www.newsbusters.org
CNN's Jennings Says Dems Are Standing Behind 'Scumbag, Nazi Tattoo Guy' Graham Platner
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,” said rural White Americans are racist and stupid, and sported a Nazi tattoo, Graham Platner, will be the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate. The liberal media, in an effort to get out in front of this Democratic disaster, have taken to equating Platner with President Trump and Texas GOP Senate nominee, Ken Paxton. That was the case Saturday on CNN Newsroom.
CNN host Jessica Dean and her guest, former Bernie Sanders Sr. Campaign Advisor Chuck Rocha followed that script, but Republican commentator Scott Jennings wasn't having it:
DEAN: Scott, he's fought a number of allegations.... He's trying to move past this.... Are Republicans just like licking their chops at this?.... Both sides try to make the question that character really matters.... I think people would say to you, Scott, well, what about President Trump? What about Ken Paxton?
JENNINGS: As far as I know, of all the names you just mentioned, only one person had a Nazi tattoo and has chosen to lie about it. And that's Graham Platner. He roots for American military deaths. He's mocking rape victims. He demeans rural Americans. He's been abusive to women. This is what Democrats are signing off on. This is their most celebrated Senate candidate in the country right now.
Then Jennings let it all hang out:
His campaign was bragging that after all of these things came out, he raised $200,000 online. You have Democrats across the country investing in Nazi tattoo, abusive to women guy.... Some Democrats have said, I'm not comfortable with this. I suspect a few more will come. They had a perfectly viable candidate up there, and Janet Mills, but they decided to go with this, you know, scumbag, fake oyster farmer, Nazi tattoo guy instead. It's crazy. No, I don't I'm not licking my chops at this. I'm weeping. We need a Democratic party that can stand up to people like this, not promote them.
Dean then felt the need to defend Platner, leaving out that he was caught lying about the Nazi tattoo in the process, before throwing it to Rocha.
DEAN: Just for the record, Platner has obviously denied all of these allegations and also apologized for the Nazi tattoo and a number of other things. He said last night that his past is being weaponized against him....What do you what do you say from the democratic side?
ROCHA: Our politics today are really different than they were 35 years ago.... But now you have Graham Platner with a lot of his past coming back to haunt him. You have Ken Paxton, like you said, who has been impeached by his own party. There's lots of bad things that people have done. But I think Donald Trump has releveled....the way that people now are so anxious about the status quo, the question will be, and I'm not defending Graham Platner here, or for God's sakes, not Ken Paxton, but what will the American people stomach?
Rocha continued on his Trump kick:
At one point you had a very flawed man, in my opinion, who ran for president....the American people elected him to be the President.... But how much anxiety is out there and how much stuff, I almost said the bad word, will, they put up with, to want somebody so far outside the norm that it may not be palatable for any of the voters.
Dean called that ,"an interesting point", and then gave Jennings the last word, and he made the most of it:
I've sat here for ten years and listened to virtually every Democratic pundit call Donald Trump and Republicans Nazis for ten straight years. They're now lining up behind a guy with a literal Nazi tattoo who literally lied about it. And who, oh, by the way, has apparently got credible abuse allegations from a number of women who have no reason to lie about this and every reason to warn the American people about it. Pretty disgusting. The Nazi tattoo thing, I'll never get over it, no one should ever get over it, but it ought to tell you where the energy is in the Democratic Party.
Consider this another example of how the leftist media will attempt to legitimize Platner. And every GOP pundit should consider Jennings performance as a must see, and a blueprint on how to combat it.