Bret Baier Fillets Mayor Pete on Mask Mandate
28 Apr 2022
BUCK: Yeah, we understand, Mayor Pete, that an airplane is actually much safer in terms of virus spread in the air than a hotel ballroom. But the White House Correspondentsโ Dinner is for fancy, fancy Democrats this year. Theyโre all gonna be going there. Theyโre all gonna be dressed up.
Mayor Pete & Joe Biden are going to the White House Correspondentโs Dinner this weekend, which doesnโt require masks, while Biden administration simultaneously argues you have to wear masks on planes, trains & buses. @BretBaier filets Mayor Pete here: pic.twitter.com/PrLY1ljI3j
โ Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 28, 2022
BUCK: They call it Nerd Prom โcause theyโre so self-effacing, Clay, โcause they donโt actually have enormous egos and think of themselves as the Masters of the University. They actually are nerds. No, nerds actually know stuff. They shouldnโt call them nerds.
CLAY: (laughing)
BUCK: Journos, they are not nerds โcause nerds actually have to be knowledgeable in an area. Thatโs the whole point. But notice here the smug โ this is the transportation secretary, folks. Heโs supposed to be know about things like how safe are planes, how safe are buses, how safe is the White House Correspondentsโ Dinner? Apparently, Clay, the virus does not spread at the Vanity Fair cocktail party. Something about the White House Correspondentsโ Dinner champagne kills the virus on contact, apparently, I guess.
CLAY: By the way, Joe Bidenโs going, but heโs taking the virus seriously โcause heโs not staying for the dinner portion of the correspondentsโ dinner. And Mayor Pete, remember when he was the bright, shining light of the Democrat Party that he was going to be the guy to lead them into the future? Boy, he just keeps taking one body blow after another.
Bret Baier just fileted him. (laughing) This was an in-person interview. Credit to Bret Baier, but, man, how is Mayor Pete not prepared for this, and how is his fallback, โWell, I think people know the difference between a ballroom and an airplane,โ when the airplane is far safer.
BUCK: Yes, not even close.
CLAY: He could have said โairportโ if he wanted to not just completely throw himself under the bus. But this transportation secretary whoโs never actually done anything of any substance in the transportation arena. We know he got his job only because โ to your point earlier we were just discussing, if we had to do a draft of people in the Biden administration.
One reason why the Biden administration is so inept is because it was an identity politics-fueled cabinet that Joe Biden selected. It was not about whether people were accomplished. It was about whether they checked identity politics boxes. And as a result, everybodyโs just falling apart.
BUCK: True.
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