NY Times Spreads LIES, Calls Buttigieg 'First Openly Gay Cabinet' Member
On Thursday, New York Times reporters Michael Shear and Thomas Kaplan disregarded their basic journalistic commitment to the facts, trumpeting former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg as the “first openly gay cabinet member” on Thursday in “Biden Adds Buttigieg to His ‘Cabinet of Barrier-Breakers.’” But by rushing to praise Biden for "barrier-breaking," The Times is actually contradicting its previous reporting. The reporters opened with an odd point bashing the state of social conservatism in Congress a generation ago: Pete Buttigieg was a teenager, not yet o...