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\u2018FOX & Friends\u2019 Host Calls Pete Buttigieg a \u2018Clown,\u2019 Warps His Remarks About Jefferson to Imply He\u2019s Unpatriotic: WATCH<\/b><\/p>\n

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FOX & Friends<\/em> warped Pete Buttigieg\u2019s remarks on Thomas Jefferson to try and paint a picture of the South Bend mayor as unpatriotic and imply he wants to cancel the Founding Fathers from history.<\/p>\n

Mayor Pete\u2019s remarks on Jefferson were made in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt last week. Hewitt had asked him about the practice of renaming things that were named to honor a slave owner.<\/p>\n

Buttigieg offered, as usual, a nuanced answer: \u201cYeah, we\u2019re doing that in Indiana. I think it\u2019s the right thing to do. Over time, you develop and evolve on the things you choose to honor \u2026 Jefferson is more problematic. There\u2019s a lot, of course, to admire in his thinking 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, and yet he did it. Now we\u2019re are all morally conflicted human beings. It\u2019s not like we\u2019re blotting him out of the history books or deleting him from being [in] the Founding Fathers, but naming something after somebody confers a certain amount of honor. The real reason I think there is a lot of pressure on this is the relationship between the past and the present. We\u2019re finding in a million different ways that racism isn\u2019t some curiosity out of the past that we\u2019re embarrassed about but moved on from. It\u2019s alive and well and hurting people\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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But FOX News does not operate on nuance. Here\u2019s how it played out this morning, the morning after a FOX News Town Hall widely seen as a big win for Mayor Pete, at which he was applauded for his remarks on abortion and for calling out anti-immigration remarks by two of its anchors<\/a>, Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n

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Fox & Friends is shocked that the New Hampshire crowd approved of Pete Buttigieg’s call<\/a> to abolish the electoral college, but Brian Kilmeade says that line only got applause because he stacked the crowd with his “friends.” pic.twitter.com\/mln5pqxIpj<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The FOX & Friends<\/em> hosts seemed astonished that Mayor Pete got applause. Host Brian Kilmeade had an explanation: \u201cThey\u2019re all his friends. I think he\u2019s related to the whole audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kilmeade later got upset that Buttigieg had the audacity to criticize Carlson and Ingraham: \u201cDon\u2019t hop on our channel and continue to put down the other hosts on the channel\u2014if you feel that negative about it, don\u2019t come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then Kilmeade called Buttigieg a \u201cclown\u201d before bringing on a guest who completely misrepresented how the remarks were first reported.<\/p>\n

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Fox guest claims that “the way it was reported” prior to Buttigieg’s town hall was that Mayor Pete “wanted to have Jefferson stricken from the history books,” except Buttigieg’s original verbatim comment was that “it’s not like we’re blotting him out of the history books.” pic.twitter.com\/ov9aw0u1ok<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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Brian Kilmeade asks (using more words) ‘slavery was bad, but we have to love the founders, right?’ His guest agrees, attacking “a narrative for this country that is based on shame” and claiming it’s “ahistorical to ignore all the positive aspects of American history.” pic.twitter.com\/GD4Ep1CJWO<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The hosts went on to discuss it, further distorting the remarks, and somehow brought Obama into the discussion.<\/p>\n

Said Ainsley Earhardt: \u2018[Pete Buttigieg] said, \u201cI\u2019m not saying I want to go and remove that one,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I would like to rename some of these streets after people, African-Americans.\u201d\u2018<\/p>\n

RELATED<\/strong>: Pete Buttigieg Calls Out Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham at FOX News Town Hall: WATCH<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Replied Kilmeade: \u201cWell, look. And here\u2019s the danger of this, Ainsley. So you say Thomas Jefferson no longer is worthy of having a Jefferson-Jackson dinner? OK. Well what about Barack Obama? Well it\u2019s Barack Obama, we love him. Well, did you love him in 2008 when he says marriage is between a man<\/a> and woman<\/a>? Did he show intolerance then? Because in 2012 he said same-sex<\/a> marriage is fine. Was he not worthy in \u201908 and is he worthy in 2012? We are an impossible scale to what he is talking about \u2014 is instead of saluting our founding fathers, begin to diminish their importance. We wouldn\u2019t be a country without that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Doocy: \u201cWell, he took aim at a couple<\/a> of news outlets. I think Fox and the New York Times <\/em>as well. Because in his original comments with Hugh Hewitt he was asked about removing the names from the annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner. That was where they started and then eventually he went on to say he didn\u2019t want Jefferson\u2019s name entirely stripped from the public square, but instead honorary titles, for instance those Democratic dinners. He said last night that that\u2019s what he was talking about. We just gave him the opportunity to clarify.\u201d<\/p>\n

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