Just two hours after the polls closed in Maine on Tuesday, CNN's NewsNight with Abby Phillip and her panel gave us a sample of what we can expect from the liberal media between now and the November mid-terms, where Republican Senator Susan Collins will face off with the now official Democratic nominee Graham Platner, whose Nazi tattoo is just one of a litany of disturbing revelations that we have learned about.
Phillip brought Adam Mockler of the leftist Meidas Touch Network, probably best known for his confrontation with Scott Jennings on the same show back in April, into the conversation, asking him if he thought more would come out about Platner's past, and his talking points started flying.
MOCKLER: There could be.... I'm not going to sit here and defend things Graham Platner did in his past. Not even Graham Platner defends these things that he did in his past. But we have watched for a decade, as Republicans have repeatedly lowered the threshold, lowered the standards for their candidates, and now Democrats are going to keep holding our candidates to an infinitely higher standard. While we have Ken Paxton in Texas, while we have Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office right now.
It sure sounded to NBC News last Friday, that Platner has defended his past. And Phillip, who in the past has defended young Mockler on her show, wasn't buying this "we have an infinitely higher standard" spin:
PHILLIP: Is it a high standard? Or is it a low standard? Because It I'm not sure that he's being held to a higher standard than anybody else.
MOCKLER: But the Republican Party is absolutely holding him to a higher standard than they hold their own candidates. I mean, Donald Trump had a sit-down dinner with Nick Fuentes and the very same people who were silent about that are now clutching their pearls about this admittedly weird tattoo that Graham Platner has apologized for.
What Platner did was deny that he knew it was a Nazi tattoo, and Phillip took issue with Mockler's description of it.
PHILLIP: And it's a Nazi tattoo, Adam.
MOCKLER: Yes. I'm not --
PHILLIP: Acknowledge that.
MOCKLER: Oh, yes.
PHILLIP: It's not weird. It's a Nazi tattoo.
MOCKLER: It's awful, yes.
Next openly gay L.Z. Granderson of The L.A. Times provided what he would call an appealing aspect of Platner.
GRANDERSON: He looks like a dude. Let's just say what it is. He's got the scruff. He's got the edge.... When I look at Graham Platner, the first thing I think of, he looks like a dude and he looks like someone who looks very different than many of the men who lead the Democratic party. And I think that is an appealing aspect that Democrats need to talk about.
PHILLIP: Maybe the flaws are part of that package.
Then it was Push Digital V.P. T.W. Arrighi's turn, and his pro-Collins spin would be interrupted by, who else, but young Mockler.
ARRIGHI: You are correct, L.Z, he looks like a dude. And when he first entered the race and he said, I'm an oyster farmer, I said, uh-oh, we got problems. Turns out he's not an oyster farmer. It turns out that he's not a low class guy....He's got a bunch of money. He isn't what he says he is.... Susan Collins is the Republican every Democrat wishes every Republican was.
MOCKLER: No
ARRIGHI: She convicted Donald Trump.
MOCKLER: No.
ARRIGHI: Yes, she worked with Joe Biden on a bunch of stuff. She is as bipartisan as they come.
MOCKLER: No, she's not. She rubber-stamps everything. Susan Collins is the definition --
ARRIGHI: That's garbage....Come November, she's going to wipe the floor with him.
The two continued, back and forth, and soon Mockler went back to talking point Nick Fuentes, after calling Susan Collins "the definition of a Swamp creature," as she runs for a sixth term.
MOCKLER: I also am not going to take this pearl clutching from Republicans who have zero to say about Donald Trump having dinner with Nick Fuentes. Have you condemned that?
ARRIGHI: Yes.
MOCKLER: I didn't see it. Have you condemned Donald Trump for having dinner with Nick Fuentes?
ARRIGHI: I would not be having dinner with Nick Fuentes.
Arrighi summed up "so Nazi tattoo is good, so that's okay now" because of the dinner with Fuentes?
To sum up, the dude with the "weird" Nazi tattoo is better than the "Swamp creature," because Trump sat at a table with Nick Fuentes, and no pearl clutching. And we're just getting started.
