The liberal media didn’t care about the people of Pennsylvania being properly represented when they propped up struggling Democratic Senator John Fetterman’s candidacy; they certainly didn’t care about his health as the stress from the job and the recovery caused the Senator to check himself into Walter Reed Medical Center to treat his clinical depression. As some of his most outspoken supporters, The View spent part of their Friday show suggesting his hospitalization was a victory for transparency.
At the top of the segment, fill-in moderator Joy Behar suggested Fetterman’s admittance to Walter Reed showed just how far we’ve come in terms of politicians being honest about their health struggles:
There was a time we wouldn't have known this. When FDR was president, we concealed his affects from polio. He never was seen in public. He was on the radio and needed use a wheelchair, nobody knew that. JFK never revealed to the public that he had Addison's disease. So, I applaud Fetterman for being so upfront about this.
“Do you think it will inspire other people to speak up when they need help or will people try to use it against him?” Behar fretted to the rest of the cast.
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