Tucker Carlson: This was humiliating for Fetterman

good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight good night everybody two days before the Democratic Senate primary in Pennsylvania back in May staffers for the John fetterman campaign announced that their candidate had tragically suffered a stroke but no problem in a written statement purportedly written by John fetterman himself from the hospital fetterman announced that he was absolutely fine I'm feeling much better the statement read doctors tell me I didn't suffer any cognitive damage okay so the primary continued as playing with fetterman's name on the ballot and fetterman won he became the Democratic nominee and that was the last that most voters heard about John fetterman's stroke for months fetterman remained in semi-seclusion that is the campaign progressed and the polls tightened he began to venture out he had no choice and video clips surfaced at fetterman speaking at rallies in what seemed to be a bizarre and highly disjointed way some began to wonder if he'd really suffered quote no cognitive damage from his stroke it was at this point that fetterman's personal physician a man called Clifford Chen who also happened to be a campaign donor to him and other Democrats rushed forward to bring science to bear on this question in Clifford Chen's considered opinion as a respected Medical Professional who works at a major research University John fetterman was absolutely fine fetterman was quote recovering well from his stroke he had quote no work restrictions and can work full Duty in public office in other words John Federman was as sharp and as healthy as you or me as anyone in America in fact more so ready for the Senate fetterman's wife who presumably would know seconded this assessment and attacked anyone who disagreed so did a group of democratic office holders who wrote a piece in the Huffington Post about how their own Strokes had only enhanced their Public Service a stroke no big deal it's a good thing actually ought to be a requisite for service in the Senate for their part most of the reporters who covered John fetterman day-to-day worked hard to calm concerns about his health is John fetterman a silver tongued Wordsmith no they conceded he never has been but brain damage come on don't be a bigot that's ableist until last night that's pretty much where things stood some people mostly Republicans thought John Federman might not be mentally fit to work in the Senate others mostly Democrats agreed with Clifford Chen his doctor that fetterman was absolutely fine so as a neat partisan split then fetterman appeared on stage for his first and only debate and settled this question for all time John fetterman it turns out is not capable of driving a car he should not be allowed to operate a microwave oven there is no chance that under any imaginable circumstances John fetterman could quote serve in the U.S Senate it's not a close call watch you're running for a seat that could decide the balance of power in Washington what qualifies you to be a U.S senator you have 60 Seconds hi good night everybody what so that was the moment right at the top that you know this was not a debate like the debates you'd seen before most debates feel pretty scripted in fact this debate actually was scripted John Federman had a script he was reading it but he was still incapable of following that script here for example is how fetterman responded to maybe the most obvious question of the night one he knew was coming and of course would have prepared for here's his answer you're saying tonight that you support fracking that you've always supported fracking but there is that 2018 interview that you said quote I don't support fracking at all so how do you square the two oh I I do support fracking and I don't I don't I support fracking and I stand and I do support fracking okay so a lot of conclusions here the most obvious why is Clifford Chen still practicing medicine if you're a physician are you allowed to lie for partisan reasons don't we have enough of that in this country should doctors be allowed to do that he clearly was lying that's not a man who can work with no restrictions in the U.S Senate far from it and everyone watching every honest person would come to that conclusion we could play you a lot of Clips like that you've probably seen them already today but not everyone is an honest person and to prove it we're going to show you how MSNBC covered this debate the moment it ended here is New York Magazine's Rebecca trayster clearly this was a candidate who was feeling stress and there was such intense scrutiny often ableist scrutiny on how he was going to communicate and he just did a debate in front of you know the nation you know an audience of anyone who could listen and it was so transparent he did fumble he did make verbal mistakes um you know and and it was all on view but the the you know I think it's also really interesting you played a lot of Clips there were moments where he was really strong including that Bernie Sanders clip including his very fluent and direct response on raising the minimum wage I thought was a really strong moment so we just keep Clips like that around Just for future historians to assess what went wrong in America and we wanted the hackiest possible response the most dishonest assessment ever offered of any public event and we just played it for you he was facing ableist scrutiny because we're literal and can't control ourselves you just heard her say that fetterman had a strong answer to a question talk about patronizing by the way well we thought we'd go and check what was his answer you can assess yourself whether this was quote strong here it is what do you say to small business owners who have told us that if the minimum wage were increased to 15 an hour it would put them out of business you have 30 seconds now we we all have to make sure that everyone that works is able to that's that's the most American bargain that if you work full-time you should be able to live in dignity as well true and I believe they haven't have any businesses being being uh you can't have businesses being subsidized by not paying individuals that just simply can't to pay their own way okay again we could fill the hour recapping John fetterman's sad responses but it's not really that surprising to anyone who's been following John fetterman for the past five months you knew that he was profoundly cognitively impaired and it turns out he is so you learn really not that much new about him what you learn is that everyone around him from his doctor to his wife to the media to the Democratic party they're all liars and they all just got caught lying the debate went on and on and on like this during Dr Oz's closing statement Federal began shouting uncontrollably about social security until the moderator hushed him really look it up the effect over an hour is to make you feel very sad for John fetterman this is humiliating the guy looked exactly like Billy Bob Thornton in the movie Sling Blade he really did he couldn't even read the canned lines his staff was writing for him it was pathetic you do wonder about his wife as he knew about Joe Biden's wife it seems cruel to do this to a man even for political power but again it's the media who covered John fetterman who should