MAYOR PETE GOES AFTER FOX ON THEIR OWN NETWORK

…The Mayor of South Bend, ID., Pete Buttigieg.

Pete Buttigieg goes after Fox's Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham.

Chris Wallace, a Fox moderator had the South Bend, Id. Mayor, Pete Buttigieg, on Fox News, and President Trump tweeted that they wasted time having “Mayor Pete” on the air.  Of course, the president always has to Tweet when Fox isn’t praising his butt.  Trump obviously feels that giving any air time to any Democratic is a waste of time.

Just because Fox & Friends kisses Trump’s ass every morning, he basically thinks that all other news operations, including TV, radio and even newspapers should have “Fake News” in their name or banner title.  He has also suggested that “Fox News” should be called, “Trump News”.

But “Mayor Pete” is a convincing individual and he is knowable, well-spoken and an excellent orator.  He doesn’t hold back, as he criticizes Fox, saying that the Fox “talking head” Tucker Carlson, had said that “immigrants made the United States dirtier,” and he noted that that the other Fox “talking head” Laura Ingraham, once “compared border detention centers for migrant children to Summer Camps.”  Yes, the mayor emphasized that statement by repeating…….“SUMMER CAMPS!”

Per Mayor Pete, “There is a reason why anybody has to swallow hard and think twice before participating in this [Fox] media ecosystem,”

Still, the mayor said he thinks that many people who tune in to the network are doing so “in good faith” and that he wants to be willing to meet all voters, wherever they are.

“There are a lot of Americans who my party can’t blame if they are ignoring our message, because they will never hear it if we don’t go on [Fox] and talk about it," Buttigieg said.

You could see people in the Mayor’s audience shaking their head in agreement with him when the mayor criticized the Fox personnel for what they said that was both wrong and insulting.

When Wallace asked the mayor whether Trump should be impeached, Buttigieg said there was no question that Trump’s behavior was “beyond the pale,” but he said it would be up to Congress to decide whether the president should be removed from office.

Buttigieg, a military veteran, also accused the Trump administration, in particular, national security adviser John Bolton, of “saber-rattling” at both Venezuela and Iran, and at the risk of leading the United States into a war.

When Wallace pointed out that his next question wasn’t hypothetical, saying 6,000 women have third-trimester abortions each year.  Buttigieg noted that that represented less than 1% of all women who have abortions.

“We’re talking about women who have perhaps chosen a name, women who have purchased a crib,” he said.

Those women, he continued, probably had been expecting to carry their babies to term but had received medical news that forced them “to make an impossible, unthinkable choice.”

“The bottom line is, as horrible as that choice is, that woman, that family may seek spiritual guidance, they may seek medical guidance, but that decision is not going to be made any better, medically or morally, because the government is dictating how that decision is going to be made.”

Buttigieg’s campaign had held firm to its commitment to hold a town hall event on Fox News, which was scheduled before Elizabeth Warren had publicly announced her decision to decline one.  Other Democratic candidates have had mixed reactions to the network, which because of the Fox bias to both Donald Trump and the GOP.  The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has banned Fox from taking part in their primary debates.

When Wallace asked how Buttigieg would handle Trump’s insults, attacks and tweets, the candidate started to respond with a statement, but he stopped, took a deep breath and stated with a definite final declaration:  “The tweets are………I DON’T CARE!   The audience cheered, and at the end of the interview, the Fox audience ultimately gave Buttigieg a rousing send-off with a standing ovation, which seemed to surprise Chris Wallace.  “Wow, a standing ovation,” Wallace said as they signed off.

Of course, per a jealous Trump Tweet:

Hard to believe that @FoxNews is wasting airtime on Mayor Pete, as Chris Wallace likes to call him. Fox is moving more and more to the losing (wrong) side in covering the Dems. They got dumped from the Democrats boring debates, and they just want in. They forgot the people who got them there. Chris Wallace said, “I actually think, whether you like his opinions or not, that Mayor Pete has a lot of substance...fascinating biography.” Gee, he never speaks well of me - I like Mike Wallace better...and Alfred E. Newman [Mayor Pete] will never be President!

Trump is right that it would be a major long-shot if “Mayor Pete” were to become the Democratic nominee.  But he has shown something that the other Democratic candidates have failed to do, and that is to go after some of the Fox dishonest statements, and to do it while on the Fox Network.

Hopefully, more Democratic candidates will also appear on Fox and will go after some of the fibs that are offered daily to the Fox crowd on the Fox network.

Copyright G. Ater 2019