump is running behind Clinton but within striking distance, so from this perspective, Trump's underhanded reverse attacks may work. The question is whether the voters will begin to see through Trump's circus act before it is too late.

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WASHINGTON Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump each raced to their strongest fundraising month of the campaign in July, but Clinton and her allies continue to outmuscle her GOP rival in the air and ground war for the presidency, according to new details of the candidates spending.

Clinton pulled in more than $52 million directly into her campaign last month and spent more than $38 million, according to her campaigns filings Saturday with federal election regulators.

Trump raised nearly $36.7 million for his campaign and spent at a far slower pace than Clinton, reporting nearly $18.5 million in expenses in July as Clinton and her allies savaged him on the airwaves.

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Hillary Clinton's super PAC raised $9.3 million in July

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Trump, who has shunned much of the traditions of presidential campaigns, grew his staff modestly last month, employing 82 people, a USA TODAY review shows. Clinton, by contrast, employed 703 aides in July as she readied for her confrontation with Trump in key battlegrounds such as Ohio and Florida.

New campaign reports filed Saturday with the Federal Election Commission show Clinton with another advantage: Super-wealthy Democrats are giving early and often to boost the former secretary of States presidential bid and to aid Democrats hoping to seize seats in Congress. Billionaires, such as California environmentalist Tom Steyer and financier George Soros, plowed millions into Democratic-aligned super PACs last month.

Steyer alone pumped $7 million of his hedge-fund fortune into his super PAC, NextGen Climate Action, which plans an aggressive campaign to turn out voters to help Clinton and others in the party.

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Two deep-pocketed Democrats, Slim-Fast founder Daniel Abraham and financier Donald Sussman, contributed $3 million each last month to Priorities USA Action, a super PAC aiding Clinton. In all, Sussman has doled out $11 million to Priorities so far in this election. A super PACcan raise unlimited amounts.

Trump, a real-estate magnate who self-funded his bid for the GOP nomination, has relied less on the super-wealthy for financial support, drawing a large share of his donations from the supporters who flock to his rallies, follow him on Twitter and answer his email solicitations.

His filings show that Trump pulled in $12.7 million last month from people who donated in amounts of $200 or less. That accounts for nearly 65% of his individual contributions.

Clinton, however, is making inroads among small donors who can be tapped repeatedly for contributions before they hit the $2,700 limit on general-election contributions.Last month, she took in about $11.4 million in small contributions, up from $5.88 million in June.Those small donations made up about 36% of her contributions from individuals last month, up from nearly 25% a month earlier, the filings show.

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Trumps reliance on small donors comes as few of the GOPs wealthiest givers have invested in his presidential ambitions.

Two of the super PACsaiding his bid Great America PAC and Make America Number 1 together raised nearly $4.5 million in July. A single contributor, New York hedge-fund manager Robert Mercer, accounted for $2 million of that total.

Another super PAC that has begun to spend heavily to promote Trumps candidacy, Rebuilding America Now, and has ties to a longtime Trump friend, California businessman Tom Barrack, wont file a report on its fundraising until later this year.

In all, Clintons campaign team boasts that it collected $90 million last month for Hillary for America and its two joint fundraising operations with the Democratic National Committee.

Her campaign alone started August with nearly $58.5 million in available cash.

Trumps aides have said the campaign collected $80 million directly and through joint-fundraising arrangements with the Republican National Committee, after lagging behind Clinton during the first two months of the general-election campaign.

His reports, released late Saturday night, showhis campaign starting August with $38.4 million in available cash, far less money than Clinton had stockpiled. However, Trump can boost that number easily by dipping into his personal fortune.

Trump added another $2 million of his own money to the campaignlast month, bringing his total contributions to nearly $45 million, FEC records show.

His campaign continued to pay money to Trump'scompaniesfor expenses, such as rent and travel. More than $782,000 went to various Trump enterprises, including his airline,Tag Air.

Trumps single largest expense in July: $8.4 million paid toSan Antonio companyGiles-Parscale for digital consulting and online advertising.Payments to the firm accounted for more than 45% of Trumps expenses last month. The firm has longstanding ties to the Trump Organization. Its websitelists several other Trump-related enterprises in its clientportfolio, including Trump Winery, Trump International Realty, the Eric Trump Foundation andMelaniaTrumps cosmetics and fashion-jewelry business.

The firm's president Brad Parscale became the Trump campaign'sdigital directorin June.

The filing also shows Trump making a $20,000 payment to Green Monster Consulting, the firm run by his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, weeks after Lewandowski left the campaign.

With Team Trump improving its financial picture in July, Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine,are intensifying their fundraising pace, barnstorming the country in the weeks ahead to collect cash from wealthy Democrats and celebrities.

On Tuesday, for instance, Hollywood power couple, singer Justin Timberlake and actress Jessica Biel, are slated to host a Clinton fundraising lunch.

Trump, who has shunned creating a traditional campaign structure, is relying heavily on the Republican National Committee to help organize his high-dollar fundraising events and to build a field operation to identify and turn out voters.

The RNC has deployedhundreds of workers to battleground states. Saturdays campaign filings show the RNC with 251 people on its payroll in July.National party officials say they now have 504 staffers in the field, with the highest numbers working in Pennsylvania and Florida, where Trump needs to gain ground on Clinton.

On Friday, Trump launched his first commercials of the general-election campaign, spending $4.8 million to run ads into those two states, along with Ohio and North Carolina.

Clinton and her allies, however, have dominated the airwaves since June, pumping more than $100 million into TV ads that promote Clinton and blister Trump as unfit to serve in the White House and out of touch with working Americans.

