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Pete Buttigieg Interview (Full)
🕑 Added 2025-09-30 01:07:47 +0000 UTCHey guys,
I made the decision to pull and then re-upload the Pete Buttigieg interview today after a few very small modifications. I will try to be as transparent as possible as to why this happened. As many of you know, my style as a journalist has generally been to be an empathetic, active listener and provide people with a comfortable platform to express themselves in a way that would be impossible to do on most mainstream news outlets. However, interviewing politicians and people in active positions of power is quite a different story. It is necessary, in many situations, to hold their feet to the fire a bit more and there was ONE particular instance in my interview with Pete Buttigieg where I truly felt that I should have immediately pushed back on a false claim that he made but unfortunately, I did not. That instance came at minute 23:29, when Pete reinforced the widely debunked claim that Hamas militants “put babies in ovens” during Oct. 7. These claims were initially published by the U.S. and Israeli government the immediate aftermath of the attacks but were later retracted by the White House after an investigation found the claims to be false. Still CNN and other outlets continue to push the false beheading story to this day, only taking the extra step of attaching a Hamas denial to the end of their reports. As you'll see, in this new draft, I have added what is, essentially, a 'fact check' frame to that establishes the factual inaccuracy of Pete's claim, which will also be featured in the soon-to-be-released YouTube cut. Obviously - if you guys saw the Jubilee jawn that dropped yesterday - I let people speak their minds freely for a living so I don't want to get into the habit of bombing C5 interviews with pretentious 'fact check' slides every time someone makes a false claim, but I just felt that this particular piece of outrageous misinformation needed to be met with some kind of disclaimer, since I didn't think fast enough to offer a solid rebuttal in real time. Additionally, my recent trip to Ireland and some of the connections that I made out there have strengthened my connection to the Palestinian liberation cause and I am currently planning an upcoming trip to the West Bank. For me, making the decision to pull down the original Pete Buttigieg interview wasn't so much a case of 'audience capture' or mob pressure as it was suggested on Reddit, but rather, came from a desire to correct a piece of genuine disinformation before publishing this interview on the main channels to millions of subscribers.
Overall, I am really proud of this piece. I enjoyed talking to Pete and believe that a respectful, sit-down interview with an establishment politician like this will bless C5 with the ability to speak with major players down the line, especially with the midterms coming up. I'll do my part to sharpen the sword in the meantime to ensure that I've got decent rebuttal chops for next round.
Hope you guys enjoy,
AC
Comments
vampiregal
A lot to say here butttt what ab that Irish piece?? I’d love to watch/read/listen to that - as someone with strong Irish roots who’s always wanted to learn Gaelic!!!
careb0t
"The world is going to develop along some pattern and some set of values, and a lot is going to depend on who is leading and projecting..." This right here is why America, American politicians, and the American military are fucking psychopathic demons. They just implicitly believe that it is their god given right to force their own perspective onto every other country or group of people in the world. In what ways are Russia or China enforcing their "values" or whatever on the entire world? I don't see fake Chinese and Russian NGOs in every single country trying to propagandize the population to vote for whatever leader will bend the knee to them like the US does. I don't really see Russia or China doing regime change on every single country that refuses to adopt their own values or system of governance/economics. I don't see either of those countries buildings thousands of military bases on every corner of the planet as a means of intimidation. This is uniquely an American thing, nobody else does this to even 1% of the scale that the USA does. What a sick freak.
Alex Cowan
I ran into Pete Buttigieg at my hotel, bought him a drink, and told him how much I liked the Channel 5 interview. (Yes, he was great.)
Eli Gaultney
I really appreciated digging into specific policy at the end. It's not so exciting, but that seems really productive. I would love to see more of that. I wasn't aware of all the stuff Pete oversaw as Transportation Sec, but I definitely love the airline changes he worked on.
Rodolfo A
The amount of times that Dems have backed out of a fight The fact Dems (just like reps) are bought by corporate money The fact that Dems are center and won’t dip a toe into leftwing policies I spoke to someone from Ireland recently and he told me that “America’s left wing extremists are Ireland’s center-right” Democratic positioning is pathetic, regardless of whether Pete is the best at it Just speak the truth, talk about Palestine, talk about how you improve things, not just point at it and say “yeah, that needs to get better” about everything
Conor McGee
Finally someone has pushed Buttigieg on his views on Irish unity.
xoxouno
Just don’t fall for the pressure within.
