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Fetterman does not have aids but he was given one for his reluctant debate and he still, apparently, blew it.
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Fetterman Will Use Closed-Captioning Device During Debate
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who is running for U.S. Senate as a Democrat, will be allowed to use a closed-captioning device during his Tuesday debate with Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz, according to a memo from the campaign on Monday.
Fetterman’s campaign demanded the accommodation to assist the candidate with his “auditory processing disorder” that resulted from a stroke he had earlier this year.
“This debate is unprecedented — there’s never been a closed-captioned political debate in a high-profile Senate race where one of the candidates is dealing with a lingering auditory processing challenge while recovering from a stroke,” Fetterman adviser Rebecca Katz and campaign manager Brendan McPhillips stated in the memo. “John has had a remarkable recovery, but the ongoing auditory processing challenges are real. The campaign insisted on closed captioning technology because it’s necessary.”
Fetterman’s team went on to try to lower expectations for the debate — warning that his opponent, who is a former TV show host, will likely outperform Fetterman during the event.
“We’ll admit — this isn’t John’s format. Look no further than the debates from the primary earlier this year,” the memo stated, adding that “Oz clearly comes into Tuesday night with a huge built-in advantage.”
The campaign team also lashed out over future criticism highlighting Fetterman’s inability to perform during the debate, saying that they are “prepared” for “malicious viral videos.” In reality, the future — and past — highlighting of Fetterman’s difficulty understanding and speaking calls into question his ability to do his job in the Senate. If he cannot debate one person without the aid of closed captioning, it will be difficult for him to be able to debate on the Senate floor with numerous people speaking at once and him having to think and speak quickly.
“We are prepared for Oz’s allies and right-wing media to circulate malicious viral videos after the debate that try to paint John in a negative light because of awkward pauses, missing some words, and mushing other words together,” the memo states. “The captioning process may also lead to time delays and errors in the exchanges between the moderators and the candidates. In fact, because the captions are going to be typed out by human beings in real time, on live TV, some amount of human error in the transcription is inevitable, which may cause temporary miscommunications at times.”
NBC News journalist Dasha Burns recently called Fetterman out for his use of the closed captioning device, sparking the debate over his capabilities and whether he was fit to hold office.
And:
The Media’s Cover-Up of John Fetterman
No amount of spin can undo what voters witnessed on the debate stage last night in Pennsylvania.
By PETER SAVODNIK
A cardboard cutout of John Fetterman stands atop campaign supplies. (Mark Makela via Getty Images)
It should now be crystal clear why Democrat John Fetterman refused to take part in more than a single debate with his Republican Senate rival, Mehmet Oz, and why Fetterman insisted on pushing that debate to just two weeks before Election Day—after at least 500,000 Pennsylvania voters had already voted.
Last night’s debate was an unmitigated disaster.
A disaster for Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor—who appeared confused and could barely manage a coherent sentence, let alone a complete paragraph.
And a disaster for Pennsylvania voters, who didn’t get the tough, substantive debate they deserved, one that would have pushed Oz to explain, among other things, why he was distancing himself from Donald Trump (without whom he wouldn’t be the nominee); his position on abortion; China; and how he plans to bring down gas prices.
Oz had some solid talking points, but they were just that—talking points. But Fetterman lacked even those.
You can watch the whole debate here:
A few examples of what went down:
There was Fetterman’s confusing opening statement.
His refusal to share his medical records.
His simplistic and, at moments, cheerleader-sounding celebration of Roe v. Wade.
And, in perhaps the most baffling moment of the night, his inability to explain his position on fracking:
The Pennsylvania Senate race is among the most important in the country. So, the Fetterman campaign—which seriously limited the candidate’s interaction with constituents and put the kibosh on press gaggles—granted some interviews. Almost all of them were conducted remotely, over Google Hang, with closed captioning. None that we can recall focused on the most important thing about John Fetterman: The fact that the candidate, who suffered from a stroke five months ago, does not appear fit to serve.
Until last week.
Last week, NBC reporter Dasha Burns had the temerity to observe the obvious: John Fetterman has trouble with chit chat. Here is what she said: “In small talk before the interview without captioning, it wasn’t clear that he was understanding our conversation.”
She got crucified for it by any number of journalists with blue checks.
From Kara Swisher: “Sorry to say but I talked to @JohnFetterman for over an hour without stop or any aides and this is just nonsense. Maybe this reporter is just bad at small talk.”
From New York Magazine’s Rebecca Traister, who profiled the candidate: His “comprehension is not at all impaired.” The problem, she explained, is “a hearing/auditory challenge.” She added: “He understands everything.”
Molly Jong-Fast came to Fetterman’s defense, tweeting that, in a recent interview, the candidate “understood everything I was saying and he was funny.”
Connie Schultz, a USA Today columnist and the wife of Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown, observed: “As he continues to recover, @JohnFetterman used technology to help him answer a reporter’s questions. How we as journalists frame this reveals more about us than it does him.”
The Atlantic’s John Hendrickson suggested that the problem wasn’t Fetterman but, well, us. “Part of our culture’s ongoing stigmatization of disability stems from our profound lack of understanding about the variability—and spectrum—of physical and mental challenges.”
And so on.
The NBC reporter was also attacked by Fetterman’s wife, Gisele. She suggested that Burns should be punished for reporting honestly. “I mean, there are consequences for folks in these positions who are any of these isms,” Gisele Fetterman said. “I mean, she was ableist. That’s what she was in her interview. It was appalling to the entire disability community and I think to journalism.” (The Second Lady of Pennsylvania seemed unconcerned with the First Amendment.)
If anything, Burns, who has covered the race extensively, understated just how bad Fetterman’s condition is.
