Capehart Says Trump And Republicans Are Why Platner Shouldn't Drop Out
MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart joined Friday’s PBS News Hour to discuss the abuse allegations made by Lyndsey Fifield against far-left Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. When asked if Platner should drop out of the race, Capehart eventually said no because it is unfair to hold anyone running for office to any moral standard because Donald Trump is currently the president. Thankfully, The…
A Day Late: ABC Finally Covers Platner’s ‘Firestorm of Controversy’
Friday’s CBS Mornings was the first major broadcast network flagship newscast to mention the allegations laid out by ex-girlfriends of Maine Democrat senatorial candidate Graham Platner with nothing on ABC or NBC, and all three networks skipping it Thursday night. By Friday night, however, ABC’s World News Tonight covered the disturbing claims and the CBS Evening News led off with them.
ABC, NBC Ignore Disturbing New Allegations Against Maine Dem Platner
On Thursday afternoon, The New York Times released a long-rumored item about embattled Maine Democratic senatorial candidate Graham Platner that detailed claims many will find abusive toward ex-girlfriends. The major broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC – saw no reason to tell viewers about it on their flagship Thursday night newscasts. On their lead Friday morning shows, the blackout…
Graham Platner Accuser Torches New York Times, Claims She Was 'Set Up'
Late on Thursday, the New York Times came out with a story by Katie Glueck and Lisa Lerer that featured GOP operative Lyndsey Fifield making accusations against progressive darling and Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, including how “she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after…
MAINE KAMPF: Chris Hayes Triages Graham Platner After New Bombshells
As predictable as the Sun rising in the East, new bombshells dropped against the embattled Maine Democrat Senate candidate, Herr Oystergruppenfuhrer Graham Platner. The New York Times published an article enumerating some deeply concerning behaviors by Platner as told by his ex-girlfriends. An emergency interview with MS Now’s Chris Hayes ensued. Here are some of the most telling moments from…
Hannity Says Platner's Unfit for Office, CNN Says He's a Bit of a Mess
The Democrat Senate Primary in Maine is next Tuesday, and the presumptive nominee Graham Platner is facing a new revelation of sexting with woman outside his marriage, to go along with several previously reported Reddit posts , and then there is his Nazi tattoo. But if you were watching CNN's Inside Politics Tuesday, Host Dana Bash's segment on Platner covered almost all of this up, even…
CNN Shields Maine Senate Candidate from Dangerous Details in Scandal
As Democratic Senate Candidate Graham Platner (ME) suffers repeated scandals, the CNN News Central crew has been playing interference for his campaign, avoiding coverage of the most concerning details of the whole ordeal during their Monday show. From his sexual messages on an app referred to as a ‘Predator’s Paradise’, to his Nazi tattoo cover-up, nobody over at CNN News Central brought up…
CNN Panelist: Ignore Platner Sexting Scandal, Skip ‘Purity Culture’
CNN This Morning panelist V. Spehar says Democrats should not focus on Graham Platner's scandals, nor "police" or do “purity culture” on candidates. Instead, people should look at what candidates propose to do for people. Because CNN hasn't tried to "police" Donald Trump or impose a "purity culture" around his alleged treatment of women.
NewsBusters Podcast: Jill Biden Proves CBS Still Boosts the Democrats
You have to laugh when Jim Acosta is warning that CBS and CNN are going to turn into a "propaganda giant" when they're in danger of being a little more balanced in their "news." The CBS show Sunday Morning has been a routine propaganda stop for Democrats, and that was no different for Jill Biden, who preposterously claimed her husband was still lucid.
Morning Joe Buries Platner Sexting Scandal, Lowers Maine Expectations
On Monday, amid the new sexting scandal for Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, otherwise known for his Nazi tattoo and past Reddit comments, MS NOW’s Morning Joe spent little time on the topic. The only segment of the morning show regarding the scandal came three hours and 35 minutes into the show. The segment aired just under a month after the show’s softball interview with…
OMISSION: ABC Can Nazi Themselves Covering Graham Platner's Scandals
After many weeks of covering up for Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo and Reddit post scandals, a new sexting scandal finally forced the Elitist Media Evening News to cover everything. However, there still remains one notable holdout.
The View Blames ALL Men for Dem Nazi Platner Cheating on His Wife
Even when they finally talk about Democratic Party scandals, The View finds a way to shift the blame to someone else. The ABC News show spent part of Monday’s episode trying to make the case for Graham Platner, a Nazi and the presumptive Democratic Party nominee in the Senate race in Maine. According to some members of the cast, men in general were the problem with Platner’s infidelity.…
Nets End AM/PM Blackout on Platner, What ‘Some Say’ Is Nazi Tattoo
After the Sunday morning talk shows broke the dam on the broadcast network-wide blackout of coverage on Maine Democrat senatorial candidate Graham Platner and his umpteen scandals, Sunday’s NBC Nightly News and the Monday morning shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC covered the “fresh controversy” hitting “one of the most-talked-about candidates in the midterms” who’s “critical to Democrats’ hopes of…
DAM BREAK: The Elitist Media Sunday Shows Finally Cover Graham Platner
As we’ve often said: what the Elitist Media cover on their newscasts and Sunday political affairs shows is almost as important as what they DON’T cover. This was the case with the Democrat Senate candidate from Maine: Graham Platner, where there was no mention of him at all. But the latest sexting allegations have forced a change.
