On Wednesday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell went into damage-control mode in the aftermath of Tuesday night’s Pennsylvania Senate debate where Democrat candidate John Fetterman proved to everyone watching that he is incapacitated from the stroke he suffered last spring, and is unqualified to serve in the United States Senate. Knowing that O’Donnell used the opening monologue of his show to compare Fetterman’s illness to former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
“Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had the good fortune to serve as the highest elected officials in their countries, long before television news could cover their every move and long before Twitter could have people pumping out of their instant reactions to their public appearances,” O’Donnell whined in an apparent attempt to excuse the fact that Fetterman can’t put a coherent sentence together.
“Franklin Delano Roosevelt believed that it would be painful to watch him, being lifted in and out of a car by Secret Service agents so he never allowed cameras to capture that. Elaborate steps were taken when his train would arrive or depart so that he could be transferred from the car to the train, lifted in and out, without anyone seeing and without anyone thinking that it was painful to watch,” O’Donnell continued.
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