"Back in June, in a fairly typical utterance, Fetterman spoke in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee about the collapse of a section of I-95 in Pennsylvania: “Uh, no, I, I, I, uh, would, would, would just, ah, um, really like ta, y’know, the 95, 95, 95. Y’know. Um, y’know, obviously, that, y’know, you’re pretty much preoccupied with, with the 95, and I certainly am too, and you know it’s a major, uh, atery [sic], na-, not just for, for Pennsylvania, but for the east, the east coast. And, Penn- a lot of Pennsylvanians are worried that the delays and repairs bring to its standstill deal.”
Not only that. Back in February, the New York Times revealed that Fetterman had difficulty understanding what people say and likened his condition to “trying to make out the muffled voice of the teacher in the ‘Peanuts’ cartoon, whose words could never be deciphered.” He had this condition for a long while: since he couldn’t understand spoken questions during his debate with Dr. Mehmet Oz in 2022, he was given the questions on a closed-caption system. Dasha Burns of NBC News stated afterward that when the closed-captioning was off, “it wasn’t clear he was understanding our conversation.”
Last Tuesday, however, when a reporter asked Fetterman about the Biden impeachment, he understood every word and responded immediately with a sarcastic display of anxiety. And that’s the real story here: when did Fetterman become able to understand spoken speech again? When did he become able to formulate coherent responses? To be sure, he said little about the impeachment beyond “It’s devastating” and “Don’t do it,” but even in that, he sounded more in command of his faculties than he ever did during the 2022 campaign or in the Senate at the beginning of the year."
"Back in June, in a fairly typical utterance, Fetterman spoke in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee about the collapse of a section of I-95 in Pennsylvania: “Uh, no, I, I, I, uh, would, would, would just, ah, um, really like ta, y’know, the 95, 95, 95. Y’know. Um, y’know, obviously, that, y’know, you’re pretty much preoccupied with, with the 95, and I certainly am too, and you know it’s a major, uh, atery [sic], na-, not just for, for Pennsylvania, but for the east, the east coast. And, Penn- a lot of Pennsylvanians are worried that the delays and repairs bring to its standstill deal.”
Not only that. Back in February, the New York Times revealed that Fetterman had difficulty understanding what people say and likened his condition to “trying to make out the muffled voice of the teacher in the ‘Peanuts’ cartoon, whose words could never be deciphered.” He had this condition for a long while: since he couldn’t understand spoken questions during his debate with Dr. Mehmet Oz in 2022, he was given the questions on a closed-caption system. Dasha Burns of NBC News stated afterward that when the closed-captioning was off, “it wasn’t clear he was understanding our conversation.”
Last Tuesday, however, when a reporter asked Fetterman about the Biden impeachment, he understood every word and responded immediately with a sarcastic display of anxiety. And that’s the real story here: when did Fetterman become able to understand spoken speech again? When did he become able to formulate coherent responses? To be sure, he said little about the impeachment beyond “It’s devastating” and “Don’t do it,” but even in that, he sounded more in command of his faculties than he ever did during the 2022 campaign or in the Senate at the beginning of the year."