The hosts of The View attempted to reverse the recent coverage of senatorial candidate John Fetterman (D-PA) on Thursday’s episode.
Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin turned their attention to NBC’s Dasha Burns, who interviewed Fetterman and claimed it was difficult for him to understand small talk. Burns was the first to interview Fetterman in-person on television. Hostin claimed it was “inappropriate” for Burns to comment on his competence at all.
“Maybe she’s bad at small talk,” Goldberg said. “Maybe it was her.”
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Goldberg was inadvertently paraphrasing the same argument made by Kara Swisher of the New York Times. Swisher similarly decided that Burns is “just bad at small talk” and that her reporting is “nonsense.”
“Maybe it’s her,” Hostin said in return. The former lawyer went on to defend Fetterman, who required a transcription device during his interview with Burns.
“I don’t know about everybody else, but I love closed captions. I watch all my series [with] closed captions because I can’t sometimes understand the accents that people are using. And I don’t understand things,” Hostin said. “And it’s very helpful in terms of processing. And I don’t have a cognitive disorder.”
Fetterman still slurred some words during his interview ahead of his battle against Mehmet Oz for the open Senate seat in the Keystone State, with a single debate between the two candidates scheduled for Oct. 25 in Harrisburg.
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The RealClearPolitics polling average shows Fetterman with a 3.7 percentage point lead over Oz, down from an 8.7 percentage point lead two months ago. RCP has rated the race as a “toss-up.”
