It began with NBC News Reporter Dasha Burns doing an in-person interview with Pennsylvania Senate Democrat candidate John Fetterman.
Fetterman suffered a stroke in May,
causing his health to become a major
issue in the Senate race.
Burns revealed that Fetterman has
"lingering auditory processing issues” due to his stroke." Hence a
monitor was set up before him so he could read a transcript of her questions.
She also revealed he has problems with his speech.
Burns also said that once the closed
captioning was on, Fetterman was able to answer all questions during her
25-minute interview.
This wasn’t a political hitjob but
factual reporting.
But since these inconvenient facts
could harm the electoral prospects of a Democrat, Burns received considerable
backlash from various Democrat proxies in the
mainstream media.
They branded Burns’ reporting ableist.
Attributing
bigotry, a favorite ploy of Democrats to silence those who state inconvenient
facts.
Fetterman’s wife Gisele also pushed
the ableist spin.
https://twitter.com/giselefetterman/status/1580033350173007874
She said Burns should face
"consequences" for her reporting.
The vagueness leaves many open
questions
Was she suggesting that Burns should
be sacked or reprimanded by NBC News?
Was she implicitly calling for violence
against Burns?
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1581002658516766721
Recently, Rolling Stone magazine
did a lengthy and very fawning
profile of Gisele Fetterman titled "John Fetterman Had
a Stroke. Gisele Fetterman Became a Political Star."
What did Gisele do to deserve such
fawning?
She is an activist and former illegal
immigrant from Brazil but above all is married to a Democrat.
Among the blandishments lavished on
Gisele, was that she became the de facto candidate after her
husband had a stroke four days before the primary contest.
The author of the piece, Kara Voght,
tweeted her article with a caption about Gisele being the de facto candidate
for her husband and a political star.
Voght probably expected unending
praise from the Democrat echo chamber. She had fawned over a former illegal
immigrant and a woman of color, the demographic groups that the Democrats claim
to adore.
Alas for her she had erred.
Lackeys often do that, in their urge to
gratify their masters they engaged in exceeding flattery causing unintended harm
to the object of their sycophancy.
Voght ended up tacitly conceding was
that John Fetterman seriously indisposed hence his wife was the face of the primary
campaign, implying that he still may be unfit.
This revelation was must undesired by
Democrats at this juncture of the tightly contested Senate race.
Before she suffered a backlash like
Dasha Burns, Voght dutifully deleted her tweet claiming she was ‘imprecise’
with her choice of words regarding Gisele’s role.
Vogut’s new tweet claimed that Gisele
was a “key surrogate for her husband”
https://twitter.com/karavoght/status/1581300534002130945
https://twitter.com/karavoght/status/1581301675695800320
The article continues to feature ‘de
facto candidate’ the very words Voght claimed were imprecise. But that could
change.
https://twitter.com/EdMorrissey/status/1581305688994631680
Voght received an
endorsement from the subject of her piece.
https://twitter.com/giselefetterman/status/1581305507003801600
It is almost like a client giving their PR agent a pat on her back.
Rolling Stone isn’t
the only new outlet that altered its messaging to suit Fetterman
The foremost Democrat
mouthpiece the New York Times carried a
piece by David M. Perry, a
disabled parent of a disabled child, in defense of Fetterman
However, the piece underwent a headline change, focusing on the media
furor rather than Fetterman's disability.
https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1580847934265909248
Perry mentions President
Franklin Roosevelt, Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, Senator Tammy Duckworth of
Illinois, and Representative Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina for their use
of wheelchairs
Perry claims that
Ronald Reagan may have been unable
to perform his duties as president owing to
Alzheimer’s, long before his second term expired.
Perry also focuses on
the mental health issues of politicians to show how attitudes toward mental
health issues have changed.
There is mention of
a cover
of Fact Magazine from 1964 that
read, “1,189 Psychiatrists Say Goldwater Is Psychologically Unfit to Be
President!” with one calling him a “dangerous lunatic.”
Perry cites Thomas
Eagleton being kicked
off the Democratic ticket as vice
president in 1972 when it was revealed that he had been hospitalized
for depression.
Perry also slams Dasha Burns for her ‘ableism’.
The piece attempts to
make the case that attitudes toward physical disabilities are evolving.
However, when it comes to invisible disabilities, and in particular ones that
involve communication or mental function, stigma is trickier to detect and
dispel.
To sum it up Perry is
claiming that Fetterman is disabled and must be allowed to function like any other
individual with disabilities.
Now for some facts.
John Fetterman is suffering the
aftereffects of a stroke.
In the case of persons with
disabilities, the impairments are specific and known.
However, Fetterman tried to conceal
his stroke. He is hesitant
to release his medical records. Hence voters are unaware of the extent of
his impairments and his prospects of recovery.
As Senator, he will have to read and
comprehend volumes of documents to decide his vote. Voters are unclear if he is
physically and mentally fit for the job.
Fetterman relentlessly
dodged debate requests from Dr. Oz. Which proves all is not well. Fetterman
finally agreed to debate Oz on October 25. Will Fetterman fulfills this
commitment? It is hard to say.
Fetterman had a double-digit lead over
Dr. Oz in the summer however that lead has melted into thin air.
RealClearPolitics polling
average has Fetterman leading Oz by only 3.4 percentage points, that
figure was 3.7 just a couple of days ago.
The momentum is with Oz, which
explains why Democrat proxies in the media are so focused on this race.
The Democrats are immensely fond of the
likes of Fetterman. He will be their ideal rubber-stamp elected official who
will push their far-left agenda literally without any thought. Since there are
no recall facilities he will be in the Senate for at least six years. He will
be what Biden is in the White House.
The focus on his health could be beneficial
to Fetterman.
It distracts from his personal and
political record perhaps even making him a sympathetic figure.
So here are details about his record.
The Philadelphia
Inquirer reported that well into his 40s, Fetterman’s main source
of income came from his parents. Fetterman’s only paying work was $150 a month
as mayor of Braddock. After his tenure ended in 2013, he moved to an
industrial-style loft he purchased from his sister for $1 after she paid
$70,000 for it six years earlier.”
Fetterman is also an advocate for
Black Lives Matter and defunding the police, despite his campaign website removing all
mentions.
Fetterman called for reversing
Pennsylvania’s law that mandates
life-without-parole sentences for second-degree murder. Fetterman
was the lone member of the Board of Prisons that voted
to free a man serving a life sentence for murder after pleading
guilty to killing an 18-year-old for drug money.
Fetterman is a proponent of open borders and Planned Parenthood that supports late-term
abortion.
In other words, he is just another far-left Democrat.
The fact that
he suffers from unknown impairments makes his situation worse.
It is time for
the GOP to invest more in this race.
Hopefully, voters will choose wisely
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