{"id":1876028,"date":"2023-03-13T19:41:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T23:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jean-pierre-calls-for-pence-to-apologize-for-joke-about-buttigieg\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T19:43:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T23:43:59","slug":"jean-pierre-calls-for-pence-to-apologize-for-joke-about-buttigieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jean-pierre-calls-for-pence-to-apologize-for-joke-about-buttigieg\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Pierre calls for Pence to apologize for joke about Buttigieg"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fjean-pierre-calls-for-pence-to-apologize-for-joke-about-buttigieg%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=1876028&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> <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN Deven Berryhill<br \/>UPDATED 4:30 PM PT \u2013 Monday, March 13, 2023<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary\u00a0Karine Jean-Pierre\u00a0has asked former Vice President Mike Pence to apologize for telling a &#8220;homophobic joke&#8221; regarding Transportation Secretary\u00a0Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s\u00a0paternity leave.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px;min-height: 50px;text-align: center\">  \t  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(&#8216;div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1&#8217;); });  \t  <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Mike Pence spoke to journalists and politicians in Washington, D.C., over the weekend. He poked fun at Buttigieg, who took paternity leaves while Americans were experiencing unprecedented air travel problems.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;He took two months \u2018maternity&#8217; leave whereupon thousands of travelers were stranded in airports, the air traffic system shut down, and airplanes nearly collided on our runways. Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets postpartum depression,&#8221; Pence said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jean-Pierre told The Washington Blade,\u00a0a liberal LGBTQ outlet, that the former vice president should apologize &#8220;to women and LGBTQ people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;The former vice president&#8217;s homophobic joke about Secretary Buttigieg was offensive and inappropriate, all the more so because he treated women suffering from postpartum depression as a punchline,&#8221; said Jean-Pierre. &#8220;He should apologize to women and LGBTQ people, who are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sources claim that the Transportation Secretary is gay. &#8220;took maternity leave&#8221; After he and his wife adopted twins in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pence&#8217;s former Chief of Staff Marc Short tweeted Monday that he called the White House response a &#8220;failure to respond.&#8221; &#8220;faux outrage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;The White House would be wise to focus less on placating the woke police and focus more on bank failures, planes nearly colliding in mid-air, train derailments, and the continued supply chain crisis,&#8221; Short but powerful. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/localimages\/twitter-minimal.jpg640fb49fa691b.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">America&#8217;s faux outrage should not be a problem for the Biden administration. This hypocrisy is particularly rich when you consider that Antony Blinken, their Secretary of State, joked that he longs for it. &#8220;the old days&#8221; When &#8220;Jews did all the work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Short (@marctshort) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marctshort\/status\/1635318701670170625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Pence was joined by Anthony Blinken, Secretary of State and Phil Murphy (D.N.J.) at Gridiron&#8217;s event. The event featured a variety of jokes meant to be funny. \u00a0The former vice president did take the opportunity call out former President Donald Trump\u00a0over his handling of the January 6 protest at the Capitol in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Keep up to date Get breaking news straight to your inbox. Sign up here\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/newsroom\/jean-pierre-calls-for-pence-to-apologize-for-joke-about-buttigieg\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jean-pierre-calls-for-pence-to-apologize-for-joke-about-buttigieg\">Jean-Pierre enjoins Pence to apologise for his joke about Buttigieg<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images) OAN Deven BerryhillUPDATED 4:30 PM PT \u2013 Monday, March 13, 2023 White House press secretary\u00a0Karine Jean-Pierre\u00a0has asked former Vice President Mike Pence to apologize for telling a \u201chomophobic joke\u201d regarding Transportation Secretary\u00a0Pete Buttigieg\u2019s\u00a0paternity leave. 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