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Top doctor and Rutgers University Professor of Medicine Bob Lahita says that concerns over Hillary Clintons health are not a conspiracy theory and that Clinton should be assessed by an impartial panel of physicians.

Lahita told Fox Business that he agreed with Dr. Drew on several points about Hillarys health. Last week, Drew told KABC that he is gravely concerned about Hillary Clintons health, noting that the treatment she has received is bizarre.

This is a very unusual story with Hillary, said Lahita, making reference to her suffering two blood clots, a stroke and post-concussive syndrome, which caused Hillary to have to wear special prism glasses to counter her double vision.

The very fact that shes having these clots and shes had two bouts of thrombosis is disconcerting to say the least, said Lahita.

Asked whether the concerns over Hillarys health were objectively authentic regardless of politics or whether the leftist media were right to label the issue a conspiracy theory, Lahita responded, I dont think its a conspiracy.

You go back to the history of our presidents and weve had many presidents up until Lyndon Johnson whove concealed their health during their campaigns and it had dire effects for our country, going from Kennedy to Roosevelt, to Woodrow Wilson whose wife ran the White House for some time so we have issues here and I think both candidates should be very forthcoming and perhaps have an impartial panel of physicians review the data and make that kind of decision before Americans go to the polls, remarked Lahita.

Dr. Lahita also dismissed claims by the media that a summary released last year by Hillarys personal physician Dr. Lisa R. Bardack saying she was in good health was enough to satisfy questions over Clintons fitness to serve as president.

Calling for a more recent assessment, Lahita said, We should be able to see the laboratory results ourselves, the letter is kind of a summary (it) doesnt go into much detail, adding that more information on Hillarys hypothyroidism would also be quite interesting.

We owe it to the country, we owe it to the voters, not only for the presidential candidates, but also for the vice-presidential candidates particularly in this election, concluded Lahita.

According to his bio, Doctor Lahita is Professor of Medicine at Rutgers University, the medical school of New Jersey, and an adjunct Professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Chairman of Medicine and Vice President of the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a master of the American College of Rheumatology, and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Lahita has also authored more than 16 books and 150 scientific publications in the field of autoimmunity. He doesnt really fit the picture of an Internet conspiracy theorist, which is how the Clinton campaign is attempting to characterize anyone who questions her health.

In a related story, a New York Times columnist even called on Google to censor searches pertaining to Hillarys health in order to silence conspiracy theorists.

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If you search for Hillary Clinton and health on Google, youre likely to come up with some pretty terrifying stuff and much of it is false.Photos of the 68-year-old Democratic presidential nominee apparently soweak that she has to behelped up a short flight ofstairs by aides. Speculation that thehead injury she suffered in 2012is still affecting her.Documents purportedly summarizingvisits to a medical provider for an unspecified illness.

Regardless of whether you think its fair, Clintonshealth is becoming an issue in the campaign, and its almost impossible for the average personto sort through themisinformation and fake information online to get to the facts.

For the record, Clinton hasreleased a letter from herpersonal physicians attesting to hergood health and fitness toserve as president of the United States, should she be elected.(Clintons Republican rival, DonaldTrump, who appears to be healthy, has done the same, althoughthe letter is highly unusual.)

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Also for the record,the photos of her being helped up the stairs arent recent but from months ago; her doctor has specifically addressed the issue of lingering effects of the old accident on her brain (there are none); and those papers which appeared, then disappeared were apparentlyforgeries.

That hasnt stopped some critics of Clinton from seizing on the rumors to portray her as being in poorhealth.Rudy Giuliani urged people toGo online and put down, Hillary Clinton illness, and take a look at the videos yourself. Fox Newshost Sean Hannity has described Clinton shaking her head as almost seems seizure-esque to me. And who can forget Trump's allegations that she took a short-circuit in the brain?

For more specifics, check out The Washington Posts Fact Checker, where reporterGlen Kesslerhas posted a detailed analysis of what has been said about her health and how those comments hold up.

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From the days ofWoodrow Wilson (whose failinghealth was concealed by his inner circle of advisers) and Franklin Roosevelt (who despitehis weight loss and weakness ranfor his fourth and final term),thehealth of presidential candidates and presidents has long been a source of public interest and debate.In 1999, when John McCain first ran for the highest office, he made public1,500 pages of medical and psychiatric records. Then in 2008, after he had been diagnosed and treated for cancer, McCain allowed reporters to review even more records toconfirm that he was cancer-free. During the2004 campaign, George W. Bush released records that showed, among other things, extensive dental work.

As with every other presidential candidate in the past including the youthful Barack Obama questionsabout Clintons health are legitimate. In December 2012, shecontracted a stomach virus while in Europe as secretary of state, became dehydrated, fainted at her home and suffereda concussion. Doctors monitoring her found a blood clot, and she was treated withanti-coagulants and soon returned to her regular routine representing the country.

Since then, her health and age have periodically been an issue. In 2014, when her name began to be mentioned more frequently as a presidential contender, theNew York Post ran this headline Karl Rove: Hillary may have brain damage. Rove told The Washington Postthathe had not gone that far but only said that she should provide more information about the head injury.

Of course she doesnt have brain damage, Rove said, according to my colleagueKaren Tumulty. However, he said, it was a serious health episode andshe is going to have to be forthcoming.

But in todaysera of social media, sometimes the most important (that is, true) information doesnt always riseto the top.

That leads us totodays news and the fact that Farhad Manjoo, the influential New York Times tech columnist, has called on Google to figure out a way to solve this issue of bogus information.

Google should fix this. It shouldnt give quarter to conspiracy theorists, hetweeted.

The search enginedid recently revampits medical symptoms searches.But Googletypically doesnt like to fiddle around with search results, and the controversy is another reminder that health informationcan be among the most tricky things to research online.

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