Does Tweety have a severe respiratory illness?

[PCIntern]

He's been coughing and hacking for WEEKS now...it's a dry, non-productive cough which he generally exhibits when the camera is focused on the guest. When he is shown again, he is often recovering from his paroxysm of coughing.

You can hear it when the other person's talking.

I'm gonna go Frist on him, since he liked him so much and say that he has an "Anxious cough" since he's in some professional trouble: contract running out, ratings dropping compared with KO and Rachel, diabetes complications, wife running around on him...wait...that last one may not be true. Oops. Sorry.

Isn't that how the Republicans do it?