dagblog - Comments for "Pete Buttigieg’s High Hopes" http://dagblog.com/link/pete-buttigieg-s-high-hopes-29757 Comments for "Pete Buttigieg’s High Hopes" en Another long bio piece: How http://dagblog.com/comment/274213#comment-274213 <a id="comment-274213"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/pete-buttigieg-s-high-hopes-29757">Pete Buttigieg’s High Hopes</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Another long bio piece: <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/12/18/pete-buttigieg-background-harvard-president-2020-086640">How Harvard Made Pete ​Buttigieg the Moderate That Progressives Love to Hate</a></p> <p>By Michael Kruse @ Politico Magazine, Dec. 18</p> <p><em>A bitter presidential election, a terrorist attack, two wars and four years in Cambridge forged the centrist message propelling Buttigieg’s rise.</em></p> </div></div></div> Thu, 19 Dec 2019 06:48:43 +0000 artappraiser comment 274213 at http://dagblog.com God forbid he ate at Chick http://dagblog.com/comment/274162#comment-274162 <a id="comment-274162"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/comment/274159#comment-274159">The Problematic Pete Wars</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>God forbid he ate at Chick Fil A. </p> </div></div></div> Wed, 18 Dec 2019 08:02:41 +0000 PeraclesPlease comment 274162 at http://dagblog.com The Problematic Pete Wars http://dagblog.com/comment/274159#comment-274159 <a id="comment-274159"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/pete-buttigieg-s-high-hopes-29757">Pete Buttigieg’s High Hopes</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://thebulwark.com/the-problematic-pete-wars/">The Problematic Pete Wars</a></p> <p><em>The very online left is very annoyed with Mayor Pete.</em></p> <p>By Tim Miller @ TheBulwark.com<em>,</em> Dec. 6</p> <blockquote> <p>Last week a problematic photo of Pete Buttigieg “surfaced” on Twitter dot com.</p> <p>Problematic photos and videos about Mayor Pete seem to be “surfacing” to political reporters all the time these days, framed as if they were <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/12/13/16767626/what-is-a-milkshake-duck">Milkshake Cicadas</a> randomly emerging from the ground to serve their earthly purpose as objects of cancelation. After all, something “surfacing” sounds more scandalous and newsworthy than writing what’s rather obvious: that a political adversary is texting reporters clips they’ve found following a period of oppo diving on Twitter’s advanced search.</p> <p>So what did this shocking surfaced photo reveal? Was Pete present at a cross burning? Was he grabbing a woman by the pussy? Had he “darkened his face” on several occasions? Was he wearing these <a href="https://twitter.com/BlueSpaceHunter/status/1189981388172345344">absolutely hideous pants</a> again?</p> <p>No. Please brace yourself for the horrifying truth.</p> <p>An earmuff-clad Pete Buttigieg stood in the cold outside a South Bend restaurant asking people to donate money to those in need. And he did so with—dun dunh <em>DUNNNHHHH</em> . . .</p> <p>THE SALVATION ARMY.</p> <p>You might think that this absurd attack on Buttigieg would be met by widespread guffaws. But that wasn’t the case. At least one of Mayor Pete’s foes thought it was a big enough problem to share it with <em>Out</em>. Then NBC <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCOUT/status/1202374780575526914">picked up the story unironically</a>. And then <a href="https://twitter.com/ira/status/1201995408425156608">liberal</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ProudResister/status/1202041024744316928">commentators</a> shared it in concurrence as did a whole spate of left-wing Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1202014500896960513">power users</a>, with one blue checkmark instructing Buttigieg that it’s “<a href="https://twitter.com/kincairm/status/1202050649740984321">time to drop out, sis</a>.” [.....]</p> </blockquote> </div></div></div> Wed, 18 Dec 2019 07:27:35 +0000 artappraiser comment 274159 at http://dagblog.com