They tried so hard to celebrate the fact that Pete Buttigieg was the first openly gay member of a presidential cabinet … another stunning first from the Biden administration. The only problem is that it wasn’t a fact — they twisted and turned and grasped, but in the end, had to admit that Richard Grenell was the first openly gay member of a presidential cabinet. Here’s NBC News’ deleted tweet and correction:

Splitting hairs, are we?

Serial fabulist Aaron Rupar seems butthurt that Donald Trump Jr. would suggest that Buttigieg was a diversity hire — that’s nothing but “unvarnished homophobia.”

It it didn’t matter that he was gay, the media certainly didn’t get the memo. Here’s Grenell:

What, it’s not like Joe Biden promised that his running mate would be a black woman.

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