‘Daily Show’ Delivers Passionate Defense of Fetterman

On The Every day Present Wednesday night time, Trevor Noah took on the John Fetterman interview that “has everybody speaking” this week. And he made it very clear the place he stands on the Democratic Senate candidate’s potential to serve the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania regardless of nonetheless not having totally recovered from his stroke.

After taking part in an prolonged clip from the NBC Information interview, wherein Fetterman was open about the necessity to use a stay closed captioning system to learn the questions because the reporter was asking them and could possibly be seen stumbling over the phrase “empathetic,” Noah addressed these on the suitable—and elsewhere—who’re saying this implies he’s “not match” for the Senate.

Whereas he understands that political figures will “bounce on any weak spot” of their opponent, Noah mentioned, “Let’s be actual, individuals, if stumbling over a phrase each from time to time disqualified you from politics, America wouldn’t have had a president for the previous six years.” And whereas Fetterman stopped to right himself, the host joked that Biden “wouldn’t have seen” and Trump “would have tried to persuade us that he obtained the phrase proper.”

Noah additionally didn’t discover Fetterman’s must learn captions a “deal breaker,” saying, “I feel America wants extra individuals in politics who truly know find out how to learn,” as pictures of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Herschel Walker appeared on the display.

However the host’s most impassioned argument got here when he explored what the “questions” about Fetterman’s well being say about America’s perspective towards disabilities extra broadly.

“I’m not vouching for Fetterman over Dr. Oz or something like that,” he insisted, “however I do suppose that this complete debate is veering into the territory of claiming that folks with disabilities can’t be lawmakers, which is trash.”

And that’s very true, Noah added, as a result of America has disabled lawmakers in Congress proper now, pointing to each Republicans like Dan Crenshaw, who misplaced an eye fixed, and Democrats like Tammy Duckworth, who misplaced each of her legs. “And Mitch McConnell, who’s actually melting on a regular basis,” he joked. “However has he let that maintain him again? No!”

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