April 12, 2021
Pete Buttigieg called out by Chris Wallace (!) on lies about phony ‘infrastructure’ bill
By Thomas Lifson
I am not a big fan of Chris Wallace of Fox News, but to his credit he called BS on Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg yesterday in an eight-and-a-half-minute interview on Fox News Sunday, even while letting the biggest lie pass with no comment.
Wallace let slide the most egregious misrepresentation, that less than 10% of the multi-trillion dollar so-called “infrastructure†bill for which Buttigieg has become a point man is dedicated to genuine infrastructure – roads, bridges, airports and the power grid. That was not of interest to Wallace. There are limits to his willingness to challenge progressives.
In fact, Wallace has adopted a new expression, “hard infrastructure,†to talk about genuine infrastructure, so as to leave open the use of the term “infrastructure†for the sort of nonsense notoriously spouted by Kirsten Gillibrand (“Paid leave is infrastructure. Child care is infrastructure. Caregiving is infrastructure.â€)
Wallace’s focus, instead, was on the claims of jobs that purportedly would be added by the bill, according to a study by Moody’s Analytics – whose pro-Democrat bias has been repeatedly exposed by Jack Hellner (here, here, here, and here, for instance). Even taking Moody’s estimate on its own terms, Buttigieg was clearly guilty of misrepresentation. Thus, Wallace began the segment asking: “Why not be straight with the American people?â€
You see, Buttigieg has used the number of 19 million jobs being created by the bill, but that is simply untrue. The Moody’s study actually said that most of those jobs would be created regardless of passage of the bill. Only 2.7 million jobs, by its generous estimate, wouyld be created by the bill itself.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/04/pete_buttigieg_called_out_by_chris_wallace__on_lies_about_phony_infrastructure_bill_.html
