John Fetterman Is a Disabled American Who Needs Technology to Do His Job. So What?

New York Times ^ | Oct. 13, 2022 | David M. Perry

[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.

[somerville]

Aren’t there are a lot of ads from Oz attesting to the fact that he let out murderers?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Yes. I see Oz’s ads on Fox. I don’t know if they’re on other media.

[skeeter]

The left finally admits a sack of potatoes can do a congressman’s job, because unelected bureaucrats for-life write the laws that govern our world.

[Fresh Wind]

I just received a Festerman mailer in my mailbox. The only issue mentioned is abortion, which is all the Rats have.

The picture they used looks like it was Photoshopped to hide the massive lump on his neck, and you can just barely see the huge black stripe tattoo on his right arm.

He is quoted as saying “politicians shouldn’t be in charge of medical decisions”.

So, on that basis, does Festerman support vaccine mandates?

I’d love to hear him try to answer that question!

[shotgun]

So who are they going to hire to type out the CC as fast as they speak during floor debate so this moron can follow along?

[usconservative]

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.

No one with commonsense would. Well stated.

[conservative98]

That poll does have 4.5% more democrats in it. But Oz is still only down 2.4 with a 2.9 MOE that he is leading.

In my opinion Trafalgar has cooked these numbers because DailyWire is the sponsor of this poll and they hate Oz and even Mastriano.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

“DailyWire is the sponsor of this poll and they hate Oz and even Mastriano.”
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I’m sorry to hear that.