Democrat John Fetterman’s Senate campaign in Pennsylvania is floundering down the stretch. It has become apparent that, having suffered a stroke recently, he is not well enough to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Now, NBC News has tried to help his campaign by censoring videos of Fetterman’s struggles on social media.
“Doctored videos exaggerate Fetterman speech issues in viral social media posts,” NBC’s Ben Goggin warns. Goggin is the “deputy editor for technology” for NBC News. It isn’t true.
As you can imagine, being a tech reporter for an establishment media outlet means Goggin wants to censor anything that will harm Democrats in the name of “misinformation,” and that is what he set out to do.
Instead of reporting on how Fetterman’s handlers are hiding him from the public as much as they can due to his clear inability to speak properly, NBC News is working with them to try and censor me because I tweeted videos exposing it.
Regime propagandists and enemy of the people pic.twitter.com/fLZkAYWS3n
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 14, 2022
Goggin “flagged” the videos to Twitter and TikTok, despairing that “despite policies on both platforms against political misinformation, the videos remained up for days and were shared by Fetterman’s critics.” TikTok, a Chinese spyware app, pulled the videos. Twitter didn’t “immediately respond.”
The videos were posted by Greg Price of X Strategies. One was of Fetterman speaking with the audience’s audio edited out (Price reposted it from TikTok). This was done so that viewers could focus on what Fetterman was saying (and struggling to say). Goggin thinks people are too stupid to understand that, instead claiming that the video was maliciously edited to make it look like Fetterman was just taking long pauses.
In case you were wondering why John Fetterman’s handlers won’t let him debate… pic.twitter.com/YXTkoweNBz
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 12, 2022
The other was a supercut — a common thing in media and social media to showcase highlights (or lowlights) of a politician’s speeches. You can see every cut in the video — there is no misinformation involved. But Goggin, apparently very eager to help Fetterman, claims falsely that it cuts off sentences to make Fetterman appear more incoherent than he is.
Here’s the first video they accuse me of doctoring. As you can see, nothing is doctored. I simply took things he said during a rally and edited them together into a Supercut.https://t.co/pQXAB734aQ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 14, 2022
But Fetterman is already incoherent enough in real life that no doctoring is or was needed.
Both videos accurately highlight that Fetterman struggles to speak more than a couple of words at a time, much less a few coherent sentences. Everyone knows this at this point, including Fetterman’s own team. That is why they have pushed back a debate with GOP challenger Mehmet Oz until well after the start of the early voting period.
Goggin knows this, too, which is why he wants the videos censored. Misinformation, according to many journalists, is anything that hurts a Democrat. Every public appearance by Fetterman that requires him to speak harms his campaign. Fetterman’s lead in the RealClearPolitics polling average is down to 6.2 points from the high double digits. He is in danger of losing his race, especially as more Pennsylvanians see him speaking.
These videos were not “doctored,” and they are not misinformation. They showcase a Democratic candidate’s limitations, though, which is good enough for NBC “journalists” to want them removed. Just as journalists flocked to declare Hunter Biden’s laptop Russian propaganda (and mock and censor the New York Post for reporting a real story), they want to label anything that harms a Democrat as misinformation.