I was in Pennsylvania a few weeks ago to report on the race, and the Fetterman campaign refused to make the candidate available. Now, it’s obvious why they have limited media engagements to friendly venues like MSNBC, New York Magazine and The New York Times—where reporters are, presumably, reticent to report anything that might be viewed as helping Republicans.
But there was no sympathetic journalist on stage with John Fetterman last night. What we were left with was reality. And reality was painful to watch.
Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the campaign is blaming the closed captioning system for being “delayed” and “filled with errors.” What’s astonishing is how little so many journalists at some of our most storied news organizations respect normal Americans’ ability to use their eyes and ears.
The spin machine is already whirring away, with journalists claiming that it was the technology that was to blame or that Fetterman was brave to debate Oz or that, as Rebecca Traister put it, Fetterman should be lauded for his “remarkable transparency.” Josh Krashaar, at Axios, was honest and ballsy enough to report that Democrats on Capitol Hill were left rattled by Fetterman’s performance.
Far from shielding Fetterman from scrutiny, in the end too many journalists in the legacy media have simply revealed—once again—why they cannot be trusted. From Russiagate to the lab leak theory to the riots in the summer of 2020 to the effect of school closures during the pandemic, reporters seem increasingly incapable of reporting honestly and comprehensively on the most important issues of the day. Last night, for anyone who was watching the debate with eyes wide open, that much was indisputable.
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Obviously MLK's shoes were impossible to fill but Warnock does not even fill his socks.
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Warnock isn’t who he claims!
Few corporate landlords sought to evict more residents in 2021 than the company Sen. Raphael Warnock’s (D., Ga.) church partnered with to manage its low-income apartment building.
Columbia Residential manages 49 apartments in the Atlanta area, including Columbia Tower at MLK Village, a low-income apartment building owned by Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Warnock serves as senior pastor. Out of 1,587 corporate landlords across the country, only 30 filed more eviction lawsuits in 2021 than Columbia Residential, records show. The property management company filed 605 eviction actions against its residents in 2021, according to a dataset cited by House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis chairman Rep. James Clyburn (D., Ga.).
As Warnock’s opponent in the upcoming Senate race, Herschel Walker, has seized on the storyline, highlighting the evictions and squalid conditions at the building, Warnock has sought to distance himself from Columbia’s aggressive eviction practices. He told reporters on Tuesday he has no involvement in day-to-day matters and said—despite evidence to the contrary—that no evictions have been carried out at the apartment building. In fact, 15 eviction lawsuits have been filed against residents of the building since the start of the pandemic, one for just $28.55 in past-due rent. Fulton County marshals have carried out two court-ordered writs of possession at the property since 2020, and one resident accused the building in September of changing his locks and temporarily evicting him without notice.
Some dispossessory notices filed against residents of the building during the pandemic were ultimately dropped, but only after residents paid penalties far greater than their monthly rent. Columbia Tower resident Phillip White, for example, told the Free Beacon he had to pay $325 in fees before Columbia Residential dropped its attempt to evict him in September 2021 for $179 in past-due rent.
Columbia Residential has accelerated its rate of filing dispossessory notices in 2022. The company has filed 613 eviction actions in court against residents in 39 of its Atlanta-based properties so far this year, 318 of which remain open as of Sunday. Ebenezer tapped Columbia Residential to manage Columbia Tower "on its behalf," the property management company told the Washington Free Beacon.
Ebenezer Baptist Church pays Warnock a salary and a $7,417 per-month, tax-free housing allowance. Columbia Residential founder and CEO Noel Khalil, who led the company until his death in October 2021, donated $14,000 to Warnock’s 2020 Senate campaign and runoff, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Warnock’s church owns 99 percent of Columbia Tower through a network of shell companies linked to a charity it controls, which identifies Warnock as its principal officer. The Georgia Secretary of State’s Securities and Charities Division launched an investigation into Ebenezer’s charity on Oct. 12, seeking to discover why it has been operating in the state without registering with state authorities, the Free Beaconreported.
Warnock has rejected Walker's offer to pay the back rents of residents facing eviction from his church’s apartment building.
"Raphael Warnock continues to dodge important questions Georgia voters need answers to," said Walker campaign spokesman Will Kiley. "We have copies of the eviction notices. Raphael Warnock claims to be a pastor for the people, the disadvantaged, and the poor. But the actions he and his church have taken say otherwise."
Warnock, Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Columbia Residential did not return requests for comment.
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Newark School District adds anti-Israel book to sixth-grade curriculum
“The book is filled with misleading anti-Israel statements and outright lies,” wrote ZOA’s National President Morton Klein and Susan Tuchman, director of the ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice.
BY SUSAN R. EISENSTEIN
(October 25, 2022 / JNS) The school board of Newark, New Jersey is drawing attention from Israel advocacy and education organizations as well as parents for adding an anti-Israel book to its mandatory curriculum.
The book A Little Piece Of Ground by Elizabeth Laird was included in the sixth-grade English curriculum for the 2022-23 school year. The book, targeted at young adults, is accused of pushing anti-Israel propaganda and conveying a biased view of Israel to impressionable children.
According to the book’s Amazon description, A Little Piece Of Ground “explores the human cost of the occupation of Palestinian lands through the eyes of a young boy.”
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/list-33-things-we-know-about-coming-food-shortages
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- Will Netanyahu Return? What Israel's Last-minute Election Polls Tell Us – and What They Don't -
- US guarantees of the Israel-Lebanon accord: carved in stone or a mirage? -
- The Golden Age for Jews in America: Coming to its End? - FPM
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- My liberal friends loved to call Trump a liar and point out all the stretching of the facts because he is a salesman when, in fact, Biden is the true liar.
- Democrats love to accuse their opponents of what they are doing. Neat trick and the mass media allows/assists them to get away with this behaviour.
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- https://townhall.com/columnist
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