{"id":1683726,"date":"2022-10-11T13:32:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T17:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1683726"},"modified":"2022-10-11T13:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T17:34:23","slug":"is-john-fetterman-transitioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-john-fetterman-transitioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Is John Fetterman Transitioning?"},"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\">8<\/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%2Fis-john-fetterman-transitioning%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=1683726&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><\/div>\n<p>There seems to be a major undertaking by John Fetterman\u2019s Senate campaign to make the candidate appear softer than what\u2019s currently put out by his Elephant Man aura. The attempt climaxed this week with an exhausting profile in New York Magazine that would leave readers wondering \u2014 is Fetterman coming out as transgender?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously. That\u2019s how hard the <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/john-fetterman-dr-oz-pennsylvania-senate-race.html?utm_source=tw&amp;utm_campaign=nym&amp;utm_medium=s1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5,000-word feature<\/a> and its author, Rebecca Traister, worked to turn this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/john-fetterman-carhartt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hulking meat sack<\/a> of a Pennsylvania Democrat into something resembling a soft touch.<\/p>\n<p>A recurring theme throughout the piece is that Fetterman\u2019s opponent, Republican candidate Mehmet Oz, has aggressively and unfairly attacked him as \u201cweak or radical or dishonest or unhinged or stupid\u201d (Traister\u2019s words). But it\u2019s the article itself that inadvertently does the job. <\/p>\n<p>Traister portrays Fetterman as the ultimate victim, a man of \u201cindestructible guy-ness\u201d who nonetheless suffered a near-fatal stroke and who was then forced to endure his physical recovery answering for it. \u201c[T]he New York Times and the Washington Post have echoed the Oz campaign\u2019s suggestions that Fetterman is hiding something about his fitness to serve,\u201d she wrote, \u201crunning editorials pressing him to do more than the single debate scheduled for October 25 and for the release of further medical records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You see, it\u2019s not a legitimate concern that a 53-year-old running for U.S. Senate was incapacitated for months. That, to Fetterman fangirl Traister, is foul play \u201ccoming from Oz\u2019s camp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Traister also writes how similar Fetterman is to her brother, who just so happens to also be a fan of\u2014Fetterman!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy brother is a big white man with a bald head and a beard, like John Fetterman,\u201d wrote an admiring Traister. \u201cHe maybe doesn\u2019t always eat carefully or go to the doctor enough, like John Fetterman. The child of middle-class cultural privilege, like John Fetterman, he has an associate\u2019s degree from Community College of Philadelphia, is a walker of big dogs, and coaches boxing to kids in his Philadelphia neighborhood to help keep them busy and safe after school \u2014 a profile that is different, but not so different, from John Fetterman\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And like her brother, Fetterman is a \u201ccommitted feminist.\u201d On feminism, Fetterman, a longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meadvilletribune.com\/news\/fetterman-s-parents-gave-him-money-into-his-40s-republicans-say-that-undercuts-his-blue\/article_55a88a06-1432-11ed-bc6a-1348ce288918.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">charity case for his family<\/a>, is darn near perfect in the eyes of Traister: \u201cFetterman has been good on abortion since before the Supreme Court struck down <em>Roe<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the most comically desperate moment of the piece is when Traister attends a campaign rally with her sibling. \u201c[M]y brother told me how scared and uncomfortable he felt bracing for a possible tangle of words or any pause that stretched an extra beat, worried that it would wind up as right-wing fodder,\u201d she said. As for herself, she said the event \u201cwent well,\u201d that Fetterman was \u201cfine\u201d and \u201cnoticeably more hale\u201d than in the viral clips that reveal him to be <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/15\/nbc-news-tries-to-censor-viral-videos-highlighting-john-fettermans-slurred-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a sputtering, incoherent mess<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is from the same woman who made this assessment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtraister\/status\/836928223191699456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in 2017<\/a>: \u201cWe truly set ourselves up to be wowed by a president who manages, one time, to string sentences together correctly. Good work, America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Traister concluded her article noting that day by day, Fetterman \u201cmakes fewer mistakes, stumbles a bit less, and gets clearer and more relaxed.\u201d (When she says it, it\u2019s supposed to be assuring. When Oz or anyone else does, it\u2019s an <em>outrageous attack<\/em>!)<\/p>\n<p>The article was packaged with a bow in the form of a cover photo of the Democrat\u2019s enlarged head under the title, \u201cThe Vulnerability of John Fetterman.\u201d I\u2019m not sure any of it sent the message Traister was hoping for.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be a major undertaking by John Fetterman\u2019s Senate campaign to make the candidate appear softer than what\u2019s currently put out by his Elephant Man aura. 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