Barack Obama's "Fainting Fans" at Rallies Questioned

Last night, coming home from work, I heard Brian Sussman of KGO Radio (560 AM, San Francisco) relate a strange story. At six of Obama's recent political rallies, a woman in the front row faints and falls on the floor (or the ground). Barack halts his speech, asks the fainting person if they are all right, calls for help for the afflicted person, offers her a drink of water and stands by worriedly until medical help arrives. Obama announces, "she's okay" and the audience erupts in applause. Now these incidents have been collected in video and put on the internet. Watch them here.

Sussman felt that the fainting episodes were staged to make Obama look compassionate, concerned and heroic. He said the news media people at the event "roll their eyes" whenever it happens now and don't report it in their stories.

Sussman is onto something. It is funny how only women in the front row faint. If it is a rock-star phenomenon, where young ladies swoon in the presence of their hero, why is it always just one woman?

Take a look at the picture above, presumably taken at one of Obama's rallies. Does this look staged to you? I smell a rat.