Nets Cheer 'Surging,' 'Exciting' Buttigieg's 'Major Moment'

[See NewsBusters for more.] All three networks on Monday hailed the “surging,” “exciting” Pete Buttigieg’s “major moment” in Iowa polls. But they avoided a racial blunder by the 2020 candidate, as well as the fact that his polling with African Americans in the critical primary state of South Carolina is at an astonishing 0 percent. The Buttigieg campaign attempted to tout the Democrat’s Douglass Plan (as in Frederick Douglass) and released photos of people one would assume are supporters. Except, as Ryan Grim, DC bureau chief of The Intercept discovered, some aren't. They also included a Kenyan woman (and thus not a Buttigieg voter).