{"id":122806,"date":"2019-05-20T07:40:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=122806"},"modified":"2019-05-20T07:41:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:41:14","slug":"cultural-marxist-pete-buttigieg-predictably-tries-to-erase-thomas-jefferson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=122806","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Marxist Pete Buttigieg Predictably Tries to Erase Thomas Jefferson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Pete Buttigieg says &#8216;media noise machine&#8217; took Thomas Jefferson comments &#8216;out of control&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6038679112001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Town Hall with Pete Buttigieg: Part 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg gets personal during a lightning round with moderator Chris Wallace in Claremont, New Hampshire.<\/h5>\n<p class=\"speakable\">South Bend, Ind. Mayor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/pete-buttigieg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg<\/a>\u00a0told Fox News Sunday night that his comments about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/buttigieg-echoes-far-left-idea-of-renaming-things-named-after-thomas-jefferson-says-its-the-right-thing-to-do\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rechristening events named after Thomas Jefferson<\/a>\u00a0were &#8220;a great example &#8230; of how the media noise machine on the right wing takes things out of control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;You would have thought I had proposed blowing up the Jefferson Memorial in D.C.,&#8221; Buttigieg told moderator Chris Wallace during his Fox News town hall in Claremont, N.H.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Buttigieg discussed the Indiana Democratic Party&#8217;s decision to change the name of the traditional Jefferson-Jackson Dinner during a radio interview on &#8220;The Hugh Hewitt Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s the right thing to do,&#8221; said Buttigieg, who added: &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot, of course, to admire in his [Jefferson&#8217;s]\u00a0thinking and his philosophy, but then again if you plunge into his writings, especially the notes on the state of Virginia, you know that he knew slavery was wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg added that &#8220;we&#8217;re finding in a million different ways that racism isn&#8217;t some curiosity out of the past that we&#8217;re embarrassed about but moved on from. It&#8217;s alive. It&#8217;s well. It&#8217;s hurting people and it&#8217;s one of the main reasons to be in politics today is to try to change or reverse the harms that went along with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Buttigieg pointed out: &#8220;My campaign office is actually on Jefferson Boulevard [in South Bend]&#8221; before claiming that he meant to say that &#8220;I think there\u2019s a reason why Democratic parties, when we\u2019re thinking about, for the future, our events, especially thinking about how burning of an issue something like racial equity is, we\u2019re thinking twice about naming our events after Jefferson and Jackson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Basically, I said that we\u2019re rethinking how Democratic functions might name our event,&#8221; Buttigieg added. &#8220;Maybe we should name it for a person who\u2019s living. Maybe we should name it after a person of color. I don\u2019t know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old then lamented what he called &#8220;this mentality that pervades the Twittersphere and its one of the things that we gotta get over in this campaign, is actually be ready to listen to each other. And I know nuance doesn&#8217;t do great on cable or on Twitter, but at the very least we&#8217;ve gotta actually hear each other out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pete-buttigieg-says-media-noise-machine-took-thomas-jefferson-comments-out-of-control\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pete-buttigieg-says-media-noise-machine-took-thomas-jefferson-comments-out-of-control<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Buttigieg says &#8216;media noise machine&#8217; took Thomas Jefferson comments &#8216;out of control&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}