College Football Hall of Famer Wes Fesler once said, “Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.” Those wise words are a perfect depiction of the left electing a man with a blatant Nazi tattoo after complaining about Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s Christian tattoos. The hypocrisy is so bad even liberal actor Rainn Wilson called it out in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Maine Democrats nominated Graham Platner for Senate despite his past Totenkopf SS Nazi tattoo (he has since covered it up with a different tattoo after being called out) which he claims was just an oopsie and that he wasn’t aware one of the most famous symbols of the Hitler regime was actually one of the most famous symbols of the Hitler regime.
Because we all know what it’s like to be drunk in Croatia and accidentally walk out of a tattoo parlor with a blatant Hitler symbol that the rest of the entire world easily recognizes. And how when your ex-girlfriend reveals text messages with her friends calling it exactly what it was years ago, you’re all, “What?! This?! I had no idea!” when the media gets wind of it. Sure, Jan.
The party that sees Nazi ties in anything and everything a conservative does or says wouldn’t possibly let an excuse that flimsy get past them, right? Wrong. And that reality is so heinous even leftist actor and star of The Office Rainn Wilson couldn’t stand for it.
Who would have thought Dwight Schrute himself would ever be dropping truth bombs and roasting the left’s selective outrage on Fox News Digital? But here we are:
The Office Star Rainn Wilson: “It’s the same on the left. They’re willing to overlook the Platner Nazi tattoo, but if it was someone from the other side that had a tattoo that was questionable, they would be all over MSNBC about it.”
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) June 15, 2026
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Has there traditionally been a bias in the media? Yeah, I think there’s has been a bias in the media. towards more what we call liberal policies, but at the same time there’s hypocrisies on both sides. Platner from Maine has this tattoo they say is a Nazi tattoo, the political right is all up in arms about it… That, “Oh, he’s a racist see!” But they won’t look at their own side when people show racist tendencies or say racist things. And it’s the same… It’s the same on the left. They’re willing to overlook the Platner Nazi tattoo, but if it was someone from the other side that had a tattoo that was questionable, they would be all over MSNBC about it. So, it’s the hypocrisy that gets me the most. It’s the hypocrisy of, like.. both sides need to have kind of equal standards of behavior. You can’t get only outraged at the sexual proclivities of people in the other party.
The “both sides” claim was a nice attempt to cover for his party, but conservatives aren’t excusing blatant, outright Nazism in their party while claiming democrats are secretly fascist if they breathe.
In addition to the attacks on Hegseth, as noted by Becket Adams in an AOL opinion piece, the left has accused conservatives of secret Nazi and/or white supremacism symbolism in:
-Merely appearing at Madison Square Garden
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who led the charge against Hegseth’s Christian tattoos, has campaigned for Platner, calling him “my kind of man.” Which tells us everything we need to know about how much the left really cares about the issue. Answer: They don’t. It’s obvious they’ve simply tried to weaponize a horrific moment in history in an attempt to gain political power.
This isn’t about tattoos. It’s about standards, decency and honesty, or the left’s glaring lack of all three. And the tattoo is just one of many controversial issues facing Platner. Issues the left also claimed to care about in the past but are completely silent on now that they hope to unseat a Republican.
Those offenses include mocking a girl who attempted suicide as someone who didn’t try hard enough, mistreating women, promoting gun violence as a means for “economic justice,” and more. All perfectly fine with Democrats if you’re in their party. The same from a conservative would end careers overnight.
Fesler was right. The left preaches integrity from a den of double standards. Wilson calling it out from the Hollywood sidelines proves even some on the left are tired of the farce. If Democrats want credibility, they might start by applying their own rules to their candidates before voters symbolically tattoo “hypocrite” on the party’s forehead via the ballot box in November.
