Buttigieg Made A Documentary Called 'Mayor Pete' And It Looks As Bad As It Sounds

Pete Buttigieg has made a documentary called "Mayor Pete," and the Majority Report crew watches the trailer. The themes of the documentary seem to be Buttigieg's experience as an out gay politician, his time on the campaign trail, and the shooting of a South Bend citizen by a police officer. It seems absolutely terrible. The crew is also not excited about the movie because Mayor Pete did some racist stuff when the police shooting happened, he is a very manufactured person and has had no impact on anything, and this film is simply a project meant to further this man's political career by cementing his backstory.

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Emma Vigeland: It's so manufactured. I am not delegitimizing the fact that for a lot of gay kids it's amazing to see a gay presidential candidate like this. That is important. Everything else is [ __ ]. Like the idea that he was offering anything, anything substantively new to the public is ridiculous. And I just balk at these kinds of hagiographies, documentaries that clearly have final approval from the candidates themselves. I'm like, we're gonna have this revisionist history that this campaign was something to write home about. This campaign was like an entirely manufactured moment in history where he, by the way, he he peaked early in Iowa because he only appealed to white people — because as they gloss over in that trailer, and I'm sure they're looking at it from the perspective of Pete, which is not the right perspective to look at the fact that he fired this Black police chief and helped cover up these instances of racism in South Bend — he was a white-privileged wealthy Harvard candidate who fixed bread prices at McKinsey. There's nothing trailblazing about what he did, except for that one important but narrow part of what he offered to the world.

Brandon Sutton: I wouldn't watch it because like i think it overstates the importance of Mayor Pete to that entire situation. I was there. It's fine if Pete was impactful to you and you want to see his point of view, I mean it's weird. Again, Mayor Pete's entire like backstory is manufactured to make fit like a resume: He joined the military in his late 20s to like basically be an officer so he could run for mayor to run for president like all this stuff was like a PR campaign. So to watch a movie about it from his point of view is a little like... okay, well you might as well just watch a campaign commercial.