“It was painful to watch Fetterman,” Dr. Phil said during a recent episode of āThe Joe Rogan Experience.ā The celebrity psychologist Dr. Phil told Joe Rogan that it was clear that there was something wrong with Pennsylvania Democrat U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman. After Fetterman debated recently against Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican challenger, Dr. Phil made remarks on those comments, and the overwhelming reaction to the debate was that it was a disaster for Fetterman, who is recovering from a stroke. WATCH THE VIDEO:
āIt might just be f***ing propaganda, itās so dangerous some of the gaslighting that youāre seeing,ā said Rogan. āIām sure you saw that debate between Dr. Oz and that guy Fetterman for the Pennsylvania Senate. And the gentleman Fetterman had a stroke five months ago. And heās clearly compromised, to the point where while heās communicating, heās not just stumbling. He is kind of lost in thought and canāt form a coherent sentence and bounces around from it. He looks, he looks troubled. And I was watching MSNBC and they were trying to say, āwell, I mess up sometimes when I talk and you know, I misspeak and I stumble on my words,’ā Rogan added.
Rogan then continued, saying: āOf course you do, everybody does, weāre human. I do it all the time.ā āBut thereās a big difference between the overall one hour debate. Youāre looking at a guy who seems to have something really wrong with his brain. And for you to gaslight and pretend thatās not the case just because it doesnāt fit with your narrative, thatās not news. Thatās propaganda and itās f***ing dangerous,ā the host explained.
āYeah,ā Dr. Phil responded. āI hate to see him do that and look I, I havenāt done any testing on Fetterman or President Biden. But it seems to me that President Biden is not at his best and that Fetterman is not at his best,ā said Dr. Phil .
āAnd thatās been very charitable,ā said Rogan.
āAnd Iām not trying to be unkind. He had a stroke,ā said Dr. Phil .
āI mean, the poor guy, he had a stroke. And heās gonna have to rehabilitate. And I hope heās able to do that.ā he added, said the report.
Rogan then went on, saying: āBut why did they think that they could put him out there on a huge stage like that, and not have those, like, thereās interviews before that showed this where he used a teleprompter during interviews, where when he was asked questions, he was allowed to look at a screen and read his responses off. And even then he struggled, he struggled to form coherent sentences, while having the responses to each individual question laid out for him in a way that he could read. And this is not against the guy. I donāt know, I donāt know anything about this guy. I really donāt. I just know heās the Democrat candidate. But what youāre seeing is a guy whoās got a problem with his brain, that guy should be rehabilitating. He shouldnāt be getting forced into an incredibly high stress job in a public display, where you know, itās humiliating.ā
āWell, I think he shows great courage to get up there and do it,ā Dr. Phil said.
āJust ask yourself,ā Dr. Phil continued. āLetās say you were getting on an airplane and the airline pilot had had a similar cognitive impairment. Would you get on? Well, hell no.ā