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Wired mocked for fawning Pete Buttigieg profile: ‘Tiger Beat-level fan drivel’
NY Post ^ | 5/18/23 | Emily Crane

Posted on 05/18/2023 12:42:33 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Commentators were left aghast Thursday after Wired magazine published a fawning, over-the-top profile of much-maligned Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — with many seriously questioning whether the piece was satire.

Buttigieg, 41, was trending on Twitter after the article by veteran journalist Virginia Heffernan — titled “Pete Buttigieg Loves God, Beer, and His Electric Mustang” — went up online.

Critics were quick to point out that the puff piece largely failed to mention controversial issues that have dogged Buttigieg’s time as transportation secretary — including supply-chain problems, en masse flight delays and cancellations, and his handling of February’s toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

The gushing piece instead turned on Buttigieg’s thoughts on his faith, masculinity and how the US military sometimes “comes under attack from the far right.”

At one point, during the masculinity digression, the former South Bend, Ind., mayor bizarrely volunteered his preferred burger choice

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: buttigieg; tigerbeat; virginiahefferman
I wish I could do meme's, but I could see a meme with the Tiger Beat font with saying, "Wired, with a picture of Buttigieg and the headline, "Petey isn't he a cutie."

I know bizzare, mods pull if you wish.

1 posted on 05/18/2023 12:42:33 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

This is the kind of thing state run media and communists do. The Gov probably wrote it and directed Wired to publish it.... which they would happily do.


2 posted on 05/18/2023 12:44:57 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: DallasBiff

The Dems are trying to groom this incompetent homo to be a future candidate for them. Good luck with that.


3 posted on 05/18/2023 12:46:50 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: DallasBiff

I wonder if Virginia Heffernan, the author of the puff piece, was trying to woo Buttigieg much like Jean Carroll tried with Anderson Cooper.


4 posted on 05/18/2023 12:48:46 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: DallasBiff

So you’re telling me butt-plug drinks beer? Sure.


5 posted on 05/18/2023 12:49:56 PM PDT by oil_dude
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To: DallasBiff

Electric Mustang... what a joke. That’s no Mustang. Fitting, for this effeminate loser


6 posted on 05/18/2023 12:53:20 PM PDT by AnglePark (My opinion is the most worthless thing I own.)
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To: oil_dude

“So you’re telling me butt-plug drinks beer?”

Butt Lite

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7 posted on 05/18/2023 12:54:20 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: DallasBiff

“The gushing piece instead turned on Buttigieg’s thoughts on his faith, masculinity...”

Right, because everyone wants to hear a preening fairy’s take on faith and masculinity.


8 posted on 05/18/2023 1:31:31 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: DallasBiff

Come on, quit picking on him, he is more than likely still suffering from postpartum depression after having a baby


9 posted on 05/18/2023 1:32:30 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: DallasBiff
He’s gay. So he’s Faaabbbbuulious!
10 posted on 05/18/2023 1:41:24 PM PDT by sjmjax
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