I realize Graham Platner is never going to answer any real question from anyone who’ll follow up and not simply swallow his bovine post-digested food. But there are some legitimate questions for which voters in Maine should demand answers. They’re unlikely to get them, as the poster boy for what Democrats consider to be “masculinity” is a spoiled rich kid who doesn’t feel he owes anyone anything, and he’s also not bright enough to be able to think on his feet.
While the answers won’t be forthcoming, that doesn’t mean the questions shouldn’t get out there.
Yes, Chris Hayes did the best anyone could have expected from an employee of MSNow, which ain’t much. I’d never seen a grown man apologize prior to asking every question before, when the entire reason the interview was happening was Platner’s perversions.
Hayes opened with “I just want to say at the start that like, you know, we've had you on before and I think you and I are both people that in other contexts talk about income inequality and health care and all those issues, which are extremely important. And we devote a lot of time to this program. We are — this is not, you know, the thing that we spend a lot of time chasing. But, you know, there's some serious stuff there I want to go through with you. And I think voters have a right to know about it.”
The Pulitzer committee can stop looking for their 2026 winner…
The closest Hayes came to anything relevant to the issue at hand was when he pointed out that Platner’s ex-girlfriend had text messages referencing his Nazi tattoo three months prior to when he claims he came to the realization anyone with access to Google and the History Channel could’ve seen from space. How is that possible?
She says he told her; he says he was too stupid to understand what it was. It’s not the greatest defense, but when there really isn’t one you kind of have to take what you can get.
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But I don’t really care about his Nazi tattoo – you either believe he’s a boob who put permanent ink on his body in a shape he knew nothing about and wasn’t curious enough to find out what it was for 17 years, or you didn’t eat lead paint as a child. I’m more curious about his “dark times.”
Platner claims he’s been “very open” about his PTSD and how he “self-medicated with alcohol.” The weird part is he never says anything specific, only vaguely talks about having been a less-than-good boyfriend.
When asked about specifics or confronted about his own actions, he wraps himself in the flag of service and deflects. I’ve known a lot of people who’ve served, many of whom lost friends and men under their command. None of them uses it as both a sword and a shield.
Platner plays the victim service card to deflect from the accurate criticism of his inherent anti-American policies and rhetoric, and he uses it as a shield in that he allegedly suffers from PTSD. No one wants to ask how PTSD made him treat women like trash or how his “trauma” caused him to join a private contracting company to return to the scene of his trauma for fun and profit.
The people I know who served don’t weaponize their service; you’d have difficulty getting them to talk about it, and they’d never try to justify cheating on their new wives with it.
Platner claims he “stopped when it was happening,” the sending of sext messages to women he somehow claims to know were of age on an app known for having no age verification, a “pedo paradise,” as they say.
Did he make the women he was exchanging pictures with send a picture of their ID? Kind of a weird ask for someone who opposes voter ID.
And what kind of defense is “it was early in my marriage” when you haven’t yet been married for three years? EVERYTHING is “early in your marriage” at that point, isn’t it?
Then there was the “Just know that these are things that happened before I became a public figure, before I got into politics.” He got into politics at the same time he became a public figure – last August. Was he a cheating jerk abusing women and drinking himself into a Ted Kennedy until 10 months ago?
Graham Platner never says how long his “dark period” was, what he actually did in it (blackmail material out there?), just throws it out there and runs away. I realize Democrats don’t care – it takes a special kind of stupid to view Susan Collins as “MAGA,” but that’s what these morons claim.
Still, normal people should also have some questions for the manchild who wants to be their next Senator, as should any woman or parent of a daughter. It’s unlikely anyone with a press pass will ask about it. They wouldn’t want to hurt their own team, and Graham will not go within a country mile of any journalists who aren't on his team. That leaves getting answers up to the people of Maine. Will any of them step up and ask anything beyond what Platner will do to give them free things?
It's unlikely, at least at a public forum, as those are more choreographed than your kid’s Christmas pageant.
That basically means the people of Maine will never get relevant answers, which sort of gives all the answers anyone with an IQ larger than their shoe size should need, don’t you think?
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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