{"id":1715572,"date":"2022-10-29T06:01:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T10:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1715572"},"modified":"2022-10-29T06:06:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T10:06:29","slug":"why-not-john-fettermans-wife-claims-swimming-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-not-john-fettermans-wife-claims-swimming-is-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not: John Fetterman\u2019s Wife Claims Swimming Is Racist"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fwhy-not-john-fettermans-wife-claims-swimming-is-racist%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=1715572&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 wife of Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman claimed \u201cswimming in America is very racist\u201d \u2014 as she likened her husband\u2019s use of closed captioning to turning up the brightness on a smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistorically, swimming in America is very racist, and usually when you look at drowning statistics, it usually affects children of color, because of lack of access,\u201d Gisele Fetterman said on the iGen politics podcast on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Gisele made the comments while discussing how she and her husband, Pennsylvania\u2019s lieutenant governor, had decided not to move into the state-owned mansion in Harrisburg but made the pool accessible to the public.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-feat-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-feat-image.jpg\" alt=\"Gisele Fetterman\" class=\"wp-image-24436946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-feat-image.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-feat-image.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-feat-image.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Gisele Fetterman, wife of  Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman, said in a podcast that \u201cswimming in America is very racist.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The couple live in a converted loft in Braddock, which Fetterman\u2019s Republican challenger Dr. Mehmet Oz\u2019s campaign has claimed he bought for $1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd while we did not want the mansion, that mansion came with a pool I wanted,\u201d Gisele told Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi on the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the dream was to make this a public pool and turn it into the people\u2019s pool and ensure that young people across Pennsylvania could learn how to swim and water safety and kind of work to right some of the wrongs,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-01.jpg\" alt=\"Gisele Fetterman on iGen politics podcast\" class=\"wp-image-24436947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-01.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Gislele Fetterman said in the iGen politics podcast that she and her husband made the pool at the lieutenant governor\u2019s mansion public \u201cto right some of the wrongs.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">YouTube \/ Politicon<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the lieutenant governor website, the official mansion has been sold since its pool was opened to the public for the first time in the summer of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecond Lady Gisele Fetterman oversaw a program to teach water safety and offer novel exposure to swimming,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ltgov.pa.gov\/Residence-Pool\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it says<\/a>. It was not immediately clear if the pool is still open.<\/p>\n<p>Public pools were often segregated during the Jim Crow era, when blacks were generally barred from using the facilities when they were used as cooling centers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-03.jpg\" alt=\"John Fetterman and his wife Gisele\" class=\"wp-image-24436948\" width=\"618\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-03.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1236 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-03.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=926 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-03.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-03.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=309 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-03.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The podcast interview was conducted after Democrat John Fetterman\u2019s troubling performance against Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Senate race.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more blacks tend to drown than whites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrowning death rates for Black people are 1.5 times higher than the rates for White people. Disparities are highest among Black children ages 5-9 (rates 2.6 times higher) and ages 10-14 (rates 3.6 times higher),\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/drowning\/facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the CDC says<\/a> on its website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn swimming pools, Black children ages 10-14 years drown at rates 7.6 times higher than White children,\u201d the agency adds. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-07.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters demonstrating in the swimming pool of the Monson Motor Lodge in Saint Augustine, Florida scream as motel manager James Brock dumps \" muriatic acid \/><\/a><figcaption>Protesters demonstrating in the swimming pool of the Monson Motor Lodge in Saint Augustine, Florida, in 1964 scream as motel manager James Brock dumps \u201cmuriatic acid\u201d into the water.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bettmann Archive<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBlack children and youth are more likely to drown in public pools, and white children and youth are more likely to drown in residential pools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The podcast interview was conducted after Fetterman\u2019s\u00a0troubling\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/25\/fettermans-speech-difficulties-on-display-in-only-debate-with-oz\/\">performance in the race\u2019s lone debate<\/a> against Oz before the Nov. 8 Senate election in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-05.jpg\" alt=\"Pool during Jim Crow era\" class=\"wp-image-24436949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-05.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-05.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-05.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Public pools were often segregated during the Jim Crow era.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-09.jpg\" alt=\"Black demonstrators attempting to swim at a St. Augustine Beach were met by violence.\" class=\"wp-image-24437854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-09.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-09.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-09.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Black demonstrators attempting to swim at a St. Augustine Beach were met with violence.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bettmann Archive<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s lingering \u201cauditory processing issues\u201d following his May stroke were apparent during the showdown, where despite debating with the aid of two 70-inch TV monitors equipped with closed captioning \u2014 spelling out the moderators\u2019 questions, and Oz\u2019s responses \u2014 it was very unclear what the Keystone State\u2019s lieutenant governor was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/19\/doctor-fetterman-has-no-work-restrictions\/\">trying to say at times<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the podcast, Gisele defended her husband\u2019s use of closed captioning, arguing that it is akin to adjusting the brightness on your smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people use accommodations on some level, whether that\u2019s how bright you keep your phone when you\u2019re reading. These are all accommodations,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-11.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-11.jpeg\" alt=\"Protestors demonstrate in front of the Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., alongside other supporters in response to allegations that the swim club blocked a group of minority children from joining weekly swims at the pool, Thursday, July 9, 2009.\" class=\"wp-image-24437902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-11.jpeg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-11.jpeg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/fetterman-wife-swimming-america-racist-11.jpeg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Protesters demonstrate in front of the Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., in response to allegations that the swim club blocked a group of minority children from joining weekly swims at the pool, Thursday, July 9, 2009.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMaybe closed captioning is a new thing to them but I\u2019ve been using closed captioning my whole life, I learned how to speak English watching \u2018Mister Rogers\u2019 and reading closed captions,\u201d the second lady added.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/20\/biden-john-fettermans-wife-will-be-great-lady-in-the-senate\/\">President Biden also raised eyebrows<\/a> when he said that Gisele would be a \u201cgreat lady in the Senate\u201d \u2014 appearing to imply that her husband would be unable to serve due to his poor health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn, thank you very much for running, I really do appreciate it,\u201d Biden said at an event in Pittsburgh. \u201cAnd Gisele, you\u2019re going to be a great, great lady in the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman claimed \u201cswimming in America is very racist\u201d \u2014 as she likened her husband\u2019s use of closed captioning to turning up the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1715575,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1715572","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1715575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}