It would be like arresting Hitler for speeding.
Graham Platner is running for the U.S. Senate from Maine, and since he is a socialist and Maine’s far-left large cities have disenfranchised its patriotic hinterlands, he will likely win. Platner is running into a bit of flak over the fact that he has a large skull and crossbones tattoo on his chest that strongly resembles the Totenkopf symbol of the National Socialist SS, the feared paramilitary force that ruthlessly enforced Hitler’s ideological line.
Platner has attempted to laugh off that controversy, but now he is entangled himself in a related controversy by using a forbidden word when dismissing concerns over his tattoo. Fox News is seriously reporting on this by saying that Platner used “the R-word,” and actually blanking it out in its report. What is this, fourth grade? That is about the maturity level of much of the nation’s political discourse these days.
Fox’s headline on its story Friday was “Maine Democrat Graham Platner apologizes for using ‘R-word’ in interview on tattoo scandal.” I was trying to figure out what the dreaded R-word was, and the story itself was no help. It quoted Platner as saying this about the charge that he had a Nazi tattoo: “I was like, ‘Well, that’s the f—ing most r——- s— I’ve ever heard in my life.’ ‘No, I don’t have a White supremacist tattoo,’ and I never thought about it again. And then it came up later on, and I was like, ‘God f—ing damn it.’”
“R——- s—”? Would Fox be so kind as to give us a hint? No. But Fox’s source, the Maine Monitor, was far less punctilious, and gave us Platner’s quote in its full obnoxious and pugnacious pungency: “I was like, ‘Well, that’s the fucking most retarded shit I’ve ever heard in my life.’ ‘No, I don’t have a white supremacist tattoo,’ and I never thought about it again. And then it came up later on, and I was like, ‘God fucking damn it.’”
Now Platner has apologized. Not, of course, for having a Nationalist Socialist tattoo, which he has never adequately explained and should cause far more concern about his actual positions than it has already. Not for saying “fuck” or “shit,” which everyone says nowadays in full voice in crowded public places, without the slightest hesitation.
No, what Platner did that really crossed the line and forced him to issue the thing that politicians hate most in this world, a public apology, was that he said the word “retarded,” which the left has decided sometime since people in the 1970s and 1980s took up collections for retarded children is an outrageously offensive word that must never be uttered, read, or apparently even thought. Once again, are we in fourth grade here? It looks as if we are. --->READ MORE HERE
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Just when Democrats thought they had found the perfect candidate, who could fit a conservative archetype and win rural voters in a very rural state, his less-than-flattering past keeps interrupting what could be a slam-dunk left-wing campaign.
Graham Platner, a progressive running for Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ seat in Maine, currently holds a rather substantial lead over his Democratic primary opponent, Maine Gov. Janet Mills. A poll released April 7 found that he leads Mills by an eye-popping 33 points. Other polls have consistently shown Platner pulling ahead by a wide margin.
A former Marine and oyster farmer, Platner is running an anti-establishment, anti-billionaire campaign. Among other things, he wants to break up monopolies, make major reforms to the healthcare system, cut off aid and weapons to Israel, and pass a “cost-of-living” tax cut that will be paid for by increased taxes on billionaires.
Yet, for all his populist bona fides, he has repeatedly been under fire for past remarks that have resurfaced throughout his campaign.
Most recently, Platner was forced to apologize Wednesday.
He used the word “retarded” in an interview with The Maine Monitor.
“I am sorry. I’m sorry that I said it. I am endeavoring to improve every single day. I am not a perfect person, and I continue to try to be better,” Platner said. “I will say that my politics is one of inclusivity and one of showing up for everybody, and I will continue every day to represent that in our policies and in our campaign.”
During that interview, Platner was quoted using the slur as he addressed a separate scandal: his now-covered-up tattoo that resembled a skull-and-crossbones emblem used by Nazi “Death’s Head” units. --->READ MORE HERE
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