be the most ashamed they've known the truth for months with only one exception that would be NBC reporter Dasha burns the media lied to voters about it we don't know anything about dashu Burns but she at least tried to be sort of honest here's what she said after meeting John fetterman you'll hear he also still has some uh problems some challenges with speech and I'll say Katie that just in some of the small talk prior to uh the interview before the closed captioning was up and running it did seem that he had a hard time understanding our our conversations oh that's not allowed so here you have a young reporter who clear doesn't know the rules no matter what you actually see or experience or report you can't reveal anything that might hurt the fortunes of the democratic party that might slow down the team so clearly Dasher Burns hadn't gotten that memo and for daring to say that for honestly reporting what she saw liberals tried to destroy her Rebecca traced her again of New York Magazine said fetterman quote is not at all impaired he understands everything Molly Zhang fast said she spoke to fetterman and quote he understood everything I was saying and he was funny podcast hosts Kara Swisher this is like the this is like the worst people on social media wrote this on Twitter quote sorry to say but I talked to John fetterman for over an hour without stop or any AIDS and this is just nonsense maybe this reporter is just bad at Small Talk blame the girl will ya Kara Swisher of course and then Charlotte altar of Time Magazine whatever that is also interviewed fetterman recently she knew perfectly about using capacity they all did but Charlotte alter decided to cover for John fetterman because supporting the Democratic party is of course her job in the hours before the debate Charlotte altered did the bidding the direct bidding of the fetterman campaign by trying to lower expectations that was their goal and she worked on their behalf quote fetterman has never been a good debater Ultra added quote everyone will be watching for fetterman stroke symptoms I can tell you already what they are he sometimes says the slightly wrong word or conjugate something the wrong way okay they're not embarrassed they're caught working for a Democratic Senate campaign and they just shrug it off and keep going they never slow down so once fetterman got on stage there was really kind of no lying about it he humiliated himself the usual chorus piped up not to admit that they were wrong but to say yeah he's demented but it doesn't matter doesn't matter that he's totally incapable of thinking or speaking why because abortion abortion is more important than anything because it's not a child's sacrifice cult at all no it's not don't worry in response to a post stating the obvious that fetterman is totally impaired a lawyer at the Democratic party's main firm Perkins Coy sent this stalinist tweet quote his ability to protect a woman's right to choose is not in doubt this is a harmful tweet delete it delete it of course it's too important to note the obvious Senate Democrats tweeted effectively the same message after the debate quote Mehmet Oz is a grave threat to a woman's right to choose John Federer will fight to protect abortion access Nationwide that's their response to a guy who is literally incapable of talking so what do we learn from this we learn a couple of things most obviously it tells us that abortion is more important than anything else abortion is what really matters to the left and if you doubt that consider the case of 89 year old Dianne Feinstein supports supposedly represents the country's biggest state in the U.S Senate at this point everyone in Washington knows Dianne Feinstein isn't representing anyone she's no longer capable of recognizing old friends and in April the San Francisco Chronicle to its credit ran a story in which former staffers not political enemies but registered Democrats who voluntarily worked for Dianne Feinstein in which these people her friends described Dianne Feinstein's mental Decline and said that she was too senile to serve in the Senate so in response to that Nancy Pelosi dismissed their first-hand accounts as quote unconscionable and ridiculous not just wrong but immoral in other words shut up Dianne Feinstein is on our team and that's all that matters to emphasize that point yesterday Kamala Harris went on a tirade not about inflation or housing prices or fentanyl deaths of the Border or the looming nuclear with Russia but about the thing that matters most to her and all of them which is abortion watch this laws that are being proposed that would punish women who dare to exercise self-determination and make decisions about what they know to be in their best self-interest because apparently there are some I call them extremist so-called leaders who have decided they're in a better position than she is to make decisions about what's in her best interest how dare they I think that we need to take back the flag on this issue this is about freedom and liberty oh it's about freedom of Liberty this is the childless middle-aged lady who forced women across the country out of their jobs because they wouldn't take the vaccine that she was pushing on them suddenly it's their body their choice again right Barack Obama cut an ad for John federburst a few days ago he's not ashamed to do that his argument of course abortion again watch in Pennsylvania you've got some important choices to make this year including who represents you in the U.S Senate that's why I'm asking you to vote for John fetterman this election day November 8th so when the fate of our democracy and a woman's right to choose are on the line I know John will fight for pennsylvanians you can count on John fetterman make sure he can count on you so it all goes back to that one issue it always does why is that we're not exactly sure but it's hard not to notice that it does but there's something bigger going on here fetterman's candidacy like Joe Biden's candidacy two years ago tells us something pretty dark about the Democratic Party what it tells us is the Democratic party has such contempt for voters and for democracy itself and so much confidence in its ownership of the media end of big Tech that it no longer has to try to win your votes Democrats can run Raphael Warnock an aggressively anti-christian fake Christian Pastor whose wife detailed abuse allegations against him on camera and that's okay it's still good enough for a senate seat in Georgia because the machine keeps working it's not about the person it's about the party it's not about the individual it's about the group and to prove it they can even run mentally defective candidates you can barely speak and only expect them to win but expect you to accept the outcome no matter how transparently absurd it is on November 9th they'll be telling you that John fetterman got 81 million votes in Pennsylvania and they'll threaten to put you in jail if you don't believe it why wouldn't they do that it worked with Joe Biden subscribe to the Fox News YouTube channel to catch our nightly opens stories that are changing the world and changing your life from Tucker Carlson tonight

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Length: 15min 40sec (940 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 27 2022