{"id":1681981,"date":"2022-10-10T15:05:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1681981"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:05:51","slug":"stroke-victim-john-fetterman-still-needs-closed-captions-to-understand-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stroke-victim-john-fetterman-still-needs-closed-captions-to-understand-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Stroke Victim John Fetterman Still Needs Closed Captions To Understand Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fstroke-victim-john-fetterman-still-needs-closed-captions-to-understand-questions%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=1681981&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--><p>Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman struggled to participate in a recent interview with <em>New York<\/em> magazine, requiring closed captioning technology to understand his interviewer.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman, who serves as Pennsylvania&#8217;s lieutenant governor, has struggled with auditory processing and speaking since he suffered a stroke in May. While his campaign has insisted he is on the road to recovery and is fit to serve in the Senate, Fetterman&#8217;s interview in early October for a <em>New York<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/john-fetterman-dr-oz-pennsylvania-senate-race.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profile<\/a> revealed that the Democrat still has difficulty with basic communication. The magazine disclosed that during a video call interview, Fetterman used a closed captioning program to understand questions, reading them in real time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our 50-minute conversation, in which I could see his eyes moving swiftly across his computer screen as he read and responded to my questions in real time, included moments \u2026 where it was clear that Fetterman&#8217;s vexation amplified his communicative challenges,&#8221; wrote Rebecca Traister, the author of the profile.<\/p>\n<p>Traister described Fetterman as &#8220;lucid,&#8221; &#8220;animated,&#8221; and &#8220;eloquent&#8221; in the interview, a characterization seemingly contradicted by Traister&#8217;s subsequent descriptions of Fetterman&#8217;s expressiveness:<\/p>\n<p><em>At one point, when we were talking about his work to address crime and gun violence while mayor of Braddock, Fetterman said what sounded like a nonsense word. &#8220;To have an actual domicated\u2014&#8221; he paused. &#8220;Excuse me, domentated\u2014&#8221; He paused again, getting frustrated. &#8220;Yeah,&#8221; he added with a small smile, &#8220;this is the stroke right here.&#8221; Then he took a breath. &#8220;Documented,&#8221; he said. &#8220;<\/em>Documented<em>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fetterman&#8217;s campaign has agreed to an Oct. 25 debate with Republican opponent Mehmet Oz, on the condition that Fetterman have access to a closed captioning monitor to read questions as they come in.<\/p>\n<p>The race has tightened in recent months, as Oz&#8217;s campaign has pointed to Fetterman&#8217;s criminal justice reform rhetoric and tenure leading Pennsylvania&#8217;s Board of Pardons, during which Fetterman tried to free murderers, as proof that the Democrat is soft on crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman struggled to participate in a recent interview with New York magazine, requiring closed captioning technology to understand his interviewer.<br \/>\nThe post Stroke Victim John Fetterman Still Needs Closed Captions To Understand Questions appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"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-1681981","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\/1681981","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\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681981\/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=1681981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}