{"id":1685136,"date":"2022-10-12T11:20:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1685136"},"modified":"2022-10-12T11:33:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T15:33:27","slug":"pennsylvania-senate-candidate-fetterman-needs-computer-to-process-audio-in-first-in-person-interview-since-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-senate-candidate-fetterman-needs-computer-to-process-audio-in-first-in-person-interview-since-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Senate Candidate Fetterman Needs Computer to Process Audio in First In-Person Interview Since Stroke"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fpennsylvania-senate-candidate-fetterman-needs-computer-to-process-audio-in-first-in-person-interview-since-stroke%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=1685136&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-pennsylvania\">Pennsylvania<\/a> Lt. Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-john-fetterman\">John Fetterman<\/a> used a computer to process audio in his first in-person interview since suffering a stroke earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate, was seated behind an Apple computer, which he looked at after a reporter asked him a question, to read audio converted into text, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/video\/full-fetterman-interview-i-believe-i-m-going-to-be-able-to-serve-effectively-after-stroke-150421573805\">video<\/a> of the interview, which was conducted on Oct. 7 and released on Oct. 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of his stroke, Fetterman\u2019s campaign required closed captioning technology for this interview to essentially read our questions as we asked them,\u201d Dasha Burns, the NBC interviewer, said on air. \u201cIn small talk before the interview without captioning, it wasn\u2019t clear he was understanding our conversation,\u201d she added later. A spokesperson for Fetterman\u2019s campaign told The Epoch Times via email that Fetterman has been transparent about needing closed captioning to \u201cbe precise and avoid missing words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we\u2019ve said over and over again, John is healthy and he also still has a lingering auditory processing issue that his doctors expect will go away,\u201d the spokesperson said, adding later, \u201cUnfortunately for Dr. Oz and the pathetic Republicans who are desperately rooting against his recovery, John is getting better every day and he is going to win this race to be Pennsylvania\u2019s next Senator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman, 53, suffered a stroke in May and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/top-pennsylvania-senate-candidate-suffers-stroke-is-hospitalized_4463430.html\">required hospital care<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman still won the Democrat primary for the Senate seat, which is becoming vacant because Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) is not running for another term.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman is vying with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mehmet-oz\">Mehmet Oz<\/a>, the Republican nominee, for the seat.<\/p>\n<p>Oz\u2019s campaign shared video of Burns talking about the new interview but has not issued a statement on Fetterman needing closed captioning.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman is set to debate Oz in October but his campaign has required Fetterman be able to use closed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman used a computer to process audio in his first in-person interview since suffering a stroke earlier this year. Fetterman, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate, was seated behind an Apple computer, which he looked at after a reporter asked him a question, to read audio converted into text, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":1894850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"http:\/\/post_url","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685136","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}