{"id":1712098,"date":"2022-10-26T13:32:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T17:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1712098"},"modified":"2022-10-26T13:33:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T17:33:24","slug":"fettermans-debate-disaster-shows-just-how-far-media-will-go-to-keep-democrats-in-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fettermans-debate-disaster-shows-just-how-far-media-will-go-to-keep-democrats-in-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman\u2019s Debate Disaster Shows Just How Far Media Will Go To Keep Democrats In Power"},"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%2Ffettermans-debate-disaster-shows-just-how-far-media-will-go-to-keep-democrats-in-power%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=1712098&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>The highly anticipated Tuesday night debate between Democrat Lt. Gov. John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz can best be summarized by the apt catchphrase of Janice from the hit sitcom \u201cFriends\u201d: \u201cOh. My. God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What was already expected to be a difficult performance for Fetterman \u2014 who suffered a stroke earlier this year \u2014 turned out to be cataclysmically worse than anyone could have ever imagined. Despite having closed captioning assisting him in comprehending the questions from the debate moderator, the Democrat Senate candidate was unable to string together coherent, thoughtful responses throughout the whole debate. <\/p>\n<p>In one exchange with the moderator when Fetterman was asked to address his previously stated support of banning fracking, the Pennsylvania lieutenant governor audibly froze for an extended amount of time before managing to blurt out, \u201cI do support fracking and I don\u2019t, I don\u2019t, I support fracking and I stand, and I do support fracking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another similar instance occurred when he was pressed about his refusal to release his medical records. Fetterman declined to address the moderator\u2019s direct question and instead claimed, \u201cMy doctor believes I am fit to be serving and that\u2019s what I believe is where I am standing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mod: &#8220;Why haven&#8217;t you released your medical records?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman: &#8220;My doctors believe I am ready to be served.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mod: &#8220;Why won&#8217;t you release the records?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman: &#8220;My doctor believes I am fit to be serving and I believe that is where I am standing.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kTH88tPH0Q\">pic.twitter.com\/kTH88tPH0Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1585065946510594048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2022<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>These verbal fumbles continued <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/26\/allowing-john-fetterman-to-run-for-senate-is-just-abusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">throughout the entire debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Fetterman\u2019s stroke and accompanying health problems are sad, what\u2019s truly appalling is the lengths to which America\u2019s corrupt corporate media have gone in covering up the Pennsylvania Democrat\u2019s inability to serve in public office. Over the course of the 2022 election cycle, legacy media talking heads <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/12\/its-not-ableist-to-wonder-if-fetterman-can-do-his-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have gone from<\/a> pretending Fetterman never had any health issues, to attacking anyone who raised concerns about his health, to now pretending Fetterman\u2019s debate performance was the greatest thing since Lizzo <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/30\/lizzo-twerking-with-madisons-flute-is-the-antithesis-of-civilizational-excellence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">twerked on stage while slobbering all over<\/a> James Madison\u2019s crystal flute.<\/p>\n<p>In a Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/6v1vF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opinion column<\/a> published in The Philidelphia Inquirer, some of the paper\u2019s writers and contributors attempted to hype Fetterman\u2019s extremely underwhelming debate performance, while giving Oz a lower average debate score than Fetterman. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had zingers, saying that Oz has never met an oil company that he doesn\u2019t \u2018swipe right\u2019 on,\u201d wrote Commentary and Ideas Editor Devi Lockwood, who gave Fetterman a score of 7\/10 and Oz a 1\/10. \u201cHearing Fetterman say that Roe v. Wade should be the law led me to audibly sigh in relief. Abortion should be a choice between a pregnant <em>person<\/em> [emphasis added] and their doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opinion Editor-at-Large Paul Davies echoed similar remarks and gave Fetterman a score of 5\/10, saying that despite his \u201cspeech challenges,\u201d Fetterman \u201cunderstands the struggles of working families and seniors, and especially believes that women \u2014 not the government \u2014 should be free to make their own choices surrounding their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was already expected to be a difficult debate for Fetterman turned out to be worse than anyone could have ever imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1712101,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712098","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1712101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}