{"id":1590807,"date":"2022-08-05T10:04:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590807"},"modified":"2022-08-05T10:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:04:51","slug":"basement-bum-oz-campaign-trolls-fetterman-for-campaign-trail-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/basement-bum-oz-campaign-trolls-fetterman-for-campaign-trail-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Basement Bum\u2019: Oz Campaign Trolls Fetterman For Campaign Trail Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbasement-bum-oz-campaign-trolls-fetterman-for-campaign-trail-absence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Democratic Senate candidate has been MIA since suffering massive stroke in May<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tPennsylvania senate candidate John Fetterman (FraudsterFetterman.com)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/washington-free-beacon-staff\/\" title=\"Posts by Washington Free Beacon Staff\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Washington Free Beacon Staff<\/a> \u2022 August 5, 2022 10:00 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz just fired off the latest shot in a meme-filled campaign that&#8217;s already featured Snooki, <em>Step Brothers, <\/em>and at least one member of the E Street Band.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican doctor&#8217;s campaign today launched a mock campaign website lampooning Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D.), who hasn\u2019t held a campaign event since being sidelined by a massive stroke in May. <a href=\"https:\/\/fraudsterfetterman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FraudsterFetterman.com<\/a> shows &#8220;Big John&#8221; reclining shirtless in a dingy basement. A &#8220;View Upcoming Events&#8221; button jumps across the screen when hovered over. And in case the point isn\u2019t clear, the site proclaims in bold: &#8220;John Fetterman hasn\u2019t attended a public campaign event since May 12th.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The site is the latest entry into a campaign that has been dominated by memes and Twitter attacks. But Brittany Yanick, Oz\u2019s communications director, is quick to note that there\u2019s a serious issue beneath the jokes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John Fetterman\u2026refuses to answer for his dangerous views,&#8221; Yanick told the <em>Washington Free Beacon. <\/em>&#8220;Pennsylvanians deserve answers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman, who is reportedly still slurring his speech after his near-fatal stroke, has weathered a number of controversies since withdrawing from the campaign trail. A group of Pennsylvania sheriffs last month <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/pennsylvania-sheriffs-press-democratic-candidate-on-crime-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> to Fetterman urging him to clarify his soft-on-crime positions, which they fear would worsen the state\u2019s crime spike. And the <em>Philadelphia Inquirer <\/em>this week reported that Fetterman\u2019s parents had long supported him financially, dealing an embarrassing blow to the Democrat\u2019s blue-collar image.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman has hit Oz over his residence on the Jersey Shore, recruiting <em>Jersey Shore <\/em>star Nicole &#8220;Snooki&#8221; Polizzi and E Street Band member Steven Van Zandt to mock Oz for the house. But the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/pa-dem-pushed-covid-lockdowns-during-taxpayer-funded-jersey-shore-vacay-records-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Fetterman took a family vacation there in 2020, with a taxpayer-funded security detail in tow, as he publicly pushed for strict pandemic lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>On the Oz campaign\u2019s site, a &#8220;DADDY\u2019S BOY&#8221; hoodie hanging above Fetterman simultaneously pokes fun at the candidate\u2019s inherited wealth and his ultra-casual wardrobe. A shotgun to the candidate&#8217;s left seemingly alludes to a 2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/fetterman-says-critical-race-theory-doesnt-matter-his-backers-disagree\/\">incident<\/a> wherein Fetterman pulled a weapon on an unarmed black jogger.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Democratic Senate candidate has been MIA since suffering massive stroke in May  Pennsylvania senate candidate John Fetterman (FraudsterFetterman.com)  Washington Free Beacon Staff \u2022 August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}