Platner Scrubs Job Openings, But ‘Urgently Hiring’ Defense Strategist
On Tuesday, amid new scandals and calls to drop out of the race, Maine Senate Democrat nominee Graham Platner announced an “urgent” job opening for a Research Director to “Anticipate opponent lines of attack and build comprehensive defense strategies and rapid response toolkits,” suggesting the possibility that more allegations are to come.
Hostin Doubles Support for Platner Despite Sexual Assault Allegation
ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin must have been listening to so Taylor Swift before Tuesday’s episode of The View, since she proclaimed, “I’m the problem” as she doubled down on supporting Maine’s Democratic Party Nazi Graham Platner. When directly pressured on if she still would vote for him after new sexual assault allegations, Hostin refused to walk away from her previous dedication to him as…
Axios Contributor: No Evidence Dems Knew About Platner Allegations
Over a month ago, after The New York Times reported Lyndsey Fifield’s allegations of abuse against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, Fifield took to X to blast The Times for not including allegations of sexual assault made by another woman against Platner that she claimed The Times said would be included. However, on Tuesday, Axios senior contributor and director of Syracuse University’s…
AP Fact-Checker Defends DSA Radicals After Trump's 'Communists' Attack
President Trump has reacted to the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America by sounding the alarm about communism, which greatly upset Associated Press fact-checker Melissa Goldin on Thursday because, according to her, only card-carrying members of the Communist Party USA can be called communists.
ALL the Networks Covered Platner Rape Charge, Often Deep in the Show
All the broadcast network evening newscasts covered the serious rape allegation lodged against Maine’s Democrat Senate nominee Graham Platner, underscoring that Platner is considering discontinuing his campaign, the Maine Democratic Party wants him to step down, and several Democrats in Congress rescinded their endorsements.All this (and the coverage) signals that Democrats think this will…
Curtains: MSNOW Turns on Platner, But Levels Cheap Shots on Way Out
Politico dropped a new Graham Platner bombshell Monday afternoon that ex-girlfriend Jenny Racicot alleged the Maine Democrat senatorial candidate “forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections.” MS NOW surprisingly was on it within 30 minutes and made clear that, aside from one guest arguing he stay in because Brett Kavanaugh “raped” Christine Blasey…
PBS's Gross Take on Rep. Kean's Depression: Now You'll Vote Correctly?
Sen. Andy Kim’s mean-spirited partisan hackery about Congressman Tom Kean's bout with depression was at least expected. Less defensible was PBS News Hour’s “journalism” piling on about whether Kean's experience would change "his thinking around access to mental health services."
Liberal Site Mocks How 'GOP Reboots the Red Scare' Over the DSA Wins
Twitchy chronicled how the tweeters mocked the liberals at Axios for warning: “GOP reboots the Red Scare as young Democrats embrace socialism.” They don't want to spend any time identifying the actual communist sympathies displayed by the Democratic Socialists of America candidates winning primaries.
NY Times Still Trying to Turn Right-Wing Texas Blue With Talarico
The New York Times engaged in coverage of its own favorable poll for the Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate race in Texas that was eyebrow-raising in its detail and intensity: “Times/Siena Poll Finds Talarico and Paxton Tied in Texas Senate Race.” The ins and outs of the numbers were lovingly detailed by Shane Goldmacher, national political correspondent, along with polling editor Ruth…
Smooth Operator Mamdani Seduces Confused Voters with Sugar-Coated Lies
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has chalked up more notable victories. His candidates won three crucial Democratic primaries -- candidates who are supporters of the Democratic Socialists of America, as is Mamdani -- defeating three Democratic Party establishment candidates, two of whom are sitting members of Congress. Discussing with ABC’s Jonathan Karl, Mamdani’s eyes twinkle; he is calm,…
MS NOW Leftist: DSA For Euro Social Democracy, Not Soviet Socialism
On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, as left-wing cable networks continued to be forced to cover the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) due to their continued wins in Democratic primaries, guest Anand Giridharadas, an online newsletter publisher, downplayed concerns of the DSA having radical ideologies. He asserted the DSA was like to “left, center-left ideology in most European…
MS NOW, CNN Meltdown After SCOTUS's Free Speech Ruling
Tuesday was a busy day at the Supreme Court that was headlined by the upholding of birthright citizenship and state laws that sought to protect the competitive integrity of female sports. However, the Court also cited the First Amendment and free speech when it struck down a campaign finance law that limited how much money political parties can spend on candidates, which led MS NOW and CNN to…
PolitiFact Oddly Claims Ossoff Wasn't a 'Deciding Vote' on a 50-50 Tie
Sen. Jon Ossoff is an easy Exhibit A in the “fact checking” tilt at PolitiFact. In his first Senate run in 2020, PolitiFact’s Tom Kertscher threw a “Pants On Fire” attack at his opponent Sen. David Perdue for rudely labeling Ossoff a “socialist.” Now his GOP opponent is "False" for saying he cast the "deciding vote" on the Inflation Reduction Act. (He did.)
Oliver Warns of America Going 'Back to the Jim Crow Era'
HBO’s John Oliver lamented on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight that Republicans in southern states are getting in on the redistricting battle that is taking place across the whole country. According to him, Republican efforts are on track to bring the country “back to the Jim Crow era.”
