{"id":84467,"date":"2023-02-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84467"},"modified":"2023-02-13T10:47:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T16:47:44","slug":"84467","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84467","title":{"rendered":"Into A Void Of Their Own Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So we learned – after<\/em> the 2020 eection, naturally – that if the whole population had heard about the Hunter Biden laptop story, enough Biden voters would have switched to Trump to have created a bit of a landslide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, whew, good thing the media and big tech hushed up the story, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the Minnesota media did <\/em>cover Mark Dayton’s myriad physical and mental health issues – in January, 2010, about nine months before anyone in Minnesota cared about the election, which Dayton won over Tom Emmer, largely due to the presence of potemkin Republican, Tom Horner, but significantly because the media refused to report anything non-regal about Dayton other than long before anyone cared or long after it mattered anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ilhan Omar’s family and financial issues? Mitch, please. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, we learn that the media – this is shocking, I know – sat on the details of John Fetterman’s stroke until Pennsylvania was safe from the scourge of (checks notes<\/em>) Mehmet Oz<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mr. Fetterman declined to be interviewed for this story. But aides and confidantes describe his introduction to the Senate as a difficult period, filled with unfamiliar duties that are taxing for someone still in recovery: meetings with constituents, attending caucus and committee meetings, appearing in public at White House events and at the State of the Union address, as well as making appearances in Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most evident disability is a neurological condition that impairs his hearing. Mr. Fetterman suffers from auditory processing issues, forcing him to rely primarily on a tablet to transcribe what is being said to him. The hearing issues are inconsistent; they often get worse when he is in a stressful or unfamiliar situation. When it\u2019s bad, Mr. Fetterman has described it as trying to make out the muffled voice of the teacher in the \u201cPeanuts\u201d cartoon, whose words could never be deciphered. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Nick Coleman used to claim the conservative bloggers that so bedeviled him were “trying to shut down the Strib”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn’t entirely true – back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today? That’s the kindest possible interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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