Ye shall criticize no candidate on the Left, and if you do, we will smite you with the "ist" word
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and to call this woman a liar, a fraud and rotten commie rat is to reveal yourself to be a racist, fatphobiast — and a rotten human being
To notice that John Fetterman can’t think is “ablest” — HOW DARE YOU!!!
Matt Margolis, PJ Media
According to ABC News and the New York Times, disability advocacy groups are also crying foul because Fetterman’s stroke has been used to question his fitness for the office he’s seeking.
“Disabled activists say persistent, ongoing jabs about Fetterman’s condition despite his perseverance on the campaign trail highlight the ways in which ableism turns a condition someone is experiencing into a weapon to be used against them to make assumptions about their abilities,” the ABC News report claims.
Reports like this give me déjà vu. Remember the Obama years, when anyone who didn’t support him was a racist? John Fetterman can’t play the race card, but now that polls have tightened, voters are being pounded with the message that if you don’t support Fetterman because you’re concerned about his ability to serve, you’re “ableist.”
That Fetterman has refused to release his medical records to prove his fitness for office, only releasing a dubious note from his doctor, who also happens to be a big-time Democrat donor — a detail the ABC News report conveniently ignores.
Fetterman’s disastrous debate performance was Fetterman’s moment to prove he was fit for office, and he failed. It was arguably disqualifying. And frankly, the defense he’s getting from the left is hypocritical.
As John Podhoretz noted in an article in the New York Post, then-Texas governor Rick Perry destroyed his presidential campaign eleven years ago during a primary debate after failing to recall one of the three government agencies he vowed to eliminate if he was elected president. This was a fundamental tenet of his campaign, and his failure to recall one of the agencies raised legitimate questions about Perry’s candidacy. As Podhoretz noted, “Debates provide an opportunity for voters to see their representatives in action, forced to think quickly on their feet and respond to unexpected questions,” and Perry failed the test.
Likewise, Fetterman failed the test. His brain shut down several times during the debate, but that brainlock was most obvious when he was asked to reconcile his two opposing views on fracking: against it in 2018, and for it in the election year 2022. He understood the question: hell, he could read on his teleprompter, but what he could do was think of an answer. That’s sad, but it certainly raised a legitimate question about his competency to serve as a United States senator. Let’s go to the videotape:
When did “abiiist” become a thing, and when will it extend to Republicans?
And earlier, In 2014, the MSNBC host Mitchell apologized after referring to Abbott's 'supposed disability.'
The blunder (sic) came when she was interviewing Abbott's campaign opponent Wendy Davis, whose ad showed a picture of an empty wheelchair.
