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Oh the entitlement! The fake outrage! The self-absorption! Meet Gisele Fetterman, or maybe we should call her Karen?
Gisele Fetterman wants no questions from anyone about her husband’s mental and physical fitness for office. All questions regarding his recovery, his cognitive abilities, even his overall fitness for office after his stroke are verboten.
John Fetterman’s wife blasted NBC’s Dasha Burns for her portrayal of a recent interview with the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate, accusing the reporter of “ableism” and calling her behavior “appalling.”
Speaking with Molly Jong-Fast on the Fast Politics Pod, Gisele Fetterman said she felt “rage” when she learned that Burns had revealed that her husband was unable to hold a conversation.
The coverage did a disservice “to not only my husband, but anyone facing a disability and working through it,” she said.
Since suffering a stroke in May, Fetterman has struggled with auditory processing. The candidate’s staff required that he be allowed to use closed captioning technology during the interview. While introducing the segment featuring Burns’s interview with Fetterman, she noted that “in small talk before the interview without captioning, it wasn’t clear he was understanding our conversation.”
I watched the interview Dasha Burns did with John Fetterman. She is a journalist who was doing her job. Gisele is not a journalist who is angry because her husband looked unfit for office. Perhaps Mrs. Fetterman should understand that rational thought, not whining is what she should be doing right now. Nina Bookout at Victory Girls has rational thought
Quite frankly, no matter the party, those who hold office need to be fully cognitively present. Yes, there’ve been accommodations regarding physical issues such as Senator Bob Dole, Senator John McCain, Senator Tammy Duckworth, Congressman Dan Crenshaw, and Congressman Brian Mast. HOWEVER, what they all have and had in common is they were fully present concerning their cognitive abilities.
John Fetterman is struggling and that has been evident for quite some time now.
Furthermore, at the very beginning of the interview, Fetterman essentially admits he is having major problems with auditory processing. Guess what folks? MOST of the job of a U.S. Senator involves auditory processing! If he is struggling now, will he magically gin up to 100% if elected and he takes office in January? I highly doubt it.
Again, “Karen” Fetterman is asking for special treatment, that is outrageous frankly. Full disclosure, I am a Conservative, and frankly am not a fan of Mr. Fetterman’s ideology. But, if this were a Republican candidate for Senate, my concerns would be the very same. And it is shameful for Mrs. Fetterman to play the cards she is playing, it is wrong for her to seek punishment for tis reporter.
If Mrs. Fetterman wants to play the victim card, then it is she who should be asking the woman in her mirror “how dare you?”
