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“Does anybody really think that religious conservatives view Donald Trump as a religious [figure]?” Mr. Buttigieg said. “They’re riding a tiger, they’re making a deal with the devil knowing that they can get certain objectives met on the bench.”<ref>David Sherfinski, February 8, 2020.[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/8/pete-buttigieg-religious-conservatives-making-deal Pete Buttigieg: Religious conservatives making a 'deal with the devil' for federal judiciary] The Washington Times - Saturday, Retrieved 02/09/20</ref>
“Does anybody really think that religious conservatives view Donald Trump as a religious [figure]?” Mr. Buttigieg said. “They’re riding a tiger, they’re making a deal with the devil knowing that they can get certain objectives met on the bench.”<ref>David Sherfinski, February 8, 2020.[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/8/pete-buttigieg-religious-conservatives-making-deal Pete Buttigieg: Religious conservatives making a 'deal with the devil' for federal judiciary] The Washington Times - Saturday, Retrieved 02/09/20</ref>
===Buttigieg and fake news reporting===
===Buttigieg and biased or fake news reporting===
:{{See also|Fake news}}
:{{See also|Fake news}}
Mainstream media promotion for Buttigieg being president began early, with ''New York Times'' columnist Frank Bruni writing a column in 2016 entitled “The First Gay President?” asserting it would be hard to find a more perfect Democratic candidate, who always “seems always to say just the right thing, in just the right tone.”<ref>''National Review'', March 22, 2019 [https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/pete-buttigieg-biography-views-democratic-presidential-candidate "Twenty things you probably didn’t know about Pete Buttigieg"]</ref>
Mainstream media promotion for Buttigieg being president began early, with ''New York Times'' columnist Frank Bruni writing a column in 2016 entitled “The First Gay President?” asserting it would be hard to find a more perfect Democratic candidate, who always “seems always to say just the right thing, in just the right tone.”<ref>''National Review'', March 22, 2019 [https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/pete-buttigieg-biography-views-democratic-presidential-candidate "Twenty things you probably didn’t know about Pete Buttigieg"]</ref>
Favorable reporting on Buttigieg should be expected not only in the light of the mainstream media being liberal but due to a disproportionate percentage of reporters who cover him identifying as LGBTQ. Among the approximately dozen reporters on Buttigieg's campaign bus with Buttigieg one day before the Iowa caucuses, five were homosexual. Four of the six cable and network reporters assigned to Buttigieg ("embeds") identify as LGBTQ, including Andres Del Aguila of Fox News, D.J. Judd, a CNN video producer, and ABC’s Justin Gomez, and reporter Scott Bixby of the Daily Beast. Other national correspondents that have focused on Buttigieg include Jeremy Peters of the New York Times, Chelsea Janes of the Washington Post, opinion writer Jonathan Capehart and Chris Johnson of the Washington Blade.
Some writers have expressed that Buttigieg has received preferential treatment by reporters. One Washington-based communications professional stated that, “Early on, straight embeds were afraid of being called homophobic and gay embeds, many of whom look like Pete, gave him overwhelmingly glowing attention.” Columnist Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post criticized the media for being enamored with the former mayor. Jon Allsop of the Columbia Journalism Review opined in December that Buttigieg benefited from “an early, fluffy flurry of coverage."
However, some of the homosexual media have been challenging to Buttigieg, who even stated that, "I can’t even read the LGBT media anymore, because it’s all, ‘He’s too gay,’ ‘Not gay enough,’ ‘Wrong kind of gay.’”<ref>ADAM WREN (02/02/2020). [https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/02/02/pete-buttigieg-press-corps-lgbtq-109658 Being Gay on the Campaign Trail With Pete Buttigieg] Politico, retrieved 02/10/2020</ref>
''[[The LA Times]]'' reported that Buttigieg blamed Barack Obama for the election of Donald Trump.
''[[The LA Times]]'' reported that Buttigieg blamed Barack Obama for the election of Donald Trump.
{{cquote|"My message is not about going back to where we were," he said.
{{cquote|"My message is not about going back to where we were," he said.