{"id":1933628,"date":"2023-05-19T00:02:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fettermans-staff-caught-doctoring-his-words-to-make-him-sound-coherent\/"},"modified":"2023-05-19T00:05:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T04:05:03","slug":"fettermans-staff-caught-doctoring-his-words-to-make-him-sound-coherent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fettermans-staff-caught-doctoring-his-words-to-make-him-sound-coherent\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman&#8217;s team edited his words to sound better."},"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\">16<\/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-staff-caught-doctoring-his-words-to-make-him-sound-coherent%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=1933628&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--><h2>Senator&#8217;s Office Sends Doctored Remarks to Reporter<\/h2>\n<h3>Backlash for Misleading Quote<\/h3>\n<p>Staffers for Senator John Fetterman (Pa.) sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-new-york-times-publish-an-article-titled-even-if-the-election-was-stolen-recalling-it-will-further-divide-the-country\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Did The New York Times Publish An Article Titled \u2018Even If The Election Was Stolen, Recalling It Will Further Divide The Country\u2019?\">doctored version<\/a> of the Democrat&#8217;s remarks to a Washington Post reporter, who faced backlash for posting the misleading quote, which in reality was incoherent.<\/p>\n<h3>Reporter Apologizes for Tweeting Inaccurate Quote<\/h3>\n<p>Economics reporter Jeff Stein posted the quote from the Pennsylvania senator, who suffered a stroke one year ago and struggles to speak coherently, on Twitter before deleting it and apologizing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday I tweeted this quote, provided to me by the Senator\u2019s office, without checking it against the video,&#8221; Stein tweeted on Wednesday. &#8220;That was my fault. Though it captured his meaning, I deleted the tweet since some of the words in the quote were inaccurate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JStein_WaPo\/status\/1394439472389471232\/photo\/1\" alt=\"Jeff Stein's tweet\"><\/p>\n<h3>Real Quote vs. Edited Version<\/h3>\n<p>The text of the quote shared by Stein was clear and fluent. Stein posted that Fetterman asked ex-CEO of Silicon Valley Bank Greg Becker, &#8220;Shouldn&#8217;t you have a working requirement after we bail out your bank? Republicans seem to be more preoccupied with SNAP requirements for hungry people than protecting taxpayers that have to bail out these banks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The real quote, Fox News reported, was nothing close to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayor-of-charlottesville-pens-vulgar-poem-likening-city-to-rapist\/\" title=\"Mayor Of Charlottesville Pens Vulgar Poem Likening City To Rapist\">edited version<\/a> provided by Fetterman&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Republicans want to give a work requirement for SNAP,&#8221; Fetterman said. &#8220;You know, for a uh, uh, uh, a hungry family has to have these, this kind of penalties, or these some kinds of word\u2014working uh, require\u2014Shouldn\u2019t you have a working requirement, after we sail your bank, billions of your bank? Because you seem we were preoccupied, uh when, then SNAP requirements for works, for hungry people, but not about protecting the tax, the tax papers, you know, that will bail them out of whatever does about a bank to crash it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Senator&#8217;s Office Has Done This Before<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the first time Fetterman&#8217;s staffers have covered up his incoherent remarks with corrected transcripts, Fox News reported:<\/p>\n<p>The office [in April] quoted Fetterman as saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m really excited about Whole-Home Repairs. Here in Pennsylvania, one of my friends, Nikil Saval in the Senate, shepherded it. And he got linked up with the Republicans and they actually created one of the first kinds of a program like this in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I come from a community here, in Braddock, Pennsylvania, where your home can go bad really quickly. And I\u2019m really excited that we can take something like that, which is happening in Pennsylvania, and take it federal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, according to the linked clip, Fetterman&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fettermans-staff-caught-doctoring-his-words-to-make-him-sound-coherent\/\" title=\"Fetterman's team edited his words to sound better.\">words differed significantly<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited by it, because here in Pennsylvania one of my friends really [inaudible] it, Nikil Saval, he was one of the literally \u2014 quite literally \u2014 as hard left as a politician I&#8217;m aware of \u2014 you know \u2014 certainly in the Senate,&#8221; Fetterman says. &#8220;Um, he really helped shepherd that. And he got linked up with the Republicans, and he actually created the first kind of a program like this in the nation, you know. And one of my colleague \u2014 Mr. Vance \u2014 talked about well if there&#8217;s a leak in the ceiling, what if you don&#8217;t have the money to fix that? What can happen to that, kinda things?<\/p>\n<h3>Media Coverage of Senator&#8217;s Health Struggles<\/h3>\n<p>The media have long covered for the senator and framed his health struggles as a strength. In an MSNBC interview earlier this month, host Joe Scarborough asked Fetterman if he gets &#8220;inspiration from people like Lincoln&#8221; who &#8220;fought&#8221; depression and &#8220;changed the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CBS News last month asked the senator during an interview whether he has ambitions for a White House run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Fetterman&#8217;s (Pa.) staffers sent a doctored version of his remarks to a reporter, causing backlash for the misleading quote. The senator, who suffered a stroke a year ago, struggles to speak coherently. 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