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Wednesday's Final Word – HotAir

The jig is up, the tabs are out, they finally found me …





Ed: Yeah … no. The best way to hide your Nazi past is not to have one. The second-best way to hide your Nazi past is to not run for public office if you do have one. And the third best way to hide your Nazi past is not to brag to your girlfriends about your awesome Totenkopf tattoo, only to be surprised that she remembers it when you decide to run for public office. Thank you for attending my TED Talk on stupid life choices. 

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Open Secrets: True to his anti-establishment branding, Platner has built a massive small-dollar apparatus, raising $16.3 million through May 20 with nearly $2.2 million in cash on hand, according to Federal Election Commission filings ahead of the June 9 primary. Nearly 60% of his total comes from unitemized contributions under $200.

But those documents also show that Platner – whose endorsers include prominent progressives Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) – received contributions in May from several billionaires, including George Soros, Pat Stryker, Jon Stryker and Jennifer Pritzker, according to an OpenSecrets review of FEC data cross‑referenced with the Forbes billionaires list.

Those donations stand out not because of their size but because Platner has repeatedly criticized the influence of wealthy donors in politics. In a May 19 X post, he claimed that 300 billionaires spent $3 billion “to buy the 2024 elections,” accused Congress of giving the ultra-rich a tax cut a year later and ended the post with: “Ban billionaires buying elections.”

His campaign received $7,000 from Soros on May 11; $7,000 from Pat Stryker on May 1; $5,000 from her brother Jon Stryker on May 7; and $1,503 from Pritzker on May 17, filings show. Combined, those contributions account for less than 0.5% of the nearly $4.4 million raised by the campaign between April 1 and May 20 – a negligible share of his overall itemized contributions. 

Ed: Platner fights oligarchs in the same way he fights Nazis, I see. Not that these donations matter so much on their own, but it does show that a certain class of “oligarchs” feel very comfortable supporting a violent Nazi-tatted creep. 





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NYT spokesperson Nicole Taylor said Fifield’s account was reported on “according to our standards.”

Ed: Yes, we know. We agree. That’s the problem. The New York Times’ “standards” stink on ice. Their only motive is to advance their narratives, a motive that has been around since Walter Duranty assured NYT readers that Joseph Stalin was advancing humanity and not really starving millions to death in Ukraine. 

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Jefrrey Blehar at NRO: Platner conforms to a wannabe type (both male and female) we’ve all encountered. There is vastly worse in the story, of course: Platner had a tendency to behave as a thuggishly intimidating “alpha chud” with his girlfriends, particularly when drunk (which he frequently was). He may want the world to believe his story that this is merely who he was a decade ago, during a “dark time” — that is currently the company line. But then how do you explain that he was caught cheating on his wife — by his wife, no less — with at least six women online in the spring of last year? (Answer: you cannot.)

The reason I guessed correctly what was in Platner’s oppo file — and it was only a guess — is because of life experience, including observing the scene in progressive D.C. bars, where I lurked for over a half-decade.

I can only wonder what other chapters will emerge in the mysterious story of the Mainechurian Candidate.

Ed: Progressive Democrats can only hope the NYT and other Protection Racket Media outlets do a better job with their “catch and kill” projects to keep Jeffrey (and the rest of us) from finding out. I’m guessing that there is more in Platner’s background in a similar vein, and that we will hear about that shortly after the primary – but before the deadline for the candidate to withdraw and be replaced by the state party. That’s July 13, I believe. 





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Ed: Standards. The New York Times has two of them! When it comes to Nazis, they must have all evidence submitted in triplicate, witnesses sequestered for six months, and documentary evidence approved by the accused. When it comes to Jews and conservative judges, accusations are enough for publication, no matter how absurd they may be.

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Ed: They’re consistent on that point, at least. 

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Katrina Trinko at the Daily Signal: There are over 500 words before reporting that an ex-girlfriend says Platner knew his tattoo was a Nazi symbol.

And there are about 1,300 words before the revelation that Platner “said … a lot: If anybody ever broke in here, I would rape them” and “He was like, I would rape them to show them that I’m dominant,” according to that same ex.

As anyone with experience in journalism knows, most readers generally won’t read a full article—or even most of an article, depending on how long it is. Most people are busy. That’s why journalists are taught to put the most important facts in the first few paragraphs of an article.

So it’s telling that The New York Times, a major outlet with employees most definitely familiar with journalism norms, decided that the opening paragraphs of its article should include sentences like “several women … [described] Mr. Platner as a fun and caring partner, and saying they felt safe with him,” but not the most explosive allegations of his former girlfriend, Lyndsey Fifield.

