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Sunday night, Fox News continued its outreach to the political left by presenting another Democrat candidate in a televised town hall … this time–Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana. The Claremont, New Hampshire, audience was filled with supporters of the young candidate and they particularly liked it when Buttigieg blasted Fox News and the network’s prime time opinion hosts.
A question for the producer-types … wouldn’t these so-called town halls be for more interesting if they were actually attended by a cross-section of voters from across the political spectrum? Instead, we get people who react as if they are a game show audience reacting to and even reading from cue cards, waiting for their complementary goody bag of trinkets to be passed out after the lights go down.
Through the hour-long program, moderator Chris Wallace directed “Mayor Pete,” as he jovially called him, to talk about his youth, leadership experience, “inclusive” policy plans, abortion, drug addiction, and debt.
Toward the end of the love-fest, Buttigieg went after Fox News personalities Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham … among the network’s opinion hosts who were “not always there in good faith,” he said. He called out Carlson, for saying immigrants made the United States “dirtier” and Laura Ingraham, for once saying she would compare detention centers for migrant children to summer camps. “There is a reason why anybody has to swallow hard and think twice before participating in this media ecosystem,” Buttigieg said.
Wallace made no comment and provided no defense against the candidate’s criticisms of Fox News.