John Vetterman was really no good for the Senate, but the press still pretends that

Senator John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) cannot be a United States Senator. Many knew this before he was elected. Some of them even said it before he was elected.

Those who did so were accused of “ableism,” meaning that they took it for granted that people running for senator must have the necessary physical and mental qualities to do the job of a senator.

Fetterman doesn’t have them, and quite possibly never will. He is often unable to understand voices because his brain is damaged, preventing him from processing what his ears hear. It’s not that his hearing is impaired, but that his cognition is impaired.

Even recent A bombastic New York Times article admits the voices sound to him like the adults in Peanuts cartoons – unintelligible noise – and his health problems have led to “physical impairments and serious mental health problems.”

Fetterman’s own doctors admitted that he was suffering from brain damage, and the medical letter that his campaign was “fit to serve” blossomed before the election came from a doctor who was also a major Democratic donor.

Last week, Fetterman was hospitalized for dizziness for fear of another stroke. After a couple of days he was released, but it is impossible to assess his condition, although The Times tried.

However, the Times tells us that while Fetterman did not want to be interviewed, “aides and confidants describe his entry into the Senate as a difficult period filled with unfamiliar duties that are burdensome for a man still in recovery.”

He “cannot participate in the brawls in the corridors with journalists, who are part of the daily lives of most lawmakers in the Capitol,” the newspaper notes. “Vetterman, who had reporters’ numbers on his cell phone as lieutenant governor and talked almost constantly to some of them, stopped talking to journalists, whose voices he often doesn’t hear in the noisy corridors.”

Well, another reason why Fetterman may have stopped talking to journalists is because they might say something unflattering. On October 7, NBC’s Dasha Burns interviewed him live and on camera. When she later told NBC’s Lester Holt that Fetterman seemed unable to follow the conversation, she was harassed by left-wing activists and her fellow journalists.

Her statement was called “shameful”, “garbage” and, of course, “ableist”. Savannah Guthrie denounced her live and in the pages of the Times.

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Her real sin, of course, was not etiquette or lack of compassion, but one that today’s media considers much more serious: she said something that could harm the Democratic candidate in an important election. This is the only truly unforgivable sin.

But no one really wants to openly admit that the press actively considers itself a group of Democratic Party activists, when in fact the press actively considers itself a group of Democratic Party activists.

Earlier, when I wrote for USA Today, I wrote a column about the media’s refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story that the paper had just broken. When I submitted it, the newspaper refused to publish it as scheduled; I was told that the tricky issues of journalistic ethics meant it would have to be reviewed by another editor next week.

There were no tricky questions of journalistic ethics. The laptop was obtained legally – not that the press was thinking about “hacking” information when it made Republicans look bad – and there was no serious doubt that it was Hunter Biden.

But with the election approaching, I suspect no one wanted a major national newspaper to report dramatic evidence of Biden family corruption and how the national media deliberately used it to influence the election. More like “We don’t want to publish this, and we don’t want our colleagues to criticize us for publishing it.”

(My reaction was to leave USA Today and start writing for The Post.)

For that matter, the press happily allowed Joe Biden to campaign from his basement, avoid any serious press interviews, and divert worries about his mental and physical health with talk of ageism and, you guessed it, ableism.

Of course, now that Biden seems to be becoming a liability to the party, it’s suddenly become normal to talk about his problems, and accusations of ableism and ageism, not to mention journalistic “ethics”, disappear. The etiquette and ethics of the press are flexible.

So watch out, Senator Fetterman. When they are ready to replace you, the tone will change overnight.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the blog InstaPundit.com.

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