The mainstream media jumped to celebrate former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg as the first gay presidential cabinet member, seeming to overlook former acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Richard Grenell.
If Buttigieg is confirmed as transportation secretary, he’ll be the second openly LGBT cabinet member ever — the first being @RichardGrenell under President Trump.
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) December 15, 2020
Reminder: Mainstream media was beside itself with joy over what they called the first gay cabinet nominee, but the thing is, we already had an openly gay Cabinet member, Richard Grenell.https://t.co/rjWH54p65L
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) February 2, 2021
Buttigieg was selected to serve as transportation secretary in the new administration on Tuesday, Fox News reports.
If confirmed, Buttigieg would be the first openly gay person to hold a Cabinet position. https://t.co/dkjsb7KN5p
— WLNS Newsroom (@WLNS) December 16, 2020
"Now the same people who fawned over Buttigieg’s historic candidacy are once again declaring another 'first' accomplished by the former Indiana mayor, praising the nomination for secretary of transportation as another triumphant milestone as the first openly gay Cabinet member," Tristan Justice wrote for The Federalist.
If confirmed, Buttigieg would become the first openly gay member of a president’s cabinet, according to the Human Rights Campaign https://t.co/NZwTfoQ0AB
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) December 15, 2020
"This time, however, such claims amount to whitewashing President Donald Trump’s promotion of his administration’s first ambassador to Germany, Ric Grenell, to serve as Director of National Intelligence from February to May this year – a Cabinet-level position," he continued.
Watch how the media openly lies, falsely claiming that Pete Buttigieg is the first openly gay Cabinet member in U.S. history. @RichardGrenell was.
— Cerno (@Cernovich) February 2, 2021
When they lie so brazenly about confirmable facts, consider what they do when reporting what "anonymous sources" tell them.
Several major outlets published headlines with the false claim, including The Hill, Sky News, and Gay Times.
President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Pete Buttigieg to lead the Department of Transportation. If he is confirmed by the Senate, Buttigieg will be the first openly gay person to serve as a cabinet secretary. https://t.co/yeMDsdIuXy pic.twitter.com/2crcCQPw8j
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 15, 2020
CNN's Jake Tapper carefully stepped around making a technically false claim, by saying that Buttigieg would be the first Senate-confirmed cabinet member in US history, as Grenell was not confirmed by the Senate. Other outlets also chose their wording carefully to include the "Senate-confirmed" portion of the headline so to enable themselves to side step Trump-appointed Grenell.
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