{"id":1773983,"date":"2022-12-13T14:03:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T19:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1773983"},"modified":"2022-12-13T14:03:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T19:03:29","slug":"walk-the-walk-man-fox-panel-blows-up-over-climate-enthusiast-pete-buttigieg-flying-private-at-taxpayer-expense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walk-the-walk-man-fox-panel-blows-up-over-climate-enthusiast-pete-buttigieg-flying-private-at-taxpayer-expense\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Walk The Walk, Man!\u2019: Fox Panel Blows Up Over Climate Enthusiast Pete Buttigieg Flying Private \u2014 At Taxpayer Expense"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwalk-the-walk-man-fox-panel-blows-up-over-climate-enthusiast-pete-buttigieg-flying-private-at-taxpayer-expense%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1773983&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Fox News panel piled on Transportation Secretary \u2014 and green energy advocate \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/pete-buttigieg-tells-americans-how-they-can-channel-their-pain-at-the-pump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Buttigieg<\/a>, decrying him as a hypocrite when they learned that he was not only regularly flying private rather than commercial, but using taxpayer dollars to fund that travel.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pete-buttigieg-flies-taxpayer-funded-private-jets-flight-data-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> published Monday by Fox News Digital\u2019s Thomas Catenacci, Buttigieg has flown across the United States \u2014 using private jets at taxpayer expense \u2014 on at least 18 occasions. The former South Bend, Indiana, mayor is hardly the first government official to take criticism for such travel \u2014 former Transportation Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/whos-new-trump-administration-all-latest-names-james-barrett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elaine Chao<\/a> took heat for seven taxpayer-funded flights totaling $94,000, and former Health and Human Services Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/7-things-you-need-know-about-trump-health-and-aaron-bandler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Price<\/a> resigned after his 26 private flights cost taxpayers $1.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>But after months of listening to Buttigieg push Americans toward public transit and a transition to electric vehicles, the panelists on Monday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cOutnumbered\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/pete-buttigieg-ripped-for-using-taxpayer-funded-private-jets-amid-calls-to-cut-emissions-walk-the-walk-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made it clear<\/a> they had had enough of the \u201cdo as I say, not as I do\u201d Washington mentality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShouldn\u2019t anyone who espouses that hyper-moralism in terms of environmentalism, shouldn\u2019t they be the ones who have to live the most stringent lives in terms of keeping themselves from enjoying luxuries like private plane travel?\u201d Fox Business host Lisa Kennedy asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalk the walk, man!\u201d co-host Emily Compagno exclaimed. \u201cIt is ridiculous to me that our tax dollars are funding for someone to travel internationally to Canada to pick up an award for advancing LGBTQ rights. Why then wouldn\u2019t you, in your symbolism of advancement, take a commercial airline?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe notion that his holier-than-thou-ness is costing me? That\u2019s what I can\u2019t take,\u201d Compagno continued. \u201cI would love for my tax dollars to stop paying for their hypocrisy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he should have to ride his bicycle all across the country,\u201d Kennedy added.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg has often talked about biking to work when he can \u2014 and a video of his security detail delivering his bike via SUV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/pete-buttigieg-bike-suv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sparked rumors<\/a> that he had driven most of the way to a meeting and then biked a short distance for show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe rode his bike to the White House Cabinet meeting and he rode his bike back to DOT after the meeting,\u201d the Department of Transportation responded at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fox News panel piled on Transportation Secretary \u2014 and green energy advocate \u2014 Pete Buttigieg, decrying him as a hypocrite when they learned that he was not only regularly flying private rather than commercial, but using taxpayer dollars to fund that travel. According to a report published Monday by Fox News Digital\u2019s Thomas Catenacci, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1773986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8499,8234,4943,4321,6202,8634,8635,6328,7690,8636,8633,4070,3618,5349,7587,6195],"class_list":["post-1773983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-man","tag-blows","tag-buttigieg","tag-climate","tag-daily","tag-enthusiast","tag-expense","tag-flying","tag-fox","tag-panel","tag-pete","tag-private","tag-riot","tag-taxpayer","tag-walk","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1773986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}