Posted on 05/17/2023 11:38:04 AM PDT by grimalkin
Sen. John Fetterman's (D-PA) team is calling out detractors who mocked the senator's health struggles while questioning witnesses at a hearing on Tuesday.
The junior Pennsylvania senator's team says they have been "clear and open" about his "auditory processing challenges" as Fetterman recovers from a stroke he suffered last year, adding that doctors "expect his abilities to improve."
“For many months, we have been clear and open about the fact that John still faces challenges with auditory processing challenges as a result of his stroke. His doctors expect his abilities to improve, but in the meantime, if pathetic losers want to make fun of someone who struggles with speech as the result of a stroke, that’s up to them,” Joe Calvello, communications director for Fetterman, told the Washington Examiner.
While questioning the former Silicon Valley Bank CEO and other bank executives, Fetterman struggled at times with his speech when asking whether they believe it is "a running joke" that the government will always bail out a bank when it fails.
Clips of the Pennsylvania Democrat questioning the former bank executives circulated online, and some people mocked Fetterman's speech patterns during the exchange.
Fetterman has been back working in the Senate for a month, after he checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in February for treatment for clinical depression. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning last month, Fetterman discussed his battle with depression.
"It’s like, you just won the biggest, you know, race in the country," Fetterman said. "And the whole thing about depression is that objectively you may have won, but depression can absolutely convince you that you actually lost. And that’s exactly what happened, and that was the start of a downward spiral."
Fetterman was elected in November 2022, only months after he suffered a nearly fatal stroke. The junior Pennsylvania senator uses special closed-captioning tools and professional transcribers in real time to assist him in his duties in the Senate.
The Senate is supposed to be a serious deliberative body.
I am not sure how someone processing gibberish in—and out—can be a serious part f any deliberation.
But if that is what PA needs and wants….have at it.
When does he get his honorary PHD?
It stopped being a serious deliberative body with the passage of the 17th Amendment!
for a rich man Soros is not very wise nor smart, shows in his speaking from that interview dialog.
same place as Jill Biden???
It would be better than anything written for celebrity Jeopardy SNL could ever come up with.
Good thing he is only a Senator rather someone important like a doctor, surgeon, air controller, etc. whose processing skills mean the difference between life and death.
Seriously?
It is like the movie IDIOCRACY that a speech impediment is required to hold federal elected office where speaking is the primary duty.
I refer to Celebrity Jeopardy as Remedial Jeopardy.
IDIOCRACY was prophecy. Nostradamus level
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