Fox News host blames John Fetterman's hospitalization on a “cruel political calculation by a stage wife”

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Citation From the February 17, 2023, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle

LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): I guess the allure of power is too great for compassion and common sense in these cases. Because these women are pushing their men beyond their limits. Not out of a devotion to their constituents, but due to these women's own desire for political power and prestige. 

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Now, while a lot of details aren't there yet, the media quickly moved to minimize the medical developments themselves. This from Rolling Stone: "John Fetterman joins John McCain, Donald Trump, Patrick Leahy, and countless other politicians who have sought treatment at a hospital." Okay. Is that what's going on, just treatment at a hospital?

Then there was the effort to frame this as some brave and vulnerable act. Not anything that would be considered craven or a cruel political calculation by a stage wife and political nihilist.