This is a rush transcript of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on October 12, 2022. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS CHANNEL HOST: Good evening and welcome to TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT.
John Fetterman is a trust fund kid. He took money from his parents deep into middle age when he decided finally what he would like to do with the rest of his life, which is to be the US Senator from Pennsylvania. The problem is, fate intervened and he can now no longer speak. He had a bad stroke and we feel bad about that, everyone does. But because of that stroke, Fetterman now needs electronic assistance in order to communicate with other people.
He can’t talk on his own. It’s not a right-wing conspiracy theory. It’s not QAnon. It’s real. In fact, it’s so real, his campaign concedes that it’s real. That it is true.
Fetterman uses a software program to understand the words of those around him and to formulate his responses to those words. In other words, to talk.
Now, to be perfectly clear, this software is not a hearing aid. Fetterman doesn’t need a hearing aid because he isn’t deaf. He’s not hearing impaired. Instead, this program takes words and then rearranges them into language that John Fetterman can understand because his brain can no longer do that for him.
That’s sad. For transhumanists, though, it is thrilling. This is an amazing moment. This is Neil Armstrong on the moon. Here you have one of the most famous politicians in the country merging…
