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.
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David M. Perry, Sorry, but this is BS.
Stephen hawking was a physicist with disabilities.
But he was respected as a physicist because he was a very good physicist. His disabilities didn’t matter.
Fetterman is a loser with a horrible track record, full of failure, with crazy stupid ideas.
And he has cognitive disabilties now.
He was awful 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago.
Now he’s worse.
John is a vicious, racist Communist, who can no longer express his love for Stalin. Extremely sad case.
And our veep is intellectually challenged, needing someone else to do her thinking and talking for her. What’s the issue?
Oh, and our minor-attracted, demented president needs a whole crew to follow directly behind him, cleaning up both literally and figuratively. So what?
I’ve had active symptoms of mental illness since I was 9
They seem to be saying, we cannot discriminate because of mental problems.
Politicians should especially be discriminated against if they cannot articulate.
before the stroke, he spoke like a neanderthal. With captioning, he still talks like a neanderthal. So NYT stooge is right. Plus there is a dress code in the chamber.
meaning no hoodie! Wear your lump in a suit and tie IF Lump Head wins..
Fetterman is a commie thug who has NO place in the US
Senate.
go way fetterman
I tried to tell people to focus on his many terrible policy ideas instead of focusing on his stroke, now the media will portray him as a victim.
New York Times is a disable newspaper that needs lies to do their job
If you want to know why the USA is so effed up right now, go to John Fettermans Facebook page and read the comments. This is the ultimate result of 40 years of leftist indoctrination in our schools and universities, complete effin morons voting.
https://www.facebook.com/JohnFettermanPA
Festerman is a health risk.
Who has a stroke at 49......only the extremely unhealthy. Plus, he would not come out and admit he was disabled by the stroke.
He is a liar......his life is a lie
My math teachers wouldn’t let me use a calculator. But a Senator needs a tablet so someone can type out the answers out for him. Got it.
Don’t discriminate against the handicapped.
Cognitive impairment is equivalent to being in a wheelchair.
Hardly.
They’re focusing on the storke and these absurd defenses will backfire. The media circling of the wagons just means more stories about how Fetterman is unfit for the job.
But let Trump walk gingerly down a slippery ramp and he’s unfit to govern.
The pathetic media whores carrying the pinkos water. Again.
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