Tag: Pete Buttigieg

YouTubeFormer Fox News gasbag Erick Erickson has had yet another online meltdown over Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg. Erickson, now spouting his claptrap on right-wing radio, took to his blog to skewer Buttigieg, claiming Donald Trump “has more humility” than the South Bend, IN Mayor and veteran. “President Trump has said more than once he has never felt the need to repent for anything,” Erickson writes. “Pete Buttigieg is a practicing homosexual who willfully refuses to recognize Holy Scripture identifies that...

Say what you will about out presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (and everyone has!), but one Twitter user has boiled down one major inconsistency between Mayor Pete’s gay supporters and the straight ones. While Buttigieg may have come out relatively late, some of us have been around a wee bit longer and know how youth-obsessed we can be. And how frequently younger guys have a thing for older men – “daddies.” (Older being relative sometimes, since actual age is frequently unimportant.) Compared...

In last night’s Democratic primary debate, former Vice President Joe Biden accidentally told his followers “go to Joe 3-0-3-3-0 and help me in this fight.” It was a mistake. Biden just got his actual web address — JoeBiden.com — mixed up with his text message campaign for followers — text “JOE” to 30330. But Pete Buttigieg quickly capitalized on Biden’s error, seizing the URL for Joe3030.com and redirecting it to his personal campaign website — a quality troll move that may...

The second round of debates for the herd of Democratic presidential candidates got underway last night. Unlike the current office holder, the ten wannabe presidents who gathered in Detroit demonstrated their seriousness about policy. In fact, that was the theme of the evening – parsing policy differences about health care, student debt forgiveness and foreign policy. The back and forth among the candidates was a window into the future of the Democratic party. The party has been drifting leftward recently–although not...

In a recent interview with Elle magazine, conservative political commentator Meghan McCain expressed support for Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg as possible 2020 challengers to Donald Trump. The interview mostly focuses on how McCain’s attempts to position herself as a self-assured conservative voice while not crumbing into sound-bite political tribalism. In its second-half, McCain discusses the Democratic presidential candidates who have gained her interest since she won’t be endorsing Trump. She didn’t endorse Trump in the 2016...

Longtime country radio host Blair Garner recently taped an interview with 2020 hopeful Pete Buttigieg, but listeners of the nationally syndicated program, which reaches nearly 200 cities, will never get to hear it. Garner says he was approached about doing an interview by the Buttigieg campaign. “Since Country music tends to lean in a conservative direction, I was surprised,” Garner wrote on social media afterward. “But more than surprised, I was EXTREMELY flattered.” “One of the few truly viable candidates in the...

A conservative network of radio stations is refusing to air an interview with South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D). The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate did an interview with Blair Garner on his Nash FM show. The show is usually about country music. Garner said that Buttigieg reached out to him. “I think that our base tends to be more conservative,” he said during the interview. “And the fact that you, from the Democratic ticket, are the singular candidate to reach out and...

For the mayor of a small midwestern city, Pete Buttigieg sure is a fundraising machine. He raised almost $25 million dollars for his presidential campaign in the second quarter of the year, raking in more money than any of his competitors, including former Vice President Joe Biden. Now Buttigieg has tapped into a rich vein of money: Hollywood donors. Apparently the combination of Buttigieg’s smarts and his historic campaign as the first major gay presidential candidate is enough to make...

It appears that Dale Peck, the gay writer who authored that homophobic hit piece about Pete Buttigieg published by The New Republic last week, can dish it out. But can he take it? Quick recap: In the piece, which was published Friday, Peck repeatedly refers to Mayor Pete as “Mary Pete” and “the gay equivalent of Uncle Tom,” fantasizes about his bedroom behaviors and preferred sexual positions, and suggests he shouldn’t be president because he would be too sexually promiscuous,...

The New Republic is facing major backlash after it published a homophobic hit piece on Pete Buttigieg written by gay YA novelist Dale Peck last Friday. The backlash became so severe that the site ultimately took down the post and replaced with an editor’s note that reads: “Dale Peck’s post ‘My Mayor Pete Problem’ has been removed from the site, in response to criticism of the piece’s inappropriate and invasive content. We regret its publication.” In the piece, Peck repeatedly refers...

This week Laganja Estranja spilled some major Drag Race tea, Juan Pablo Di Pace came out of the closet, Gus Kenworthy and Matt Wilkas went different ways, and Nicki Minaj said hell no to Saudi Arabia. Here’s what happened on Instagram: sported Earth tones. took his leather to the roof. picked fruit. took Wacha for a walk. threatened a fight. and found flowers. channeled Kate Moss. took a hike. showed off his progress. relaxed in Portofino. showed off...

The New Republic recently published a disgusting op-ed by gay writer Dale Peck in which he called Pete Buttigieg “Mary Pete” (instead of Mayor Pete), mused about his preferred role in anal sex and compared him to a underage minor who sleeps with a much older man. In Peck’s long, rambling diatribe —which has since been removed from the site with an editor’s note calling it “inappropriate and invasive” — he wrote this offensive passage: All this makes Mary Pete different...

Sean HayesContinuing his staggering fundraising haul, out-gay Democratic Presidential Candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg will hold a Los Angeles fundraiser July 25 hosted by Sean Hayes and Ellen DeGeneres. Kevin MacLellan, Chairman of Global and International distribution for NBCUniversal, will lend his Hancock Park home for the fundraiser. Tickets for the dinner run anywhere from $500 to $2,800 per person. In addition to DeGeneres & Hayes, comedienne Chelsea Handler, actor Jason Bateman and actress Portia Di Rossi–wife of DeGeneres–will also attend...

Pete Buttigieg is on a roll, at least financially. After a strong performance in the Democratic presidential debate, he announced that he had pulled in a massive $24.8 million in fundraising in the second quarter of this year. That’s more than three times his impressive haul in the first quarter and more than frontrunners Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. “The whole point of all that fundraising was to make sure that we have the organization we need to win,” Buttigieg...