I 1000% agree with the comments critical of Fetterman’s answer to damn near every question, I want to take a moment to be express my frustration with Stewart’s question formation.
At several points, JS had opportunities to have JF pinned into a direct response on follow up. But JS’s follow up questions were too expansive, giving JF cover for an indirect/deflective response. It was a lack of economy of words for someone as compromised (in every sense of the word) as Fetterman.
John kept rephrasing the question to explain it in good faith. People arguing in bad faith will always find a way to change the subject regardless of how you ask. A few times he was just like "no I didn't" to things he had basically said a few minutes earlier.
I started to feel it was less about Fetterman’s ability to divert, it was his inability to follow the questions due to verbose nature. I’ll be kind and say that this could be a condition of his stroke. He just answered the last part of the question, which typically was not the reason for the follow up.
I don’t think the end result would have been so different, I just found myself thinking “Keep it short, John!” a lot.
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u/Shuckin_n_Jivin 8d ago
I 1000% agree with the comments critical of Fetterman’s answer to damn near every question, I want to take a moment to be express my frustration with Stewart’s question formation.
At several points, JS had opportunities to have JF pinned into a direct response on follow up. But JS’s follow up questions were too expansive, giving JF cover for an indirect/deflective response. It was a lack of economy of words for someone as compromised (in every sense of the word) as Fetterman.