WaPo reporter deletes quote of Sen. Fetterman that didn't quite match what he actually said

Doug P. | 9:21 AM on May 17, 2023

Yesterday at a Senate Committee hearing Sen. Jon Fetterman was having a lot of trouble conveying his question (to say the least) for a witness, but here’s how Washington Post White House economic reporter Jeff Stein quoted the Pennsylvania Democrat:

Well he deleted the tweet. So here’s the screenshot pic.twitter.com/WTeQo8aIq4

— Andrew Wimsatt 🖐 (@ajwimsatt) May 17, 2023

That tweet with a still photo was up for quite a while as many noticed that the quote was far from what Fetterman actually said.

This isn't Senator Fetterman's actual quote. This isn't journalism. https://t.co/L7NCmio08l

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 16, 2023

There’s a reason Jeff doesn’t post the video and edits the transcript… https://t.co/1WfR1w0BB3

— Ahmed Al Assliken 🍑👅 (@assliken) May 16, 2023

If Fetterman was a Republican we’re pretty sure the tweeted quote would have been much closer to being accurate. Look at the Post reporter’s tweeted quote above and then compare it to what Fetterman actually said:

I transcribed it. It's nonsense. Enjoy:

Is. Is it staggering? Is it a staggering a res uh responsibility that ju that a head of a bank could literally could literally crash our economy? It's astonishing. That's like if you have I mean like uh uh and and they also realizes that…

— TexasSloopy (@SloopyTexas) May 16, 2023

Is. Is it staggering? Is it a staggering a res uh responsibility that ju that a head of a bank could literally could literally crash our economy? It’s astonishing. That’s like if you have I mean like uh uh and and they also realizes that that that now they have it’s in-, in- guaranteed, a guaranteed way to be saved again by a no matter, by no mat, by, by how? You know, so it’s, it’s, you know isn’t it appropriate that the uh that those kind of controls should be were stricter? To prevent this kind of thing from willing? Or should we just go on start bailing and sailing whoever bank regardless of how, how raaaare rare theirs their conduct is?
Who you know I’ll give you an example. Uh, the republicans want to give a work requirement for SNAP. You know for a uh uh uh uh a hungry family has to have these this kind of penalties or these some kinds of wooooord or working uh require shouldn’t you have some kind of working required suu after we sail your bank uh billions of your bank? Because you seem we were preoccupied uh when uh then SNAP uh requirements for works for uh hungry people but not about pro, protecting the tax, tax papers you know that will bail them out of whatever does about a bank to crash it. ::shrugs:: Chair.