'He's Comin' Across Like the F---ing Tin Man Up There'

[brooklynite]

Politico

The first voice you hear, somewhere off-camera, belongs to Jesse Moss, the filmmaker.

“Anything you want to make sure that I ask him?”

By this point, Moss has spent 11 months with his subject, filming him backstage at events, in his home, in his car, at the airport, in every session of debate prep he held with his campaign advisers. But as the new documentary “Mayor Pete” opens, the director is asking for help. The person seated across from Moss is not Pete Buttigieg, but his husband.

Chasten, holding the couple’s one-eyed puggle upright in his lap, tells Moss to ask Buttigieg about his identity. “He did everything to climb every ladder without being his authentic self,” he says. Buttigieg didn’t come out of the closet until 2015, when he was 33, already mayor. “You spent so much of your life hiding who you really were — did you feel like you were able to be your true self on the campaign trail?”

[GemDigger]

1. I don't know who authored it but that title is classless.

I don't like classless, I won't read it. If the title is for clicks she/he will get every republican in the country to read it.

[brooklynite]

2. The story is about a bio film being made of Secretary Buttigieg

The quote is from his Comms Director, reflecting his discomfort at opening up about his personal life.

But if you feel better not knowing the story, that's fine.

[panader0]

3. Pete Buttigieg is very smart, well-spoken and has nothing to prove to anyone.

He seems to be good at whatever task is put in front of him.
He's a veteran and a strong Democrat. His private life should be off-limits to the media.
That said, I was impressed with his candor and he really opened some people's mind about
same sex marriage. Now he and Chasten are proud parents.