Posted on 10/13/2022 5:06:51 PM PDT by conservative98
This week, John Fetterman, the Democratic for the Senate from Pennsylvania, appeared in what NBC News billed as his first on-camera, one-on-one interview since he had a stroke in May. The interview went well and was conducted with Mr. Fetterman and the reporter, Dasha Burns, sitting in the same room, as Mr. Fetterman used a captioning system on a computer screen to assist him with his auditory-processing, something he has needed help with since the stroke.
Ms. Burns introduced the interview to the news anchor Lester Holt by saying, “In small talk before the interview without captioning, it wasn’t clear he was understanding our conversation.” With that one statement, Ms. Burns shifted the conversation away from a necessary adaptation to implying that NBC was doing Mr. Fetterman a favor by using captioning and that it was a problem for the candidate that he needed technology to reliably converse.
Her comment suggests that certain kinds of accommodation are illegitimate. Would Ms. Burns have made a similar remark if a wheelchair user couldn’t get around without a wheelchair? Are you wearing contacts or glasses to read this essay? It is our accommodations, often but not exclusively technological in nature, that make it possible for many of us to do our jobs. This is no less true for politicians than it is for the rest of us.
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I’ve had active symptoms of mental illness since I was 9. Last March, at age 48, I finally convinced myself it was OK to ask for a reasonable accommodation at work. Now I can do my job better with more flexibility around when I physically come into my office. And I can read this essay because I put on my glasses. Just as John Fetterman can be a senator if he has access to captioning.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
We already have a President that is mentally handicapped.
Fetterman’s issue is not a seeing or hearing sensory disability. It is a processing disability.
There is a big difference.
All one has to do is to examine his thought processes relating to crime, fiscal responsibility, and his past leadership roles to know that he is not mentally fit for the job.
They’re trying to create a sympathy vote on this issue to distract from his extremism.
Wow that is a shock, l trust Trafalgar. All l can think is the PA media has managed to bury all of it.
How many times would this guy be able to buzz in and answer on Jeopardy?
I don’t doubt this author has mental illness, as he claims.
He works for the NYT. It’s a prerequisite.
LOL!
I am mocking Kamela. You know, how she can fill 10 minutes of a speech by repeating the same word or phrase about 20 times?
(I thought it was funny, not a dig at you!)
Ds support Fetterman because he will do Chuckies bidding!
And vote 100% Democrat!
That is the only reason!
It is the work of a man who overestimates his ability to offer a perspective, then present a cogent argument to support his contention to persuade, or at the very least to give pause to to a reader who holds a contrary opinion.
David M. Perry fails to do either; he fails miserably in his trite defense of an outspoken enemy of our Republic and of our Constitution as he attempts to dismiss the very real danger of electing a man of such flawed character and of such serious handicap as is John Fetterman to the United States Senate, with the breathtakingly naive and intellectually shallow rationale that the application of modern technology effectively and completely dismisses any and all concerns of those who are opposed to Fetterman’s ordination as irrelevant.
Fetterman’s election to the U.S. Senate will contribute significantly to the destruction of whatever shred of honor and respect this august body still retains; and it is clear that David M. Perry could not care less about this sad reality.
I wouldn't call wearing a deep-sea diving suit in the office and demanding that one be addressed as "High Royal Highness, King Neptune" a "reasonable accommodation."
Regards,
Can’t wait for this version of “Uncle Fester” to fire up a light bulb in his mouth.
It’s not about Fetterman. People on there have such effed-up values combined with media indoctrination, that they would vote for Alfred E. Neuman were he running. If those values win out in elections across the country, we are so effed.
I don’t want to be arrested by a mentally ill policeman. I don’t want to be operated on by a mentally ill surgeon. I don’t want to be represented in court by a mentally ill lawyer. I don’t want to be on a plane or a bus or a taxi with a mentally ill driver. I don’t want my children to be taught by a mentally ill teacher. And I don’t want to be represented in the Senate by a mentally ill senator.
Agree with your points. And I’m not going to take advice or be instructed by a self-confessed mentally ill columnist.
https://heavy.com/news/gisele-barreto-fetterman-pennsylvania-lt-gov-john-fetterman-wife/
If Fetterman gets into the senate he might not be there long. Knowing the Democrat proclivity for intersectionality and figureheads (think AOC) then it may well be Pennsylvania will get stuck with Fetterman’s wife in the US Senate.
“Newest Trafalgar poll out tonight still has Fetterman up by 2.4 points over Oz. I don’t understand this”
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The media here in PA doesn’t talk about him voting to let murderers out of jail. Etc.
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