Pete Buttigieg Takes Down Tucker Carlson For Parental Leave Smear

Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg took down Tucker Carlson for spreading homophobic smears astir his parental leave.

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Sec. Pete Buttigieg calls retired Tucker Carlson for the onslaught connected his parental leave, "This onslaught is coming from a feline who has yet to explicate his evident support for the assassination of Harvey Milk, " pic.twitter.com/DsyQgCyUNO

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Buttigieg said connected MSNBC’s Deadline: White House:

 Look, successful his case, I conjecture he just doesn’t recognize the concept of vessel feeding, let alone the conception of paternity leave but what’s truly strange is that, you know, this is from a broadside of the aisle that utilized to claim the mantle of being pro-family. What we person close present is an administration that’s actually pro-family, and I’m blessed to be capable to acquisition that arsenic an employee, being capable to person the flexibility to instrumentality attraction of our newborn children, which is, by the way, work. It’s joyful work. It’s fantastic work. But it’s decidedly work. 

And we, arsenic a society, I think, are starting to bash a amended job of recognizing that parenting is work, that caregiving is work, and supporting it arsenic such, which is, of course, wherefore the president has projected paid household leave for each Americans, thing most Americans already judge that we ought to bash and something that astir highly developed countries beauteous much take for granted. 

Nicolle Wallace followed up and asked Sec. Buttigieg wherever these smears are coming from, and helium answered, “Look, this onslaught is coming from a feline who has yet to explain his evident approval for the assassination of Harvey Milk, truthful evidently we know there’s immoderate acheronian places where some of these attitudes come from. But I besides enactment that that doesn’t talk for the country. I don’t deliberation that adjacent speaks for astir radical connected the other side of the aisle from the party that I beryllium to. This is mostly a consensus issue, not conscionable a enactment for families similar excavation to person a right to wed and close to be treated equally, but also families successful general, moms and dads, ought to beryllium capable to support their children, including with paid family leave. “

Tucker Carlson has ne'er answered for his support of the assassination of Harvey Milk. The Secretary made his constituent powerfully without having to straight accidental that these attacks are homophobic.

The attacks connected Pete Buttigieg aren’t astir disagreements astir household permission policies oregon issues with the proviso chain.

There is thing overmuch darker astatine enactment successful these attacks. It is homophobia and the far-right going to the ugliest spot that it tin deliberation of to smear a fashionable subordinate of the Biden administration, but vile civilization wars are each that the Republican Party has left.