Ed: I noticed that right away in last night’s report from the NYT. They framed the story by making it sound like most people think Platner is “fun and caring,” except for a conservative who worked in politics and dated Platner over a decade ago. Trinko also scoffs at the NYT’s use of the word “Unsettling” rather than “violent.” Read it all. 





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This is the guy you want to burn your moral credibility for to beat … Susan Collins?

Ed: David French nails it, but it’s not just “the guy.” It’s the entire project of creating Platner as a working-class male that might have given Democrats more credibility in that demo, instead of the mooch he actually is as an “oyster farmer” for his mom’s restaurant while living in a house that his dad loaned the money to buy. Platner is an investment by people who apparently have never heard of the sunk-cost fallacy, and for people like Bernie Sanders and AOC who just don’t give a flying bleep about anything but Muh Socialism. David’s excellent question reminds me of this scene from A Man for All Seasons …

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Ed: … but for Platner???

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Ed: I was thinking the same thing earlier today. Democrats ran Franken out of the Senate without even allowing him the due process of an Ethics Committee investigation for a weird pic where he mimicked groping a woman (without touching her) and allegations of unwanted kisses during his radio career. Those aren’t nothing, but they are a far cry from the allegations against Platner, and suddenly Gillibrand is totes cool with actual assault, abuse, Nazi tattoos, calling women “hatchet wounds,” Kik accounts, and so on. Amazing in all the worst ways. 

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Libby Sternberg: Yet, despite this verifiable bad history, many prominent Democrats still support Platner (as of this writing, at least). Everyone from Bernie Sanders to Elizabeth Warren to Chuck Schumer have made public statements embracing the Maine Man with the Nazi Tattoo.





Maybe some were mentally holding their noses while doing so. Maybe they were thinking he has the best chance to unseat moderate GOP Senator Susan Collins. Maybe they were just engaging in what I call the shallow thinking that “Platner might be bad…but Trump….is far worse.”

Platner, however, might actually be worse than Trump on a moral scale, one that sits between each man and his God.

We mortals can only judge what we know about either of them, and what we know about Platner isn’t good, regardless of what we know about Trump.

Ed: Well put. One other point, too; Trump had built a massive business before going into politics, with a track record of both controversial comments and real success. All Platner has is the controversial comments, so … why elect him to the Senate? Why even put money behind an effort to make that possible? What’s the actual argument for Platner?

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Ed: As Nate Silver said last night, he’s a pathological liar. 

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Maine Monitor: Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner’s hometown high school never lost its accreditation, contrary to a claim that the progressive once made to explain why he attended private institutions.

Platner said on a October podcast that Sumner Memorial High School in Sullivan was unaccredited around 1999, leading his parents to send him briefly to the upscale Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and later to John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor. But Sumner has been accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges since 1987, the group said.

Ed: Well, how else was he supposed to get around the fact that he’s a nepo baby rather than a working-class stiff?





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They essentially made the women in the story targets by intentionally withholding so much. I hope other women seriously take note to never trust the reporters or editors involved again. But it doesn’t really matter because the rest will eventually come out. 

That’s what makes it amazing that so many continue to dig deeper and double down on defending this guy.  

It also says a lot about the people who are spending all of their time tried to find dirt on Lyndsey and others around her just to cover up for such a person.

Ed: Wouldn’t it make more sense for all of these “jourmalists” to start doing some digging on the ACTUAL POLITICAL CANDIDATE? The one who, y’know, keeps lying about practically everything, including his background? 

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Tom Knighton: For years, they enabled people like Matt Lauer and Harvey Weinstein. They dismissed credible accusations against Bill Clinton and Joe Biden. They latched onto anyone who would accuse a Republican of misdeeds, and now they’re flocking to defend a man who not just had a Totenkopf tattoo on his chest, said women deserved rape, said a veteran didn’t deserve to live, has lied about American Sniper Chris Kyle, has a deep fondness for both the Nazi helmet and masturbating in a port-a-potty, has a long history of sexually explicit messages with women who aren’t his wife, and the list keeps getting longer.

And I’m supposed to be willing to work with these people for the betterment of our nation?

I don’t even want people like this to exist in my nation. …

I’m not even sure how Graham Platner is a real person, much less why people would keep supporting him. To say I stand with Lyndsey is putting it mildly.





Ed: Same. Lots of masks are dropping in the last 30 hours or so. 

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Ed: If there is even an ounce of competence in the NRSC, Platner will be a major issue in every Senate race this fall, just as Todd Akin’s comments on abortion and rape were in 2012 for Democrats. Every single Democrat candidate for the Senate should have to answer whether they support Platner and his various comments on rape, calling women “hatchet wounds,” physical violence on girlfriends, and so on. And that’s just what we know now …

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Last night’s lyric: “Let the Good Times Roll” by The Cars.







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