Tucker Carlson Is Obsessed With Pete Buttigieg Because Pete Is More Manly Than Tucker

Tucker wants to ask Pete graphic questions about how to have gay sex, is that weird?

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Have y’all seen this clip of Tucker Carlson interviewing the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles about whether or not former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is really truly gay, or if he’s gone to all the trouble of marrying a man and starting a family with him as part of his devious plan for world domination? It’s a real hoot. It’s obviously weird and disturbed and everything else you get when two white nationalist Christian conservative men get together and rub their insecurities up against each other without lube, but it’s still a real hoot.

(The clip should be queued, but if not skip to about an hour and 56 minutes in.)

Transcript:

MICHAEL KNOWLES: I’ll give you Pete Buttigieg. I don’t know Pete Buttigieg –

TUCKER CARLSON: The fake gay guy?

KNOWLES: I have a friend who thinks he’s a fake gay.

CARLSON: My gay producer was always like “he’s not gay.” He was with a girl like 20 minutes ago and like he wants to be the Democratic nominee, it’s like “time for a gay guy!”

KNOWLES: It’s playing the long game.

CARLSON: Well it’s suffering for your art, I’ll say that.

Oh, how these two very straight men laugh hysterically and uncomfortably at each other, each trying to convince the other how much “suffering” Pete is going through, having sex with a man!

KNOWLES: Just because I don’t know him, I know 100 Pete Buttigiegs. I know this character, the kind, and he went to the elite school and then he goes to McKinsey and then …

CARLSON: Then finds some benighted Midwestern town that he can just like become mayor of.

KNOWLES: I was talking to a big Democrat figure and he said, you know, “say what you will about Pete, he’s the greatest careerist we’ve ever seen.” You’re mayor of this tiny town. You become the secretary of transportation?

CARLSON: But, of course, but the town kind of sucks actually. He didn’t do a good job. He didn’t have a college there. But I’ve always wanted to interview him. He’s never agreed to interview, but I’m gonna ask him like some very specific questions about gay sex and see if he can even answer. I doubt he even knows!

KNOWLES: “Where does –”

CARLSON: Yeah. No, totally. Yeah. You’re not gay dude, stop!

Hoooooookay. We’ll stop it there. (Afterward, Michael Knowles goes on a little bender fantasizing that Pete Buttigieg would be all about their side of things, if only they controlled the universities and the culture, blah blah blah. The usual conservative wishin’ and hopin’ somebody would want to be like them without having to be coerced or threatened.)

But there was Tucker Carlson, doing his high-pitched squeal thing, wishing Pete Buttigieg would consent to an interview so Tucker could catch Pete not knowing how to fuck men. And Tucker would know he caught Pete not knowing how to fuck men, because Tucker knows A LOT about how to fuck men! At least I think that is what he is saying?

Lots to unpack here!

Start here:

Tucker Carlson has severe, severe, severe masculinity issues, and he has always gotten really jumpy around the idea of male homosexuality in a way that’s fascinating from an armchair psychologist perspective, but is nonetheless quite off-putting and unsettling to casual observers.

Lots of homophobes like to stomp their little feet and protest that I AIN’T “HOMOPHOBIC,” I AIN’T SCURRRRRED A-THEM FAGGOTS! But with Tucker, the fear isn’t even barely concealed beneath faux machismo, unless he’s bragging about allegedly beating up a gay guy in a bathroom. (Perhaps relatedly, his college yearbook said he was in a fake club called the “Dan White Society,” which was more than likely a reference to the man who murdered Harvey Milk.)

Point is, he is obsessed.

He has also long had a strange fixation with Pete Buttigieg. He goes to great lengths to appear dramatically grossed out whenever he talks about Pete, his high-pitched squeal and laugh come out, and his words reveal a prurient sort of rage.

It’s really fuckin’ weird.

For example, his reaction to Pete becoming a daddy was to show us all how deep his own daddy issues really run, and to try to make “jokes” about Pete breastfeeding. Meanwhile, click if you dare on this 2019 video of Tucker saying, “They want to consume him like a hearty stew. Every last drop of Buttigieg. Yum.” You betcha, Tucker! Every last drop!)

Meanwhile, Michael Knowles is a weird and creepy guy in his own way. I don’t know his whole story, but he and Jesus do, and I imagine somebody else out there does too. But when Knowles was in college, he was making indie movies featuring gay sex scenes. Today, he is one of the Daily Wire’s most weirdly anti-LGBTQ bigots, and like Tucker, it’s like a bizarre fixation for him, whether he’s making sick, eliminationist statements about trans people or whether he’s trying to make “jokes” about how gay the intro to his show is.

Point is, something got Michael Knowles from point A to point B. I have guesses as to what that might have entailed, but they’re just guesses. Again, somebody knows the story.

But back to Tucker and his burning desire to ask Pete Buttigieg to discuss in graphic detail the things he does with his penis.

His conspiracy theory about Pete being secretly straight isn’t new. He was planting the seeds of it in 2022, and he was outright spreading the weird lie in 2024. (So was Knowles.)

I wrote about Tucker’s weird thing with Pete in 2024 at Wonkette:

Tucker Carlson has severe and well-documented masculinity issues and he has especially always demonstrated that he feels extremely threatened by Secretary Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a gay man who is strong and tough and manly and smart and (most importantly for our purposes here) seems exceedingly comfortable in his skin.

So Tucker making up conspiracy theories about Pete not being gay, that’s what they call a defense mechanism, to protect his delicate psyche from having to confront that Pete is so much tougher of a dude than Tucker is and it’s not even close.

Look, we’re a doctor now! (Not a doctor.)

That’s it, it really is that simple. I’ve seen people in comments sections saying this means Tucker and/or Knowles are closet cases. Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t, I don’t know, you don’t either (unless you do know, in which case my DMs are open).

But this enduring fixation, this conspiracy theorizing over Pete Buttigieg secretly not really being gay — when his coming-out story is extremely familiar and common for a lot of guys with similar backgrounds — is much simpler than that, and it’s about one thing and one thing only: Pete Buttigieg is exponentially more manly than both of these men. He could beat the shit out of them with his hands tied behind his back, but he wouldn’t do that, because he has nothing to prove, because he possesses an inner strength these guys don’t, the kind that speaks softly and in measured tones, the sort of presence that causes entire rooms to shut up so they can hang on to his every commanding word.

He has the kind of manliness that just is.

It’s a sort of masculinity Tucker Carlson and Michael Knowles don’t have at their disposal, and they cannot fuckin’ handle it that Pete has it in abundance. They absolutely cannot handle a gay guy being this much tougher than them, so this conspiracy theory is their way of lashing out against that. This is the pacifier they’re using to self-soothe, to quiet the screaming cognitive dissonance that exists between, on one side, their masculine insecurities, their daddy issues and their ingrained bigotry toward gay men, and all the lies they psychologically need to believe about their own white straight male superiority, and on the other side, the mere existence of Pete Buttigieg, this Harvard-educated military veteran who is their negation.

Who would want to be in a foxhole with Tucker Carlson? His girlish yelps and the smell of the piss down his pant leg would give him away to the enemy immediately and then everyone would be captured and/or dead. Michael Knowles? We saw him walking around the Republican convention in his full podcast make-up. He is, ahem, not an imposing presence.

Pete, though? He’d get you out of that foxhole and he’d bring you hot chocolate before he tucked you in safe and sound.

Also, he has a husband.

And they fuck.

Deal with it, Tucker. Or fuckin’ cry about it, I don’t give a shit.

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