NBC Took Until Saturday for a Top Show to Mention NYT Story on Platner
Despite the rumored New York Times story on Maine Democrat Graham Platner’s past relationships breaking Thursday afternoon, NBC took until Saturday night to mention it on either of their flagship newscasts — Today or Nightly News — before quickly dropping it thereafter, while…
CNN Equates Trump & Paxton With Platner, Jennings Calls Him Scumbag
When the polls close on Tuesday night in Maine, it's all but guaranteed that the man who has been accused of "toxic relationships" by three woman, sexting with women outside his marriage, referred to himself as a communist, called police officers, “bastards” and said rural White Americans are racist and stupid, and sported a…
Tarlov Claims Maine Voters 'May Have Different Opinion' of Platner
With Maine's U.S. Senate Primary slated for next Tuesday, the liberal, elite media are doing all they can to limit the damage caused by the drip, drip, drip of revelations against Democrat Graham Platner, who was accused by three women in a Thursday New York Times story of volatile and “toxic” relationships that were unsettling and at times emotionally wrenching. On Friday's…
CNN Can't Find a Single Maine Democrat Who Won't Vote for Platner
CNN's biased man-in-the-street interviews strike again. It was more of the same on Saturday's CNN This Morning: Weekend. Reporter Danny Freeman hit the streets in Maine ahead of Tuesday's primary. There are over 386,000 registered Democrats in Maine. But Freeman couldn't find a single one who said they would refuse to vote for scandal-plagued candidate Graham Platner.
Dems Whistle Past Platner Graveyard, CNN's Cornish Pushes Mills Option
Democrats are in full damage-control mode over Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, even as fresh New York Times allegations of unsettling behavior toward women continue to swirl. Meanwhile, CNN This Morning host Cornish is pushing an alternative to the politically wounded Platner: Governor Janet Mills, still on the Democratic primary ballot.
Maher Associates Platner's Nazi Tattoo With Conservatives
Friday’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher brought out the best and worst of the eponymous host. On one hand, Maher reacted to Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s ever-growing list of scandals by claiming he would have thought a Nazi tattoo was a conservative thing and that in the past, sex scandals have only been disqualifying for Democrats. However, in the Overtime…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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.
