Whoopi Goldberg Suggests NBC Reporter Might Be at Fault for Fetterman Apparently Struggling to Understand ‘Small Talk’
The co-hosts of ABC’s “The View” are joining the ranks of those questioning a reporter’s decision to share that Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman (D) struggled to understand small talk. During a segment on…
The co-hosts of ABC’s “The View” are joining the ranks of those questioning a reporter’s decision to share that Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman (D) struggled to understand small talk.
During a segment on Thursday, co-host Sara Haines noted, “The auditory processing doesn’t matter if it’s a short sentence or a long sentence, simple words or complex words. It’s an auditory processing problem.”
“So unless she was speaking small talk in closed captions, he was not going to understand. That’s the issue,” she added.
Sunny Hostin chimed in to suggest it was “inappropriate” for NBC’s Dasha Burns to mention the Senate hopeful’s struggle to understand the small talk after his stroke.
That led Whoopi Goldberg to interject, “Maybe she’s bad at small talk. Maybe it was her.”
Other journalists have criticized Burns for her comment as they explained they did not have a similar experience with Fetterman.
“Maybe it’s her,” Hostin seemed to agree as she suggested it was odd to bring up small talk.
She added, “I don’t know about everybody else, but I love closed caption. I watch all my series closed caption because I can’t sometimes understand the accents that people are using. And I don’t understand things. And it’s very helpful in terms of processing. And I don’t have a cognitive disorder.”
There is a little bit of a difference between using closed captions to understand a TV show with music and bad sound mixing, and using closed captions to understand when someone is in the room speaking to you face-to-face.