An NBC reporter is enduring a liberal media onslaught over her interview of Pennsylvania Democratic Senate hopeful John Fetterman and her remark that he had difficulty understanding their conversation off-camera.
NBC correspondent Dasha Burns' remarks about Fetterman, who is recovering from a stroke he suffered earlier this year, have prompted a barrage of tweets blasting her judgment and journalism, as well as multiple reports from outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post and Associated Press about the backlash from the media and disability advocates. "When something turns people who are normally pretty lucid and rational completely hysterical, you know there's a real story there.
And when those same people tell you incessantly there's no story, you can guarantee it's worth exploring further," Fourth Watch newsletter editor Steve Krakauer wrote Wednesday. "That's why this John Fetterman 'closed captioning' uproar is so instructive - there's panic among supposed objective journalists." Dasha Burns interviews John Fetterman for NBC News. (NBC News / YouTube) Burns interviewed Fetterman, in a rare national TV appearance for the candidate, using closed captioning so he could better understand the questions.
It was his first in-person, one-on-one interview since his stroke, and Burns outraged liberals by pointing out it "wasn't clear he was understanding" their "small talk" conversation before the interview without closed captioning.